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<title><![CDATA[Doyle McManus - Articles - RealClearPolitics]]></title><link>http://www.RealClearPolicy.com/authors/rss/archive/15680.xml</link><description><![CDATA[Doyle McManus]]></description><category domain="15680">Author</category><item>
							<title><![CDATA[Fox News Appoints Itself GOP Gatekeeper]]></title>
							<link>http://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-0531-mcmanus-fox-debates-20150531-column.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 31 May 2015 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Doyle McManus</author>
							<description><![CDATA[It's finally official: Roger Ailes, the president of Fox News, will decide which candidates can compete in Republican presidential primaries next year. Think I'm exaggerating? The rules Fox recently announced for the first GOP debate Aug. 6 make the cable network a more influential player in the campaign than ever before.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Obama's Fight Against ISIS is Failing]]></title>
							<link>http://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-0524-mcmanus-isis-strategy-20150524-column.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 23 May 2015 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Doyle McManus</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[Is the American Dream Really Dying?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-0520-mcmanus-cruz-pessimism-20150520-column.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 22 May 2015 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Doyle McManus</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas, who's running for the Republican presidential nomination, issued a stark warning recently."Today, for the first time in history, a majority of Americans believe that our kids will have a worse life than we do," Cruz told conservatives in South Carolina.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Clinton's Conflict-of-Interest Problems]]></title>
							<link>http://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-0503-mcmanus-clinton-foundation-20150503-column.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 06 May 2015 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Doyle McManus</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The harshest charges against Hillary Rodham Clinton &#194;&#151; that she made decisions that favored donors to her family's charitable foundation when she was secretary of State &#194;&#151; aren't sticking.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Are We Winning the Drone War?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-0426-mcmanus-drone-war-20150426-column.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 26 Apr 2015 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Doyle McManus</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Almost two years ago, President Obama announced that he was tightening the rules under which the CIA carries out drone strikes against suspected terrorists in Pakistan, Yemen and other countries. &ldquo;Before any strike is taken, there must be a near-certainty that no civilians will be killed or injured &mdash; the highest standard we can set,&rdquo; he said.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[For Republicans, It's the Billionaires' Primary]]></title>
							<link>http://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-0422-mcmanus-politics-megadonors-koch-20150422-column.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 23 Apr 2015 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Doyle McManus</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[Dems' Hunt for White Working-Class Male Voter]]></title>
							<link>http://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-0419-mcmanus-whites-20150419-column.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 18 Apr 2015 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Doyle McManus</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Democrats were once the party of the white working man &mdash; but that was a long time ago.In the 2012 presidential election, Barack Obama won only one-third of the votes of white working-class men, a modern-day low. Mitt Romney, who didn't seem much like a blue-collar guy, swept the votes of those working stiffs by a huge margin.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[What Are Dems' Alternatives to Clintonland?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-0415-mcmanus-dems-20150415-column.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 15 Apr 2015 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Doyle McManus</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Don't despair, political junkies. There's still going to be a vigorous debate in the Democratic presidential primary campaign &mdash; even though it won't really be about who the nominee should be. Unless she stumbles, Hillary Rodham Clinton seems to have the nomination pretty well sewn up.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Will GOP Try to Broaden or Purify?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-0412-mcmanus-tents-20150412-column.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 12 Apr 2015 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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							<title><![CDATA[The IRS Is a Model of Efficiency]]></title>
							<link>http://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-0401-mcmanus-irs-20150401-column.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 02 Apr 2015 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Doyle McManus</author>
							<description><![CDATA[As you labor over your tax returns this month, spare a moment of sympathy for the least-loved agency in the federal government: the Internal Revenue Service.Believe it or not, the IRS is becoming something of a model of efficiency among Washington's bureaucracies. It collects more taxes every year than ever before, at lower cost per dollar collected than anytime since 1980. It does fewer face-to-face audits, too; most of its enforcement is done by checking electronic data and sending out letters. By the end of this year, its payroll will be about 14% smaller than five years ago, shortened by about 13,000 people. Its technologists have proposed new enforcement projects that would collect $8...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Cruz's Ride on the Obamacare Train Wreck]]></title>
							<link>http://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-0329-mcmanus-cruz-20150329-column.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 29 Mar 2015 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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							<title><![CDATA[Biden Is Democrats' 2016 Understudy]]></title>
							<link>http://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-0325-mcmanus-joe-biden-20150325-column.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 25 Mar 2015 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Doyle McManus</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Joe Biden still wants to run for president. At least, his friends tell me, a big part of him does. He talks about the prospect readily, whenever reporters or voters ask. He doesn't sound as if the ambition that fired him to run when he was 44 or 64 has diminished at 72."What would drive me to do it would be if I thought that I could do it better than anybody else," he said in December."I think this thing is wide open on both sides," he said in January."That's a family, personal decision that I'm going to make sometime at the end of the summer," he told reporters in Iowa last month.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[GOP Letter to Iran: Not Illegal, Not Smart Either]]></title>
							<link>http://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-0315-mcmanus-cotton-iran-letter-obama-20150315-column.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 15 Mar 2015 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Doyle McManus</author>
							<description><![CDATA[It seemed like a good idea at the time. Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.), a rising conservative star, persuaded 46 fellow Republicans to sign a letter to Iran's Ayatollah Ali Khamenei et al warning that Congress could revoke any nuclear deal that President Obama makes.But as one of Napoleon's ministers said of a decision that went awry, it was worse than a crime; it was a blunder.Notwithstanding yelps from overwrought Democrats, the senators' letter to Khamenei wasn't against the law, much less treasonous.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[John Boehner's Minority Government]]></title>
							<link>http://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-mcmanus-boehner-failure-of-gop-majority-20150311-column.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 11 Mar 2015 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Doyle McManus</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Last week's drama in the House of Representatives, when Speaker John A. Boehner needed Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi to rescue him from his own rebellious party, looked like a messy disaster for Republicans. But it could have been worse.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Bibi's Speech Has Politics Written All Over It]]></title>
							<link>http://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-mcmanus-netanyahu-speech-iran-politics-20150304-column.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 06 Mar 2015 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Doyle McManus</author>
							<description><![CDATA[If Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu really didn't want his speech on Tuesday to look political, he chose a strange place to deliver it: the U.S. House of Representatives, one of the most politicized places on Earth.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Who Killed at GOP's Red Meat Auditions?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-mcmanus-cpac-20150301-column.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 28 Feb 2015 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Doyle McManus</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The fervent Republicans who throng the Conservative Political Action Conference every year aren't representative of the American electorate. They aren't even representative of the GOP electorate. For four of the last five years, their straw poll for president has chosen Rand Paul or Ron Paul. These are not everyday Republicans.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why Obama's Mincing Words on Terrorism]]></title>
							<link>http://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-mcmanus-obama-islamic-state-terminology-20150222-column.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 21 Feb 2015 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Doyle McManus</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In fact, Obama has repeatedly denounced violence against Christians and Jews overseas, including an Islamic State offshoot's murder of 21 Egyptian Christians in Libya. But although Islamic State has killed Christians, it has also killed Yazidis, Shiite Muslims and Sunni Muslims who don't agree with it &mdash; all in far greater numbers. If we suggest that our main reason for fighting it is to defend Christians, we're going to lose.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[GOP Struggles to Work Out a Foreign Policy]]></title>
							<link>http://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-0215-mcmanus-gop-candidates-foreign-policy-divide-20150215-column.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 14 Feb 2015 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Doyle McManus</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Most presidential campaigns focus mostly on domestic issues such as the economy, taxes and healthcare, not foreign policy. But the 2016 presidential campaign is already shaping up to be an exception to that rule.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Obama's Sadder - But Wiser - Foreign Policy]]></title>
							<link>http://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-mcmanus-obama-foreign-policy-20150211-column.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 11 Feb 2015 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Doyle McManus</author>
							<description><![CDATA[When he entered the White House in 2009, Barack Obama had grand ambitions in foreign policy. He planned to withdraw U.S. troops from Iraq and Afghanistan, build a better relationship with Russia, broker peace between Israel and the Palestinians and offer a hand of friendship to Iran and the Muslim world. Six years later, the president, and the rest of us, are sadder but wiser. American troops are still in Afghanistan and back in Iraq, although in much smaller numbers and not in ground combat. The "reset" with Russia and prospects for peace in the Middle East are little more than wistful memories.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Democratic Party Suddenly a Fount of Ideas]]></title>
							<link>http://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-mcmanus-democrats-ideas-20150128-column.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 28 Jan 2015 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Doyle McManus</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Only a few months ago, it looked as if Republicans had recaptured their old claim to be the party of ideas, especially on the economic issue that has seized the attention of most Americans: the stagnation of middle-class incomes.The GOP's former vice presidential nominee, Rep. Paul D. Ryan (R-Wis.), unveiled proposals to help the struggling middle class. Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.), another conservative hero, inveighed against income inequality. Even Mitt Romney, the once and perhaps future presidential candidate, has started saying it is time to get serious about poverty.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[A Conspicuous Failure of US Foreign Policy in Syria]]></title>
							<link>http://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-mcmanus-syria-20150125-column.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 25 Jan 2015 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
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							<title><![CDATA[Mitch McConnell Sings 'Kumbaya']]></title>
							<link>http://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-mcmanus-new-congress-mcconnell-20150111-column.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 11 Jan 2015 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Doyle McManus</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The  triumphant Republican class of 2014 formally took control of both halves of Congress last week, and here's what it has changed so far: not much. The new GOP majority didn't vote to repeal President Obama's healthcare law. It didn't undo Obama's decision to allow millions of undocumented immigrants to stay in the country. (House Republicans proposed a sweeping repeal measure, but it's unlikely to pass even a GOP-run Senate.) It didn't try to block the president's negotiations with Cuba or hold up his nominees for attorney general and secretary of Defense.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Selma &amp; Why We're Still Struggling w/the 60's]]></title>
							<link>http://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-mcmanus-sixties-return-20150104-column.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 04 Jan 2015 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
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							<title><![CDATA[Obama's 4th Quarter Foreign Policy Surprises]]></title>
							<link>http://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-mcmanus-obama-foreign-policy-turnaround-20141221-column.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 21 Dec 2014 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Doyle McManus</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Six months ago, President Obama's foreign policy looked stymied. Negotiations with Israel and the Palestinians were at a dead end. Russia was gaining ground in eastern Ukraine. U.S. efforts to end the war in Syria were ineffective. A new extremist army, Islamic State, was marching into Iraq. As misfortunes gathered, Obama's response was defensive &mdash; and earthy. His first principle, he said, was &ldquo;Don't do stupid shit.&rdquo;]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Lie of the Year: Playing the Ebola Fear Card]]></title>
							<link>http://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-mcmanus-column-ebola-fear-20141217-column.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 17 Dec 2014 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Doyle McManus</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Remember Ebola? Only two months ago, many Americans were gripped by fear of the uncontrollable spread of an apparently incurable disease that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention projected could strike 1.4 million people in West Africa before it came under control. Amid such reports, it took only one case to touch off near-panic inside the United States: that of Liberian Thomas Eric Duncan after he was misdiagnosed by a Dallas hospital.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Zealous Conservatives Unlikely to Compromise]]></title>
							<link>http://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-mcmanus-column-boehner-republicans-congress-spending-20141203-column.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 03 Dec 2014 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Doyle McManus</author>
							<description><![CDATA[After November's midterm election, polls found that most Americans wanted their members of Congress to seek compromise &mdash; anything to end the gridlock that has plagued Washington. An NBC-Wall Street Journal survey found that even among Republicans, more favor compromise over intransigence. Four years ago, only 27% of GOP voters were in the compromise camp; now 49% are, while just 45% want their legislators to stand firm. But that message hasn't reached everyone in Washington. As Republicans' internal wrangling on Capitol Hill made clear on Tuesday, House Speaker John A. Boehner's majority is still hamstrung by a knot of zealous conservatives who don't want to yield. And there's no...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Bernie Sanders Candidacy Could Help Hillary]]></title>
							<link>http://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-mcmanus-column-sanders-democrats-2016-20141119-11-column.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 19 Nov 2014 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Doyle McManus</author>
							<description><![CDATA[I'm going out on a limb here, but Bernie Sanders is not going to be our next president. Still, the independent socialist senator from Vermont is sounding more and more like a man who intends to defy the doubters and run. And he could play an important role in the campaign.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Sage Advice for Hillary Clinton]]></title>
							<link>http://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-mcmanus-hillary-clinton-challenges-20141116-column.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 16 Nov 2014 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Doyle McManus</author>
							<description><![CDATA[It's been almost two weeks since their stinging defeat in midterm elections, but Democrats are still licking their wounds and trying to figure out where they went wrong. They don't have much time to extract the right lessons: The 2016 presidential campaign will begin in earnest any minute now. So I consulted two Democratic sages, each of whom played a central role in electing the last two Democratic presidents: David Axelrod, who worked for Barack Obama in 2008, and James Carville, who worked for Bill Clinton in 1992.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Can Obama's Presidency Be Saved?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-mcmanus-column-obama-end-of-term-20141109-column.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 09 Nov 2014 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
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							<title><![CDATA[Expect More Brinkmanship With GOP Senate]]></title>
							<link>http://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-mcmanus-column-senate-races-20141102-column.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 01 Nov 2014 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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