Philip Klein is managing editor of the Washington Examiner. He is the author of Conservative Survival in the Romney Era and Overcoming Obamacare: Three Approaches to Reversing the Government Takeover of Health Care.
Klein is a former Washington correspondent for the American Spectator.
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