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<title><![CDATA[Elaine Kamarck - Articles - RealClearPolitics]]></title><link>http://www.RealClearPolicy.com/authors/rss/archive/22845.xml</link><description><![CDATA[Elaine Kamarck]]></description><category domain="22845">Author</category><item>
							<title><![CDATA[How Will We Know if DOGE Is Succeeding?]]></title>
							<link>https://www.brookings.edu/articles/how-will-we-know-if-doge-is-succeeding/</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jun 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Elaine Kamarck</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Brookings Senior Fellow Elaine Kamarck analyzes the impact that DOGE has had thus far on the federal government.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Renewing the Democratic Party]]></title>
							<link>https://www.thirdway.org/report/renewing-the-democratic-party</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 27 Feb 2025 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Elaine Kamarck</author>
							<description><![CDATA[A time comes for every political party when its policies and dominant assumptions no longer meet either the public'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s expectations or the needs of the times. We believe that the Democratic Party has reached one of these moments and stands in urgent need of renewal.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Biden Is the President America Needs]]></title>
							<link>https://www.newsweek.com/biden-president-america-needs-opinion-1805450</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 12 Jun 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Elaine Kamarck</author>
							<description><![CDATA[President Joe Biden has delivered exactly what America needed after the non-stop drama of the Trump administration.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[How Biden Can Get His Presidency Back On Track]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/opinion/biden-must-tackle-inflation-address-americans-struggling-to-pay-for-rent-gas-groceries/ar-AARfKA3</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 29 Nov 2021 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Elaine Kamarck</author>
							<description><![CDATA[President Joe Biden can get his presidency back on track, particularly as it relates to the economy. He has time. One year until midterm elections and three years until the next presidential election is a lifetime in politics.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Dems Are Center-Left, and They Should Stay There]]></title>
							<link>https://www.macombdaily.com/opinion/democrats-are-center-left-and-they-ll-stay-there-if/article_eec3cbb9-2fa6-501f-a2ae-847626efe4d2.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 11 Mar 2019 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Elaine Kamarck</author>
							<description><![CDATA[To hear the Republican Party and some members of the press tell it, the Democratic Party has been taken over by its left wing.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Actually, National Dems Should Interfere in Primaries]]></title>
							<link>https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/03/opinion/dccc-democratic-primaries-interference.html?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Fopinion</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 03 May 2018 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Elaine Kamarck</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Picking a candidate is not corrupt and undemocratic. That's what party leadership is all about.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Fragile Legacy of Barack Obama]]></title>
							<link>https://www.brookings.edu/blog/fixgov/2018/04/06/the-fragile-legacy-of-barack-obama/</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 12 Apr 2018 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Elaine Kamarck</author>
							<description><![CDATA[It becomes clearer every day that Barack Obama, a historic president, presided over a somewhat less than historic presidency. With only one major legislative achievement (Obamacare)'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'and a fragile one at that'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'the legacy of Obama'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s presidency mainly rests on its tremendous...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Lessons from the Shutdown: Management Matters, Even for Presidents]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2013/11/04/lessons_from_the_shutdown_management_matters_even_for_presidents_120560.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 04 Nov 2013 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Elaine Kamarck</author>
							<description><![CDATA[What lessons can we learn about the presidency from the post-shutdown health care roll-out that has consumed the last part of October?'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';'  One stands out '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('“').';' Presidents get elected because of leadership; they succeed because of management.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';'  In the end, management failures end up...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[How Clinton Won the Government Shutdown Fight &amp; Why Obama Will Too]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2013/09/26/how_clinton_won_the_government_shutdown_fight__why_obama_will_too_120107.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 26 Sep 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Elaine Kamarck</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Conventional wisdom contends that the'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' last time the government shutdown, the winter of 1995 '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('“').';' 1996, President Clinton won and Speaker Newt Gingrich (and Congressional Republicans), lost.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';'  I was in the Clinton White House at the time, and I agree with this conventional wisdom.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' ...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Lessons for the Future of Government Reform]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2013/06/18/lessons_for_the_future_of_government_reform_118857.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 18 Jun 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Elaine Kamarck</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Editor's Note: Today, Elaine Kamarck is testifying before the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' Below are her prepared remarks:

It is an honor to be with you today and to discuss my experiences in government reform.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';'  In 1993 President Clinton and Vice President...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Will GOP Voters Get Bored With 'Grown Ups?']]></title>
							<link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/the-serious-gop-candidates-are-in-will-voters-get-bored/2011/05/25/AGxyDtCH_story.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 29 May 2011 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Elaine Kamarck</author>
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