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<title><![CDATA[Michael Tanner - Articles - RealClearPolitics]]></title><link>http://www.RealClearPolicy.com/authors/rss/archive/17598.xml</link><description><![CDATA[Michael Tanner]]></description><category domain="17598">Author</category><item>
							<title><![CDATA[It's a Wonderful Time to Be Alive]]></title>
							<link>https://www.nationalreview.com/2019/11/thanksgiving-wonderful-time-to-be-alive/</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 27 Nov 2019 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Tanner</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Don't believe the pundits and politicians who warn that we're one vote away from disaster and collapse.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Individual-Mandate Repeal Makes GOP Plan More Attractive]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nationalreview.com/article/454119/obamacare-individual-mandate-repeal-gop-tax-reform-plan-smart</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 30 Nov 2017 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Tanner</author>
							<description><![CDATA[A late effort to repeal Obamacare's individual mandate makes the Republican tax-reform plan more attractive ...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Trump's Health Move Expands Insurance, Buyer Choice]]></title>
							<link>https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2017/10/15/health-care-order-expands-insurance-editorials-debates/106692174/</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 16 Oct 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Tanner</author>
							<description><![CDATA[For all the headlines about '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'dismantling Obamacare,'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' President Trump'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s executive order will likely have less of an impact than its supporters hope or critics fear. Still, it represents a modest step toward giving consumers more choices and expanding millions of...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Democrats' Disastrous New Health Rx]]></title>
							<link>http://nypost.com/2017/07/27/democrats-disastrous-new-health-rx/</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 28 Jul 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Tanner</author>
							<description><![CDATA[As Republicans continue to stumble and bumble in what is likely a doomed attempt to repeal and replace ObamaCare, there has been an increasingly desperate search for a bipartisan alternative. But t'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('ƒ').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('¢').';'?'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('¦').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Here's What Happens After Obamacare Is Gone]]></title>
							<link>http://nypost.com/2017/01/13/heres-what-happens-after-obamacare-is-gone/</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 16 Jan 2017 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Tanner</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Republicans are wrestling with how to repeal and replace ObamaCare. It turns out that legislating is much more complex than campaigning. Still, ObamaCare as we know it is unlikely to be with us much longer. So what happens after it'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s gone? On Friday, we looked at some of the most...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[What to Expect From Obamacare's Replacement]]></title>
							<link>http://nypost.com/2017/01/12/what-to-expect-from-obamacares-replacement/</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 13 Jan 2017 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Tanner</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Republicans have officially begun the long and complex road to repealing and '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'replacing'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' ObamaCare. And if you believe congressional Democrats, various special-interest groups and much of the media, the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse are about to be unleashed.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Agony of ObamaCare's Collapse Has Just Begun]]></title>
							<link>http://nypost.com/2016/10/27/the-agony-of-obamacares-collapse-has-just-begun/</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 28 Oct 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Tanner</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Listen closely. That'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('ƒ').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('¢').';'??s the sound of a health-care plan dying. With the announcement this week of massive premium hikes for health insurance purchased through exchanges, it has become impossible to '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('ƒ').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('¢').';'?'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('¦').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Replacing Obamacare]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nationalreview.com/article/416253/replacing-obamacare-michael-tanner</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 01 Apr 2015 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Tanner</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Somewhere in America today, a Republican candidate for dogcatcher is calling for the repeal of Obamacare. Opposition to the health-care law is perhaps the one issue that unites all the disparate factions of the Republican party '&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('—').';' and for good reason. The law remains extraordinarily...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Liberal Dream of Single-Payer Dies in Vermont]]></title>
							<link>http://nypost.com/2015/01/18/liberal-dream-of-single-payer-health-care-dies-in-vermont/</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 19 Jan 2015 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Tanner</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The problem with ObamaCare, liberals argue, is that it didn'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'t go far enough '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' we should have an entirely government-run health-care system.As former Iowa Sen. Tom Harkin put it shortly before his retirement, Democrats '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'should have pursued single-payer right from the...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Scandal Is No Surprise for Govt-Run Healthcare]]></title>
							<link>http://nypost.com/2014/05/16/va-hospital-scandal-no-surprise-for-government-run-healthcare/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 17 May 2014 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Tanner</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The news is shocking: Patients dying on the waiting list for government-provided healthcare. But this is not a report from Canada or the British National Health Service. It'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s right here in America, in the health system administered by the Department of Veterans Affairs. The problems...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why Obama Didn't Take Questions Yesterday]]></title>
							<link>http://nypost.com/2014/04/02/presidents-celebration-skips-those-asking-the-hard-questions/</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 02 Apr 2014 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Tanner</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Talk about spiking the ball.Speaking in the White House Rose Garden yesterday afternoon, President Obama declared flatly that the Affordable Care Act, which he proudly referred to as ObamaCare, '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'is doing what it'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s supposed to do; it'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s working.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Obamacare's Real Glitch]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2013/10/10/obamacares_real_glitch_120283.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 10 Oct 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Tanner</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Opponents of Obamacare could perhaps be forgiven a bit of schadenfreude over the massive computer problems that accompanied the launch of the exchanges last week. Certainly, the system'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s problems bore out the critics'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';' warnings that the program was far from ready.
On opening...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[No Wonder People Don't Trust ObamaCare]]></title>
							<link>http://nypost.com/2013/10/05/with-inconsistencies-abound-no-wonder-people-dont-trust-obamacare/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 06 Oct 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Tanner</author>
							<description><![CDATA[If you'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'re puzzled why ObamaCare is so polarizing, consider how a law that'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s ostensibly about fairness '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' health care for all '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' can be so unfair.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Three Defunding Myths]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2013/09/26/three_defunding_myths_120109.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 26 Sep 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Tanner</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In less than a week, the continuing resolution (CR) that is currently funding the government will expire, possibly precipitating what one and all refer to as a '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'government shutdown.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' This term is usually uttered in terms that suggest an event falling in severity somewhere...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why Get Off Welfare?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.latimes.com/opinion/commentary/la-oe-tanner-welfare-work-pay-20130822,0,3840208.story</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 22 Aug 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Tanner</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Contrary to stereotypes, there is no evidence that people on welfare are lazy. Indeed, surveys of welfare recipients consistently show their desire for a job. But there is also evidence that many are reluctant to accept available employment opportunities. Despite work requirements...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Obamacare as Big Brother]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2013/08/19/obamacare_as_big_brother_119635.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 19 Aug 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Tanner</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Think the NSA data collection on your phone calls and Internet use is scary? Well, here comes Obamacare.
On October 1, the law'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s insurance exchanges are scheduled to start open enrollment in all 50 states. In order to help people sign up for insurance and to determine which...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Repealing Obamacare: Not a Waste of Time]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2013/08/07/repealing_obamacare_not_a_waste_of_time_119537.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 07 Aug 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Tanner</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Speaking at a campaign-style rally last month at an Amazon plant in Chattanooga, Tenn., President Obama ridiculed Republicans'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';' economic agenda, claiming that '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'wasting the country'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s time by taking something like 40 meaningless votes to repeal Obamacare is not a jobs...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Defunding Obamacare: Worth a Try]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2013/08/01/defunding_obamacare_worth_a_try_119469.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 01 Aug 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Tanner</author>
							<description><![CDATA[After a summer of relative quiet on the fiscal front, Congress is approaching two deadlines that will be vital not just in terms of the U.S. economy, but for the future of the Republican party as well.
Sometime in late October, the federal government will once again reach its statutory...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Democrats' Economic Alchemy]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2013/07/26/the_democrats_economic_alchemy_119394.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 26 Jul 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Tanner</author>
							<description><![CDATA[There was a time when people believed in magic. Say the right words and one could turn lead into gold; the laws of the natural world did not matter.
Today, too many politicians operate as if they have discovered special powers that allow them to rise above other laws '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' such as those...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[SNAP Theatrics Fall Flat]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2013/06/27/snap_theatrics_fall_flat_119009.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 27 Jun 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Tanner</author>
							<description><![CDATA[It has become a set piece of political theater for liberal Democrats, carried out in recent weeks by everyone from New York mayoral candidate Anthony Weiner to Connecticut senator Chris Murphy and a bevy of congressmen: attempting to eat on the $4.50-per-day food budget supposedly...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Deficit Is Still Bad News]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2013/06/13/the_deficit_is_still_bad_news_118809.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 13 Jun 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Tanner</author>
							<description><![CDATA[To listen to much of the mainstream media recently, one would assume that the battle against the national debt has been won.
First came a report from the Congressional Budget Office indicating that budget deficits over the next few years would be lower than previously predicted and that,...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Obama's War on the Young]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2013/05/16/obamas_war_on_the_young_118420.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 16 May 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Tanner</author>
							<description><![CDATA[According to recent polls, younger Americans are increasingly disillusioned with government and cynical about the political process. Maybe they will finally realize that they are being played for patsies by the Obama administration. After all, on issue after issue, President Obama has...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Krugman's Still Wrong]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2013/05/09/krugmans_still_wrong_118323.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 09 May 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Tanner</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Paul Krugman has never been shy about proclaiming that he is right and everyone else is wrong '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' and not just wrong, but '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'knaves and fools.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' Lately, however, one begins to worry that he might actually hurt himself, so vigorously has he been patting himself on the back for...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[How Serious Are Republicans?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2013/05/02/how_serious_are_republicans_118230.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 02 May 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Tanner</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Shortly after President Obama finally released his proposed budget a couple weeks ago, Representative Greg Walden of Oregon, the chairman of the National Republican Campaign Committee, launched a stinging attack on the president not over the president'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s call for more taxes and...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Vultures of Capitol Hill]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2013/04/25/vultures_of_capitol_hill_118133.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 25 Apr 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Tanner</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Apparently there'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s no need for a massive criminal investigation. Congress has already discovered what was behind the Boston Marathon bombing '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' the sequester.
Even before doctors had finished treating the wounded, several senior Democrats toldPolitico'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' that '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'the attack...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Lies of ObamaCare]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nypost.com/p/news/opinion/opedcolumnists/lies_of_obamacare_dYCsCHrFn3qNAQCJ0ZTwHJ</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 14 Apr 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Tanner</author>
							<description><![CDATA[We'&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('’').';'ve now reached the third anniversary of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, a k a ObamaCare. The Obama administration celebrated this important milestone by announcing that it was postponing part of the law that was designed to reduce costs for small businesses.Oops.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[I Survived Sequestration]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2013/04/04/i_survived_sequestration_117802.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 04 Apr 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Tanner</author>
							<description><![CDATA[This week marks the one-month anniversary of one of the most terrifying events in American history: the sequester. So, with great trepidation, I have climbed out of my bunker to survey the devastation and send off this column.
I was shocked to discover that somehow mankind had survived....]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Three Years of Broken Promises]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2013/03/28/three_years_of_broken_promises_117704.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 28 Mar 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Tanner</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, a.k.a. Obamacare, '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' turned three years old this week. But unlike fine wine, the ACA is not getting better with age. A torrent of recent studies and reports has provided new evidence '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' as if we needed more confirmation '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' that...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why the Size of Government Matters]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 21 Mar 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Tanner</author>
							<description><![CDATA[When one moves beyond all the budget numbers floating around Washington these days, much of the debate over future policy boils down to a question of the size of government. The Left often dismisses this issue as symbolism or rhetoric, but it is much more than that.
The question of big...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Right Step from Ryan]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 14 Mar 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Tanner</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In the kingdom of the blind, according to Erasmus, the one-eyed man is king. And in a land of big spenders, the budget proposed yesterday by Representative Paul Ryan is a model of fiscal rectitude.
Let'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s be honest about one thing: The budget introduced yesterday has about as much...]]></description>
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