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		<title>Inhofe &#8211; Self Appointed Defender Of Earmarks</title>
		<description><![CDATA[U.S. Sen. Jim Inhofe has denounced a decision by House Republicans to halt congressional earmarks for fiscal year 2011.
The House Republican Conference adopted the one-year moratorium on earmark requests — funding secured by members of Congress for projects in their districts — last week as a way to cut government spending.
Inhofe, who has been named the most conservative U.S. senator by the conservative National Journal, said eliminating earmarks will not save money, but will shift the ability to appropriate to federal bureaucrats.
“I know what ...]]></description>
		<link>http://progressivenation.us/2010/03/17/inhofe-self-appointed-defender-of-earmarks/</link>
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		<title>Petraeus Sells Gay Troops Down the River</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By Emma Ruby-Sachs
General Petraeus has announced that he supports a review of the military&#8217;s Don&#8217;t Ask Don&#8217;t Tell Policy. Too bad that in his presentation to the Senate Armed Services Committee he told the Committee that eliminating DADT could negatively impact military function.
Petraeus gained support from equal rights advocates when he told Fareed Zakaria that he served with gay individuals in the CIA and that he didn&#8217;t think that troops would have trouble adjusting to working with openly gay service members. Today he prepared ...]]></description>
		<link>http://progressivenation.us/2010/03/16/petraeus-sells-gay-troops-down-the-river/</link>
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		<title>House Panel Jumpstarts Reconciliation on Health Care</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Monday, the House Budget Committee approved a budget reconciliation bill that jumpstarts the process that Democrats hope will end in the Senate passing sweeping health care reforms by a simple majority.
The reconciliation bill, which will be the vehicle for the health care “fixes” the Democrats will add later this week, passed through the panel on a 21-16 vote. Two Democrats, Reps. Allen Boyd (Fla.) and Chet Edwards (Tex.), joined every Republican in opposing the measure. The process is starting in the House because, by ...]]></description>
		<link>http://progressivenation.us/2010/03/16/house-panel-jumpstarts-reconciliation-on-health-care/</link>
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		<title>DeMint Fears Health Care Success Will Reignite Obama&#8217;s &#8220;Boldness&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In a fairly muted online Q&#38;A with Florida U.S. Senate candidate Marco Rubio — questions were along the lines of “what can we do to stop this health care takeover?” — Sen. Jim DeMint (R-S.C.) let the cat out of the bag on the possible effect of a Democratic victory on health care reform.
“If the president is successful,” said DeMint, answering a question about the prospects for cap-and-trade, “I think it will give him some boldness to go back to other programs.”
 
DeMint, of ...]]></description>
		<link>http://progressivenation.us/2010/03/15/demint-fears-health-care-success-will-reignite-obamas-boldness/</link>
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		<title>We Could Use Another Progressive Roosevelt, Teddy That Is.</title>
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&#8220;I don&#8217;t know whether you fully understand that I have just been shot; but it takes more than that to kill a Bull Moose.&#8221;
Theodore Roosevelt &#8211; 1912

With these fighting words, Teddy Roosevelt shrugged off an assassination attempt by a deranged Milwaukee saloon owner and &#8212; bullet still lodged in his chest &#8212; launched into a ninety-minute address railing against the corporatism and corruption that dominated both parties in Washington.
The year was 1912, a time of widespread discontent among both Democratic and Republican reformers.  ...]]></description>
		<link>http://progressivenation.us/2010/03/14/we-could-use-another-progressive-roosevelt-teddy-that-is/</link>
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		<title>More GOP Hypocricy: Hot-Tubbing with a 15 Year-Old Girl</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Majority Leader of the Utah House took a nude hot-tub with a 15-year old employee, then paid her $150,000 and had her pledge to keep quiet, he admitted yesterday.
The incident occurred in 1985, when Kevin Garn was 30, and married.  In 2002, when Garn, a Republican, was running for Congress, the woman, Cheryl Maher, began contacting reporters with the story, prompting Garn to pay her and have an attorney draft a non-disclosure agreement, reports the Salt Lake Tribune.
With his wife by his ...]]></description>
		<link>http://progressivenation.us/2010/03/12/more-gop-hypocricy-hot-tubbing-with-a-15-year-old-girl/</link>
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		<title>Liz Cheney&#8217;s New &#8220;Unpatriotic Seven&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Following her call to remove the &#8220;Al-Qaeda Seven,&#8221; Liz Cheney has released a list of seven additional U.S. officials whose work on behalf of enemies of the state makes them unfit to serve their country.
While most historians agree these people were among some of the greatest legal minds of their respective times, if not of all time, Ms Cheney believes she knows better because daddy says so.
Now, without further ado, we present Liz Cheney&#8217;s &#8220;Unpatriotic Seven&#8221; 
John Adams defended British solders accused of perpetrating ...]]></description>
		<link>http://progressivenation.us/2010/03/11/liz-cheneys-new-unpatriotic-seven/</link>
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		<title>Rove Speaks: It’s Everybody Else’s Fault</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Washington memoirs are all about settling scores. Karl Rove’s “Courage and Consequence: My Life as a Conservative in the Fight” takes that tradition to new and self-parodying heights. To read Rove’s recollections of George W. Bush’s White House is to believe that, for eight years, men of “courage and moral clarity” governed the United States and were beset by critics who refused to give them any credit. On page after page, Rove names the naysayers and picks apart their claims. He’s most at ease ...]]></description>
		<link>http://progressivenation.us/2010/03/11/rove-speaks-its-everybody-elses-fault/</link>
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		<title>Glenn Beck: &#8220;Now, am I advising people to leave their church? Yes!&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[On his radio show, right-wing host Glenn Beck warned his audience about churches that care about social justice. As the deranged media personality sees it, &#8220;social justice&#8221; is code for &#8230; something nefarious.

&#8220;I&#8217;m begging you, your right to religion and freedom to exercise religion and read all of the passages of the Bible as you want to read them and as your church wants to preach them &#8230; are going to come under the ropes in the next year. If it lasts that long ...]]></description>
		<link>http://progressivenation.us/2010/03/10/glenn-beck-now-am-i-advising-people-to-leave-their-church-yes/</link>
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		<title>States Play Fast and Loose With Employee Pension Funds</title>
		<description><![CDATA[One of the reasons many people work for government even when there’s not a recession going on (despite the fact that government jobs often pay lower salaries than private sector ones) is the job security and generous benefits. Particularly for the younger generation of workers, there remain relatively few companies that offer traditional pension plans, but they still abound for workers in government jobs. But if Mary Williams Walsh’s story in The New York Times is any guide, those supposedly secure government pensions are ...]]></description>
		<link>http://progressivenation.us/2010/03/09/states-play-fast-and-loose-with-employee-pension-funds/</link>
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