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            <title><![CDATA[Obama's Head-in-the Sand Budget]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[The White House budget ducks the biggest issue of our time: Social Security. John Batchelor on Obama's missed opportunity. Plus, Eric Alterman on why the budget lets the right define the debate.
The Obama administration's budget proposal for fiscal...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[The GOP's Tax Deal Jitters]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Despite some Democrats' objections, the Senate is poised to pass Obama's tax-cut compromise Wednesday. But there is fear in the ranks of Republicans, too.
It was no surprise that the lordly Senate approved a creatively enhanced tax deal on Monday. As...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[The Tea Party's Whiny Takeover]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[The Tea Partiers talked of changing the system, but when they got to the House Republican caucus last week, the revolution was over on day one. John Batchelor on a coup that's all talk.
The Tea Party class of 2010 scurried into the House Republican...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Give Steele a Reality Show]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[And get him off the national stage. John Batchelor on why the blue-collar Rust Belter Saul Anuzis should replace the self-promoting Michael Steele as Republican National Committee chairman.
Michigan Republican Committeeman Saul Anuzis, a veteran...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Paul Ryan Breaks Rank]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[The GOP's fiscal star skipped the Pledge to America rollout. John Batchelor talks to Republicans who say Ryan's peeved his ideas were bypassed-and reports more turmoil on the right.
Handsome, precious Paul Ryan, six-term Republican from the...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[The GOP's Fat Elvis]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Newt Gingrich is back, lecturing the timid Republican leadership on how to win the fall. John Batchelor on why they put up with it.
Newt Gingrich spoke to a closed-door breakfast of the Republicans of the House the other day after the last primaries,...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[The GOP's Wimpy Whip]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Eric Cantor is in line for a big promotion if Republicans clean up this fall. John Batchelor on Cantor's fundraising skill, TARP conflict-and aversion to rocking the boat.
Eric Cantor, a soft-spoken Virginian, is a fresh face to curious Tea Party...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[The GOP's Oompa-Loompa]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[ John Boehner is champing at the bit to take Nancy Pelosi's job come January. John Batchelor takes a closer look at the orange Republican's weaknesses-and the goofballs who'd follow him to power.
John Boehner is in dress rehearsal to become the...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[The Beck Rally Is Harmless]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[The Fox personality and Sarah Palin took the stage for a controversial rally on the Washington Mall today, but John Batchelor says that he is just a harmless entertainer-and his success is our failure to address real problems.
The celebrity Glenn Beck...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[The Michael Steele Debacle]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[The Republican National Commmitee chairman's failure to raise money is ruining the GOP's 2010 prospects. John Batchelor on why Steele and his entire staff need to go before it's too late. 
The reason the self-satisfied Michael Steele will someday...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Mike Huckabee's End Times]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Commuting the sentence of a cop-killer may be the least of Huckabee's problems.  John Batchelor on the former Arkansas governor's mindless evangelism-and why the GOP should just skip the 2012 election. 
After the tragedy of the sadistic cop-killer...]]></description>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Sat, 05 Dec 2009 18:50:18 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[The Unsinkable Sarah Palin]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[ The Alaskan's book tour is just the start. John Batchelor on how Palin matches up with Obama-and why she's the one to beat for 2012.
Sarah Palin has ignited her Twitter account: "Crossing border to Hoosier territory... Excited to meet Indiana folks...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Bachmann's Angry Mob]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[The gray-haired curiosity-seekers assembled by the Tea Party's Wonder Woman, Michele Bachmann, in D.C. are part of the GOP purge that plays well on cable TV. But the the party's not ready to face its biggest threat.
The gathering of Tea Party sorts on...]]></description>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Fri, 06 Nov 2009 01:17:07 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[The Last Days of the GOP]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[On Saturday, Republican candidate Dede Scozzafava suspended her bid in the special election, citing a lack of funds. John Batchelor on the ugly food fight for a New York House seat and why the cynical celebrity endorsements of Sarah Palin, Tim...]]></description>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Fri, 30 Oct 2009 21:42:05 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[How Fox News Outsmarted the White House]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[The White House's war on Fox shows its ignorance of the network's true purpose: show business. And Team Obama is giving Murdoch just what he wants. 
After David Axelrod sneaked into Roger Ailes' office in New York to powwow on Sept. 30, the White...]]></description>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Wed, 14 Oct 2009 01:02:47 -0400]]></pubDate>
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