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<title><![CDATA[John Merline - Articles - RealClearPolitics]]></title><link>http://www.RealClearPolicy.com/authors/rss/archive/20265.xml</link><description><![CDATA[John Merline]]></description><category domain="20265">Author</category><item>
							<title><![CDATA[True Extent of Obama's Spying on the Press Revealed]]></title>
							<link>https://issuesinsights.com/2019/05/25/report-obamas-spying-on-the-press-was-far-more-extensive-than-previously-thought/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 26 May 2019 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>John Merline</author>
							<description><![CDATA[President Trump might be openly hostile to the mainstream media, but it was the Obama administration that was engaged in a widespread effort to thwart the media. Which do you think is more harmful '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('¦').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The 'Doomsday Clock' Is Little More Than a Liberal Angst Meter]]></title>
							<link>https://www.investors.com/politics/commentary/the-doomsday-clock-measures-liberal-angst-not-global-risk/</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 28 Jan 2019 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>John Merline</author>
							<description><![CDATA[After all, the Clock routinely counted down after a Republican wins the White House, and ticked up when Democrats reclaim the presidency.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[What Is 'Patriotic' These Days? A Guide For The Perplexed]]></title>
							<link>http://www.investors.com/politics/commentary/what-is-patriotic-these-days-a-guide-for-the-perplexed/</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 10 Oct 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>John Merline</author>
							<description><![CDATA[If the kneeling football players are patriots, does that make Vice President Mike Pence's decision to walk out of an NFL game on Sunday unpatriotic?]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Murkowski and McCain Lied to Voters]]></title>
							<link>http://www.investors.com/politics/commentary/murkowski-and-mccain-saved-obamacare-just-months-after-promising-voters-theyd-repeal-it/</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 28 Jul 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>John Merline</author>
							<description><![CDATA[What changed in the 19 months since McCain, Murkowski and 10 other Republicans voted to repeal ObamaCare and then voted against repeal this time around?]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Study: Best-Run States Low-Tax, Republican]]></title>
							<link>http://www.investors.com/politics/commentary/best-run-states-are-all-solidly-republican-worst-run-mostly-democratic-study-finds/</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 11 Jul 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>John Merline</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The most fiscally sound states in the nation are all low-tax, GOP strongholds, while the 10 least-solvent states are almost all high-tax and heavily Democratic.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Obama: Don't Blame Me For the Democrats' Demise]]></title>
							<link>http://www.investors.com/politics/commentary/ego-in-chief-obama-says-democrats-lost-because-he-was-too-busy-being-president/</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jan 2017 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>John Merline</author>
							<description><![CDATA[At one point in President Obama's interview with ABC News that aired over the weekend, George Stephanopoulos noted that]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Clinton: National Lead Over Sanders Nearly Vanishes]]></title>
							<link>http://news.investors.com/ibd-editorials-polls/011116-789089-hillaryclinton-lead-nearly-vanishes-among-democrats.htm</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 11 Jan 2016 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>John Merline</author>
							<description><![CDATA[With just 21 days until the presidential primaries officially begin in Iowa, Hillary Clinton's support among Democrats nationally has taken a serious tumble.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Texas Economic Lesson Obama Refuses to Learn]]></title>
							<link>http://news.investors.com/ibd-editorials-perspective/050913-655537-free-market-texas-outperforms-big-government-obama.htm</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 10 May 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>John Merline</author>
							<description><![CDATA[President Obama went to Texas on Thursday to kick off a nationwide tour pushing his economic policies, apparently unaware that Texas has thrived the past four years by doing pretty much the opposite of what Obama has prescribed.Since taking office, Obama has pushed more government as the...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Debt Has Soared by $5.5T Since Last Senate Budget]]></title>
							<link>http://news.investors.com/031113-647624-as-president-dallies-us-debt-continues-its-relentless-surge.aspx</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 12 Mar 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>John Merline</author>
							<description><![CDATA[If you want a sense of just how massive the nation's debt problem is, consider this: The U.S. added $226 billion in new debt in just the 35 days since President Obama missed the legal deadline to submit his budget.That's more than the government will spend this year on education,...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Will Only Suckers Buy ObamaCare Insurance?]]></title>
							<link>http://news.investors.com/021913-644948-only-suckers-will-pay-with-obamacare-plan.aspx?ref=HPLNews</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 20 Feb 2013 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>John Merline</author>
							<description><![CDATA[For years, ObamaCare critics focused on its least popular feature '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' the mandate that everyone buy insurance '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' taking their fight all the way to the Supreme Court.But as ObamaCare's official launch date approaches, even its backers are beginning to admit that the law could...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Liberals' Austerity Lie: Spending Is Still Climbing]]></title>
							<link>http://news.investors.com/ibd-editorials-perspective/013113-642705-federal-fiscal-austerity-is-a-myth.htm</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 01 Feb 2013 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>John Merline</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In the wake of Wednesday's news that the economy contracted slightly in the last three months of 2012, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid laid the blame on budget cuts. "The economy was rejecting the austerity and brinksmanship," he said.That theme '&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('—').';' that spending cuts are putting...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Obama Policies Copy Moribund California]]></title>
							<link>http://news.investors.com/112112-634339-obama-embraces-calif-as-citizens-u-haul-to-texas.aspx</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 22 Nov 2012 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>John Merline</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Anyone who thinks that President Obama's economic policies will spur strong growth should consider U-Haul rates between California and Texas.Renting a 20-foot truck one-way from San Francisco to San Antonio, for example, will cost $1,693. But the U-Haul tab to go in the opposite...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Obama's Recovery as Bad as It Appears]]></title>
							<link>http://news.investors.com/102512-630716-obama-recovery-is-as-bad-as-it-seems.aspx</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 26 Oct 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>John Merline</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In a previously off-the-record interview with the Des Moines Register, President Obama argued that the economic recovery he's overseen isn't as bad as his Republican opponent, Mitt Romney, claims."In many ways, because of the actions we took early on, we're actually ahead of pace in the...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Obama's Re-Election Case Rests On 5 Phony Claims]]></title>
							<link>http://news.investors.com/100312-627990-presidents-case-for-re-election-rests-on-five-claims-all-phony.aspx?p=full</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 04 Oct 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>John Merline</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In making his case for re-election in the face of historically high unemployment and sluggish growth, President Obama has a simple and straightforward argument.Things were terrible when I arrived, he says, thanks to Bush-era policies of tax cuts and deregulation. We stopped the decline,...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Recovery Summer 3: Unemployment Up in 44 States]]></title>
							<link>http://news.investors.com/article/622601/201208171527/jobless-rate-climbs-in-44-states.htm</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 18 Aug 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>John Merline</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In another sign of the ongoing jobs recession, fully 44 states saw their unemployment rates climb in July, according to state-level data released Friday by the Bureau of Labor Statistics.As a result, more than three years after the economic recovery officially started under President...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Disability Rolls Outpace New Jobs in Obama Recovery]]></title>
							<link>http://news.investors.com/article/617233/201207060945/disability-climbs-faster-than-jobs-under-obama.htm</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 06 Jul 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>John Merline</author>
							<description><![CDATA[More workers joined the federal government's disability program in June than got new jobs, according to two new government reports, a clear indicator of how bleak the nation's jobs picture is after three full years of economic recovery.The economy created just 80,000 jobs in June, the...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[U.S. Has 60 Times More Oil Than Obama Claims]]></title>
							<link>http://news.investors.com/article/604303/201203141303/oil-abundant-in-the-united-states.htm</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 15 Mar 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>John Merline</author>
							<description><![CDATA[When he was running for the Oval Office four years ago amid $4-a-gallon gasoline prices, then-Sen. Barack Obama dismissed the idea of expanded oil production as a way to relieve the pain at the pump."Even if you opened up every square inch of our land and our coasts to drilling," he...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Obama Stimulus Turns Three: What Has It Achieved?]]></title>
							<link>http://news.investors.com/article/601526/201202171525/obama-economic-stimulus-turns-three.htm</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 20 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>John Merline</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Without any fanfare whatsoever from the White House, February 17 marks the three-year anniversary of the day President Obama signed the much ballyhooed stimulus into law.At the time, Obama claimed that it would "create or save" up to 3.5 million jobs, and that "a new wave of innovation,...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Income Inequality Rose Most Under President Clinton]]></title>
							<link>http://news.investors.com/Article/590383/201111030805/Income-Inequality-Rose-Under-Clinton-Obama.htm</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 03 Nov 2011 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>John Merline</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In his weekend radio address, President Obama decried that "over the past three decades, the middle class has lost ground while the wealthiest few have become even wealthier." Although he was trying to leverage the Occupy Wall Street movement, the income gap has been a longstanding...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Austerity Myth: Federal Spending Up 5% This Year]]></title>
							<link>http://www.investors.com/NewsAndAnalysis/Article/588254/201110170805/The-Austerity-Myth-Federal-Spending-Up-5-This-Year.htm</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 17 Oct 2011 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>John Merline</author>
							<description><![CDATA[When Republicans took control of the House in January, they pledged to make deep cuts in federal spending, and in April they succeeded in passing a bill advertised as cutting $38 billion from fiscal 2011's budget. Then in August, they pushed for a deal to cut an additional $2.4 trillion...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[ObamaCare: Gloomy Forecasts, Broken Promises]]></title>
							<link>http://www.investors.com/NewsAndAnalysis/Article/587194/201110051841/ObamaCares-Broken-Promises.htm</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 06 Oct 2011 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>John Merline</author>
							<description><![CDATA[When the Kaiser Family Foundation reported last week that insurance premiums had climbed 9.5% this year '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' the biggest increase since 2004 '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' it looked as though a key promise of Obama-Care had been broken.Indeed, just before he signed the health reform law, President Obama said...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Perry a Study in Contrasts With Obama]]></title>
							<link>http://www.investors.com/NewsAndAnalysis/Article/581393/201108121903/In-Texas-Match-Up-With-The-President-Its-Advantage-Perry.htm</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 13 Aug 2011 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>John Merline</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Compared with Barack Obama, the man with whom he could be locked in a battle for the presidency a year from now, Rick Perry is a study in contrasts.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' Texas' governor, who was set to enter the race for the Republican nomination on Saturday, is 11 years older than the president, was...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Health Care Waivers: What is Going on Here?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.aolnews.com/2011/02/16/opinion-waiver-ing-on-health-care-reform/</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 16 Feb 2011 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>John Merline</author>
							<description><![CDATA[When the House passed health reform in March, Joe Hansen, president of  the United Food and Commercial Workers International Union, responded  with fulsome praise.  "This is an achievement that will rank among the highest in our national experience," he said.  Among other things, he...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Are You Better Off Than You Were 2 Years Ago?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.aolnews.com/2011/01/25/opinion-state-of-the-union-are-you-better-off-than-two-years/</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 25 Jan 2011 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>John Merline</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Ever since Ronald Reagan asked,  "Are you better off than you were four years ago?" in his 1980 debate  with Jimmy Carter, that question has been the key measure for  presidential success.  So perhaps, as President Barack Obama gets set to deliver his State of  the Union message after...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Before New Law, Health Spending Was Slowing]]></title>
							<link>http://www.aolnews.com/2011/01/06/opinion-was-health-care-on-the-mend-before-reform/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 08 Jan 2011 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>John Merline</author>
							<description><![CDATA[As the new Republican House majority gets set to vote on repealing  health care reform, critics of the move say that doing so would only put  the country back on its unsustainable health care path -- one  characterized by runaway costs.  But how accurate is that worry?]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Obama's Policies Have Made the Economy Worse]]></title>
							<link>http://www.aolnews.com/opinion/article/opinion-just-how-lousy-is-the-economic-recovery/19676281</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 18 Oct 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>John Merline</author>
							<description><![CDATA[It's become conventional wisdom that the country has come through the  worst recession since the Great Depression. President Obama has  repeatedly made this claim -- during his campaign, just before his inauguration, at a town hall meeting this September,  and many times in between. Lots...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Monster Deficits &amp; Obama's Long Term Spending]]></title>
							<link>http://www.aolnews.com/opinion/article/opinion-whos-really-to-blame-for-monster-deficits/19656330</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 04 Oct 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>John Merline</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Who is to blame for the gigantic budget deficits and the pileup of debt over the next decade? It depends on whom you ask. President Barack Obama and the Democrats place the blame squarely on Republicans. As Obama has repeatedly stressed, he inherited a fiscal meltdown,  driven by "two...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[A Tale of Two Economic Recoveries]]></title>
							<link>http://www.aolnews.com/opinion/article/opinion-a-tale-of-two-economic-recoveries/19641455</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 21 Sep 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>John Merline</author>
							<description><![CDATA[You'd think the news that the Great Recession is officially over would  be something to cheer about. On Monday, the National Bureau of Economic  Research -- the official recession scorekeeper -- said the downturn that  began in December 2007 ended way back in June 2009. Anyone feel like...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Obama Offers Stimulus Reruns]]></title>
							<link>http://www.aolnews.com/opinion/article/opinion-obama-offers-stimulus-reruns/19623238</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 07 Sep 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>John Merline</author>
							<description><![CDATA[It's summer that's supposed to be the time for reruns. So with summer  ending, why is President Obama offering up repeats in hopes of getting  the economy moving again?On Monday, President Barack Obama announced a proposal to spend $50 billion more on transportation to  rebuild roads,...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Does Obama Need a New Economic Approach?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.aolnews.com/opinion/article/opinion-the-july-jobs-report-highlights-obamas-cracked-stimulus-crystal-ball/19584275</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 06 Aug 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>John Merline</author>
							<description><![CDATA[John Merline                                        Opinion EditorMore Stories '&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('»').';'FeedbackSend letters to the editor to opinion@aolnews.com. Please include your name and location (city and state), and indicate that you intend the letter for publication.2CommentsIs this writer for real? ...]]></description>
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