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	<title>SmartRemarks &#187; Senate</title>
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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>It&#8217;s like Congress is being tested</title>
		<link>http://blog.smartmemes.com/2010/05/its-like-congress-is-being-tested/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 08 May 2010 16:22:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris J. Miller</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Just a quick observation prompted by events in recent weeks. These events are unrelated, yet they form a pattern. Together, they put Washington on the hot seat and shine a spotlight on its (questionable) ability to act in the public interest.
Specifically, if&#8230;
&#8230;despite an offshore oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico so devastating that it&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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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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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.smartmemes.com/?p=1814</guid>
		<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>Things that make your jaw drop</title>
		<link>http://blog.smartmemes.com/2009/10/things-that-make-your-jaw-drop/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Oct 2009 19:25:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris J. Miller</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.smartmemes.com/?p=1788</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been preoccupied with other affairs lately, and haven&#8217;t been much inclined to write blog entries, as the date stamp will attest. However, sometimes events crop up in ways that just demand to be shared and commented upon.
Two news stories this week converged (at least in my mind) to compel the question:  just how do [...]]]></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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		<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>Franken heads to the Senate!</title>
		<link>http://blog.smartmemes.com/2009/07/franken-heads-to-the-senate/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2009 21:18:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris J. Miller</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Finally. After six months of tedious delay, Al Franken will be sworn in to the U.S. Senate seat once held by Paul Wellstone. The fact that he beat incumbent Norm Coleman (albeit by the slenderest of margins, roughly 0.01%) was confirmed unanimously by the Minnesota Supreme Court, Coleman finally conceded the inevitable, and Gov. Tim [...]]]></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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