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							<title><![CDATA[Why Conservatives Are Proposing a DACA Deal]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2018/01/17/why_conservatives_are_proposing_a_daca_deal__136028.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 17 Jan 2018 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Needham</author>
							<description><![CDATA[With President Trump&rsquo;s blessing, various factions within the Republican Party are cracking the door open to an amnesty deal for illegal immigrants currently enrolled in the unlawful Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program. Last week, Reps. Bob Goodlatte, Michael McCaul, Raul...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[One Simple Way to Improve GOP's Tax Reform Proposal]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2017/11/15/one_simple_way_to_improve_gops_tax_reform_proposal_135542.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 15 Nov 2017 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Needham</author>
							<description><![CDATA[After a year of failures, Congress is on the verge of reforming America&rsquo;s convoluted tax code for the first time in more than three decades. Both the House and Senate tax plans have the potential to unleash economic growth, create American jobs, increase wages for American workers,...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Americans Need Relief From Obamacare]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2017/06/29/americans_need_relief_from_obamacare_134327.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 29 Jun 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Needham</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Let&rsquo;s state the obvious: The Senate&rsquo;s Better Care Reconciliation Act (BCRA) is not full repeal of Obamacare. Any momentum for a clean repeal effort fell by the wayside earlier this year, leaving a divided Republican Party to debate both how much of Obamacare to repeal and...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Republicans Should Resist Another Medicare D]]></title>
							<link>https://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2017/03/22/gop-leaders-are-pushing-another-medicare-d-house-republicans-should-resist/?utm_term=.a4946d255994</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 22 Mar 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Needham</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Between now and Thursday, when the House of Representatives is scheduled to take its first vote on the American Health Care Act, Republican House members will come under enormous pressure from the Trump administration and congressional leadership as Speaker Paul Ryan scrambles to get the...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Unpacking the Complexity of Repeal and Replace]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nationalreview.com/article/445767/obamacare-repeal-replace-unpacking-complexities</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 15 Mar 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Needham</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The debate over the repeal and replacement of Obamacare has been hard for many on the right to parse because the concept of repeal &mdash; a term with a straightforward meaning that is isolated from replace &mdash; can lose its clear meaning when the two are joined at the hip.Obamacare...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Don't Let &quot;Party Elders&quot; Fool You on Carbon Tax]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2017/02/09/dont_let_party_elders_fool_you_on_carbon_tax_133035.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 09 Feb 2017 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Needham</author>
							<description><![CDATA[If the 2016 election proved anything, it&rsquo;s that our nation&rsquo;s best and brightest are far less capable of predicting and managing complex change than they like to tell themselves.
It&rsquo;s a lesson that has been a long time coming. From a financial crisis that wrecked all the...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Reconciling the Right's Parallel Universes]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2016/09/13/reconciling_the_rights_parallel_universes_131770.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 13 Sep 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Needham</author>
							<description><![CDATA[There are two parallel universes in conservative politics, each with its own tribes and conflicts, its own narratives and debates. These universes are isolated from each other, just as the tribes within them are divided.
In one universe, the Congress returns from recess to address...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[New Balance's Cronyism Invades Defense Bill]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2016/05/17/new_balances_cronyism_invades_defense_bill_130590.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 17 May 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Needham</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Who should decide what running shoes should be worn by new military recruits? Currently, new Army and Air Force recruits can use a one-time stipend to choose from about a dozen different shoes from multiple manufacturers. Anyone familiar with running -- especially long distance running...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Voters Already Rejected Garland--in 2014 Midterms]]></title>
							<link>http://thehill.com/blogs/pundits-blog/the-judiciary/273355-voters-already-rejected-merrick-garland-in-2014-midterms</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 21 Mar 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Needham</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Allow me to start with an unusual admission: I agree with President Obama: "Elections have consequences." That is the extent of our agreement, because in the president's mind, the only election of consequence was his reelection in 2012. The 2014 election &mdash; an election that gave...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Path Forward for Republicans Is Both Conservative and Populist]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2016/03/16/the_path_forward_for_republicans_is_both_conservative_and_populist.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 16 Mar 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Needham</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The 2016 Republican Primary has been anything but predictable and, at times, it has been downright ugly. At a time when the vast majority of the American people feel life is tough, it is getting tougher, but nobody in Washington cares, the environment is ripe for Republicans to present...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[A Plan to Help Manufacturers and Consumers]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2016/02/11/a_plan_to_help_manufacturers_and_consumers_129623.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 11 Feb 2016 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Needham</author>
							<description><![CDATA[As Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders fight to define the true meaning of progressive socialism, the Republican-controlled Congress has an opportunity to lead on an issue that will help manufacturers and consumers.
Most Americans are familiar with the convoluted nature of America&rsquo;s...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Reality That Drove McCarthy's Exit]]></title>
							<link>http://dailysignal.com/2015/10/08/the-reality-that-drove-kevin-mccarthys-exit-from-the-speaker-race/</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 09 Oct 2015 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Needham</author>
							<description><![CDATA[When Rep. John Boehner, R-Ohio, announced he would resign as speaker, conventional wisdom in Washington dictated Rep. Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., would be the next to wield the gavel. But for those outside Washington, the inevitability seemed tone-deaf and ultimately unrealistic. As it...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Washington Works Really Well, But Not for You]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2015/09/18/washington_works_really_well_but_not_for_you_128115.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 18 Sep 2015 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Needham</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Washington isn&rsquo;t broken. It is a well-oiled machine that works for the well-connected and responds to the well-heeled. This corrupt nexus of favoritism and cronyism tends to leave hardworking Americans behind. To paraphrase Howard Beale, voters are mad as hell, and they&rsquo;re...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[A Trump Education for the Establishment]]></title>
							<link>http://www.redstate.com/diary/michaelneedham/2015/08/10/trump-education-establishment/</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 11 Aug 2015 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Needham</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Like clockwork, in recent years, The Wall Street Journal editorial page has lectured conservatives about the imprudence of their frustrations and need to fall in line with the orders of the Washington establishment.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Cronyism, Clinton &amp; the Ex-Im Bank]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2015/05/11/needham_republican_congress_can_use_export-import_bank_as_an_example_of_fixing_cronyism.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 11 May 2015 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Needham</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The American people are extremely cynical about Washington D.C., and the kind of cesspool of corruption and favoritism that itr has become. You actually see it in Hillary's launch video where she says, in the very first sentence she speaks that the deck is stacked in favor of those at...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Ex-Im: Welfare for Commodity Traders and China]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2015/04/30/ex-im_welfare_for_commodity_traders_and_china_126433.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 30 Apr 2015 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Needham</author>
							<description><![CDATA[An obscure taxpayer-backed government bank funneled $113 million in aid to an even more obscure commodities trading company. This isn&rsquo;t some insidious plot revealed in the opening scene of a John Grisham novel. Rather, it is the widely accepted practice of the U.S. Export-Import...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[A Unifying Reform Agenda for Congress]]></title>
							<link>http://thefederalist.com/2015/03/12/a-unifying-reform-agenda-for-congress/</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 13 Mar 2015 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Needham</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Republicans have not made much of the opportunity presented by unified control of Congress so far. Intransigence from Sen. Harry Reid (D-Nevada) coupled with a lack of vision from House Republican leaders have led to stalemates and embarrassments, which have denied the American people...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Congress Can't Break Highway Gridlock]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2014/11/26/congress_cant_break_highway_gridlock_124779.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 26 Nov 2014 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Needham</author>
							<description><![CDATA[&ldquo;I don&rsquo;t want to say they&rsquo;re unsafe, but they&rsquo;re dangerous.&rdquo;
That was how President Obama&rsquo;s former transportation secretary Ray LaHood described America&rsquo;s roads and bridges in a pre-Thanksgiving interview on CBS&rsquo;s 60 Minutes. The...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[RNC Chair Priebus Issues Call to Arms]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2014/10/02/rnc_chair_priebus_issues_call_to_arms_124165.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 02 Oct 2014 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Needham</author>
							<description><![CDATA[For years, conservatives have argued a Republican Party that cannot articulate a positive vision for its existence is doomed to electoral failure. Today, a speech by Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus delivered hope that one part of the GOP leadership is open to...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[A Vision to Unite America]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nationalreview.com/article/371077/vision-unite-america-michael-needham</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 14 Feb 2014 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Needham</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Most of the political world&rsquo;s attention this week was focused on Speaker John Boehner&rsquo;s decision to let President Obama continue borrowing without limit until next March. Speaker Boehner&rsquo;s decision to break with his conference &mdash; and break with his own...]]></description>
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