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<title><![CDATA[Robert Schlesinger - Articles - RealClearPolitics]]></title><link>http://www.RealClearPolicy.com/authors/rss/archive/21335.xml</link><description><![CDATA[Robert Schlesinger]]></description><category domain="21335">Author</category><item>
							<title><![CDATA[Why Burisma Revelations Won't Hurt Biden Campaign]]></title>
							<link>https://www.nbcnews.com/think/opinion/trump-wants-another-october-surprise-his-efforts-manufacture-one-are-ncna1243493</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 16 Oct 2020 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Robert Schlesinger</author>
							<description><![CDATA[It's 2020: We're not worried about one October surprise but about how many awful things can occur this October. Trump's unlikely to engineer any of them.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Virus Crisis Requires Trump Be Everything He's Not]]></title>
							<link>https://www.nbcnews.com/think/opinion/trump-s-nero-fiddling-tweet-too-close-coronavirus-reality-comfort-ncna1153521</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 11 Mar 2020 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Robert Schlesinger</author>
							<description><![CDATA[This president has never been good at the bully pulpit part of the job, but it wasn't until recently that his shortcoming became a public health hazard.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Purges Show Trump Learned Nothing From Impeachment]]></title>
							<link>https://www.nbcnews.com/think/opinion/trump-s-purging-everyone-he-thinks-disloyal-he-was-never-ncna1132486</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 09 Feb 2020 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Robert Schlesinger</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Though many Republicans said that the president might now behave more cautiously, the reality is that he just feels empowered to abuse his office again.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[McConnell's Done More to Destroy Norms Than Trump]]></title>
							<link>https://www.nbcnews.com/think/opinion/donald-trump-has-done-less-destroy-democratic-norms-mitch-mcconnell-ncna1011451</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 30 May 2019 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Robert Schlesinger</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The Senate majority leader has been around Washington long enough and is smart enough to know precisely what he's doing to our country for his party.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Trump Wants to Kill Obamacare Because It's Popular]]></title>
							<link>https://www.nbcnews.com/think/opinion/trump-wants-kill-obamacare-because-it-s-more-popular-he-ncna988816</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 02 Apr 2019 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Robert Schlesinger</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The president has a clockwork-like impulse to follow up good news with self-destructive political acts.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Dem Campaign for Impeachment Makes It Less Likely]]></title>
							<link>https://www.nbcnews.com/think/opinion/odds-trump-s-impeachment-go-down-more-democrats-campaign-it-ncna865881</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 15 Apr 2018 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Robert Schlesinger</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[Nail in the Coffin for Nunes Memo]]></title>
							<link>https://www.usnews.com/opinion/thomas-jefferson-street/articles/2018-02-24/house-intelligences-democratic-russia-memo-finishes-off-nunes-nonsense</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 25 Feb 2018 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Robert Schlesinger</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[Trump's Defenders, Through the Looking Glass]]></title>
							<link>https://www.usnews.com/opinion/thomas-jefferson-street/articles/2018-01-24/the-increasingly-hysterical-and-conspiracy-minded-defenses-of-donald-trump</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 25 Jan 2018 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Robert Schlesinger</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Team Trump's defenses of the president regarding the Russian hacking scandal seem to be getting increasingly hysterical. Hysterical? Is that too strong a term?'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[So Long 2017, You Won't Be Missed]]></title>
							<link>https://www.usnews.com/opinion/articles/2017-12-22/trump-gop-and-democrats-should-all-agree-2017-was-awful</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 24 Dec 2017 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Robert Schlesinger</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[Trump Administration Chaos Continues]]></title>
							<link>https://www.usnews.com/opinion/thomas-jefferson-street/articles/2017-10-04/tillerson-the-moron-the-purge-and-team-trumps-unceasing-chaos</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 05 Oct 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Robert Schlesinger</author>
							<description><![CDATA[We interrupt your stunned disbelief about the tragedies visited upon the nation in Puerto Rico and Las Vegas for a periodic reminder that things are as preposterously dysfunctional as you think they are in Republican-run Washington, D.C.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Team Trump's Russia Bait-and-Switch]]></title>
							<link>https://www.usnews.com/opinion/thomas-jefferson-street/articles/2017-07-24/jared-kushner-and-donald-trump-still-dont-understand-the-russia-scandal</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 25 Jul 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Robert Schlesinger</author>
							<description><![CDATA[There's a lot to parse in the statements issued Monday by Jared Kushner, President Donald Trump's son-in-law and senior adviser, regarding the Russia investigation. But one kernel stuck out at me as illustrating once again one of the basic problems of the Trump administration's approach...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Democratize U.S. Democracy]]></title>
							<link>http://www.usnews.com/opinion/articles/2016-12-23/how-to-reform-the-electoral-college-so-the-peoples-choice-prevails</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 23 Dec 2016 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Robert Schlesinger</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Donald Trump will become the 45th president of the United States on Jan. 20 and the fifth to assume office having lost the national popular vote. And he will be the second of the last three presidents to enter the White House after more voters chose his opponent for the presidency.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The (Not) Impossible Hat Trick]]></title>
							<link>http://www.usnews.com/news/the-report/articles/2015/11/27/its-not-impossible-for-hillary-clinton-to-win-a-third-obama-term</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 27 Nov 2015 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Robert Schlesinger</author>
							<description><![CDATA[We're less than a year out from the 2016 presidential election and barely two months from the first presidential candidate selections votes being cast. You can view that as, in keeping with the week's theme, a reason to give thanks (less than a year left!) or cause to drown your sorrows...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Obama Has No Magic &quot;Leadership&quot; Wand]]></title>
							<link>http://www.usnews.com/opinion/blogs/robert-schlesinger/2013/05/10/obama-gridlock-make-believe-leadership-crisis</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 11 May 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Robert Schlesinger</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Punditry is divided into two classes these days: those blaming President Obama and his perceived failure to "lead" for the gridlock that has consumed our government and those who believe that since the president has to deal with a coequal branch of government, blame should spread beyond...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Republicans' Policy Dilemma]]></title>
							<link>http://www.usnews.com/opinion/blogs/robert-schlesinger/2013/03/08/obama-taking-advantage-of-the-gop-swing-voter-economic-policy-gap</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 09 Mar 2013 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Robert Schlesinger</author>
							<description><![CDATA[I've written before about a problem the Republicans have which President Obama seems determined to exploit in his second term: areas where a chasm has grown between the main stream of the electorate and the base of the GOP. This has created a potential win-win dynamic for the president:...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Obama Lets GOP March to Its Own Oblivion]]></title>
							<link>http://www.usnews.com/opinion/articles/2013/02/15/emboldened-obama-letting-gop-march-to-its-own-oblivion-</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 16 Feb 2013 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Robert Schlesinger</author>
							<description><![CDATA[On Election Day 2012, Democratic pollster Celinda Lake asked swing voters what they wanted to hear from President Obama. The top answer: They wanted to know his immediate plans. Now they do, first from an inaugural address that made an unabashed case for activist government, and then in...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Were Super PACs a Giant Waste of Money?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.usnews.com/opinion/blogs/robert-schlesinger/2012/12/07/inside-the-2012-super-pacs</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 07 Dec 2012 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Robert Schlesinger</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[Election Predictions: 'Quants' vs. Traditionalists]]></title>
							<link>http://www.usnews.com/opinion/blogs/robert-schlesinger/2012/10/31/culture-war-the-moneyball-ization-of-politics</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 31 Oct 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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							<title><![CDATA[GOP Tax Cuts Are Fiscally Irresponsible]]></title>
							<link>http://politics.usnews.com/opinion/articles/2010/09/22/republicans-tax-cut-proposals-would-double-the-budget-deficit.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 23 Sep 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Robert Schlesinger</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Speaking with television reporter Howard K. Smith in January 1971,  Richard Nixon described himself as "now a Keynesian in economics." Smith  later noted that because the GOP's basic economic philosophy involved budget  balancing, a Republican following the pro-deficit, pro-spending John...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[GOP Digging a Hole on Social Security]]></title>
							<link>http://politics.usnews.com/opinion/blogs/robert-schlesinger/2010/08/14/Democrats-Bet-on-the-Politics-of-Social-Security</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 15 Aug 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Robert Schlesinger</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Happy birthday to Social Security, which turns 75 today. Over the last few days, Democrats have keyed on the anniversary in their latest attempt to reframe the battle for control of Congress, highlighting the desire on the part of a number of Republicans to retire or revamp the...]]></description>
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