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<title><![CDATA[Alex Pareene - Articles - RealClearPolitics]]></title><link>http://www.RealClearPolicy.com/authors/rss/archive/20724.xml</link><description><![CDATA[Alex Pareene]]></description><category domain="20724">Author</category><item>
							<title><![CDATA[The Disastrous Legacy of the New Democrats]]></title>
							<link>https://newrepublic.com/article/166358/disastrous-legacy-new-democrats</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 16 May 2022 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Alex Pareene</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Clintonites taught their party how to talk about helping people without actually doing it.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Democrats, Stop Negotiating With Traitors]]></title>
							<link>https://newrepublic.com/article/162675/democrats-negotiating-traitors-manchin-sinema</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 09 Jun 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Alex Pareene</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Party leaders should act like they believe their own rhetoric on Republican extremism.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Dems Can Preach Unity and Still Kill the Filibuster]]></title>
							<link>https://newrepublic.com/article/161031/democrats-can-preach-unity-still-kill-filibuster</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 25 Jan 2021 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Alex Pareene</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Why Joe Biden's position on the issue doesn't really matter]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[A Decade of Liberal Delusion and Failure]]></title>
							<link>https://newrepublic.com/article/156066/decade-liberal-delusion-failure-obama-presidency</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 20 Dec 2019 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Alex Pareene</author>
							<description><![CDATA[As 2009 ended, the editors of this magazine at the time'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' took their measure'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' of the first year of Barack Obama'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s presidency and declared it, with some reservations, a modest success. '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'All of this might not exactly place him in the pantheon next to Franklin Roosevelt,'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';'...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[There's Only One Way the Patrick &amp; Bloomberg Bids Make Sense]]></title>
							<link>https://newrepublic.com/article/155789/theres-one-way-patrick-bloomberg-campaigns-make-sense</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 21 Nov 2019 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Alex Pareene</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Democratic Party elders are making plans.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why Are Democrats Such Cowards?]]></title>
							<link>https://newrepublic.com/article/154113/democratic-party-fighting-spirit-give-war-chance</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 20 Jun 2019 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Alex Pareene</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In search of the party's fighting spirit]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Mitch McConnell: Nihilist in Chief]]></title>
							<link>https://newrepublic.com/article/153275/mitch-mcconnell-profile-nihilist-chief</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 21 Mar 2019 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Alex Pareene</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The banal, evil, all-destructive reign of Mitch McConnell]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Whatever Happened to Honest Graft?]]></title>
							<link>https://splinternews.com/whatever-happened-to-honest-graft-1822938108</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 19 Feb 2018 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Alex Pareene</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[Democratic Party, Don't Blow This]]></title>
							<link>http://gawker.com/dont-blow-this-1775111772?rev=1462551339112</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 06 May 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Alex Pareene</author>
							<description><![CDATA[It'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s Trump versus Clinton. It'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s a well-funded mainstream Democrat against a widely reviled demagogue who will struggle to earn the support of his party'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s donor base. It'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s a man whose every public utterance is potential negative ad waiting to be cut, versus the most...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[How Cruz's Sulking Rage Could Impact Republicans]]></title>
							<link>http://www.salon.com/2014/02/19/ted_cruzs_gift_to_boehner_how_he_could_help_gop_leaders_by_undermining_them/</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 19 Feb 2014 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Alex Pareene</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Republicans are stumbling toward the 2014 midterm elections fighting amongst themselves again. Democrats are happy to see it, because Republican disarray is one of the few things that could prevent another very good election for the GOP. We should all know the reasons for the Republican...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Either Fire Maureen Dowd or Get Her a Fact Checker]]></title>
							<link>http://www.salon.com/2013/08/22/please_fire_maureen_dowd_or_get_her_a_fact_checker/</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 22 Aug 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Alex Pareene</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Republican Party's Politics of Cruelty]]></title>
							<link>http://www.salon.com/2013/06/18/food_stamps_fight_and_the_politics_of_cruelty/</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 18 Jun 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Alex Pareene</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The White House, bless them, has threatened to veto the Farm Bill if Congress passes the House version of the legislation, which cuts $2 billion a year from the food stamp program, instead of the Senate version, which contains a mere $400 million in annual cuts.The White House would...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[MSNBC Is Having Ratings Troubles]]></title>
							<link>http://www.salon.com/2013/05/27/whats_wrong_with_msnbc/singleton/?dtoc</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 29 May 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Alex Pareene</author>
							<description><![CDATA[MSNBC is having ratings troubles. It came in fourth in April, after Fox, CNN, and HLN. Things have not improved in May. May 13-17 was MSNBC'&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('’').';'s lowest-rated week since summer of 2006. So what'&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('’').';'s wrong?We should maybe state at the outset the '&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('“').';'fourth place'&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' thing isn'&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('’').';'t quite as bad as it...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Bob Woodward Is Embarrassing Himself]]></title>
							<link>http://www.salon.com/2013/02/27/bob_woodward_demands_law_ignoring_mind_controlling_presidential_leadership/</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 28 Feb 2013 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Alex Pareene</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Bob Woodward rocked Washington this weekend with an editorial that hammered President Obama for inventing '&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('“').';'the sequester'&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' and then being rude enough to ask that Congress not make us have the sequester. Woodward went on '&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('“').';'Morning Joe'&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' this morning, and he continued his brutal...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why 2013 Is Going to Be Awful]]></title>
							<link>http://www.salon.com/2013/01/01/why_2013_is_going_to_be_awful/</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 01 Jan 2013 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Alex Pareene</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The good news is 2012 is over and will never happen again. The bad news is, now it'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s 2013. Here'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s why I'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'m not holding out hope for a great year in politics:AusterityIt'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s coming. Congress will obsess over crafting a long-term deficit deal no matter what happens with...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Beware of False GOP Rebranding Efforts]]></title>
							<link>http://www.salon.com/2012/11/14/beware_of_false_gop_rebranding_efforts/</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 15 Nov 2012 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Alex Pareene</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Conservatives with an eye on the future are rolling out their post-election loss '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'we must remake the party to save it'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' pitches. In Politico, Louisiana governor and perennial fantasy presidential candidate Bobby Jindal weighs in, getting some positive press for saying,...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Romney's Presidency Would Be a Nightmare]]></title>
							<link>http://www.salon.com/2012/10/29/the_romney_presidency_the_worst_case_scenario/</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 29 Oct 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Alex Pareene</author>
							<description><![CDATA[A few moderates and liberals have lately taken to arguing that, you know, maybe a Romney presidency wouldn'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'t be too bad. He might turn out to be more moderate, or at least pragmatic, than he'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s acted in the campaign so far. He might make a point of reaching out to Democrats in...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Rude Guide to Mitt]]></title>
							<link>http://www.salon.com/2012/04/23/rich_weird_romney/</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 23 Apr 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Alex Pareene</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Mitt Romney is weird. When the Obama reelection campaign early in the cycle made the mistake of indicating that its strategy would be to imply that Mitt Romney is weird by repeatedly telling Politico that it planned on calling Mitt Romney weird, Romney'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s camp countered by causing a...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Is the Right Really Breaking Up With Its Racists?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.salon.com/2012/04/16/is_the_right_really_breaking_up_with_its_racists/singleton</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 17 Apr 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Alex Pareene</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The National Review this month is having one of its semi-regular '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'purges,'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' in which formerly welcome members of the conservative establishment are declared distasteful and relegated to the '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'fringes.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' It began when self-declared racist and longtime National Review...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Sorry, Republicans: You Are Stuck With Romney]]></title>
							<link>http://politics.salon.com/2012/01/30/sorry_republicans_its_too_late_for_new_presidential_candidates/</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2012 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Alex Pareene</author>
							<description><![CDATA[We all owe a great big thanks to political scientist Josh Putnam. Putnam actually went to the trouble of looking up the filing deadlines for all the coming primaries and caucuses in order to see whether it would be possible for a new candidate to enter the Republican presidential race...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Fake Dem Pollsters' Idiotic Idea]]></title>
							<link>http://www.salon.com/2011/11/21/fake_democratic_pollsters_have_stupid_idea/singleton</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 21 Nov 2011 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Alex Pareene</author>
							<description><![CDATA[I think it'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s best to understand the Wall Street Journal editorial board'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s decision to publish any given column by con artist pollsters Doug Schoen and Pat Caddell as basically an expression of contempt for people who read the Wall Street Journal editorial page.Caddell and...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Keith Olbermann Is Back]]></title>
							<link>http://www.salon.com/news/keith_olbermann/index.html?story=/politics/war_room/2011/06/20/olbermann_tonight</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 20 Jun 2011 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Alex Pareene</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Since he left MSNBC unexpectedly in January, Keith Olbermann has not been absent from the culture. He played the Chevy part in Tom Shales' well-publicized and widely excerpted ESPN oral history. He was the subject of multiple magazine profiles and newspaper stories. He's still tweeting....]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Who Are We to Tell Anthony Weiner to Quit?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.salon.com/news/anthony_weiner_dny/index.html?story=/politics/war_room/2011/06/14/weiner_sigh</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 14 Jun 2011 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Alex Pareene</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Over the weekend, TMZ released a couple more humiliating photos of Rep. Anthony Weiner, taken in the House gym and sent to an unidentified woman. The Ethics Committee began its inquiry into his lewd behavior, and Weiner was said to be entering some sort of "treatment." (Do they have...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[John Boehner, Sensitive Republican Hero]]></title>
							<link>http://www.salon.com/news/john_boehner/index.html?story=/politics/war_room/2010/12/13/boehner_60minutes</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 13 Dec 2010 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Alex Pareene</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Last night, after football except on the West Coast, "60 Minutes" profiled John Boehner, the next speaker of the House and the most sensitive man in America.We watched a clip of Boehner crying, then Boehner cried again when Leslie Stahl asked him about crying. Stahl took him to the bar...]]></description>
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