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<title><![CDATA[Norm Ornstein - Articles - RealClearPolitics]]></title><link>http://www.RealClearPolicy.com/authors/rss/archive/17539.xml</link><description><![CDATA[Norm Ornstein]]></description><category domain="17539">Author</category><item>
							<title><![CDATA[Feinstein Reminds Us That the Senate Doesn't Have a Plan]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/dianne-feinstein-reminded-us-that-the-senate-doesnt-have-a-plan/ar-AA1a4hZN</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 20 Apr 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Norm Ornstein</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The government still doesn't know what to do when members of Congress cannot serve.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Nuke the Filibuster to Rescue the Republic]]></title>
							<link>https://www.nydailynews.com/opinion/ny-oped-fix-the-filibuster-to-rescue-the-republic-20220102-wyt2ztlqzbaxhgtrs5kquqc5su-story.html#nt=pf-double%20chain'&#'.ord('~').';'unnamed-chain-1'&#'.ord('~').';'feed-driven%20flex%20feature'&#'.ord('~').';'automated'&#'.ord('~').';'sub-topic-feed-1'&#'.ord('~').';'WYT2ZTLQZBAXHGTRS5KQUQC5</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 03 Jan 2022 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Norm Ornstein</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Our country is at a turning point. The Jan. 6 House Select Committee is daily uncovering deeply disturbing evidence of a broad and deep attempt to overturn the 2020 presidential election.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[American Kakistocracy]]></title>
							<link>https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/10/american-kakistocracy/542391/</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 10 Oct 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Norm Ornstein</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Kakistocracy'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' is a term that was first used in the 17th century; derived from a Greek word, it means, literally, government by the worst and most unscrupulous people among us. More broadly, it can mean the most inept and cringeworthy kind of government. The term fell into disuse over...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Kabuki Theatre of the AHCA]]></title>
							<link>https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/06/the-kabuki-theater-of-the-ahca/531537/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 25 Jun 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Norm Ornstein</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[There's Actually Good News Buried in Dems' 4 Losses]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nydailynews.com/opinion/democrats-pony-manure-article-1.3266822</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 23 Jun 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Norm Ornstein</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Ronald Reagan'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s favorite joke was about two young twin boys, one a congenital pessimist, the other a congenital optimist. Trying to cure them both, the father first took the pessimist into a room filled with every imaginable toy and game. The boy burst into tears: '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'I know you...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Is This the Worst Congress Ever?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2016/05/is-this-the-worst-congress-ever/483075/</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 18 May 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Norm Ornstein</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In 2011, I wrote a piece for Foreign Policy magazine about the 112th Congress; the editors helpfully titled it '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'Worst. Congress. Ever.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' It was a bit of hyperbole, but it may be no exaggeration to call the current, 114th Congress the worst ever'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'at least edging out the...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Five Ways the Republican Race Could End]]></title>
							<link>http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2016/04/five-ways-the-republican-race-could-end/477324/</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 08 Apr 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Norm Ornstein</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Even before Ted Cruz thrashed Donald Trump in Wisconsin, there was incessant buzz in political circles about the possibility of a contested convention in Cleveland. Since Wisconsin, the buzz has ramped up substantially, consuming hundreds of hours of bloviation on cable news networks....]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Republicans Remain Divided as Democrats Unite]]></title>
							<link>http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2015/10/2016-outlook/412813/</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 30 Oct 2015 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Norm Ornstein</author>
							<description><![CDATA[It is a good time to review the unusual'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'maybe unprecedented'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'presidential contest, which exhibits striking fluidity and uncertainty, with a huge group of candidates on the Republican side, and an equally striking coalescence toward an early consensus on the Democratic side....]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Republican Radicals vs. the Speakership]]></title>
							<link>http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2015/09/how-gop-radicals-made-the-speakership-unappealing/407563/</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 02 Oct 2015 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Norm Ornstein</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The speaker of the House is the first constitutional officer mentioned in the American Constitution, well before the president. In Article 1, Section 5, the Constitution says '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'The House of Representatives shall chuse their Speaker.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' The Speaker is thus a hugely important and...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Republican Road Block Ahead]]></title>
							<link>http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2015/08/why-the-gop-needs-to-brace-for-the-road-block-ahead/400499/</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 05 Aug 2015 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Norm Ornstein</author>
							<description><![CDATA[We head into the first presidential debate in Cleveland with Donald Trump leading the field and confounding the confident predictions of a slew of pundits that his collapse was at hand'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'whether after the Mexican-rapists comment, the slam at John McCain as no hero, or other statements...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The NYT's Botched Story on Hillary Clinton]]></title>
							<link>http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2015/07/when-the-paper-of-record-fails-to-keep-the-record/399752/</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 29 Jul 2015 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Norm Ornstein</author>
							<description><![CDATA[I have read The New York Times since I was a teenager as the newspaper to be trusted, the paper of record, the definitive account. But the huge embarrassment over the story claiming a criminal investigation of Hillary Clinton for her emails'&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('—').';'leading the webpage, prominent on the front...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Real Story of Obamacare's Birth]]></title>
							<link>http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2015/07/the-real-story-of-obamacares-birth/397742/</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 13 Jul 2015 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Norm Ornstein</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The U.S. Supreme Court'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s remarkable 6-3 decision in King v. Burwell saves the Affordable Care Act from evisceration, although Obamacare will undoubtedly face a continuing pattern of guerrilla attacks from Congress, the courts, and Republican governors and state legislatures.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[This Isn't Dennis Hastert's First Scandal]]></title>
							<link>http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2015/06/dennis-hastert-scandal/394754/</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 04 Jun 2015 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Norm Ornstein</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Dennis Hastert, who left the speakership when Republicans lost the House in 2006, and resigned from Congress shortly thereafter, quickly faded into obscurity. Then, last Thursday, he skyrocketed to the top of the news.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Slashing IRS Budget Carries Heavy Price]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nationaljournal.com/washington-inside-out/slashing-irs-budget-carries-a-heavy-price-20141217</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 19 Dec 2014 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Norm Ornstein</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In mid-August, after the killings of Trayvon Martin, Jordan Davis, Renisha McBride, Eric Garner and Michael Brown, a white mother of three children, two of whom are black, went to her computer and, in one furious burst, wrote: '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'What They Didn'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'t Teach Us In Adoption Classes...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Obama's Challenge &amp; the U.S. Racial Divide]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nationaljournal.com/washington-inside-out/obama-s-challenge-building-a-bridge-over-america-s-racial-divide-20141210</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 11 Dec 2014 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Norm Ornstein</author>
							<description><![CDATA[December 10, 2014 One of my fondest memories was spending four days in February 1977 as a staffer sitting on the Senate floor, mostly wedged between Gaylord Nelson and Russell Long as the Senate debated a resolution to reform its committee system. They were good friends, lovely people,...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Pernicious Effects of Gerrymandering]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nationaljournal.com/washington-inside-out/the-pernicious-effects-of-gerrymandering-20141203</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 04 Dec 2014 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Norm Ornstein</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Almost invariably, whenever I speak about our polarized politics, the first or second question I get is about redistricting. Most Americans who know that our political system is not working the way it is supposed to don't know what specifically is wrong. But gerrymandering is something...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Will Executive Order Be Excuse for Gridlock?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nationaljournal.com/washington-inside-out/will-congress-use-executive-order-on-immigration-as-excuse-for-more-gridlock-20141119</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 20 Nov 2014 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Norm Ornstein</author>
							<description><![CDATA['&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' First, and sadly, I need to acknowledge another death of a great figure from Congress, Bill Frenzel of Minnesota. Bill was my congressman and also a dear friend. I worked especially closely with him on the Office of Congressional Ethics, where he was a stalwart member, helping to...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Republican Senate Win Could Splinter Party]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nationaljournal.com/washington-inside-out/if-republicans-win-the-senate-gop-factions-could-battle-for-soul-of-party-20141029</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 31 Oct 2014 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Norm Ornstein</author>
							<description><![CDATA[As polls show a movement toward Republicans'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'the new ABC News/Washington Post survey shows a 6-point GOP advantage in the generic ballot'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'there is increasing interest in what would happen over the next two years with Republican control of both the House and Senate. I first...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Independents Could Seize the Senate]]></title>
							<link>http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2014/10/how-independents-could-seize-control-of-the-senate/381815/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 25 Oct 2014 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Norm Ornstein</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[Our Downward Spiral Since Citizens United]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nationaljournal.com/washington-inside-out/our-downward-spiral-since-citizens-united-20141015</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 18 Oct 2014 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Norm Ornstein</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Every once in a while, David Brooks writes a column in The New York Times that makes one just cringe. That was the case with his "Don't Worry, Be Happy" treatment last week of the impact of Citizens United on our politics. By defining the impact narrowly'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'does either party gain from...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Bad Prospects for Congress This Fall]]></title>
							<link>http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2014/09/congress-returns-to-doing-nothing/379616/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 06 Sep 2014 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Norm Ornstein</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Congress is back for its homestretch. Well, not exactly "back."The House will spend the rest of this week in "district-workweek" mode, returning Monday evening and leaving again Thursday after lunch; the next week will be action-packed'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'coming back late Tuesday evening (no votes...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[When Extremism Becomes Mainstream]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nationaljournal.com/washington-inside-out/what-happens-when-extremism-becomes-mainstream-20140723</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 26 Jul 2014 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Norm Ornstein</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The most interesting, and important, dynamic in American politics today is the existential struggle going on in the Republican Party between the establishment and the insurgents'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'or to be more accurate, between the hard-line bedrock conservatives (there are only trace elements of the...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why the Voting Rights Act Still Matters]]></title>
							<link>http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2014/06/why-the-voting-rights-act-still-matters/373541/</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jun 2014 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Norm Ornstein</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Fifty years ago last weekend, civil-rights workers James Earl Chaney, Andrew Goodman, and Michael Schwerner were shot and killed by members of the Ku Klux Klan, including a deputy sheriff, in Philadelphia, Mississippi. Next Wednesday marks the 50th anniversary of the passage of the Civil...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Polarization Is Not Equal--&amp; Republicans Are Worse]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nationaljournal.com/washington-inside-out/setting-the-record-straight-on-a-polarizing-debate-20140618</link>
							<guid><![CDATA[http://www.nationaljournal.com/washington-inside-out/setting-the-record-straight-on-a-polarizing-debate-20140618]]></guid>							
							<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jun 2014 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Norm Ornstein</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[Top 10 Conclusions About the VA Crisis]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nationaljournal.com/washington-inside-out/top-10-conclusions-about-the-va-crisis-20140604</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jun 2014 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Norm Ornstein</author>
							<description><![CDATA[What are we to make of the VA?Over the past few weeks, I have read a lot about the scandal and the overall story surrounding the agency (it is actually the Veterans Affairs Department and the Veterans Health Administration, but we will call both the VA for short). I have tried to make...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Is It Time for Supreme Court Term Limits?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nationaljournal.com/washington-inside-out/is-it-time-to-give-term-limits-to-supreme-court-justices-20140521</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 26 May 2014 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Norm Ornstein</author>
							<description><![CDATA[This has been quite a time for anniversaries: the 50th of the 1964 Civil Rights Act, the 50th of the Great Society, the 60th of Brown v. Board of Education. Each has produced a flurry of celebrations and analyses, including the latest, on Brown. Here's one more.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Filibuster Is Still a Huge Problem]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nationaljournal.com/washington-inside-out/why-we-can-t-stop-talking-about-filibusters-20140514</link>
							<guid><![CDATA[http://www.nationaljournal.com/washington-inside-out/why-we-can-t-stop-talking-about-filibusters-20140514]]></guid>							
							<pubDate>Fri, 16 May 2014 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Norm Ornstein</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Let's talk filibusters (for some strange reason, I can't stop talking about filibusters). They are back in the news, on several fronts. The most recent is the narrow but significant legislation on energy conservation, worked out painstakingly by the bipartisan team of Sens. Rob Portman...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Ryan's Budget and His Plan for Poverty Don't Mesh]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nationaljournal.com/washington-inside-out/paul-ryan-s-budget-and-his-plan-for-poverty-don-t-mesh-20140430</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 01 May 2014 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Norm Ornstein</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The term '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'compassionate conservatism'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' is identified with George W. Bush, but the concept really is owed to the late Jack Kemp, the Republican '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'happy warrior.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' To know Kemp was to love him, whether you agreed with his supply-side ideology or not. Kemp genuinely, deeply...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Obama Can't Be the Green Lantern]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nationaljournal.com/washington-inside-out/obama-can-t-be-the-green-lantern-20140422</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 23 Apr 2014 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Norm Ornstein</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The LBJ Library recently held a multiday program to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Civil Rights Act, and by all accounts, the program was stirring and stimulating, up to and including President Obama's speech.But there was one downside: the reactivation of one of the most...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Could America Become a Banana Republic?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nationaljournal.com/washington-inside-out/could-america-become-a-banana-republic-20140416</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 19 Apr 2014 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Norm Ornstein</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Last week, I was in Prague for the third annual World Forum on Governance, which brings together people from countries around the world, including Eastern and Central Europe, Russia, China, Ukraine, Turkey, Egypt, South Africa, India, and Bolivia in search of best governing practices.]]></description>
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