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		<title>Obama Signs New Hate Crimes Bill</title>
		<link>http://politicianscandal.com/246/hate-crimes</link>
		<comments>http://politicianscandal.com/246/hate-crimes#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2009 18:09:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>boourns104</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[hate crimes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Obama]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[President Obama has just signed a new hate crimes bill into law. In the past, I have been ambivalent about such legislation. At first, I supported it completely. I mean, hate is bad, right?[...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why Stop at Neutral? Freakonomics on the Daily Show</title>
		<link>http://politicianscandal.com/245/why-stop-at-neurtral</link>
		<comments>http://politicianscandal.com/245/why-stop-at-neurtral#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2009 16:55:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>boourns104</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[climate change]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Daily Show]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[economics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[freakonomics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Steven Levitt]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[tim harford]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Last night, Steven Levitt, co-author of Freakonomics and now the ostensibly freakier Super Freakonomics, appeared on The Daily Show. Jon Stewart expressed his enthusiasm for Levitt’s position that we should be combating global warming in many ways, not only by reducing emissions but also by implementing strategies to actively remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.[...]]]></description>
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		<title>Freedom and License &#8211; Latest Efforts by the Chamber of Commerce</title>
		<link>http://politicianscandal.com/244/freedom-and-license</link>
		<comments>http://politicianscandal.com/244/freedom-and-license#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Oct 2009 19:16:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>boourns104</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[free enterprise america]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[U.S. Chamber of Commerce]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[You may have seen these commercials for FreeEnterpriseAmerica.com. This is the latest effort in the U.S. Chamber of Commerce’s campaign to let businesses do whatever the hell they want. The face of the campaign is respectable enough: Harness American innovation to create 20 million new jobs. Wonderful! Let’s do that. But of course, the only way to do that, according to the Chamber, is to never hold any business accountable for anything.[...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Pointless Public Option for Healthcare Reform</title>
		<link>http://politicianscandal.com/242/a-pointless-public-option</link>
		<comments>http://politicianscandal.com/242/a-pointless-public-option#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2009 03:42:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>boourns104</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Healthcare]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[public option]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Apparently, Thursday’s version of the public option has a provision for states to opt out if they think it will lead to super communism. This is one of those compromises that can only have come about as a solution to a political problem because it sure isn’t a solution to the healthcare problem.[...]]]></description>
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		<title>Commentary on Fox News</title>
		<link>http://politicianscandal.com/241/fox-news-ii</link>
		<comments>http://politicianscandal.com/241/fox-news-ii#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Oct 2009 15:17:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>boourns104</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[FOX news]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday, I slammed Fox News, and I shall do so again today. There is a certain difficulty in convincing some people that Fox is not a legitimate news source. To some people, it’s the only news without a liberal bias, and to others it is laughable.[...]]]></description>
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		<title>Obama Wants You to Watch Fox News</title>
		<link>http://politicianscandal.com/240/obama-wants-you-to-watch-fox-news</link>
		<comments>http://politicianscandal.com/240/obama-wants-you-to-watch-fox-news#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2009 16:10:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>boourns104</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[FOX news]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Healthcare]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[White House]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[This weekend, the White House gave Fox News a sharp elbow, restarting the periodic debate about whether Fox News is actually news. This is rather like asking whether Daffy Duck is actually the Chrysler Building. Of course it’s not. Everyone knows it’s not. Why would the White House bother to bring it up?[...]]]></description>
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		<title>Yes Men and the Chamber of Commerce</title>
		<link>http://politicianscandal.com/238/yes-men</link>
		<comments>http://politicianscandal.com/238/yes-men#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2009 00:13:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>boourns104</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economy]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[climate change]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A group called The Yes Men recently held a press conference wherein members posed as representatives of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. The purpose of the press conference was ostensibly to announce that the Chamber was reversing its opposition to stricter climate change legislation.[...]]]></description>
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		<title>Legitimacy Matters &#8211; Reviewing the Afghan War</title>
		<link>http://politicianscandal.com/237/legitimacy-matters</link>
		<comments>http://politicianscandal.com/237/legitimacy-matters#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Oct 2009 17:39:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>boourns104</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Military & War]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Afghanistan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Karzai]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[McChrystal]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[It seems that in the weeks since Gen. McChrystal’s report was leaked, that the Afghanistan discussion has been limited by a false binary: Is it better to send more troops to protect civilians or is it better to draw down troops and increase air strikes on Al Qaeda targets? Since the success of a greater troop commitment ultimately relies on the legitimacy of the Afghan government, a third and probably far better option is to first establish how legitimate that government can possibly be.[...]]]></description>
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		<title>Just Smile and Stay on Message &#8211; Opposition to Healthcare Reform</title>
		<link>http://politicianscandal.com/236/just-smile-and-stay-on-message</link>
		<comments>http://politicianscandal.com/236/just-smile-and-stay-on-message#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Oct 2009 20:12:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>boourns104</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Healthcare]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Americans for Prosperity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rachel Maddow]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tim Phillips]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Last night, Rachel Maddow interviewed Tim Phillips, president of Americans for Prosperity, one of the “grass roots” organizations that travels around the country opposing healthcare reform. I found the interview so deeply troubling that I had to watch it again today.[...]]]></description>
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		<title>You Know What Really Grinds My Gears? Corporations, Lobbyists and Healthcare</title>
		<link>http://politicianscandal.com/234/you-know-what-really-grinds-my-gears</link>
		<comments>http://politicianscandal.com/234/you-know-what-really-grinds-my-gears#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Oct 2009 19:18:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>boourns104</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[exxon]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[GM]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Healthcare]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[lobbyists]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[regulation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[tax breaks]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[While it’s true that Exxon has never sent goons to rough me up or burn down my house, I think it’s true that many huge corporations have had a perverse influence on the lives of most Americans.[...]]]></description>
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		<title>GOP Takes Aim Online</title>
		<link>http://politicianscandal.com/233/gop-com</link>
		<comments>http://politicianscandal.com/233/gop-com#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Oct 2009 17:36:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>boourns104</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[civil rights]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[GOP]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Healthcare]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[unemployment]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[There has been so much buzz about GOP.com that I had to check it out. And I am so, so, so glad I did[...]]]></description>
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		<title>Healthcare Blunder &#8211; How Will Reform Go Wrong?</title>
		<link>http://politicianscandal.com/231/healthcare-blunder</link>
		<comments>http://politicianscandal.com/231/healthcare-blunder#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Oct 2009 18:01:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>boourns104</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Healthcare]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The U.S. Chamber of Commerce, following a recent AHIP report, has been showing commercials claiming that health insurance prices will skyrocket if the Baucus bill passes in the Senate.[...]]]></description>
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		<title>Obama Wins Nobel Peace Prize</title>
		<link>http://politicianscandal.com/229/obligatory-nobel-post</link>
		<comments>http://politicianscandal.com/229/obligatory-nobel-post#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Oct 2009 16:19:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>boourns104</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[White House]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Al Qaeda]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nobel Prize]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Obama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Taliban]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[
It appears that, as a writer for the interwebs, it is incumbent upon me to comment on President Obama’s Nobel Prize. Everyone, it seems, is ambivalent about his receiving the prize, not least Obama himself. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>(Something), Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness &#8211; No Healthcare for the Weak</title>
		<link>http://politicianscandal.com/226/something-liberty-and-the-pursuit-of-happiness</link>
		<comments>http://politicianscandal.com/226/something-liberty-and-the-pursuit-of-happiness#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Oct 2009 16:35:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>boourns104</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Healthcare]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ben Franklin]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[One hundred years ago, no one would even think about paying current rates for healthcare because doctors couldn’t do all that much for us. Certainly, there were doctors and certainly, some of them made a lot of money, but not many of their treatments were very effective.[...]]]></description>
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		<title>Keep Your Eye on the Ball &#8211; Debating Healthcare and Big Government</title>
		<link>http://politicianscandal.com/225/225</link>
		<comments>http://politicianscandal.com/225/225#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Oct 2009 18:01:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>boourns104</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Healthcare]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[big government]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[keith obermann]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Last night, Keith Olbermann devoted his entire show to a special comment on healthcare. Among other things, he hammered the point that none of us, supporters or opponents, are really talking about what healthcare is—preventing death.[...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Real McCaughey &#8211; Death Panels and Other Rhetoric to Destroy Healthcare Reform</title>
		<link>http://politicianscandal.com/220/the-real-mccaughey</link>
		<comments>http://politicianscandal.com/220/the-real-mccaughey#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Oct 2009 16:33:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>boourns104</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Healthcare]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Daily Show]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[death panels]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[McCaughey]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[As long as Dylan Ratigan, Rep. Anthony Weiner and Michelle Cottle of The New Republic have Betsy McCaughey pinned down, I might as well get a few kicks in. If you aren’t familiar with Betsy McCaughey, you would know her if you saw her, because she seems to be everywhere. She was influential in killing healthcare reform during the Clinton administration, but more recently, she is the progenitor of the “death panel” myth.[...]]]></description>
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		<title>Slow Boring of Hard Boards &#8211; Supporters of Status Quo Healthcare</title>
		<link>http://politicianscandal.com/219/the-slow-boring-of-hard-boards</link>
		<comments>http://politicianscandal.com/219/the-slow-boring-of-hard-boards#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Oct 2009 18:08:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>boourns104</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Healthcare]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Astroturf]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[banks]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Despite this really visible opposition to change, or perhaps because of it, I am starting to feel the slightest bit…hmm, what’s the word…un-pessimistic.[...]]]></description>
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		<title>Calvinomics &#8211; The Myth That Ovespending Caused the Recession</title>
		<link>http://politicianscandal.com/218/calvinomics</link>
		<comments>http://politicianscandal.com/218/calvinomics#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Oct 2009 15:57:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>boourns104</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[bankruptcy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[David Brooks]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[lending]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Recession]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[spending]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The economy is still in trouble and there will be more discussion about it in the coming weeks and months. We should not let morality obscure that discussion. Certainly we should strive for economic reforms that reward hard work and innovation rather than Wall St. coin clipping. We should also do what we can to make sure everyone has a fair chance at economic prosperity. But we shouldn’t let ourselves be led into the trap of believing that prudent spending is a sin or that our economy should go to hell.[...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dismal Recovery &#8211; How Will the Jobless Survive?</title>
		<link>http://politicianscandal.com/216/the-dismal-recovery</link>
		<comments>http://politicianscandal.com/216/the-dismal-recovery#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Oct 2009 20:59:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>boourns104</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[deficit spending]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[jobless]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[krugman]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[recovery]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I suspect the epithet, "the dismal science," persists because economists tend to deal with numbers, and numbers have very little regard for our wishful thinking.[...]]]></description>
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		<title>Grayson&#8217;s Gage &#8211; The Republican Healthcare Bill</title>
		<link>http://politicianscandal.com/211/graysons-gage</link>
		<comments>http://politicianscandal.com/211/graysons-gage#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Oct 2009 17:57:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>boourns104</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Healthcare]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[alan grayson]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Grayson]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Representative Alan Grayson caused a stir in the House yesterday when he presented “the Republican healthcare bill.” It was quite simple: 1. Don’t get sick. 2. If you do get sick, die quickly.[...]]]></description>
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		<title>Unreliable Sources &#8211; Debating the Public Healthcare Option</title>
		<link>http://politicianscandal.com/210/unreliable-sources</link>
		<comments>http://politicianscandal.com/210/unreliable-sources#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Sep 2009 17:55:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>boourns104</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Healthcare]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Baucus]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Grassley]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rockefeller]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[senate finance committee]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[United Health]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday’s healthcare debate in the Senate Finance Committee was a dismal spectacle for so many reasons. Two public options were voted down. Sen. Baucus offered no better reason for voting against Sen. Schumer’s public option than his belief that other senators were not going to vote for it when the bill left committee. It was something less than heroic. But the last straw was when Sen. Grassley unabashedly adduced research that wouldn’t pass muster in an A.P. Government class.]]></description>
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		<title>Whatever Happened to ACORN?</title>
		<link>http://politicianscandal.com/209/acorn</link>
		<comments>http://politicianscandal.com/209/acorn#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Sep 2009 19:02:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>boourns104</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ACORN]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bobby Jindal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[FOX news]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Haliburton]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am surprised to see that ACORN is still in the news this week. In case it is possible for anyone to have forgotten, James O’Keefe III and his associate Hannah Giles, posing as pimp and prostitute went to ACORN offices in five cities including Baltimore and D.C. They sought advice on establishing a brothel, including how to file taxes without arousing suspicion, and some ACORN workers scandalously obliged.]]></description>
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		<title>Teaching Economic in High School &#8211; Where Our Education System Fails</title>
		<link>http://politicianscandal.com/205/high-school-economics</link>
		<comments>http://politicianscandal.com/205/high-school-economics#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Sep 2009 16:57:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>boourns104</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[economics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[education]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[It would certainly be nice if more, even most Americans had a firm grasp of economics, real-world as well as classical. At least then, our public debate could focus on the features of economic life that actually exist. This would likely rein in the discourse on both the right and left. But in a national climate in which a substantial percentage of people don’t think evolution should be taught in schools, I see little hope for economics.]]></description>
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		<title>The Great Debate &#8211; Tort Reform vs. Obamacare</title>
		<link>http://politicianscandal.com/203/the-great-debate</link>
		<comments>http://politicianscandal.com/203/the-great-debate#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Sep 2009 19:04:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>boourns104</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Healthcare]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Baucus]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[healthcare debate]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kyl]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[obamacare]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[senate finance committee]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[tort reform]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Whereas the rhetoric of the House is often transparently insane, the thrust and parry of the senate is endlessly amusing.]]></description>
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		<title>Pennies for Pounds &#8211; Should the Government Tax Soda?</title>
		<link>http://politicianscandal.com/200/pennies-for-pounds</link>
		<comments>http://politicianscandal.com/200/pennies-for-pounds#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Sep 2009 19:29:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>boourns104</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Healthcare]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cola]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[pop]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[revenue]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[soda]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[soda tax]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[There is a new commercial out that is designed to make me angry about proposals at the state and national levels to help pay for healthcare by taxing soda and sweetened “juice” drinks.  When these commercials first appeared, they so annoyed me that I immediately wrote to my congressman to say I was adamantly in favor of such a tax.]]></description>
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