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<title><![CDATA[Thomas Geoghegan - Articles - RealClearPolitics]]></title><link>http://www.RealClearPolicy.com/authors/rss/archive/19252.xml</link><description><![CDATA[Thomas Geoghegan]]></description><category domain="19252">Author</category><item>
							<title><![CDATA[Blue States Should Unite To Declare an Emergency]]></title>
							<link>https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/oct/05/blue-states-democrats-trump</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 06 Oct 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Thomas Geoghegan</author>
							<description><![CDATA[States opposed to Trump can create a compact '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('“').';' a new prototype for American government '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('“').';' even if it'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s perceived as political theater'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[To Go Big Is To Keep It Simple]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/opinion/to-go-big-is-to-keep-it-simple/ar-AA1yYe3M</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 13 Feb 2025 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Thomas Geoghegan</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Or to put it differently'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'the party of the left must be the party of the working class, to keep the party of the right in its lane. That is, to keep the party of the right as a responsible pro-business party, and not a party of gangsters.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Constitutional Case for Disarming the Debt Ceiling]]></title>
							<link>https://newrepublic.com/article/169857/debt-ceiling-law-terminate-constitution</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 06 Jan 2023 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Thomas Geoghegan</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The Framers would have never tolerated debt-limit brinkmanship. It's time to put this terrible idea on trial.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[President Obama Should Sue Right Back]]></title>
							<link>http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2014/08/obama-should-sue-right-back-109990.html?hp=pm_1#.U-3VDfldWk5</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 15 Aug 2014 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Thomas Geoghegan</author>
							<description><![CDATA[So House Speaker John Boehner wants to sue President Barack Obama for his executive orders? Good. Let him. What better time for Obama to challenge the gerrymandering that Republicans have made into a high art form? After all, it'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s Boehner'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s party that has pulled off the...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Medicare Spending as Economic Stimulus]]></title>
							<link>http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-08-23/obama-is-lucky-that-medicare-is-out-of-control.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 26 Aug 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Thomas Geoghegan</author>
							<description><![CDATA[If U.S. President Barack Obama wins re-election, let him thank his lucky stars that entitlements are out of control. If Medicare was capped and couldn't shoot up automatically, unemployment would probably be in double digits.Out-of-control health-care spending is the only stimulus the...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[What Would Keynes Do?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.thenation.com/article/163673/what-would-keynes-do</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 30 Sep 2011 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Thomas Geoghegan</author>
							<description><![CDATA[After the Obama stimulus seemed to fail, a Washington Post headline gibed: John Maynard Keynes, the GOP'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s Latest Whipping Boy. On the left, of course, he'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s still our guy, even if, like some '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'Keynesians,'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' we have never read a word of Keynes. Some pundits say that in...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[10 Things Dems Could Do to Win]]></title>
							<link>http://www.thenation.com/article/154607/ten-things-dems-could-do-win</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 11 Sep 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Thomas Geoghegan</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Yes, the country is in a foul mood, with 15 million unemployed. The  Democrats may get clobbered in 2010. And even if we survive, how do we  hang on for the long term? If our great founder, FDR, could come back to  us, he might remind us of the three simple rules that once, long ago, ...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[What We Can Learn From Europe]]></title>
							<link>http://inthesetimes.com/article/6194/what_we_can_learn</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 26 Jul 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Thomas Geoghegan</author>
							<description><![CDATA[A young member of the IG Metall union protests during a rally at the Opera Square on September 5, 2009, in Frankfurt, Germany. (Photo by: Ralph Orlowski/Getty Images)Americans may believe the United States is set up for the middle class, and Europe is set up for the bourgeois. Or...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Use of Filibuster is Unconstitutional]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/11/opinion/11geoghegan.html?ref=opinion</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 11 Jan 2010 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Thomas Geoghegan</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Chicago
ABOUT the Senate, a college professor of mine used to say, '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'One day, the Supreme Court will declare it unconstitutional.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' He was joking, I think. But the Senate, as it now operates, really has become unconstitutional:  as we saw during the recent health care debacle, a...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Case for Busting the Filibuster]]></title>
							<link>http://www.thenation.com/doc/20090831/geoghegan</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 19 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Thomas Geoghegan</author>
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