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		<title>Obama&#8217;s Supreme Court: still drifting to the right</title>
		<link>http://blog.smartmemes.com/2010/05/obamas-supreme-court-still-drifting-to-the-right/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 May 2010 22:12:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris J. Miller</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Why? Why does a presidential administration that came into office on the diligent labor and fervent hopes of progressives continue to send progressives the message that it doesn&#8217;t need them, indeed that it doesn&#8217;t even care what they think, that their principles and passions are nothing more than chips to be bargained away as evidence [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Health care is making me sick</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Mar 2010 00:44:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As the health care reform debate enters what appears to be the home stretch (albeit not for the first time), what Washington is offering us (the citizenry) boils down to a choice between bad and worse. The legislation now under consideration, both the Senate bill and the slight variation on same presented as &#8220;Obama&#8217;s bill,&#8221; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Obama&#8217;s speech and the &#8220;reset button&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Sep 2009 04:13:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris J. Miller</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So, where did I leave off?
&#8230;That&#8217;s right, there was a speech Wednesday night. A pretty significant one, in fact, for reasons I described at some length.
What of it, then?
I can&#8217;t deny that it was a very, very good speech. Rhetorically powerful. And yet, what it says about the direction of health care policy, and thus [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Uncertainty, Obama, and the nagging voice of cynicism</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Sep 2009 04:39:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris J. Miller</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[August is a strange season in politics. In the final weeks of summer last year, we had the incredible (and incredibly short-lived) public buzz surrounding Sarah Palin, before people realized she just used those glasses for looks, not reading. This year&#8217;s dog days brought us hordes of astroturf Teabagger Republicans demonstrating that they think public [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Summing up the critique of Obama</title>
		<link>http://blog.smartmemes.com/2009/07/summing-up-the-critique-of-obama/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Jul 2009 02:14:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris J. Miller</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The New Republic isn&#8217;t the place to look for progressive opinion these days (especially on matter of foreign policy), but every once in a while it does offer a reminder of why it used to be considered a liberal magazine. Most recently, TNR&#8217;s Ed Kilgore produced quite possibly the best and most succinct summary to [...]]]></description>
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