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		<title>Health care is making me sick</title>
		<link>http://blog.smartmemes.com/2010/03/health-care-is-making-me-sick/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Mar 2010 00:44:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris J. Miller</dc:creator>
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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>The Baucus bill looks to be DOA</title>
		<link>http://blog.smartmemes.com/2009/09/the-baucus-bill-looks-to-be-doa/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Sep 2009 17:42:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris J. Miller</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[(And thank heaven for that.)
So Sen. Max Baucus&#8217;s Finance Committee has finally released a health care &#8220;reform&#8221; bill, months after every other committee charged with the task. (Or a &#8220;Chairman&#8217;s Mark&#8221; version of one, at least—i.e., something actually readable by laymen [pdf]).
The predictable result? It&#8217;s awful. Any Democrat who would vote for a bill that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Obama&#8217;s speech and the &#8220;reset button&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://blog.smartmemes.com/2009/09/obamas-speech-and-the-reset-button/</link>
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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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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.smartmemes.com/?p=1675</guid>
		<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>Some thoughts on health care and hypocrisy</title>
		<link>http://blog.smartmemes.com/2009/08/some-thoughts-on-health-care-and-hypocrisy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Aug 2009 04:53:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris J. Miller</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[One could go on at literally exhaustive length about the ins and outs of the current &#8220;health care debate&#8221; in Washington, but I&#8217;ll try to avoid that. The media and the blogosphere have provided a constant play-by-play in terms of both substantive policy and, even more, political strategy. (Jonathan Chait at TNR has been particularly [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Judiciary Committee covers itself in glory</title>
		<link>http://blog.smartmemes.com/2009/07/the-judiciary-committee-covers-itself-in-glory/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Jul 2009 06:42:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris J. Miller</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The GOP Senators questioning Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor must have a truly remarkable tolerance for making themselves look like condescending, hypocritical jackasses in public.
I haven&#8217;t followed the hearings at length—I don&#8217;t have the constitution for that kind of self-abuse—but what I have seen and heard is remarkable enough.
It&#8217;s amazing to see men who clearly [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The politics of paranoia and paralogia</title>
		<link>http://blog.smartmemes.com/2009/05/the-politics-of-paranoia-and-paralogia/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 May 2009 02:44:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris J. Miller</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.smartmemes.com/?p=1336</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Where did we leave off? 
I was writing about the difficulty of finding something meaningful to say in the wake of all the full-time, professional political bloggers out there. Too often I feel like I&#8217;m just offering a synthesis of what others have said, rather than any new insight.
Perhaps I&#8217;m holding myself to an arbitrarily high [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The politics of torture, secrecy, and extortion</title>
		<link>http://blog.smartmemes.com/2009/05/the-politics-of-torture-secrecy-and-extortion/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.smartmemes.com/2009/05/the-politics-of-torture-secrecy-and-extortion/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 22 May 2009 11:36:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris J. Miller</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.smartmemes.com/?p=1189</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[My recent posts on Star Trek brought me more readers than anything else I&#8217;ve written in months, but unfortunately I don&#8217;t have anything new to say about that right now.
My posts about politics, by contrast, usually draw markedly less traffic than the ones about pop culture. Nevertheless, I enjoy the topic, and certainly don&#8217;t intend [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Attack dog Cheney</title>
		<link>http://blog.smartmemes.com/2009/05/attack-dog-cheney/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 May 2009 20:57:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris J. Miller</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dick Cheney&#8217;s been all over the mass media lately, defending the past administration&#8217;s record on torture in interviews on Sunday talk shows like &#8220;Face the Nation&#8221; and on Fox News, and in speeches at friendly venues like the American Enterprise Institute. When media outlets aren&#8217;t talking to him they&#8217;re talking about him, in numerous &#8220;think [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Specter of change</title>
		<link>http://blog.smartmemes.com/2009/04/the-specter-of-change/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Apr 2009 19:39:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris J. Miller</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My immediate reaction yesterday when I heard the news report that Sen. Arlen Specter had changed his party affiliation from (R) to (D):  a shouted &#8220;Yes!&#8221; and a fist pump. 
Beyond that, almost everything has already been said in the media whirlwind of the last 24 hours, but I thought I&#8217;d share a little personal perspective [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The state of the job market</title>
		<link>http://blog.smartmemes.com/2009/04/the-state-of-the-job-market/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.smartmemes.com/2009/04/the-state-of-the-job-market/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 25 Apr 2009 21:20:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris J. Miller</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Personal anecdote time here. Unemployment is much in the news these days. And as I&#8217;ve mentioned once or twice, I&#8217;ve been on the job market for a while now, looking for full-time work in the nonprofit sector. I try not to dwell on it. I did a little tallying-up today, though, and determined that since last [...]]]></description>
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