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		<title>The Washington Post's Mistress</title>
		<link>http://pundits.thehill.com/2009/07/02/the-washington-posts-mistress/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2009 23:18:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stuart Roy</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Disclaimer: I know and have worked with a lot of Washington Post reporters and some editors. I happen to like almost all of them and have found them to be fair in both good stories and bad. However &#8230;
South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford (R) had his mistress and the Washington Post Co. has hers. Sanford [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Theory on Jobs</title>
		<link>http://pundits.thehill.com/2009/07/02/a-theory-on-jobs/</link>
		<comments>http://pundits.thehill.com/2009/07/02/a-theory-on-jobs/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2009 17:07:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Feehery</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Economy &amp; Budget]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[According to The Associated Press: “Employers cut a larger-than-expected 467,000 jobs in June and the unemployment rate climbed to a 26-year high of 9.5 percent. Workers also saw weekly wages fall, suggesting Americans will have little appetite to spend and the economy's road to recovery will be bumpy.”
That is not good news for the Democrats, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Change You Can Believe In?</title>
		<link>http://pundits.thehill.com/2009/07/02/change-you-can-believe-in/</link>
		<comments>http://pundits.thehill.com/2009/07/02/change-you-can-believe-in/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2009 16:05:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brent Budowsky</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Economy &amp; Budget]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Here are some headlines you may have missed while we have spent the last week inundated with the national discussion about Michael Jackson:
* Citigroup raises credit card interest rates for 15 million customers while other banks add rate increases after the "reform" bill passes.
* Bank fees against customers rise to historic highs after “reform" bill [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Can Cap-and-Trade Pass the Senate?</title>
		<link>http://pundits.thehill.com/2009/07/02/can-cap-and-trade-pass-the-senate/</link>
		<comments>http://pundits.thehill.com/2009/07/02/can-cap-and-trade-pass-the-senate/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2009 14:28:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>A.B. Stoddard</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Energy &amp; Environment]]></category>

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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://pundits.thehill.com/?p=6617</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Much has been said about the ability of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) to pass the cap-and-trade bill she had staked her reputation on. It was quite a feat indeed, as our terrific reporting team described in The Hill, following the vote.
Rep. Patrick Kennedy (D-R.I.) was pulled out of rehab; Rep. John Lewis (D-Ga.) dragged [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How the Palin Phenomenon Will Change American Politics</title>
		<link>http://pundits.thehill.com/2009/07/02/how-the-palin-phenomenon-will-change-american-politics/</link>
		<comments>http://pundits.thehill.com/2009/07/02/how-the-palin-phenomenon-will-change-american-politics/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2009 14:22:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bernie Quigley</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[State &amp; Local Politics]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[When Vanity Fair this month attempted to institutionalize the anti-Palin mnemonic slander into a regular New York City zeitgeist, it bounced off the wall again as it did with Letterman. William Kristol, the most influential commentator and editor of The Weekly Standard, responded and the Palin Phenomenon is now at the heart of Republican politics.
The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Just Shut Up</title>
		<link>http://pundits.thehill.com/2009/07/01/just-shut-up/</link>
		<comments>http://pundits.thehill.com/2009/07/01/just-shut-up/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2009 15:12:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Armstrong Williams</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[State &amp; Local Politics]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://pundits.thehill.com/?p=6613</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford (R) confessed to more extramarital affairs yesterday during a live national press conference as new information came out pointing up more suspicious behavior. Could someone just please ask the governor to shut up and continue the business of governing his state?
By now one would think Sanford would want to move [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tom Daschle, Bellwether</title>
		<link>http://pundits.thehill.com/2009/07/01/tom-daschle-bellwether/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2009 14:25:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>A.B. Stoddard</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Healthcare]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://pundits.thehill.com/?p=6611</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[To take stock of the true trajectory of support for a public option within the Democratic forces behind healthcare reform, one should look no further than Tom Daschle.
The former senator from South Dakota — who was supposed to become President Obama's secretary of Health and Human Services but who withdrew from contention when his unpaid [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sam’s Army &#038; the Green Party</title>
		<link>http://pundits.thehill.com/2009/07/01/sam%e2%80%99s-army-the-green-party/</link>
		<comments>http://pundits.thehill.com/2009/07/01/sam%e2%80%99s-army-the-green-party/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2009 12:08:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Terence Kane</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[National Party News]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Sports &amp; Entertainment]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://pundits.thehill.com/?p=6609</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Over this past weekend, while watching the U.S. soccer team lose a gut-wrenching Confederations Cup final to the Samba Boys of Brazil, I had a strange insight: that being a U.S. Soccer fan is a lot like being a member of a third political party. I can only claim knowledge of what it’s like to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Franken Wins</title>
		<link>http://pundits.thehill.com/2009/07/01/franken-wins/</link>
		<comments>http://pundits.thehill.com/2009/07/01/franken-wins/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2009 12:04:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill Press</dc:creator>
		
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://pundits.thehill.com/?p=6607</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[It only took 239 days, but Al Franken is finally and officially the new Democratic senator from Minnesota.
And now comes the moment of truth for Senate Democrats: Are they willing and able to lead?
For too long, Democrats have been hiding behind the lame excuse that they needed 60 votes to get anything done in the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Siding with Chavez?</title>
		<link>http://pundits.thehill.com/2009/06/30/siding-with-chavez/</link>
		<comments>http://pundits.thehill.com/2009/06/30/siding-with-chavez/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2009 19:30:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Feehery</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Foreign Policy]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[International Affairs]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://pundits.thehill.com/?p=6605</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I wonder if President Obama feels comfortable siding with Hugo Chavez.
Chavez, who knows something about coups, is leading the opposition to the Honduran Coup, because his good buddy, Manuel Zelaya, was ousted by the military and replaced by somebody from his own political party.
Zelaya’s crime was to listen too closely to Mr. Chavez and try [...]]]></description>
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