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<title><![CDATA[John Sununu - Articles - RealClearPolitics]]></title><link>http://www.RealClearPolicy.com/authors/rss/archive/21941.xml</link><description><![CDATA[John Sununu]]></description><category domain="21941">Author</category><item>
							<title><![CDATA[Obama's Attack on the Kochs Is Personal]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 31 Aug 2015 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>John Sununu</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Fresh off his Martha&rsquo;s Vineyard vacation, a rested and ready Barack Obama set Air Force One on full throttle, flying off to Las Vegas last week to do something really important: Pick a fight with the Koch brothers. The backdrop may have been a clean energy summit starring Senate...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The EPA Is a Mess That Needs Cleaning Up]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 17 Aug 2015 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>John Sununu</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In George Orwell's dystopian novel &ldquo;1984,&rdquo; the authoritarian government uses institutionalized propaganda to assure citizens of the benevolence with which it pursues questionable objectives. Thus, the Ministry of Peace oversees endless militarization and war with global...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Hillary Clinton's Candidacy Could Sink]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 08 May 2015 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>John Sununu</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Sometimes the idea of a thing is much better than the thing itself. Take the Titanic, for example, or Hillary Clinton&rsquo;s campaign for president. During the all-important conceptual phase, both benefited from an aura of invincibility &mdash; which is a great thing to have, until you...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Keystone XL Fight Sealed Landrieu's Fate]]></title>
							<link>http://www.bostonglobe.com/opinion/2014/11/20/keystone-fight-sealed-mary-landrieu-fate/KSNNYozw5lk84LpN2okJRK/story.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 24 Nov 2014 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>John Sununu</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In the brutal closing scene of the 2007 film &ldquo;There Will Be Blood,&rdquo; a bowling alley beating, set in motion by years of tension and personal torment, concludes with the final biting words, &ldquo;I&rsquo;m finished.&rdquo; Sifting through the wreckage on the Senate floor last...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[A Return to Normal in Congress]]></title>
							<link>http://www.bostonglobe.com/opinion/2014/11/07/tuesday-elections-could-mark-return-normal-for-congress/VccVEg8P3PG3rH5gPMvbKN/story.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 08 Nov 2014 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>John Sununu</author>
							<description><![CDATA[SURE, TUESDAY was a great night for Republicans. But the election outcome could be even bigger for a forgotten hero of American politics: the bill.You likely remember him from &ldquo;Schoolhouse Rock&rdquo; &mdash; &ldquo;just a bill, sitting here on Capitol Hill&rdquo; &mdash; singing...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Dems Dare Not Speak of President Obama]]></title>
							<link>http://www.bostonglobe.com/opinion/2014/10/26/for-obama-all-about-himself-senate-democrats-dismay/XScTSQZIXeggmvxGeYtySK/story.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 27 Oct 2014 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>John Sununu</author>
							<description><![CDATA[THERE&rsquo;S NOTHING quite like the electric atmosphere in the final week of a competitive statewide political campaign. In those last few days, US Senate races &mdash; particularly those that have attracted national attention &mdash; reach levels of intensity and around-the-clock...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Cash for Clunkers: How Bad Policy's Made]]></title>
							<link>http://www.bostonglobe.com/opinion/2014/08/31/cash-for-clunkers-how-bad-public-policy-gets-made/LStZtMRqTNKxAc62sYP4fM/story.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 01 Sep 2014 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>John Sununu</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[Harry Reid's Border Problem]]></title>
							<link>http://www.bostonglobe.com/opinion/2014/07/21/harry-reid-border-problem/ivbWWgYJaPl1b5wcWrge5O/story.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 21 Jul 2014 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>John Sununu</author>
							<description><![CDATA[HARRY REID has a border problem. More accurately, America has a border problem that Reid, as Senate majority leader, will need to help solve in the next three weeks. The Nevada senator&rsquo;s difficulties stem from his dislike of the bipartisan solution recently offered, disagreement...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[D Is for Democrat. Or Dodge.]]></title>
							<link>http://www.bostonglobe.com/opinion/2014/06/09/for-democrat-dodge/2JxQxa0l02HUbjFQKfigcI/story.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jun 2014 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>John Sununu</author>
							<description><![CDATA[ACCORDING TO Patches O&#194;&#146;Houlihan, the legendary coach featured in the film &#194;&#147;Dodgeball,&#194;&#148; winning required mastery of the game&#194;&#146;s five d&#194;&#146;s: &#194;&#147;dodge, duck, dip, dive, and dodge.&#194;&#148; Today, that silly catchphrase for an even sillier movie has become the operating manual for congressional...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Obamacare Misses the Target]]></title>
							<link>http://www.bostonglobe.com/opinion/2014/03/30/obamacare-misses-target/0mNpXnRGH4m5ERcSgkcQLO/story.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 31 Mar 2014 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>John Sununu</author>
							<description><![CDATA[THE LAW clearly states that today is the final day to sign up for Obamacare. Only it isn&rsquo;t. The extension announced last week covers anyone who merely claims they intend to apply. Allowing such a frivolous and unverifiable gesture to circumvent the law neatly captures the...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Dave Camp Deserves Enormous Credit]]></title>
							<link>http://www.bostonglobe.com/opinion/2014/03/03/tax-reform-ski-you-dare/brf6acDe6fWBGSso1aVjzJ/story.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 03 Mar 2014 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>John Sununu</author>
							<description><![CDATA[WHEN DAVID Camp, chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, released tax reform legislation last week, the first thing that sprang to my mind was Mount Washington&rsquo;s Tuckerman Ravine. Looming just 2 miles or so from the Pinkham Notch visitor center, the greatest natural snow...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Dems Keeping Obama at Arm's Length]]></title>
							<link>http://www.bostonglobe.com/opinion/editorials/2014/02/17/some-democrats-keeping-obama-arm-length/5rlH7fH5c1nNObPO2PrPpM/story.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 17 Feb 2014 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>John Sununu</author>
							<description><![CDATA[THROUGHOUT SEPTEMBER of 2008, every week produced another ugly milestone in the unfolding financial crisis. Just after Labor Day, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the government-sponsored mortgage machines, were taken over by their regulator. Ten days later, Lehman Brothers filed for...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Filibuster: You'll Miss It When It's Gone]]></title>
							<link>http://www.bostonglobe.com/opinion/2013/12/09/filibuster-democrats-will-miss-when-gone/RYioNn1Z5jQ4Ei4g6qZDFI/story.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 09 Dec 2013 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>John Sununu</author>
							<description><![CDATA[NO ACTOR knew Armageddon like Charlton Heston. From the nocturnal zombies of &ldquo;Omega Man&rdquo; to the nutritional nightmare of &ldquo;Soylent Green&rdquo; to the post-apocalypse world in &ldquo;Planet of the Apes,&rdquo; Heston saw it all. So it was natural to wonder how he would...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Obamacare's Real Problems Aren't Fixable]]></title>
							<link>http://www.bostonglobe.com/opinion/2013/11/25/obamacare-crisis-can-fixed-flaws-are-fundamental/HHPmJSEUFxqnkrZLDTX7lJ/story.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 25 Nov 2013 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>John Sununu</author>
							<description><![CDATA[THINK TANKS devote endless hours to analyzing &ldquo;crisis response&rdquo; &mdash; those moments when politicians collectively stare into the proverbial abyss. There is a spectrum of possible responses to any crisis: On one end is George Costanza from &ldquo;Seinfeld,&rdquo; who smells...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Panic Sets In at the White House]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 18 Jun 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>John Sununu</author>
							<description><![CDATA[It&rsquo;s been a tough couple of weeks for President Obama, one of those stretches where everything seems to go south at once. The economy is soft, his poll numbers are down, and Europe has the markets on edge; Romney is even beating him in the money race. What was once hailed as...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[1,400 Waivers: Gov't Policy at Its Very Worst]]></title>
							<link>http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2011/07/25/if_a_law_doesnt_work_waive_it_away/</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 26 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>John Sununu</author>
							<description><![CDATA[At one point during recent debt negotiations, President Obama laid down a list of &ldquo;untouchable&rdquo; budget items. Topping that list was anything having to do with implementing or enforcing the Health Care Reform Act. Ironically, the hard line came only after the Department of...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Obama's Team: A Glut of Bureaucrats]]></title>
							<link>http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2011/07/18/a_glut_of_bureaucrats/</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 18 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>John Sununu</author>
							<description><![CDATA[&lsquo;I HAVE never been in banking.&rdquo; Those words sounded pretty defensive when Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner uttered them two years ago. The financial crisis had left nerves raw, and Damon Silvers, my colleague on the congressional panel watching over the federal bailout, had...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[As Panic Sets In, Obama Whirls on Economy]]></title>
							<link>http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2011/06/20/obamas_whirling_dervish_economic_policy/</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 20 Jun 2011 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>John Sununu</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Panic is not a pretty thing. The Obama administration may not be there just yet, but a steady drumbeat of bad economic news pushes it closer every week. In Ohio the president talked about giving money to automakers, in North Carolina he talked about giving money to &ldquo;green&rdquo;...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Primary Season Makes Candidates Stronger]]></title>
							<link>http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2011/05/23/the_long_march/</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 23 May 2011 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>John Sununu</author>
							<description><![CDATA[When Donald Trump finally threw in the towel last week and admitted he wasn&rsquo;t running for president, the cable news catch phrase was &ldquo;sigh of relief.&rsquo;&rsquo; Giggle of relief may be more like it. I don&rsquo;t know a single Republican activist in New Hampshire who ever...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Union Fight Is Just Beginning]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 16 May 2011 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>John Sununu</author>
							<description><![CDATA[There is something quintessentially American about a showdown &mdash; two adversaries standing on principle, face to face. It brings to mind simple, iconic images: Gary Cooper in &ldquo;High Noon,&rdquo; Burt Lancaster in &ldquo;Gunfight at the OK Corral,&rdquo; inmates vs. guards in...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[About That 'Change the Tone' Debate]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 17 Jan 2011 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>John Sununu</author>
							<description><![CDATA[IN MARCH of 1997, for a few shining days, ground zero in the campaign to restore civility to American politics was the Bi-Partisan Congressional Retreat in Hershey, Pennsylvania. Perhaps not an event seared into the memory of all Americans, but for members of Congress it was a unique...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Debt Default is No Laughing Matter]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 10 Jan 2011 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>John Sununu</author>
							<description><![CDATA[SOMETIMES LIFE imitates art &mdash; and sometimes life imitates silly art. So last week, when Senator Lindsey Graham said he&rsquo;s prepared to let the United States default on its debts unless Social Security is fixed, it brought to mind a scene from the Mel Brooks classic,...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Democrats Err in Bid to Muzzle Senators]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 03 Jan 2011 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>John Sununu</author>
							<description><![CDATA[THIS WEDNESDAY at noon, 33 senators will have their oath of office administered by Vice President Biden in a ceremony that hasn&rsquo;t changed much in 220 years. Each will sign a book recording the names of those who have held the distinguished title of  US senator. Then the arguing...]]></description>
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