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<title><![CDATA[Morton Kondracke - Articles - RealClearPolitics]]></title><link>http://www.RealClearPolicy.com/authors/rss/archive/25810.xml</link><description><![CDATA[Morton Kondracke]]></description><category domain="25810">Author</category><item>
							<title><![CDATA[Biden&rsquo;s Approval Rating Poses Dilemma for Dems]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 21 Feb 2024 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Morton Kondracke</author>
							<description><![CDATA[President Biden clearly doesn'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'t want to quit the 2024 presidential race. And he shouldn'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'t do so now. With Super Tuesday, March 5, coming on fast, other potential Democratic candidates wouldn'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'t have time to organize campaigns.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Biden Must Prioritize Bipartisan Solution to Border Crisis]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2023/10/24/biden_must_prioritize_bipartisan_solution_to_border_crisis_149945.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 24 Oct 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Morton Kondracke</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Having neglected the U.S.-Mexico border crisis for nearly three years while tending to various domestic and foreign issues, President Biden now needs to take firm charge of immigration policy '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('“').';' for both substantive and political reasons.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why Democrats Must Retain Control of Congress in 2022]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2021/08/04/why_democrats_must_retain_control_of_congress_in_2022_146189.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 04 Aug 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Morton Kondracke</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The 2020 election demonstrated how fragile our democracy is. As Donald Trump tried, by means both legal and illegal, to overturn the results of a free and fair election, only the courts and a thin line of courageous Republican election officials guaranteed that the peoples'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';' choice...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[2020 Galvanized Democracy Reforms, But More Are Needed]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2020/12/23/2020_galvanized_democracy_reforms_but_more_are_needed_144905.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 23 Dec 2020 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Morton Kondracke</author>
							<description><![CDATA[If Bill Gates, Barack Obama, NPR, Amazon and big and small publications can name their best books of 2020, so can I. Everyone in the Biden administration and Congress -- and you, too -- should read these two: Fareed Zakaria'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'Ten Lessons for a Post-Pandemic World'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' and...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Georgia Senate Runoff Is Key to Biden Presidency]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2020/12/11/georgia_senate_runoff_is_key_to_biden_presidency.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 11 Dec 2020 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Morton Kondracke</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Call it what it is: Donald Trump has been trying to stage a coup d'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'etat, in multiple ways working to get courts and state officials to overturn a free election and keep him in power.
So far, he'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s failed at every level, including the conservative-dominated U.S. Supreme Court,...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Court Packing Is a Bad Idea. Here's a Better One]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2020/09/22/court_packing_is_a_bad_idea_heres_a_better_one_144262.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 22 Sep 2020 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Morton Kondracke</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Ruth Bader Ginsburg'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s death -- and Mitch McConnell'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s situational ethics -- have revived calls for enlarging ('&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'packing'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';') the Supreme Court to alter its potential conservative tilt. It'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s a bad idea -- and there'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s a better way to go.
The better way is to...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Way to Repair U.S. Politics: More Competition]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2020/07/07/the_way_to_repair_us_politics_more_competition_143638.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 07 Jul 2020 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Morton Kondracke</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The United States has been invaded by an enemy that'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s killed more than 129,000 Americans so far and may take 160,000 before the end of July. You'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'d think our political leaders would be united on how to combat the COVID-19 crisis.
But it'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s turned into yet another partisan...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[COVID-19 Crisis Makes Reformers All In for Vote-by-Mail]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2020/03/30/covid-19_crisis_makes_reformers_all_in_for_vote-by-mail_142808.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 30 Mar 2020 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Morton Kondracke</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The political reform movement -- large, growing and increasingly successful -- was poised to wage dozens of new state campaigns in 2020 to outlaw gerrymandering, expand use of ranked-choice voting and temper the influence of big money in politics.
Then came the COVID-19 crisis, upending...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Neal Simon's Roadmap Out of Our Partisan Morass]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2020/02/18/neal_simons_roadmap_out_of_our_partisan_morass_142424.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 18 Feb 2020 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Morton Kondracke</author>
							<description><![CDATA['&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'Contract to Unite America: Ten Reforms to Reclaim Our Republic,'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' by Neal Simon. RealClear Publishing, 258 pages
'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' 
Only 16% of Americans trust the federal government to do the right thing most or all of the time. Only 11% have confidence in Congress. Barely half of voters...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Political Reform Movement Is Moving Fast]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2019/12/12/political_reform_movement_is_moving_fast_141940.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 12 Dec 2019 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Morton Kondracke</author>
							<description><![CDATA[DENVER, Colo. -- We clearly can'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'t depend on deadlocked politicians in Washington to save American democracy from ruinous polarization, policy stagnation, and popular distrust of almost every institution. It'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s going to have to be done at the state and local level.
That'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA['Heavyweights' Must Act to Save Democracy]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2019/11/26/heavyweights_must_act_to_save_democracy_141813.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 26 Nov 2019 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Morton Kondracke</author>
							<description><![CDATA[American democracy is in serious danger. It'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s time for respected civic heavyweights get off the sidelines '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' that'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s retired generals and admirals, former Cabinet officers, corporate executives, university presidents, ex-mayors, governors and members of Congress; religious...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Democrats' Far-Left Lean Risks More Than the Presidency]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2019/07/18/democrats_far-left_lean_risks_more_than_the_presidency_140803.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 18 Jul 2019 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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							<description><![CDATA[If the Democratic Party keeps surging to the left and nominates a 2020 candidate who can be credibly labeled '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'socialist,'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'radical'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' or just far out of mainstream, it will not only reelect Donald Trump, but unleash a cascade of nightmares on itself and the nation.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA['New Dems' Outnumber Liberals, But Need Pizazz]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2019/06/04/new_democrats_outnumber_liberals_but_need_pizazz_140477.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 04 Jun 2019 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Morton Kondracke</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The media, perpetually mesmerized by ideologues and charisma, have virtually anointed radical leftist Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez as the future of the Democratic Party. In fact, it should focus on...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why Kasich Should Run as a Reformer]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2018/12/04/why_kasich_should_run_as_a_reformer_138831.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 04 Dec 2018 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Morton Kondracke</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Ohio Gov. John Kasich is leaning strongly toward running for president in 2020 as a third-party candidate -- the wisest course for him. But if he does, he should make systemic political reform part of his agenda.
That'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s because, out of sight of most of the media, there'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s a...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Reform Movement Picks Up Steam Ahead of Midterms]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2018/10/25/reform_movement_picks_up_steam_ahead_of_midterms_138455.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 25 Oct 2018 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Morton Kondracke</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Political America is fixated on the congressional midterms even though little good is likely to come out of them. Unfortunately, it'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s paying too little attention to political reform efforts in more than two dozen states and localities, a trend that could have major...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Media Are Missing a Movement]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2018/08/22/the_media_are_missing_a_movement_137856.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 22 Aug 2018 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Morton Kondracke</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Fixated as they are (sometimes legitimately) on scandals, tweets, protest marches, Russia and rumors, the U.S. media are missing the growth of a movement that has the potential to be as momentous as turn-of-the-last-century progressivism, women'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s suffrage or civil and gay...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why John Kasich Should Run as an Independent in 2020]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2018/05/03/why_john_kasich_should_run_as_an_independent_in_2020_136965.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 03 May 2018 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Morton Kondracke</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The reform movement fueled by political centrists is getting stronger all over the country, but it needs a heavyweight 2020 Independent presidential candidate to gain national traction and big-time financial backing. Ohio Gov. John Kasich ought to take up that challenge.
He can'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'t...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[An Open Letter to Paul Ryan on DACA]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2018/02/15/an_open_letter_to_paul_ryan_on_daca_136278.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 15 Feb 2018 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Morton Kondracke</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Dear Mr. Speaker: You are almost certain to hold the fate of 1.8 million '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'Dreamers'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' in your hands when the Senate concludes its marathon immigration debate. I appeal to you to ask yourself: What would Jack Kemp, your hero and mentor, want you to do? 
You'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'ll be in charge of...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Effort to Reform Two-Party Duopoly Gains Steam]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2018/02/07/effort_to_reform_two-party_duopoly_gains_steam_136206.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 07 Feb 2018 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Morton Kondracke</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Judging by the enthusiasm, dedication, idealism and joyfully expressed righteous indignation on display at the Unrig the System summit in New Orleans last week, a potentially powerful national movement is building to combat the corruption and dysfunction visited on the nation by the...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Failure on DACA Will Stain U.S., Not Just the GOP]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2018/01/24/failure_on_daca_will_stain_us_not_just_the_gop_136079.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 24 Jan 2018 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Morton Kondracke</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The fate of more than 1 million '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'Dreamers'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' will indelibly define America'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s character in the eyes of our own population and the world.
The fact that these innocent young people have been kept in agonized limbo for years is bad enough. They were brought to the U.S. as...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[A Call to Revive America's Political Center]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2017/06/22/a_call_to_revive_americas_political_center_134248.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 22 Jun 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Morton Kondracke</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Before our savagely polarized country rips itself apart with violent language and violent deeds, it'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s time for the nation'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s adult leaders to rally and fortify the political center.
I'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'m not talking about national Republican and Democratic leaders. They'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'re hopeless....]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Paralysis or Compromise? What the Winner Should Do]]></title>
							<link>http://www.seattletimes.com/opinion/paralysis-or-a-future-of-compromise-heres-what-the-next-president-should-do/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 06 Nov 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Morton Kondracke</author>
							<description><![CDATA[IF you think this presidential election campaign has been ugly, wait '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' the next four years could be much worse. Assuming Hillary Clinton survives her email crisis and gets elected, House Republicans vow to spend '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'years'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' investigating her. Some are already talking about...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Kemp Era]]></title>
							<link>http://www.weeklystandard.com/articles/kemp-era_1039585.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 04 Oct 2015 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Morton Kondracke</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Jack Kemp Model for Republicans]]></title>
							<link>http://on.wsj.com/1Mzg5o4</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 28 Sep 2015 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Morton Kondracke</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Jack Kemp never became president, but the country desperately needs a leader like him now. When Kemp died in 2009, two themes dominated tributes to his career as a star quarterback, congressman, cabinet secretary and candidate for vice president and president. Conservatives called him...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Will Obama Deal on Spending?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.rollcall.com/news/would_obama_deal_on_spending-219934-1.html?zkPrintable=true</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 13 Dec 2012 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Morton Kondracke</author>
							<description><![CDATA[President Barack Obama is on his way to bludgeoning Republicans into agreeing to raise taxes. The big question is: Can he reach a deal on entitlement spending?Or are we in for four more years of political warfare and no problem-solving?Certainly, the political gridlock of his first term...]]></description>
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