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		<title>Are You So Sure That Democrats Will Lose Big This November?</title>
		<link>http://press.take88.com/are-you-so-sure-that-democrats-will-lose-big-this-november/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 02 May 2010 14:40:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>keith</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I for one have never believed that the Democrats are going to get their asses handed to them this November.

But if you watch Fox News, MSNBC, CNN or read the New York Times, Washington Post or consume any political news analysis, you've being assured that Democrats will in fact lose seats in the Senate and the House this November.]]></description>
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		<title>Mitch McConnell&#8217;s Lying Oily Smarmy Face Makes Me Downright Punchy</title>
		<link>http://press.take88.com/mitch-mcconnells-lying-oily-smarmy-face-makes-me-downright-punchy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Apr 2010 13:12:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>keith</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://press.take88.com/?p=2288</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[When I hear Mitch McConnell (R-Ky) speak I want choke him. I&#8217;m not necessarily a violent person, but when I see McConnell&#8217;s greasy white face on TV I want to punch him in the throat. The Senate minority leader is the current GOP hitman. It&#8217;s his job to lead the attack to kill every bill <a href='http://press.take88.com/mitch-mcconnells-lying-oily-smarmy-face-makes-me-downright-punchy/'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Paul Krugman: Financial Reform 101</title>
		<link>http://press.take88.com/paul-krugman-financial-reform-101/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Apr 2010 16:01:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>keith</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://press.take88.com/?p=2170</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Regulating the health insurance was a big effing deal, but reigning in the the banks is arguably far more critical to US economic stability. As usual, Economist Paul Krugman is your guide to all things economic, and today he broke down financial reform in simple and easy to understand terms. There are three groups of <a href='http://press.take88.com/paul-krugman-financial-reform-101/'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Why the Tea Party Will Fail</title>
		<link>http://press.take88.com/why-the-tea-party-will-fail/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Apr 2010 21:02:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>keith</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://press.take88.com/?p=2165</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The Tea Partiers will fail because for them to succeed we would need to shred the US Constitution and start over. That would require a revolution, and that&#8217;s not going to happen. You just have to examine what they stand for. They claim to be strict constitutionalists, but they can&#8217;t stop screaming that what Democrats <a href='http://press.take88.com/why-the-tea-party-will-fail/'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Media Matters for America&#8217;s Eric Boehlert: The Conservative Nervous Breakdown</title>
		<link>http://press.take88.com/media-matters-for-americas-eric-boehlert-the-conservative-nervous-breakdown/</link>
		<comments>http://press.take88.com/media-matters-for-americas-eric-boehlert-the-conservative-nervous-breakdown/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Mar 2010 17:10:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>keith</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://press.take88.com/?p=2125</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I hate cable news. At least 99 percent of all cable news is a bag of throwaway garbage that serves no purpose other than to confuse, distract, misinform and stink up the room. The same can be said about talk radio. It&#8217;s not that broadcasting can&#8217;t be used to inform and educate the populous, sometimes <a href='http://press.take88.com/media-matters-for-americas-eric-boehlert-the-conservative-nervous-breakdown/'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Conservatives Ratchet Up Calls for Violence Against Democrats Who Voted For Health Care Reform</title>
		<link>http://press.take88.com/conservatives-ratchet-up-calls-to-violence-against-democrats-who-voted-for-health-care-reform/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Mar 2010 17:11:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>keith</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://press.take88.com/?p=2102</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Take Steve Driehaus, for example,&#8221; Rep. John Boehner (R-OH) said. &#8220;He may be a dead man. He can’t go home to the west side of Cincinnati.&#8221; That was Boehner last week. Since then, Driehaus (D-OH) did vote for health care reform and he&#8217;s had several threats against his life. Photos of his children have been <a href='http://press.take88.com/conservatives-ratchet-up-calls-to-violence-against-democrats-who-voted-for-health-care-reform/'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Critical Thinking by Frances Moore Lappé</title>
		<link>http://press.take88.com/critical-thinking-by-frances-moore-lappe/</link>
		<comments>http://press.take88.com/critical-thinking-by-frances-moore-lappe/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Mar 2010 13:33:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>keith</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://press.take88.com/?p=2078</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Too many Americans either don't know or don't like to think critically. It's much more comfortable to just know what you know and that's that. But critical thinking isn't an optional component of living in a civilized society - it's vital.

That's why you need to read Frances Moore Lappé's story "Let's Drop the Good Guys vs. Bad Guys Talk, We Need to Grow Up as a Species."]]></description>
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		<title>President Obama Takes Questions from Senate Democrats (Transcript and Video)</title>
		<link>http://press.take88.com/president-obama-takes-questions-from-senate-democrats/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Feb 2010 02:35:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>gnunews</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://press.take88.com/?p=1435</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[This is a complete transcript and the full video of President Obama's meeting with Senate Democrats on Feb. 3, 2010. The transcript was provided by the White House and downloaded from WhiteHouse.gov at approximately 11:15 a.m. Eastern on Feb. 4, 2010]]></description>
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		<title>Former Democratic Vice Presidential Candidate Joe Lieberman: Medicare Buy-in Gone</title>
		<link>http://press.take88.com/former-democratic-vice-presidential-candidate-joe-lieberman-medicare-buy-in-gone/</link>
		<comments>http://press.take88.com/former-democratic-vice-presidential-candidate-joe-lieberman-medicare-buy-in-gone/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Dec 2009 15:55:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>gnunews</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://press.take88.com/?p=1300</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Joe Lieberman has forced his will on the Senate Democratic caucus and the nation as a whole. After the party reached a compromise last week to effectively drop the public option in exchange for allowing 55- to 64-year-olds to buy into Medicare, that compromise is now in doubt.]]></description>
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		<title>Baucus bill still looks like a pile of crap</title>
		<link>http://press.take88.com/baucus-bill-still-looks-like-a-pile-of-crap/</link>
		<comments>http://press.take88.com/baucus-bill-still-looks-like-a-pile-of-crap/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Oct 2009 18:35:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>gnunews</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://press.take88.com/?p=923</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Last night the Senate Finance Committee worked until 2 a.m. this morning to vote on all of the remaining amendments to the Baucus bill. Unfortunately, aside from some minor tweaking, the bill still looks like a huge pile of steaming horse manure.]]></description>
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		<title>Is the public option dead?</title>
		<link>http://press.take88.com/is-the-public-option-dead/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Sep 2009 04:22:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>gnunews</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://press.take88.com/?p=837</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The Countdown on MSNBC reported some interesting poll numbers about the attitude of voters regarding the support for health care reform, a public option and what's motivating Republican opposition.]]></description>
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		<title>New York Times editorial, the time for bipartisan health care reform is over</title>
		<link>http://press.take88.com/new-york-times-editorial-the-time-for-bipartisan-health-care-reform-is-over/</link>
		<comments>http://press.take88.com/new-york-times-editorial-the-time-for-bipartisan-health-care-reform-is-over/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 30 Aug 2009 06:35:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>keith</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://press.take88.com/?p=609</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The New York Times ran an editorial calling for Democrats to abandon any hope of Republican support for health care reform. Screw the super-majority necessary to stop a filibuster, the Democrats need to go it alone. ]]></description>
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		<title>Will Obama become the first one-term black president?</title>
		<link>http://press.take88.com/obama-the-first-one-term-black-president/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Aug 2009 21:58:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>gnunews</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://press.take88.com/?p=302</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The last time the Republican party was this disseminated, disorganized and dysfunctional was 1974 when Richard Nixon resigned following the Watergate scandal. I was too young to remember &#8211; only five days old when Nixon&#8217;s crew broke into that Democratic National Committee office &#8211; but I&#8217;m going to guess that Americans were sick of Republicans <a href='http://press.take88.com/obama-the-first-one-term-black-president/'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>More on the moronic &#8220;death panel&#8221; debate with Keith Olbermann</title>
		<link>http://press.take88.com/more-on-the-moronic-death-panel-debate-from-keith-olbermann/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Aug 2009 17:21:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>gnunews</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://press.take88.com/?p=274</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The alleged debate over "death panels" that was started by Sarah Palin has resulted in legislative action. Apparently, Congress has removed a provision from the health care reform bills that would allow doctors to be reimbursed for end-of-life consultations. While there's no evidence that this provision had anything to do with "death panels," Congress continues to buckle under the pressure of Republican propaganda. Here's a story Keith Olbermann did last night on this issue all-too-familiar scenario of Democrats caving.]]></description>
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