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		<title>Specter&#8217;s loss:  personal and then some</title>
		<link>http://wpblog.ohpinion.com/2010/05/19/specters-loss-personal-and-then-some/</link>
		<comments>http://wpblog.ohpinion.com/2010/05/19/specters-loss-personal-and-then-some/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 20 May 2010 07:27:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>S.W.  Anderson</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[People]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A five-term Senate veteran with not one, but two, party switches behind him; an able harball player, whether in campaigns or judicial confirmation hearings, Specter will exit the halls of power epitomizing what many citizens have come to resent about federal legislators. ]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>7</slash:comments>
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		<title>Setbacks for those trying to make health care reform about abortion</title>
		<link>http://wpblog.ohpinion.com/2010/03/13/setbacks-for-those-trying-to-make-health-care-reform-about-abortion/</link>
		<comments>http://wpblog.ohpinion.com/2010/03/13/setbacks-for-those-trying-to-make-health-care-reform-about-abortion/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Mar 2010 06:03:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>S.W.  Anderson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[While Rep. Bart &#8220;I am a Definite &#8216;No&#8217; Vote,&#8221; Stupak, who&#8217;s Catholic, does a slow burn because his gambit to turn health care reform into a vehicle for battling abortion fizzled, a group representing Catholic hospitals is throwing its support behind the legislation. Part of the Michigan Democrat&#8217;s chagrin is due to the fact House [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>9</slash:comments>
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		<title>GOP health care &#8216;reform&#8217;  plan anemic, toxic</title>
		<link>http://wpblog.ohpinion.com/2009/11/06/gop-health-care-reform-plan-anemic-toxic/</link>
		<comments>http://wpblog.ohpinion.com/2009/11/06/gop-health-care-reform-plan-anemic-toxic/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Nov 2009 05:59:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>S.W.  Anderson</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Health Safety]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Republican scams]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[How perfectly Republican: a health care &#8220;reform&#8221; plan that reduces costs by reducing care, keeps hated pre-existing condition gotcha traps firmly in place, and tells people who need medical insurance to go start a savings account. The Congressional Budget Office looked into the Republicans&#8217; handiwork and found it shifts costs to the elderly and the [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>10</slash:comments>
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		<title>Opt-out public option packs nasty side effect</title>
		<link>http://wpblog.ohpinion.com/2009/10/27/opt-out-public-option-packs-nasty-side-effect/</link>
		<comments>http://wpblog.ohpinion.com/2009/10/27/opt-out-public-option-packs-nasty-side-effect/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2009 07:56:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>S.W.  Anderson</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Consumer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Government]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Health Safety]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[health care reform]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[unintended consequences]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nevada, came out yesterday for health care reform that includes a public option with an opt-out provision for states that don&#8217;t want to participate &#8212; a compromise that should get blue dog Democrats on board. However, it seems there&#8217;s no pleasing some people when it comes to prodding health insurance [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>8</slash:comments>
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		<title>Obama and the 2016 Olympics:  No good deed goes unpunished</title>
		<link>http://wpblog.ohpinion.com/2009/10/03/obama-and-the-2016-olympics-no-good-deed-goes-unpunished/</link>
		<comments>http://wpblog.ohpinion.com/2009/10/03/obama-and-the-2016-olympics-no-good-deed-goes-unpunished/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Oct 2009 07:48:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>S.W.  Anderson</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Media]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[right-wing noise machine]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The International Olympic Committee decided to hold the 2016 games in Rio Di Janiero, and Brazilians&#8217; triumphant joy was exceeded only by the exuberant schadenfreude of America&#8217;s political right. The New York Times heralded the reason: For Obama, an Unsuccessful Campaign. Although Chicago might have lost to Rio de Janeiro for reasons that had little [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>7</slash:comments>
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		<title>Ted Kennedy understood, acted upontruths conservatives wilfully reject</title>
		<link>http://wpblog.ohpinion.com/2009/08/28/ted-kennedy-understood-acted-upontruths-conservatives-wilfully-reject/</link>
		<comments>http://wpblog.ohpinion.com/2009/08/28/ted-kennedy-understood-acted-upontruths-conservatives-wilfully-reject/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Aug 2009 23:06:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>S.W.  Anderson</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economy]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Society]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[economic policy]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Kennedy understood, in common with Franklin Roosevelt and Harry Truman . . . that some Americans get rich or grow wealth they already have by doing things that keep others from improving their lot in life.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>23</slash:comments>
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		<title>Texas plans to politicize textbooks  the conservative Republican way</title>
		<link>http://wpblog.ohpinion.com/2009/08/22/texas-plans-to-politicize-textbooks-the-conservative-republican-way/</link>
		<comments>http://wpblog.ohpinion.com/2009/08/22/texas-plans-to-politicize-textbooks-the-conservative-republican-way/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 23 Aug 2009 07:57:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>S.W.  Anderson</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Education]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Republican corruption]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[You&#8217;ve got your five-star hotels, four-star generals and three-star restaurants. Then there&#8217;s Texas, your Lone Star state &#8212; and it&#8217;s no wonder. Here, from the Houston Chronicle by way of Think Progress, is the latest evidence Texas doesn&#8217;t deserve the one star it&#8217;s got. The first draft for proposed standards in United States History Studies [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>10</slash:comments>
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		<title>Death panel needed for Grassley&#8217;s career</title>
		<link>http://wpblog.ohpinion.com/2009/08/14/death-panel-needed-for-grassleys-career/</link>
		<comments>http://wpblog.ohpinion.com/2009/08/14/death-panel-needed-for-grassleys-career/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Aug 2009 07:58:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>S.W.  Anderson</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Health Safety]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[health care reform]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Republican lies]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://wpblog.ohpinion.com/?p=2949</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s a good thing for Iowa Sen. Chuck Grassley that nobody&#8217;s proposing a death panel to decide the fate of legislators who either can&#8217;t comprehend clear and simple language in a bill, or who can but choose to lie about what the bill says. If there were such a panel, Grassley would be a prime [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>9</slash:comments>
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		<title>Someone should hoist Republicans on their own judgmental petard</title>
		<link>http://wpblog.ohpinion.com/2009/08/01/someone-should-hoist-republicans-on-their-own-judgmental-petard/</link>
		<comments>http://wpblog.ohpinion.com/2009/08/01/someone-should-hoist-republicans-on-their-own-judgmental-petard/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 01 Aug 2009 23:50:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>S.W.  Anderson</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Republican memes]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[This is a paraphrase, albeit a close one, of remarks delivered using the Republicans’ patented formula for arrogant, dismissive resentfulness.  ” . . . from someone who has never operated a business and has never had to meet a payroll!” ]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>12</slash:comments>
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		<title>Real health care reform being sacrificed  for bipartisanship that&#8217;s not happening</title>
		<link>http://wpblog.ohpinion.com/2009/07/29/real-health-care-reform-being-sacrificed-for-bipartisanship-thats-not-happening/</link>
		<comments>http://wpblog.ohpinion.com/2009/07/29/real-health-care-reform-being-sacrificed-for-bipartisanship-thats-not-happening/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Jul 2009 07:44:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>S.W.  Anderson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We’ve seen this movie before; it starred the infamous Harry and Louise. Health care reform and congressional Democrats got killed in the end.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>7</slash:comments>
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