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		<title>You say government can do no right and corporations can do no wrong?</title>
		<link>http://wpblog.ohpinion.com/2010/09/02/you-say-government-can-do-no-right-and-corporations-can-do-no-wrong/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Sep 2010 22:26:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>S.W.  Anderson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[To hear conservative Republicans tell it, business is the vital, job-creating, wealth-building, and therefore virtuous, backbone of American prosperity and democracy, while government is a meddlesome, bungling and costly drag on freedom and prosperity. Or, as the icon of conservative Republicans put it: Oh really? We&#8217;ve done a little scorekeeping just over the past week [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Give Karzai and his troops the chance to put up and win — or shut up</title>
		<link>http://wpblog.ohpinion.com/2010/08/30/give-karzai-and-his-troops-the-chance-to-put-up-and-win-%e2%80%94-or-shut-up/</link>
		<comments>http://wpblog.ohpinion.com/2010/08/30/give-karzai-and-his-troops-the-chance-to-put-up-and-win-%e2%80%94-or-shut-up/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Aug 2010 01:32:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>S.W.  Anderson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;There should be a review of the strategy in the fight against terrorism, because the experience of the last eight years showed that the fight in the villages of Afghanistan has been ineffective apart from causing civilian casualties.&#8221; -Hamid Karzai, president of Afghanistan, to the visiting speaker of Germany&#8217;s parliament, Aug. 30, 2010 KABUL, Afghanistan [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>9</slash:comments>
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		<title>Dodd&#8217;s reservations shouldn&#8217;t keep Warren from financial watchdog post</title>
		<link>http://wpblog.ohpinion.com/2010/08/27/dodds-reservations-shouldnt-keep-warren-from-financial-watchdog-post/</link>
		<comments>http://wpblog.ohpinion.com/2010/08/27/dodds-reservations-shouldnt-keep-warren-from-financial-watchdog-post/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Aug 2010 06:38:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>S.W.  Anderson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[An excellent Huffington Post item sheds added light on Senate Banking Committee Chairman Chris Dodd&#8217;s curious reticence about Elizabeth Warren heading the new Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. The short of it is that while Dodd is very concerned the Harvard professor and standout consumer advocate might not be up to managing the new agency, he&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>22</slash:comments>
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		<title>Boehner spreads GOP snake oil; CBO quickly applies dispersant</title>
		<link>http://wpblog.ohpinion.com/2010/08/24/boehner-spreads-gop-snake-oil-cbo-quickly-applies-dispersant/</link>
		<comments>http://wpblog.ohpinion.com/2010/08/24/boehner-spreads-gop-snake-oil-cbo-quickly-applies-dispersant/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Aug 2010 06:38:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>S.W.  Anderson</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economy]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[economic crisis]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Republican obstructionists]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[With timing as all wrong as his speech full of naysaying disinformation about the economic stimulus, Rep. John Boehner, R-Ohio, kicked off the week in fine style. In a report published the same day as Minority Leader John Boehner&#8217;s criticism of President Obama&#8217;s economic policy, the CBO said the stimulus law boosted the economy by [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>13</slash:comments>
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		<title>Economists find bailouts, stimulus  better than head-in-sand alternative</title>
		<link>http://wpblog.ohpinion.com/2010/08/22/economists-find-bailouts-stimulus-better-than-head-in-sand-alternative/</link>
		<comments>http://wpblog.ohpinion.com/2010/08/22/economists-find-bailouts-stimulus-better-than-head-in-sand-alternative/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Aug 2010 05:19:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>S.W.  Anderson</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economy]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://wpblog.ohpinion.com/?p=3911</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Unfortunately, most voters know economics and economic policy the way they know art: “If I like it, it’s a masterpiece. If I don’t, it’s junk.” Exploiting their instinctive dislike of big deficits is like shooting fish in a barrel, never mind what the alternative was.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>14</slash:comments>
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		<title>Time to pass out some kudos</title>
		<link>http://wpblog.ohpinion.com/2010/08/19/3900/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Aug 2010 04:34:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>S.W.  Anderson</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://wpblog.ohpinion.com/?p=3900</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Amidst a whole lot of bad news and atrocious actors on the national scene, let&#8217;s break for a few well-deserved pats on the back, starting with NBC News and MSNBC, for their terrific coverage of the historic exit of the last U.S. Army combat brigade from Iraq. MSNBC paired Rachel Maddow and reporter Richard Engel [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>19</slash:comments>
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		<title>Deficit reduction lies and the lying Murdoch-owned rag spreading them</title>
		<link>http://wpblog.ohpinion.com/2010/08/17/deficit-reduction-lies-and-the-lying-murdoch-owned-rag-spreading-them/</link>
		<comments>http://wpblog.ohpinion.com/2010/08/17/deficit-reduction-lies-and-the-lying-murdoch-owned-rag-spreading-them/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Aug 2010 05:50:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>S.W.  Anderson</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economy]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[corporate dirty politics]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://wpblog.ohpinion.com/?p=3891</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Banksters know that hurrying on to deficit fighting mode while the U.S. economy 95 percent of us share is still a basket case will not only ensure continued high unemployment, but even higher unemployment. Cutting government spending is just what the doctor ordered for spurring more layoffs and keeping the already jobless idle, miserable and ready to vote incumbents out – most incumbents being Democrats, of course.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>24</slash:comments>
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		<title>&#8216;News judgment&#8217; shouldn&#8217;t be an oxymoron, however . . .</title>
		<link>http://wpblog.ohpinion.com/2010/08/16/news-judgment-shouldnt-be-an-oxymoron-however/</link>
		<comments>http://wpblog.ohpinion.com/2010/08/16/news-judgment-shouldnt-be-an-oxymoron-however/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Aug 2010 05:08:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>S.W.  Anderson</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://wpblog.ohpinion.com/?p=3884</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Here we are with two no-win wars in the Mideast, an environmental disaster in the Gulf of Mexico and the U.S. economy screwed up like it hasn&#8217;t been screwed up in 80 years, and this nonsense is up there with the day&#8217;s top news stories. President Obama didn&#8217;t want this weekend&#8217;s getaway to Florida&#8217;s Gulf [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>8</slash:comments>
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		<title>Something to seethe about while we&#8217;re briefly away</title>
		<link>http://wpblog.ohpinion.com/2010/08/13/something-to-seethe-about-while-were-briefly-away/</link>
		<comments>http://wpblog.ohpinion.com/2010/08/13/something-to-seethe-about-while-were-briefly-away/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Aug 2010 07:38:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>S.W.  Anderson</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Blogging]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[plutocracy prevention]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://wpblog.ohpinion.com/?p=3880</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[We&#8217;re taking a detour off the information superhighway for a couple of days, so please don&#8217;t mistake our lack of visits to your blog for a lack of interest. In the meantime, be sure to see a mind-boggling chart that neatly and graphically contrasts President Obama&#8217;s plan for what to do about the expiring Bush [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>8</slash:comments>
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		<title>Republicans pitch Hispanic &#8216;anchor babies&#8217;as obligatory election-year wedge issue</title>
		<link>http://wpblog.ohpinion.com/2010/08/11/republicans-pitch-hispanic-anchor-babiesas-obligatory-election-year-wedge-issue/</link>
		<comments>http://wpblog.ohpinion.com/2010/08/11/republicans-pitch-hispanic-anchor-babiesas-obligatory-election-year-wedge-issue/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Aug 2010 07:02:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>S.W.  Anderson</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://wpblog.ohpinion.com/?p=3876</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;The Republican war on the 14th Amendment&#8217;s citizenship clause is indeed directed at a mortal threat &#8212; but not to the American nation. It is the threat that Latino voting poses to the Republican Party. &#8220;By proposing to revoke the citizenship of the estimated 4 million U.S.-born children of undocumented immigrants &#8212; and, presumably, the [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>14</slash:comments>
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