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		<title>&#8220;Very Troubling&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Justice John Roberts comment regarding President Obamas remarks about the Citizens United case which allows corporations to buy candidates:
                  &#8221;very troubling&#8221;
White House response:
                    &#8220;What is troubling is that this decision opened the floodgates for corporations and special interests to pour money into elections &#8211; drowning out the voices of average Americans,&#8221;
Nuff said
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		<link>http://www.progresspolitics.com/2010/03/very-troubling/</link>
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		<title>GOP Hypocrisy Watch:  Sarah Palin &#8220;hustle&#8221;[d] to Canada for health care and GOP anti-gay rights Crusader admits &#8220;I&#8217;m gay&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Have some members of the Republican party no shame?  Sarah Palin, anti-government controlled health care advocate, admitted during a recent speech in Canada that her family took advantage of Canadian medical care while living in a small Alaskan town near Whitehorse ,Canada.
My first five years of life we spent in Skagway, Alaska, right there by Whitehorse. Believe it or [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.progresspolitics.com/2010/03/gop-hypocrisy-watch-sarah-palin-hustles-to-canada-for-health-care-and-gop-anti-gay-rights-crusader-admits-im-gay/</link>
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		<title>President Obama Weekly Address: Benefits of Health Care Reform &#8211; 3/6/10 (Video)</title>
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		<link>http://www.progresspolitics.com/2010/03/president-obama-weekly-address-benefits-of-health-care-reform-3610-video/</link>
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		<title>Jon Stewart calls out Fox News</title>
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The Daily Show With Jon Stewart
Mon &#8211; Thurs 11p / 10c


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		<link>http://www.progresspolitics.com/2010/03/jon-stewart-calls-out-fox-news/</link>
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		<title>Elizabeth Warren makes her case for the Consumer Financial Protection Agency: &#8220;No cop on the beat works for the biggest bullies in town.&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Elizabeth Warren, TARP watchdog,  gives a few words of wisdom regarding the Consumer Financial Protection Agency so-called &#8220;compromise&#8221; currently being discussed in the Senate.  In an recent interview Warren said the following: &#8220;[m]y first choice is a strong consumer agency,&#8221; the Harvard Law professor and federal bailout watchdog said &#8220;[m]y second choice is no agency at [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.progresspolitics.com/2010/03/elizabeth-warren-makes-her-case-for-the-consumer-financial-protection-agency-no-cop-on-the-beat-works-for-the-biggest-bullies-in-town/</link>
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		<title>Senators Mark Warner and Jim Webb, the Public Option is more popular in Virginia then you are!!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Senators Jim Webb and Mark Warner are the two centrist Democratic senators of Virginia and their silence on the public option reflects it even though the majority of Virginia voters disapprove of such silence.  The disapproval ratings for Sens. Webb and Warner&#8217;s handling of health care is 52 and50 percent respectively according to a new poll conducted by Research 2000.
Virginia [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.progresspolitics.com/2010/03/senators-mark-warner-and-jim-webb-the-public-option-is-more-popular-then-you-are-in-virginia/</link>
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		<title>HEY GOP&#8230;&#8230;.Reconciliation is NOT BEING USED to pass the Senate bill, the SENATE bill has already passed with a SUPERMAJORITY OF 60 votes last December!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Will someone please tell the Republican party that the Senate version of the Health Care Reform bill was passed on December 24, 2009.  Reconciliation is only being used to amend a bill that has already been passed by the Senate with a 60 vote supermajority.  So all of these end of the world proclamations by [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.progresspolitics.com/2010/03/gop-reconciliation-is-not-being-used-to-pass-the-senate-bill-the-senate-bill-has-already-been-passed-with-a-supermajority-of-60-votes-last-december/</link>
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		<title>GOP Obfuscations and Omissions on parade even after being expertly Refuted by the President</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The GOP was out in full force on the Sunday talk shows pushing the same stale talking points that they have been pushing for the last year.  This bill is too big, start over, increased premiums BLAH, BLAH, BLAH.  We caught the recently annointed GOP fiscal wonder boy Rep. Paul Ryan of Wisconsin on Fox News [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.progresspolitics.com/2010/03/gop-obfuscations-and-omissions-on-parade-even-after-being-expertly-refuted-by-the-president/</link>
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		<title>President Obama Weekly Address:  Health Care Reform, the Resilience of an Olympian &#8211; 2/27/10 (Video)</title>
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		<link>http://www.progresspolitics.com/2010/03/president-obama-weekly-address-health-care-reform-the-resilience-of-an-olympian-22710-video/</link>
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		<title>Reality Check from the President to the GOP</title>
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The President exposed just how disconnected the Republican party is from the average American in the following exchange with Sen. John Barasso:
Obama: &#8220;Would you be satisfied if every member of Congress just had catastrophic care &#8211; you think we&#8217;d be better health care purchasers?&#8221;
Barrasso: &#8220;I think actually we would &#8230; We&#8217;d really focus on it. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.progresspolitics.com/2010/02/reality-check-from-the-president-to-the-gop/</link>
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		<title>Health Insurance Antitrust Exemption&#8230;..REPEAL IT!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[One of the better Congressmen on the hill Rep. Tom Perriello (VA &#8211; 5th) is responsible for has proposed the passage of a simple two page bill that would remove the antitrust exemption that allows health insurance companies to collude and prevent competitors from entering the the health insurance market.  UPDATE:  The bill passed with a vote of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.progresspolitics.com/2010/02/health-insurance-antitrust-exemption-repeal-it/</link>
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		<title>President Obama&#8217;s Health Care Reform Plan</title>
		<description><![CDATA[An outline of the President&#8217;s health care plan:
From the White House Blog
The proposal will make health care more affordable, make health insurers more accountable, expand health coverage to all Americans, and make the health system sustainable, stabilizing family budgets, the Federal budget, and the economy: 

It makes insurance more affordable by providing the largest middle class [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.progresspolitics.com/2010/02/president-obamas-health-care-reform-plan/</link>
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		<title>Credit Cardholders Bill of Rights Second Phase IN EFFECT TODAY!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[New credit cardholder rules as affecting the consumer summarized by the Associated Press :
INTEREST RATES
THEN: Banks could raise the interest rate on an account at any time, including the rate on an existing balances, even if you weren&#8217;t late on payments.
NOW: The rate cannot be raised in the first year after an account is opened unless [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.progresspolitics.com/2010/02/credit-cardholders-bill-of-rights-second-phase-in-effect-today/</link>
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		<title>Public Option still Most Popular</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Public option more popular in key states than the Senate bill:
* In Nevada, only 34% support the Senate bill, while 56% support the public option.
* In Illinois, only 37% support the Senate bill, while 68% support the public option.
* In Washington State, only 38% support the Senate bill, while 65% support the public option.
* In [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.progresspolitics.com/2010/02/public-option-still-most-popular/</link>
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		<title>Republican radio talk show host Michael Smerconish Switches to Independent</title>
		<description><![CDATA[One Republican who is fed up with the Republican Party is long time conservative radio talk show host Michael Smerconish:
I&#8217;m not sure if I left the Republican Party or the party left me. All I know is that I no longer feel comfortable.
The national GOP is a party of exclusion and litmus tests, dominated on [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.progresspolitics.com/2010/02/republican-radio-talk-show-host-michael-smerconish-switches-to-independent/</link>
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		<title>President Obama Weekly Address: Prices, Premiums, Health Care &#8211; 2/20/09 (Video)</title>
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		<link>http://www.progresspolitics.com/2010/02/president-obama-weekly-address-prices-premiums-health-care-22009-video/</link>
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		<title>UPDATE: Senators For the Public Option through Reconciliation&#8230;How about yours?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The majority of Americans want a public option so why is the the Senate determined not to give the public what it wants?  Especially when it makes good fiscal sense, given the recent premium rate hikes of 39% CA and a proposed 54% in Michigan by Big Insurance, to do so?  Senators and House members should [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.progresspolitics.com/2010/02/senators-for-the-public-option-through-reconciliation-how-about-yours/</link>
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		<title>Plouffe is Back Baby!  Take a look at what we found in our inbox from David Plouffe</title>
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A crisp clean graphic that defeats every claim by the GOP that the Recovery Act did&#8217;t create jobs.
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		<link>http://www.progresspolitics.com/2010/02/plouffe-is-back-baby-take-a-look-at-what-we-found-in-our-inbox-from-david-plouffe/</link>
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