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<title><![CDATA[Danny Vinik - Articles - RealClearPolitics]]></title><link>http://www.RealClearPolicy.com/authors/rss/archive/27957.xml</link><description><![CDATA[Danny Vinik]]></description><category domain="27957">Author</category><item>
							<title><![CDATA[The Bankruptcy of Republican Thought]]></title>
							<link>http://www.newrepublic.com/article/121714/bankruptcy-republican-thought-gops-stale-2016-agenda</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 09 May 2015 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Danny Vinik</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[How Patty Murray Makes Things Happen]]></title>
							<link>http://www.newrepublic.com/article/121652/patty-murrays-negotiating-skill-has-made-her-democratic-dealmaker</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 28 Apr 2015 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Danny Vinik</author>
							<description><![CDATA[If you only casually follow politics, you probably don&rsquo;t know much about Senator Patty Murray. She's rarely on TV or in the headlines. She&rsquo;s not inclined to tear into her Republican colleagues or give floor speeches that go viral, like Senator Elizabeth Warren does. But...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Martin O'Malley Jumps to the Left]]></title>
							<link>http://www.newrepublic.com/article/121569/martin-omalleys-15-minimum-wage-puts-hillary-notice</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 17 Apr 2015 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Danny Vinik</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Speaking at Harvard University on Thursday night, former Maryland Governor Martin O&rsquo;Malley cranked up the pressure on Hillary Clinton by calling for a $15 an hour minimum wage and voicing his opposition to President Barack Obama&rsquo;s massive trade deal, the Trans Pacific...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Raise Our Taxes. Please.]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 15 Apr 2015 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Danny Vinik</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Most Americans hate today. After all, it&#194;&#146;s Tax Day&#194;&#151;and no one likes seeing the federal government take a large chunk of their income. (Well almost no one.)]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Ted Cruz Cannot Be Serious]]></title>
							<link>http://www.newrepublic.com/article/121354/ted-cruz-not-serious-credible-candidate-presidency</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 24 Mar 2015 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Danny Vinik</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[Clinton's Bad Week Doesn't Really Matter]]></title>
							<link>http://www.newrepublic.com/article/121228/hillary-clintons-presidential-chances-are-not-damaged-emails</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 07 Mar 2015 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Danny Vinik</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[Hillary Clinton Is Not Ready for Prime Time]]></title>
							<link>http://www.newrepublic.com/article/121208/hillary-clintons-email-use-shows-shes-unprepared-election</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 05 Mar 2015 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Danny Vinik</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Late Monday night, the New York Times&rsquo; Michael Schmidt reported that Hillary Clinton, when she was secretary of state, only used a personal email address for conducting official business. It&rsquo;s just the latest in a string of negative stories that have put Clinton on the...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Should Wasserman Schultz Step Down?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.newrepublic.com/article/121141/debbie-wasserman-schultz-liability-democratic-party</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 27 Feb 2015 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Danny Vinik</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[Mitch McConnell's Economic Ignorance]]></title>
							<link>http://www.newrepublic.com/article/120693/mitch-mcconnell-regulations-slowed-economic-recovery-hes-wrong</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 06 Jan 2015 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Danny Vinik</author>
							<description><![CDATA[On CNN&rsquo;s &ldquo;State of the Union&rdquo; Sunday, incoming Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said that Republicans in the 114th Congress will focus on blocking environmental and healthcare regulations: &ldquo;We need to do everything we can to try to rein in the regulatory...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Week Warren Decided to Run for President]]></title>
							<link>http://www.newrepublic.com/article/120544/chances-elizabeth-warren-runs-president-increased-week</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 12 Dec 2014 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Danny Vinik</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Or may have decided. We won&rsquo;t know for a few months whether the Massachusetts senator will challenge Hillary Clinton for the Democratic nomination, but if she chooses to run, we&rsquo;re going to look back at this week as a pivotal moment in Warren&rsquo;s decision-making.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Dangerous Obamacare Witch Hunt]]></title>
							<link>http://www.newrepublic.com/article/120523/jonathan-grubers-testimony-indicates-academics-must-play-politic</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 11 Dec 2014 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Danny Vinik</author>
							<description><![CDATA[MIT economist and Obamacare architect Jonathan Gruber took a beating Tuesday when he testified before the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee about his comments on the legislative history of the Affordable Care Act. &ldquo;Are you stupid?&rdquo; committee chair Darrell Issa...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Blame GOP for Increased Fiscal Uncertainty]]></title>
							<link>http://www.newrepublic.com/article/120487/republicans-are-hurting-economy-play-games-budget</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 06 Dec 2014 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Danny Vinik</author>
							<description><![CDATA[On Wednesday in the New York Times, Jonathan Weisman offered a gloomy forecast for the year ahead in Washington and its potential effects on the economy. &ldquo;[A] dark cloud is threatening to return to otherwise clearing economic skies: fiscal and policy uncertainty,&rdquo; he writes....]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Economic Forecast for '16 Favors Clinton]]></title>
							<link>http://www.newrepublic.com/article/120449/hillary-clinton-can-adopt-obamas-economic-agenda-if-economy-improves</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 02 Dec 2014 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Danny Vinik</author>
							<description><![CDATA[After the Democrats were roundly defeated in the midterms, pundits blamed it partly on the left&rsquo;s stale economic agenda and argued that this agenda will hurt the party in 2016. The latest example of this argument comes from Ed Luce, who writes in the Financial Times that Hillary...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why Obama's Immigration Action Is Legal]]></title>
							<link>http://www.newrepublic.com/article/120334/obama-immigration-order-legal-bush-and-reagans-were</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 19 Nov 2014 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Danny Vinik</author>
							<description><![CDATA[On Tuesday, the Associated Press reported that two previous Republican presidents&mdash;Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush&mdash;had taken unilateral action to protect undocumented immigrants from deportation, and the political reaction was much less vitriolic than what Obama has faced...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Gruber Is Right About Voters &amp; Legislating]]></title>
							<link>http://www.newrepublic.com/article/120258/jon-gruber-right-policymakers-use-voter-ignorance-pass-bills</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 13 Nov 2014 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Danny Vinik</author>
							<description><![CDATA[MIT economist Jonathan Gruber, an architect of the Affordable Care Act, has found himself at the center of an Obamacare controversy&mdash;again&mdash;after the Daily Caller unearthed comments he made at a 2013 academic conference about the legislative history of Obamacare. &ldquo;This...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[What Will a GOP Senate Do for Economy?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.newrepublic.com/article/120099/gop-senates-economic-policy-agenda-trade-minimum-wage-and-eitc</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 04 Nov 2014 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Danny Vinik</author>
							<description><![CDATA[If Republicans take back control of the Senate on Tuesday, don&rsquo;t expect them to pass a lot of big pieces of legislation. The GOP has enough trouble agreeing among themselves on issues like immigration or tax reform. And even Republicans manage to agree on legislation, Senate...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Give WH More Credit for Crisis Managment]]></title>
							<link>http://www.newrepublic.com/article/120022/obama-better-crisis-manager-media-gives-him-credit</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 29 Oct 2014 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Danny Vinik</author>
							<description><![CDATA[President Barack Obama would likely be the first to admit that his administration&rsquo;s response to the first case of Ebola in the United States was not perfect. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) did not have adequate protocols in place, and two Dallas nurses caught...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[GOP's Big Senate Plans Are All Talk]]></title>
							<link>http://www.newrepublic.com/article/120005/gop-plans-republican-senate-2014-are-all-talk</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 28 Oct 2014 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Danny Vinik</author>
							<description><![CDATA[If Republicans capture the Senate, they can accomplish big things, Senator Rob Portman told The Atlantic in an article published Monday. &ldquo;We need the majority for the sake of the country for the next two years, but it&rsquo;s also about having a proactive, positive Republican...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Ignore the Haters: Obama Helped Save the Economy]]></title>
							<link>http://www.newrepublic.com/article/119781/obamas-economic-record-strong-even-though-wages-are-stagnant</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 10 Oct 2014 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Danny Vinik</author>
							<description><![CDATA[On Thursday evening, President Obama delivered a speech at Cross Campus in Santa Monica, California promoting his economic policies targeted at millennials. It follows a broader speech that the president gave at Northwestern a week ago, when he touted the significant progress the economy...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Obama Deserves Credit on Immigration]]></title>
							<link>http://www.newrepublic.com/article/119685/no-one-noticed-obama-handled-border-crisis-well</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 03 Oct 2014 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Danny Vinik</author>
							<description><![CDATA[On Thursday night, President Obama will give a speech at the Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute (CHCI) gala as he looks to rebuild support in the Latino community. It&rsquo;s an important speech, because Obama has taken a lot of heat over the past few months for his handling of...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[What a GOP Senate's First 100 Days Will Look Like]]></title>
							<link>http://www.newrepublic.com/article/119426/gops-plan-senate-medical-device-tax-keystone-regulations-trad</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 13 Sep 2014 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Danny Vinik</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Many writers have tried to preview what a Republican-controlled Senate would try to do during Obama&rsquo;s last two years in office. Defund Obamacare. Pass strict abortion restrictions. Maybe even leave a Supreme Court seat vacant, by refusing to confirm any nominees President Obama has...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Burger King Backlash Could Hurt the GOP]]></title>
							<link>http://www.newrepublic.com/article/119213/negative-reaction-burger-kings-potential-inversion-hurts-gop</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 27 Aug 2014 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Danny Vinik</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Call it the Burger King backlash. On Sunday night, the Wall Street Journal reported that the fast food giant was looking to buy Tim Hortons, the Canadian coffee and donut chain, in the latest bid by an American firm to escape the U.S. corporate tax system. By Monday morning, the company...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Obama's Executive Power Isn't What He Thinks It Is]]></title>
							<link>http://www.newrepublic.com/article/119080/obama-cannot-use-prosecutorial-discretion-change-immigration-laws</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 15 Aug 2014 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Danny Vinik</author>
							<description><![CDATA[President Obama has vowed to take executive action on immigration reform and the big debate, right now, is over how far he can go. The left has confidently asserted that Obama has wide-ranging authority&mdash;to defer deportations of undocumented workers and grant them work...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Republicans' Ted Cruz Problem]]></title>
							<link>http://www.newrepublic.com/article/118922/ted-cruz-successfully-lobbies-against-house-gops-border-crisis-bill</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 01 Aug 2014 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Danny Vinik</author>
							<description><![CDATA[You may not have heard much from Senator Ted Cruz lately, but on Thursday, he came back with a force in blowing up House Republicans&rsquo; bill to address the border crisis. Make no mistake, House Speaker John Boehner&mdash;and the rest of the Republican establishment&mdash;still have a...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[As Economy Kicks Into 2nd Gear, Will Critics Reassess]]></title>
							<link>http://www.newrepublic.com/article/118693/steve-liesman-cuts-short-rick-santellis-cnbc-rant-about-inflation</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 15 Jul 2014 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Danny Vinik</author>
							<description><![CDATA[NBC&rsquo;s Rick Santelli, often credited with inspiring the Tea Party movement, made news Monday for yet another outburst on air. He repeated his usual rant against the Federal Reserve&rsquo;s loose monetary policy, prompting CNBC senor economics reporter Steve Liesman to unleash his...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[How About Some Solutions, Republicans?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.newrepublic.com/article/118650/republicans-arent-offering-solutions-border-crisis-only-politics</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 11 Jul 2014 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Danny Vinik</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The humanitarian and immigration crisis unfolding at the southern border of the United States isn't just one of the most difficult issues that President Barack Obama has faced during his presidency. It's one of the most difficult issues the country has faced. And yet, instead of...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Today's GDP Number Isn't as Bad as It Sounds]]></title>
							<link>http://www.newrepublic.com/article/118370/first-quarter-gdp-result-lower-health-care-spending</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jun 2014 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Danny Vinik</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The economy contracted at an annualized rate of negative 2.9 percent in the first quarter of this year. In other words, the economy in the first three months of the year actually shrank. The contraction is worse than expected: forecasters were predicting it would be just negative 1.8...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Clinton's Economic Agenda Is a Vulnerability]]></title>
							<link>http://www.newrepublic.com/article/118297/epa-carbon-rules-might-not-go-far-enough</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jun 2014 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Danny Vinik</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Forget the bluster from fossil fuel groups and coal state representatives. And don&rsquo;t pay so much attention to the administration&rsquo;s bragging. The Environmental Protection Agency&rsquo;s new rule about carbon pollution from power plants isn&rsquo;t that stringent. That&rsquo;s...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[We Must Prepare Now for Climate Change]]></title>
							<link>http://www.newrepublic.com/article/117799/climate-change-will-force-us-abandon-cities-if-we-dont-prepare-now</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 19 May 2014 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Danny Vinik</author>
							<description><![CDATA[On Monday, the New York Times reported on two new climate change studies that came to the same, terrifying conclusion: &ldquo;The heat-trapping gases could destabilize other parts of Antarctica as well as the Greenland ice sheet, potentially causing enough sea-level rise that many of the...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why Republicans Are Unable to Govern]]></title>
							<link>http://www.newrepublic.com/article/116954/republican-overpromising-stops-gop-governing-hobbles-camp-budget</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 11 Mar 2014 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Danny Vinik</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Republicans like to promise things they can&rsquo;t deliver, like huge tax cuts that pay for themselves or health reform plans that don&rsquo;t disrupt the existing system. And that&rsquo;s made life difficult for Democrats trying to propose initiatives that, in order to accomplish real...]]></description>
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