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		<title>Stupak gets well-deserved challenge</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Stupak presents himself as a staunch defender of the sanctity of life, but he’s spent the past year threatening to kill health care reform because, he insists, the legislation would provide federal funding for abortions. In reality, neither the House nor Senate bill would fund abortions, and by killing the bill, Stupak and his dozen or so anti-abortion zealots will ensure the needless pain, suffering and deaths of many already-born Americans.]]></description>
		<link>http://wpblog.ohpinion.com/2010/03/10/stupak-gets-well-deserved-challenge/</link>
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		<title>Democrats seem oblivious to need for speed</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Reforming the nation&#8217;s health insurance and care system is a massive undertaking, and not something accomplished quickly, especially with Republicans working to sabotage the effort every step of the way.
Even so, it&#8217;s critically important for President Obama and congressional Democrats to get cracking on this at something better than the speed of continental drift. 
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		<link>http://wpblog.ohpinion.com/2010/03/04/democrats-seem-oblivious-to-need-for-speed/</link>
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		<title>Read this news carefully &#8212; it&#8217;s loaded</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We expect Republicans to characterize our very large budget deficit as “out of control.” They’re in the business of saying anything that casts President Obama and Democrats in a bad light, including depicting them as wanton free spenders. We don’t expect an AP staff writer to do Republicans’ work for them. ]]></description>
		<link>http://wpblog.ohpinion.com/2010/03/03/read-this-news-carefully-its-loaded/</link>
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		<title>Maybe someone put Bunning up to it</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The media are reporting Bunning’s outrageous stunt as his doing alone, and given what a thoroughly nasty piece of work he is, that could very well be the case. But having watched Senate Republicans oppose unemployment compensation extensions in the past, an alternative possibility came to our mind, inspired in part by a remark Sen. Jon Kyl, R-Ariz., made on the Senate floor today. ]]></description>
		<link>http://wpblog.ohpinion.com/2010/03/01/maybe-someone-put-bunning-up-to-it/</link>
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		<title>A taxing matter we should all take upwith Democratic officials in Washington</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The compromised loyalties and DLC/New Democrat agendas of too many congressional Democrats dovetail entirely too well with the actions and attitudes of the post-election Obama we’re getting to know.  We expect the next unwelcome surprise will involve not letting the Bush tax cuts expire.]]></description>
		<link>http://wpblog.ohpinion.com/2010/02/26/a-taxing-matter-we-should-all-take-upwith-democratic-officials-in-washington/</link>
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		<title>Obama&#8217;s health reform performance  no favor to him or fellow Democrats</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Politically, the problem for Obama going forward is that, as Ezra Klein explains, even if his compromise of all compromises goes through, Obama has forfeited the chance to be a hero and look like a winner. ]]></description>
		<link>http://wpblog.ohpinion.com/2010/02/23/obamas-health-reform-performance-no-favor-to-him-or-fellow-democrats/</link>
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		<title>Bible-thumping Virginia lawmaker blames abnormal newborns on prior abortion</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This Amazing Fact comes to us from a professional politician  first elected to the Virginia House of Delegates in 1991, whose Web page describes him as holding bachelor degrees in history and philosophy from from Belmont Abbey College, North Carolina, and an MA in humanities from California State University. Remarkable preparation, those, for rendering sweeping obstetrical judgments.]]></description>
		<link>http://wpblog.ohpinion.com/2010/02/22/bible-thumping-virginia-lawmaker-blames-abnormal-newborns-on-prior-abortion/</link>
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		<title>Middle class has a choice to make:  fight for what&#8217;s right or go under</title>
		<description><![CDATA[While other nations such as Japan, China and Germany have been busy providing universal health care, advanced worker training and enhanced job security, building high-speed rail networks and modern infrastructure, the U.S. has excelled at producing more super-rich individuals, pushing the definition of super wealth into the stratosphere.]]></description>
		<link>http://wpblog.ohpinion.com/2010/02/19/middle-class-has-a-choice-to-make-fight-for-whats-right-or-go-under/</link>
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		<title>Act now to get public option in health care bill</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This is important. Even if Democrats pass some health care reforms, without the competition for commercial insurers a public option will provide, the measure will be less than half a job.]]></description>
		<link>http://wpblog.ohpinion.com/2010/02/18/act-now-to-get-public-option-in-health-care-bill/</link>
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		<title>JCS chairman answers troops&#8217; questions, learns ending DADT not a big concern</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Despite static from some on the right, the change is under study, and Mullen himself is doing some fact finding in the field, hearing from troops stationed in Amman, Jordan, this week that the prospect of gays serving openly doesn’t bother them. ]]></description>
		<link>http://wpblog.ohpinion.com/2010/02/16/jcs-chairman-answers-troops-questions-learns-ending-dadt-not-a-big-concern/</link>
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