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<title><![CDATA[Simon Maloy - Articles - RealClearPolitics]]></title><link>http://www.RealClearPolicy.com/authors/rss/archive/28843.xml</link><description><![CDATA[Simon Maloy]]></description><category domain="28843">Author</category><item>
							<title><![CDATA[Why Gianforte Won Despite an Assault Charge]]></title>
							<link>http://theweek.com/articles/700997/how-greg-gianforte-won-montanas-special-election--despite-assault-charge</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 26 May 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Simon Maloy</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Timing, it seems, is everything]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Trump White House Is Collapsing]]></title>
							<link>http://theweek.com/articles/700394/trump-white-house-collapsing</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 22 May 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Simon Maloy</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Hopefully the president is enjoying himself overseas, because back home, his administration is falling to pieces]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Despite Trump's Bad Week, Ted Cruz Is No Savior]]></title>
							<link>http://www.salon.com/2016/04/01/ted_cruz_is_no_savior_sorry_republicans_youre_probably_still_screwed_and_stuck_with_trump/</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 01 Apr 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Simon Maloy</author>
							<description><![CDATA[It seems like it wouldn&rsquo;t be possible, but Donald Trump is somehow getting more unpopular. He was never well-liked to begin with, but after a series of rough news cycles dominated by, among other things, his campaign manager being brought up on misdemeanor battery charges,...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Price of Republican Obstruction]]></title>
							<link>http://www.salon.com/2016/02/24/the_price_of_obstruction_republicans_gamble_that_blocking_obamas_scotus_nominee_wont_hurt_them_too_badly/</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 24 Feb 2016 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Simon Maloy</author>
							<description><![CDATA[There was never any real uncertainty over how Republicans in Congress would react to President Obama&rsquo;s promise to nominate a successor to recently deceased Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia. With the ideological makeup of the court in the balance and the future of the...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[President Obama Pushes Back Against Alarmist Temptation]]></title>
							<link>http://www.salon.com/2015/11/25/obamas_post_paris_leadership_pushing_back_against_the_alarmist_temptation/</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 27 Nov 2015 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Simon Maloy</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The Obama administration&rsquo;s response to the Paris terrorist attacks has provided an opening for pundits to indulge in one of their favorite pastimes: overwrought complaints about President Obama&rsquo;s leadership and &ldquo;tone.&rdquo; National Journal&rsquo;s Ron Fournier, the...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Era of Small Government Is Over]]></title>
							<link>http://www.salon.com/2015/07/13/the_era_of_small_government_is_over_hillary_tacks_left_while_the_right_trots_out_bankrupt_arguments/</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 13 Jul 2015 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Simon Maloy</author>
							<description><![CDATA[This morning Hillary Clinton will deliver her first big economic policy speech of the 2016 campaign, and all indications are that she will embrace full communism.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Truth Bomb: Obamacare Is the New Normal]]></title>
							<link>http://www.salon.com/2015/06/10/obama_hits_republicans_with_a_healthcare_truth_bomb_obamacare_is_the_new_normal/</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 12 Jun 2015 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Simon Maloy</author>
							<description><![CDATA[President Obama gave a big speech yesterday about the Affordable Care Act and, while I don&rsquo;t want to spoil it entirely for you, the gist of it was that he&rsquo;s a pretty big fan.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why Mitch McConnell Is Now Eating His Words]]></title>
							<link>http://www.salon.com/2015/02/23/mitch_breaks_shutdown_promise_why_mcconnells_now_eating_his_words_on_a_key_pledge/</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 24 Feb 2015 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Simon Maloy</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In the days following the midterm elections, Mitch McConnell sat down with Time magazine to discuss his plans for running the Senate. He&rsquo;d spent the weeks leading up to the election sending some mixed messages &ndash; in August he&rsquo;d told Politico that he intended to force...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Republicans in Disarray Over DHS Shutdown]]></title>
							<link>http://www.salon.com/2015/02/12/republicans_in_disarray_gop_cant_quite_decide_whos_to_blame_for_a_govt_shutdown/</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 13 Feb 2015 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Simon Maloy</author>
							<description><![CDATA[We&rsquo;re about two weeks shy from the deadline for funding the Department of Homeland Security, and the chances of sending DHS into a &ldquo;shutdown&rdquo; grow larger with each passing moment. Republicans in the House keep insisting that funding for the department be tied to...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Supreme Court Could Be Hazardous to Your Health]]></title>
							<link>http://www.salon.com/2015/01/06/scotus_could_be_hazardous_to_your_health_high_stakes_of_obamacares_upcoming_court_date/</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 06 Jan 2015 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Simon Maloy</author>
							<description><![CDATA[This March, the Supreme Court will hear arguments in King v. Burwell, and sometime this summer they&rsquo;ll render a verdict on whether the government can legally provide Obamacare tax subsidies for purchasing health insurance in the states that have federally administered insurance...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[John Boehner's Historic Self-Delusion]]></title>
							<link>http://www.salon.com/2014/12/02/boehners_historic_self_delusion_the_speaker_doesnt_want_history_to_dwell_on_his_failures/</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 02 Dec 2014 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Simon Maloy</author>
							<description><![CDATA[John Boehner is worried about his legacy. According to the New York Times, the Speaker of the House who shut down the government &ldquo;does not want to be remembered as the shutdown speaker.&rdquo; That&rsquo;s understandable, but also a tall order &ndash; if history is any guide,...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Republicans' Outrage Trap]]></title>
							<link>http://www.salon.com/2014/11/21/gops_outrage_trap_how_to_confront_obama_on_immigration_without_making_themselves_look_crazy/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 22 Nov 2014 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Simon Maloy</author>
							<description><![CDATA[So President Obama gave his big speech last night laying out his executive actions on immigration. He&rsquo;s going to allow the undocumented parents of U.S. citizens and legal residents to apply for deportation relief, so long as they&rsquo;ve been in the country for at least five...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[GOP's Latest Bad Faith Attack on Obamacare]]></title>
							<link>http://www.salon.com/2014/11/19/gops_absurd_comic_book_scheme_how_theyre_trying_to_retcon_obamacare/</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 19 Nov 2014 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Simon Maloy</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Any avid reader of comic books is familiar with the concept of retroactive continuity. Comic book writers who want to explore new concepts and storylines for existing characters often find themselves constrained by the character&rsquo;s established history. The way they get around this...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Obamacare Is (Still) Working, Despite Grubergate]]></title>
							<link>http://www.salon.com/2014/11/17/bad_news_for_obamacare_haters_obamacare_is_still_working_despite_grubergate/</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 17 Nov 2014 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Simon Maloy</author>
							<description><![CDATA[If you&rsquo;ve seen any news about the Affordable Care Act recently, chances are excellent it&rsquo;s had something to do with Jonathan Gruber. The MIT economist and one-time White House healthcare consultant became a bona fide right-wing media star last week after videos turned up of...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The White House's Big Immigration Strike]]></title>
							<link>http://www.salon.com/2014/11/14/obamas_big_immigration_strike_what_you_need_to_know_about_the_road_ahead/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 15 Nov 2014 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Simon Maloy</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[Threat to Health Law May Backfire on the Right]]></title>
							<link>http://www.salon.com/2014/11/10/scotus_could_roil_the_gop_how_new_threat_to_obamacare_may_backfire_on_the_right/</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 11 Nov 2014 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Simon Maloy</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[Boehner's Lame Lawsuit Stunt Fizzles]]></title>
							<link>http://www.salon.com/2014/10/27/boehners_lame_stunt_fizzles_the_plan_to_sue_obama_has_gone_predictably_nowhere/</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 27 Oct 2014 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Simon Maloy</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Remember when John Boehner was going to sue President Obama? It seems like an age ago, what with all the immigration crises and Ebola outbreaks and wars in the Middle East that happened since the House Republicans got it in their heads to file suit against the president over his changes...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Republicans' Empty Midterm Agenda]]></title>
							<link>http://www.salon.com/2014/09/03/gops_empty_agenda_republicans_briefly_worry_they_have_nothing_to_offer/</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 03 Sep 2014 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Simon Maloy</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Congratulations, everyone. We made it through another lazy, hazy August in which there wasn&#194;&#146;t much to talk about besides the many crises that erupted at home and all over the world. Now that Labor Day is behind us and the midterm elections are a scant two months away, campaign coverage...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why Climate Deniers Are So Afraid of Obama]]></title>
							<link>http://www.salon.com/2014/08/29/the_rights_tyranny_paranoia_why_climate_deniers_are_so_afraid_of_obama_now/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 30 Aug 2014 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Simon Maloy</author>
							<description><![CDATA[One of the hallmarks of conservative commentary over the past few years has been the impressive ability of right-wing pundits to adhere to several different and contradictory caricatures of President Obama without suffering the slightest hint of cognitive dissonance.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Right's Obamacare &quot;Cancer&quot;]]></title>
							<link>http://www.salon.com/2014/08/22/the_rights_obamacare_cancer_why_conservatives_treat_a_healthcare_reform_law_as_a_disease/</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 25 Aug 2014 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Simon Maloy</author>
							<description><![CDATA[A few days ago I wrote about the Hack Gap &ndash; the imbalance of conservative and liberal pundits who will unquestioningly fall in behind partisan crusades in order to achieve a common political goal &ndash; and how it had found renewed expression in the D.C. Circuit Court&rsquo;s...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The GOP's Desperate Hope for an Upset in Oregon]]></title>
							<link>http://www.salon.com/2014/07/29/wehby_mentum_just_wont_die_conservatives_desperate_hope_for_an_oregon_senate_upset/</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 29 Jul 2014 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Simon Maloy</author>
							<description><![CDATA[We&rsquo;re about three and a half months from Election Day and the midterm Senate map is unsettled. The Republicans are still the favorites for taking control of the Senate in November, though it&rsquo;s far from a done deal. Democrats are stronger in Michigan and North Carolina than...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Paul Ryan's Out-of-Touch Poverty Plan]]></title>
							<link>http://www.salon.com/2014/07/24/paul_ryans_insult_strategy_why_his_anti_poverty_contract_is_so_grotesque/</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 25 Jul 2014 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Simon Maloy</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The good news in Paul Ryan&rsquo;s newly released anti-poverty proposal is that, for the first time in as long as anyone can remember, Ryan is not advocating the wholesale destruction of the social safety net. His past budgets &ndash; including the most recent &ndash; have envisioned...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Boehner's Frivolous, Embarrassing Lawsuit]]></title>
							<link>http://www.salon.com/2014/06/26/boehners_frivolous_embarrassing_lawsuit_impresses_the_wall_street_journal/</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jun 2014 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Simon Maloy</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The Wall Street Journal editorial board, long known for its unwavering defense of the president&rsquo;s authority to spy on Americans without warrants and &ldquo;the Bush Administration&rsquo;s alleged &lsquo;torture&rsquo; policies,&rdquo; can&rsquo;t abide by Barack Obama&rsquo;s...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Walker, Christie and the GOP's Scandal-Mania]]></title>
							<link>http://www.salon.com/2014/06/20/coming_apart_at_the_seams_scandals_and_infighting_take_over_the_gop/</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jun 2014 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Simon Maloy</author>
							<description><![CDATA[It&#194;&#146;s fashionable right now to talk about the premature end of Barack Obama&#194;&#146;s presidency. He&#194;&#146;s fast approaching the second half of his second term, which is historically the beginning of lame-duck season. His poll numbers aren&#194;&#146;t what anyone would call ideal, and Republicans (in...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Republicans' Benghazi Humiliation]]></title>
							<link>http://www.salon.com/2014/06/18/gops_benghazi_humiliation_capture_of_suspect_up_ends_deranged_agenda/</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jun 2014 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Simon Maloy</author>
							<description><![CDATA[For the not insignificant portion of the right that operates under the theory that everything the Obama administration does is intended to distract from the Benghazi scandal, yesterday&rsquo;s news that Ahmed Abu Khattala, the alleged ringleader of the Benghazi attacks, had been...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Republicans' Quiet Obamacare Disaster]]></title>
							<link>http://www.salon.com/2014/06/06/gops_quiet_obamacare_disaster_how_this_weeks_biggest_story_got_overlooked/</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 06 Jun 2014 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Simon Maloy</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Right around noon on Wednesday, the Senate voted to invoke cloture on Sylvia Mathews Burwell&rsquo;s nomination to be the next secretary of Health and Human Services. The all-out Obamacare brawl that Republicans had promised when Burwell&rsquo;s nomination was announced never...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[GOP's Comically Inept Obamacare Delusion]]></title>
							<link>http://www.salon.com/2014/05/02/gops_comically_inept_obamcare_delusion_why_theyre_so_sad_about_the_enrollment_numbers/</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 02 May 2014 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Simon Maloy</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Let&rsquo;s run a quick thought experiment. The Department of Health and Human Services releases a report claiming that 99.9 percent of all people who signed up for private health plans through Obamacare had paid their monthly premiums. Let&rsquo;s say this report provided a...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Republicans' Toxic Contraception Politics]]></title>
							<link>http://www.salon.com/2014/03/26/gops_toxic_contraception_ploy_why_being_the_party_of_uncle_sugar_will_doom_them/</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 27 Mar 2014 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Simon Maloy</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Republicans know they have a problem with women. Mitt Romney knew early on that Obama&rsquo;s huge lead among unmarried young women had to be cut down, so Romney started campaigning with Republican women and Ann Romney became one of his chief surrogates. &ldquo;I LOVE YOU...]]></description>
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