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<title><![CDATA[Bob Cesca - Articles - RealClearPolitics]]></title><link>http://www.RealClearPolicy.com/authors/rss/archive/18283.xml</link><description><![CDATA[Bob Cesca]]></description><category domain="18283">Author</category><item>
							<title><![CDATA[How Democrats Should Fight Back Against Trump's 'Death Star']]></title>
							<link>https://www.salon.com/2020/02/11/how-should-democrats-fight-back-against-trumps-billion-dollar-death-star/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 15 Feb 2020 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Bob Cesca</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Trump campaign manager Brad Parscale has built a $1 billion disinformation machine. Here's how to beat it]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Donald Trump Is Weaker Than You Think]]></title>
							<link>https://www.salon.com/2019/12/17/donald-trump-is-being-impeached-and-then-democrats-can-finish-him-off/</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 17 Dec 2019 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Bob Cesca</author>
							<description><![CDATA[He'll carry the word "impeachment" forever. And while nothing is guaranteed, he's headed for defeat in November]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Impeachment Is Serious Stuff, But GOP Wants a Circus]]></title>
							<link>https://www.salon.com/2019/11/12/send-in-the-clowns-impeachment-is-serious-stuff-but-gop-wants-a-circus/</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 12 Nov 2019 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Bob Cesca</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Expect Jim Jordan and Devin Nunes to go full goofball. Adam Schiff and the Democrats will have none of it]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[MAGA-Teen Defenders: Spare Us Your Phony Concern for Kids]]></title>
							<link>https://www.salon.com/2019/01/22/defenders-of-the-maga-hat-youth-spare-us-your-concern-for-children-please/</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 23 Jan 2019 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Bob Cesca</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Given children in cages and the right's long history of harassing or tormenting kids, some perspective is in order]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Will Republicans Ever Return to Sanity on Gun Control?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.salon.com/2017/06/15/republicans-the-second-amendment-and-gun-violence-will-the-gop-ever-return-to-sanity/</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 15 Jun 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Bob Cesca</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Having been born and raised in Northern Virginia, I can clearly envision the not-yet-sweltering June morning on the baseball field in Alexandria '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' the humid, hazy mid-Atlantic air synonymous with D.C. summers not quite oppressive enough to chase people indoors, the fresh-cut grass...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Trump's Irresponsible Nuke Weapons Tweets a Prelude to War?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.salon.com/2016/12/27/donald-trumps-irresponsible-nuclear-weapons-tweets-pure-whimsy-or-prelude-to-apocalypse/</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 27 Dec 2016 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Bob Cesca</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Donald Trump has apparently relaunched the global nuclear arms race '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' on Twitter, and out of sheer blinding idiocy]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Donald Trump's Vile New Attack]]></title>
							<link>http://www.salon.com/2016/05/24/trump_has_somehow_gotten_more_vile_its_no_wonder_women_dont_like_him_and_his_new_hillary_attack_ad_wont_help/</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 24 May 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Bob Cesca</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Roughly 70 percent of women in the United States hate Donald Trump. The reasons are too innumerable to list here, but we can begin with his flagrantly sexist zinger about Megyn Kelly'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s alleged menstrual issues. Stir into the mix Trump'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s tweet about how women should expect to be...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Bernie-Hillary Death Match Is Here, &amp; It's Going to Get Ugly]]></title>
							<link>http://www.salon.com/2016/01/21/the_bernie_hillary_death_match_is_here_why_the_democratic_primary_is_going_to_get_very_ugly/</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 21 Jan 2016 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Bob Cesca</author>
							<description><![CDATA[According to Nate Silver'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s latest projection,'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' Bernie Sanders is now favored to win the New Hampshire primary. For the first time in the campaign, Silver'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s algorithm has projected a 63 percent chance of the Vermont Democrat winning the first-in-the-nation primary, next to...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Truth About the Planned Parenthood Hoax]]></title>
							<link>http://www.salon.com/2015/08/03/wing_nut_conspiracy_theorists_have_done_it_again_the_truth_about_the_planned_parenthood_hoax_revealed/</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 03 Aug 2015 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Bob Cesca</author>
							<description><![CDATA[If you'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'ve been keeping score at home, you'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'ll have noticed that not one but two states, including a red state with a paleoconservative governor, have in the past several days exonerated Planned Parenthood of any wrongdoing in the so-called secret-video sting that has...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Ted Cruz's Obamacare Duplicity]]></title>
							<link>http://www.huffingtonpost.com/bob-cesca/ted-cruz-is-trying-and-failing-to-weasel-out-of-his-obamacare-duplicity_b_6958884.html?ncid=edlinkushpmg00000090</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 30 Mar 2015 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Bob Cesca</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) is now apparently undecided how he'll buy insurance, backing away from his Obamacare announcement earlier in the week. Either way, Cruz is a master at what Al Franken used to call "weasel words" -- talking points that are carefully constructed to sound legitimate but...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[GOP Governors Hurting Their Own People]]></title>
							<link>http://www.huffingtonpost.com/bob-cesca/plot-to-undermine-obamacare_b_5228548.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 29 Apr 2014 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Bob Cesca</author>
							<description><![CDATA[It's actually quite easy to explain. The reason why 19 states have refused to expand Medicaid has nothing to do with the cost -- the federal government would cover the full cost of the expansion for the next two years, then 95 percent of the cost thereafter. It definitely doesn't have...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Enemies Mobilize Against the Dream]]></title>
							<link>http://www.huffingtonpost.com/bob-cesca/50-years-after-the-march-_5_b_3839815.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 31 Aug 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Bob Cesca</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The violation was known as "vagrancy." If you were a black man in the South following Reconstruction, and you were unable to show proof of employment on-demand to the police, you could be arrested and delivered into what Douglas Blackmon, author of Slavery by Another Name, called...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Court Helps GOP Revive the Era of Jim Crow]]></title>
							<link>http://www.huffingtonpost.com/bob-cesca/supreme-court-helps-the-g_b_3511931.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 28 Jun 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Bob Cesca</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Here's a fantastic example of cognitive dissonance. On Tuesday, Republicans and conservatives continued their collective screeching about the rapidly fizzling IRS non-scandal and how the government unfairly targeted conservatives, while also applauding the Supreme Court's Shelby County...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[&quot;Good Guys With Guns&quot; Will Not Stop Massacres]]></title>
							<link>http://www.huffingtonpost.com/bob-cesca/good-guys-with-guns-will-_b_2638941.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 08 Feb 2013 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Bob Cesca</author>
							<description><![CDATA[On HBO's Real Time with Bill Maher last Friday there was an extended and heated debate about gun control. The participants included Newark, NJ mayor Cory Booker and author Sam Harris, who, in case you don't recognize the name, happens to be an insufferable marketeer of the "both sides...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Here Come the Skeet Shooting Truthers]]></title>
							<link>http://www.huffingtonpost.com/bob-cesca/obama-skeet-shooting_b_2592233.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 01 Feb 2013 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Bob Cesca</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Way back in mid-August of 2006, President Bush was dealing with two ground wars; a crisis between Israel and Lebanon; a midterm election; a housing market on the verge of collapse; the forthcoming hurricane season (Katrina was just a year earlier); a laundry list of scandals; and the...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Crazy Republican Base Is the Problem]]></title>
							<link>http://www.huffingtonpost.com/bob-cesca/the-crazy-base-wont-let-t_b_2251945.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 07 Dec 2012 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Bob Cesca</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In the wake of the election, there's no doubt the Republican Party is capable of making some adjustments to rebrand itself. If nothing else, the party has demonstrated its proclivity for sloganeering and marketing and there are plenty of ways it can adjust its messaging. But it's obvious...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Republican Party's &quot;Black Friends&quot;]]></title>
							<link>http://www.huffingtonpost.com/bob-cesca/the-republican-partys-bla_b_2212660.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 01 Dec 2012 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Bob Cesca</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Jonah Goldberg's recent column, "To Appeal to Black Voters, GOP Must Run Gauntlet of Racism Accusations," is hilariously awful. I'll swing back around to it presently.But first, over the weekend Charles Johnson of Little Green Footballs tweeted that if you're wondering whether the...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Romney Kneejerks Into Colossal Blunder]]></title>
							<link>http://www.huffingtonpost.com/bob-cesca/mitt-romney-libya-attack_b_1881685.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 16 Sep 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Bob Cesca</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In addition to covering the often harrowing, emotionally tumultuous and purely weird aspects of life in the White House, as well as the president's insider tips on what's required to be the leader of the free world (for example, Obama recommended daily exercise or the job will "break you...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The War Against Gov't Workers Continues]]></title>
							<link>http://www.huffingtonpost.com/bob-cesca/the-republicans-continue-_b_986343.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 29 Sep 2011 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Bob Cesca</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The Republicans have been so desperate to find new and clever ways to attack the president that they've managed to paint themselves into rhetorical corners with wafer thin sloganeering and laughable attempts at snark. It's no wonder, then, why they're dogged by an ongoing series of...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Time for Democrats to Get Loud and Fearless]]></title>
							<link>http://www.huffingtonpost.com/bob-cesca/time-for-the-democrats-to_b_457222.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 14 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Bob Cesca</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Here's a major reason why the Republicans are still a viable party: they don't mind getting loud. They're willing to flagrantly lie out loud, while also making a huge production out of insignificant and contradictory nonsense that heretofore was never even considered to be a political...]]></description>
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