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		<title>The Limits of Inexperience</title>
		<link>http://www.thefeeherytheory.com/2011/11/16/the-limits-of-inexperience/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thefeeherytheory.com/2011/11/16/the-limits-of-inexperience/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Nov 2011 15:42:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Feehery</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[GOP]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Presidential election]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[election]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cain]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[
There is a reason Newt Gingrich and Rick Santorum are most confident debaters, especially when topics turn to international affairs and domestic policy.
They have deep experience in how policy works in the nation’s capitol.  They have both taken several trips overseas, they know the players, they understand the bigger game.
They are fluent in Washington.
I was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Campaign Theories</title>
		<link>http://www.thefeeherytheory.com/2011/10/26/campaign-theories/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thefeeherytheory.com/2011/10/26/campaign-theories/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Oct 2011 12:00:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Feehery</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Rick Santorum]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ron Paul]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[The Romeny campaign]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thefeeherytheory.com/?p=3671</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[It is generally assumed that Herman Cain will not be the Republican nominee for President.  Likewise, it is assumed that Newt Gingrich, Rick Santorum, Ron Paul, Michele Bachmann, Jon Huntsman and Gary Johnson won’t get the nomination either.
That leaves Rick Perry and Mitt Romney.
The Perry campaign assumes that the dominant conservative wing of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Obama’s Hollow Victories</title>
		<link>http://www.thefeeherytheory.com/2011/10/25/obama%e2%80%99s-hollow-victories/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thefeeherytheory.com/2011/10/25/obama%e2%80%99s-hollow-victories/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Oct 2011 18:47:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Feehery</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thefeeherytheory.com/?p=3665</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The president does a pretty good job of declaring victory. He doesn’t do a particularly good job of explaining the cost.
He ended last week declaring that our troops in Iraq will be home for Christmas. What he didn’t explain was that decision was reached because the Iraqis are kicking us out of their country and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Viva Las Vegas</title>
		<link>http://www.thefeeherytheory.com/2011/10/24/viva-las-vegas-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Oct 2011 15:36:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Feehery</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thefeeherytheory.com/?p=3661</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Politicians in Washington rushed Nevada into Statehood in 1864 to assure Abraham Lincoln a comfortable margin in his bid for reelection smack dab in the middle of the Civil War, and ever since then, the Silver State has played a unique role in American political history.
Nevada is mostly desert, so it has always been a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rubio and the Hispanic Vote</title>
		<link>http://www.thefeeherytheory.com/2011/10/21/rubio-and-the-hispanic-vote/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thefeeherytheory.com/2011/10/21/rubio-and-the-hispanic-vote/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Oct 2011 15:44:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Feehery</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thefeeherytheory.com/?p=3657</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Chris Matthews thought he would get me with his question on Marco Rubio.  He asked me, breaking news style, what I thought about the revelations that Rubio’s family fled Cuba two whole years before Castro came to power.
I didn’t scratch my head on camera, but I did so in my mind.
What the hell is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Is the Private Sector Doing Just Fine?</title>
		<link>http://www.thefeeherytheory.com/2011/10/20/is-the-private-sector-doing-just-fine/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thefeeherytheory.com/2011/10/20/is-the-private-sector-doing-just-fine/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Oct 2011 16:41:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Feehery</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thefeeherytheory.com/?p=3653</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said yesterday:  &#8220;It&#8217;s very clear that private sector jobs have been doing just fine, it&#8217;s the public sector jobs where we&#8217;ve lost huge numbers, and that&#8217;s what this legislation is all about.”
He was talking about his plan to give more money to states so they can give more money [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bickering</title>
		<link>http://www.thefeeherytheory.com/2011/10/19/bickering/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thefeeherytheory.com/2011/10/19/bickering/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Oct 2011 11:48:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Feehery</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thefeeherytheory.com/?p=3645</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Newt Gingrich had the line of the night towards the end of the debate when he complained that the moderator encouraged a level of bickering that could only make it harder for the GOP to get the White House.
I don’t think Anderson Cooper was really trying to sink the Republican nominee for President in this [...]]]></description>
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		<title>BTW, BHO Could Still Win</title>
		<link>http://www.thefeeherytheory.com/2011/10/14/btw-bho-could-still-win/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thefeeherytheory.com/2011/10/14/btw-bho-could-still-win/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Oct 2011 15:54:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Feehery</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thefeeherytheory.com/?p=3629</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Never assume.
I usually get in trouble when I make assumptions and then challenge them.
I have been assuming for some time that the Republicans will easily beat Barack Hussein Obama.
I have been assuming that for some very good reasons.
For example, Obama is just not a very good President.  He doesn’t have a clue how the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Taxing the Rich Won’t Help</title>
		<link>http://www.thefeeherytheory.com/2011/10/11/taxing-the-rich-won%e2%80%99t-help/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thefeeherytheory.com/2011/10/11/taxing-the-rich-won%e2%80%99t-help/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Oct 2011 15:01:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Feehery</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[President Obama has made taxing the rich the centerpiece of his  reelection campaign. He talks incessantly about it. It is a key part of  his jobs package. So far, an apt summary of the Obama presidency might  very well be: “He killed Osama bin Laden and he really, really wanted to  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Obama&#8217;s Fatal Missteps</title>
		<link>http://www.thefeeherytheory.com/2011/10/04/obamas-fatal-missteps/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Oct 2011 15:25:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Feehery</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Originally posted on THE HILL &#8211; October 3, 2011

It might be too early to start analyzing what went wrong with the Obama administration in its first three years, but I am going to do it anyway.
Here are seven turning points that led to the president’s decline and fall, seven places where Obama or his Democratic [...]]]></description>
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