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	<title>There Is No Plan &#187; Congress</title>
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		<title>Why Isn&#8217;t Obama Giggling at GOP Healthcare Repeal?</title>
		<link>http://www.thereisnoplan.com/2011/01/17/why-isnt-obama-giggling-at-gop-healthcare-repeal/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Jan 2011 05:47:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>coolrebel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[After a short, and barely respectable lull in their nasty &#8216;rhetoric&#8217;, the GOP is once more gearing up to repeal Obama&#8217;s Healthcare overhaul in the House. Nobody seems to notice that the Senate spent a year watering the current law down to weak tea, but still has a Democratic majority, and that sitting in the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Welcome to the Bullshit Era</title>
		<link>http://www.thereisnoplan.com/2010/01/28/welcome-to-the-bullshit-era/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thereisnoplan.com/2010/01/28/welcome-to-the-bullshit-era/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Jan 2010 03:57:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>coolrebel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the old days, policy used to have at least some potential to become reality, but it&#8217;s becoming increasingly clear that in America at least, those days are over. Nothing anybody seems to suggest from the President on downwards seems to mean a hill of beans anymore. It&#8217;s as if the country is set on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Obama goes from Spock to Kirk in one speech.</title>
		<link>http://www.thereisnoplan.com/2010/01/28/obama-goes-from-spock-to-kirk-in-one-speech/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thereisnoplan.com/2010/01/28/obama-goes-from-spock-to-kirk-in-one-speech/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Jan 2010 18:30:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>coolrebel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[But is it too late? Last night, Barack Obama finally put the hurt on the Republicans. Listening to Senator John Kyl&#8217;s floundering and blustering at the State of the Union address shows that it clearly hit home. Obama did what he had to do. He diverted blame for the economic shit sandwich firmly to the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Time to Mothball the White House and Go On The Road, Mr. President</title>
		<link>http://www.thereisnoplan.com/2010/01/26/time-to-mothball-the-white-house/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thereisnoplan.com/2010/01/26/time-to-mothball-the-white-house/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Jan 2010 04:11:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>coolrebel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[People are mad as hell and they&#8217;re not going to take it anymore. Which is about as close to coherence as the populist groundswell is likely to get. The President&#8217;s failure to get ahead of the tidal wave has really hurt him. His Spock-like reasonableness has not served him well. His soaring rhetoric is falling [...]]]></description>
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		<title>AIG. Was the Bailout From Hell a Mistake?</title>
		<link>http://www.thereisnoplan.com/2009/03/19/aig-was-the-bailout-from-hell-a-mistake/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Mar 2009 09:57:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>coolrebel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The word du jour right now is &#8220;rathole&#8221;, a rather ugly expletive that equates to plughole, drain, succubus, and other such unpleasantries. It may however be too polite a phrase for what is going on right now with the bailout of AIG, the government&#8217;s new pet project that looks like it&#8217;s going to hand the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Now It&#8217;s Up to the Democratic Congress to Step Up</title>
		<link>http://www.thereisnoplan.com/2009/02/27/now-its-up-to-the-democratic-congress-to-step-up/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thereisnoplan.com/2009/02/27/now-its-up-to-the-democratic-congress-to-step-up/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Feb 2009 16:54:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>coolrebel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In 1993 Clinton arrived on a heady wave of enthusiasm, dedicated to undoing some of the excesses of Reaganism. He made a few stumbles, he announced a sweeping healthcare initiative and he got nowhere. There are many reasons for his failure. The sheer newness of the administration, presentation issues, and this &#8211; he got very [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Obama &#8211; The Time to be Unpopular is Now</title>
		<link>http://www.thereisnoplan.com/2009/01/28/obama-the-time-to-be-unpopular-is-now/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thereisnoplan.com/2009/01/28/obama-the-time-to-be-unpopular-is-now/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Jan 2009 00:03:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>coolrebel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Obama is all about popularity. But he forgets that popularity is least important after you&#8217;ve just won an election. He went out of his way to court the GOP on his stimulus bill, and despite an awful lot of bipartisan BS, not one voted knuckle-dragger for it. For a President apparently more politically savvy than [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Obama is Using Rick Warren and That&#8217;s Smart</title>
		<link>http://www.thereisnoplan.com/2008/12/18/obama-is-using-rick-warren-and-thats-smart/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thereisnoplan.com/2008/12/18/obama-is-using-rick-warren-and-thats-smart/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Dec 2008 21:25:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>coolrebel</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://thereisnoplan.wordpress.com/?p=638</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Rick Warren is a more agreeable and far smarter version of Focus on the Family&#8217;s repugnant James Dobson. If you&#8217;re going to try and turn the country into some kind of boring Christian nation, you don&#8217;t harangue people to do it, like Dobson. You have to jolly them towards the Rapture, with a Starbucks latte [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Senate. Some Want Out and Some Even Want In.</title>
		<link>http://www.thereisnoplan.com/2008/12/10/the-senate-some-want-out-and-some-even-want-in/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thereisnoplan.com/2008/12/10/the-senate-some-want-out-and-some-even-want-in/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Dec 2008 05:39:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>coolrebel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s been a busy few weeks in the Senate. Apart from the few Republicans that got beat in the November election, other Senators are leaving of their own accord. Headlined by Barack Obama himself, his Vice President, Joe Biden, his Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton are all shipping out. Others like Chuck Hagel had had [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ford + GM Have Been Making Small Cars For Years. In Europe.</title>
		<link>http://www.thereisnoplan.com/2008/12/03/ford-gm-have-been-making-small-cars-for-years-in-europe/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Dec 2008 16:37:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>coolrebel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Recognize these? The one on the left is a Ford Ka, the one on the right is GM Vauxhall Corsa. Small, good-looking, low cost, not at all thirsty, and sold in Europe for years. Ford and GM during their latest congressional grovel sessions, said they&#8217;d tool up to produce small cars in the US. Great [...]]]></description>
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