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		<title>Heckuva Job, Barry</title>
		<link>http://www.trueblueliberal.com/2009/07/22/heckuva-job-barry/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Jul 2009 17:30:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[From uExpress
By Ted Rall
Pro-Obama political cartoonists have drawn variations of the same cartoon: the president, in the role of badgered parent on a family trip, is driving a car labeled &#8220;The Economy.&#8221; The American public, depicted as Uncle Sam or Joe Average, whines: &#8220;Are we there yet? Are we there yet? Are we there yet?&#8221;
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		<title>Blue Dog Math</title>
		<link>http://www.trueblueliberal.com/2009/07/22/blue-dog-math/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Jul 2009 17:13:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[From The NY Observer
By Joe Conason
&#8220;Fiscal conservative” is one of those terms used by politicians of all sorts to describe themselves, without any real justification. Parroted mindlessly from one news cycle to the next by major media outlets, that phrase is often used to mislead the public about the priorities and policies favored by those [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Obama Lawyers Shield Cheney on Leak</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Jul 2009 17:12:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[From The Consortium News
By Jason Leopold
The Obama administration asserted a legal argument that a federal judge called the Jon Stewart “Daily Show exemption,” as the Justice Department continued a court fight to protect ex-Vice President Dick Cheney from disclosures about his role in the leak of a CIA officer’s identity six years ago.
 At a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The GOP’s Democracy Double Standard</title>
		<link>http://www.trueblueliberal.com/2009/07/22/the-gop%e2%80%99s-democracy-double-standard/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Jul 2009 17:12:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[From In These Times
By James Thindwa
The Republican Party’s recent passion for “democracy” in the Middle East has been on full display. Republican leaders have called for unqualified support for Iranian demonstrators, condemned the Iranian regime and castigated President Obama for not speaking out more forcefully.
Beating the drums for democracy can be inspiring, but, in international [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Serial War As Way Of Life</title>
		<link>http://www.trueblueliberal.com/2009/07/22/serial-war-as-way-of-life/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Jul 2009 17:11:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[From The Asia Times
By David Bromwich
On July 16, in a speech to the Economic Club of Chicago, Secretary of Defense Robert Gates said that the &#8220;central question&#8221; for the defense of the United States was how the military should be &#8220;organized, equipped &#8211; and funded &#8211; in the years ahead, to win the wars we [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Opinions Walter Cronkite Never Aired</title>
		<link>http://www.trueblueliberal.com/2009/07/21/opinions-walter-cronkite-never-aired/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Jul 2009 19:24:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[From TruthDig
By Reese Erlich
 Walter Cronkite, who  died Friday, may be best known for his 1968 CBS commentaries declaring that the United States could not win the Vietnam War. Less known is that he had been a strong supporter of the war before then.
Cronkite was the consummate mainstream journalist. His thoroughness as a reporter [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Now Legal Immunity for Swine flu Vaccine Makers</title>
		<link>http://www.trueblueliberal.com/2009/07/21/now-legal-immunity-for-swine-flu-vaccine-makers/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Jul 2009 19:23:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[From Global Research
By F. William Engdahl
The US Secretary of Health and Human Services, Kathleen Sebelius, has just signed a decree granting vaccine makers total legal immunity from any lawsuits that result from any new “Swine Flu” vaccine. Moreover, the $7 billion US Government fast-track program to rush vaccines onto the market in time for the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Prescribing Cake to Cure the Health Care Crisis</title>
		<link>http://www.trueblueliberal.com/2009/07/21/prescribing-cake-to-cure-the-health-care-crisis/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Jul 2009 19:22:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[From True Blue Liberal
By Walter Brasch
Marie Antoinette, contrary to popular opinion, never said a solution for the starving masses of revolutionary France in the late 18th century was, &#8220;Let them eat cake.&#8221; But, Sen. Charles Grassley (R-Iowa) apparently said something close to it.
At a public meeting, one of Grassley&#8217;s constituents asked him, “Why is your [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Taxing Health Insurance Premiums and Subsidizing Health Care Providers</title>
		<link>http://www.trueblueliberal.com/2009/07/21/taxing-health-insurance-premiums-and-subsidizing-health-care-providers/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Jul 2009 19:22:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[From TruthOut
By Dean Baker
As a card-carrying economist, I don&#8217;t like the unlimited tax deduction for health insurance premiums. It is regressive and just plain bad policy.
    Low- and moderate-income people are both less likely to have employer-provided health insurance, and benefit much less from the tax deduction if they do. Most of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Obamacare: A Health Care Rationing Scheme to Enrich Insurers, Drug Companies and Large Hospital Chains</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Jul 2009 19:22:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[From True Blue Liberal
By Stephen Lendman
On February 24, Barack Obama told a joint session of Congress that &#8220;we must&#8230;.address the crushing cost of health care&#8230;.caus(ing) a bankruptcy in America every thirty seconds. By the end of the year, it could cause 1.5 million Americans to lose their homes. In (each of) the last eight years&#8230;.one [...]]]></description>
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