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		<title>By: gstockman</title>
		<link>http://firedoglake.com/2007/12/07/the-republicans-fiscal-madness/#comment-1137128</link>
		<dc:creator>gstockman</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Dec 2007 15:54:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;p&gt;If the 88-5 vote quoted is correct, then it’s not just Republican Fiscal Madness.  It’s ok to be partisan, but you can’t forego accuracy or you’ll just be another faux news source for me.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>If the 88-5 vote quoted is correct, then it’s not just Republican Fiscal Madness.  It’s ok to be partisan, but you can’t forego accuracy or you’ll just be another faux news source for me.</p>
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		<title>By: Prairie Sunshine</title>
		<link>http://firedoglake.com/2007/12/07/the-republicans-fiscal-madness/#comment-1137113</link>
		<dc:creator>Prairie Sunshine</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Dec 2007 15:35:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;p&gt;More on the money…&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/07/business/07drug.html?_r=1&amp;adxnnl=1&amp;oref=slogin&amp;ref=business&amp;adxnnlx=1197041179-gh+rl3wNCvOKIUl18NVnfA&quot;&gt;medicare cutting payments&lt;/a&gt; for cancer treatments.  NYT has this story.  We’re a CLL survivor household, the same family as NHL [non-Hodgkins lymphoma].  More BushCo government–of the powerful, by the powerful, for the powerful–ordinary Americans need not apply?&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Cut, cut, cut for the middle class to fatten the pockets of the uber-class.  Treat ordinary Americans as expendable expenses lest the big boys taxes get raised…. at least Huckabee was on the right track recognizing that it’s not tax-and-spend, it’s tax-and-invest.  In each of our futures, in America’s future.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Universal healthcare.  Another area of opportunity for the War on Greed.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>More on the money…<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/07/business/07drug.html?_r=1&amp;adxnnl=1&amp;oref=slogin&amp;ref=business&amp;adxnnlx=1197041179-gh+rl3wNCvOKIUl18NVnfA">medicare cutting payments</a> for cancer treatments.  NYT has this story.  We’re a CLL survivor household, the same family as NHL [non-Hodgkins lymphoma].  More BushCo government–of the powerful, by the powerful, for the powerful–ordinary Americans need not apply?</p>
<p>Cut, cut, cut for the middle class to fatten the pockets of the uber-class.  Treat ordinary Americans as expendable expenses lest the big boys taxes get raised…. at least Huckabee was on the right track recognizing that it’s not tax-and-spend, it’s tax-and-invest.  In each of our futures, in America’s future.</p>
<p>Universal healthcare.  Another area of opportunity for the War on Greed.</p>
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		<title>By: selise</title>
		<link>http://firedoglake.com/2007/12/07/the-republicans-fiscal-madness/#comment-1137103</link>
		<dc:creator>selise</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Dec 2007 15:27:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;p&gt;mass direct action nation-wide between now and the Democratic convention&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;that, i would love to see.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<blockquote><p>mass direct action nation-wide between now and the Democratic convention</p>
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<p>that, i would love to see.</p>
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		<title>By: bluejeansntshirt</title>
		<link>http://firedoglake.com/2007/12/07/the-republicans-fiscal-madness/#comment-1137097</link>
		<dc:creator>bluejeansntshirt</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Dec 2007 15:26:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;p&gt;selise @ 85: Wish you coulda too. We’ll grow and do it again.&lt;br /&gt;
raven @ 86: Snark away. NYC pups can take it ;-)&lt;br /&gt;
Waccamaw @ 95: Definitely no wizardry here. Just happy I can link again.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>selise @ 85: Wish you coulda too. We’ll grow and do it again.<br />
raven @ 86: Snark away. NYC pups can take it ;-)<br />
Waccamaw @ 95: Definitely no wizardry here. Just happy I can link again.</p>
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		<title>By: cinnamonape</title>
		<link>http://firedoglake.com/2007/12/07/the-republicans-fiscal-madness/#comment-1137092</link>
		<dc:creator>cinnamonape</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Dec 2007 15:23:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;p&gt;And it even turns out that the members of the Senate Intelligence Committee were even aware that the tapes existed. Republican Peter Hoekstra says that he wasn’t even aware of the tapes, that he was never notified about their existence. Apparently the first he heard about them was from the Media. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;So it sounds as if General Hayden is lying about notification, and the authorization to destroy. I’m betting that the whole argument that the tapes were destroyed because they were duplicative and merely would have allowed the identification of the &lt;strike&gt;torturers&lt;/strike&gt; interrogators is bulldada.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>And it even turns out that the members of the Senate Intelligence Committee were even aware that the tapes existed. Republican Peter Hoekstra says that he wasn’t even aware of the tapes, that he was never notified about their existence. Apparently the first he heard about them was from the Media. </p>
<p>So it sounds as if General Hayden is lying about notification, and the authorization to destroy. I’m betting that the whole argument that the tapes were destroyed because they were duplicative and merely would have allowed the identification of the <strike>torturers</strike> interrogators is bulldada.</p>
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		<title>By: NorskeFlamethrower</title>
		<link>http://firedoglake.com/2007/12/07/the-republicans-fiscal-madness/#comment-1137088</link>
		<dc:creator>NorskeFlamethrower</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Dec 2007 15:23:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;p&gt;1,688 DAYZ AND THE KILLIN’ GOEZ ON AND ON AND..&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Citizen Scarecrow and the Firepup Freedom Fighters:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;And it goes on and on and…how long before we start talkin’ about a civil war to restore democratic institutions and the idea of “rule of law” and create new mechanisms to institute economic as well as social justice in this country? I for one am NOT sanguine about the prospects of our system, in it’s present condition, bein’ able to respond to the crisis before us no matter the outcome of this next election unless the first 100 dayz of a new administration includes action to dismantle the corporate state and institute economic democracy.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;We’re in a tub a shit here…the fuckin’ polar ice caps are meltin’, we’re runnin outta both oil and water, our treasury is bankrupt and our tax base is too, we have no civilian controlled military left, our foreign embassies are dependant on corporate mercenaries for security and private corporate armies run uncontrolled through the streets of our largest cities.  Am I missin’ sumpthin’ or are we already a banana republic?!!&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;If anyone within sight of my words here thinks that we aren’t already in a revolutionary situation…well, I want whatever yer smokin’!!  I firmly believe that absent mass direct action nation-wide between now and the Democratic convention, we are NOT gunna have an election that changes the balance of political power enough to respond to the crises that confront us.  Lets call a spade a shovel here folks…the problem is corporate capitalism and  the only solution to this crisis is the dismantling of the corporate state as an alternative to elected democratic institutions.  And if ya think that the rulin’ oligarchy is gunna let sumpthin’ as mundane as a free election take power…well, you can’t be trusted with sharp objects or hot coffee!&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;KEEP THE FAITH AND PASS THE FUCKIN’ AMMUNITION, THE WAR HAS ALREADY STARTED, YA DON’T WANNA MISS IT!!&lt;/p&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>1,688 DAYZ AND THE KILLIN’ GOEZ ON AND ON AND..</p>
<p>Citizen Scarecrow and the Firepup Freedom Fighters:</p>
<p>And it goes on and on and…how long before we start talkin’ about a civil war to restore democratic institutions and the idea of “rule of law” and create new mechanisms to institute economic as well as social justice in this country? I for one am NOT sanguine about the prospects of our system, in it’s present condition, bein’ able to respond to the crisis before us no matter the outcome of this next election unless the first 100 dayz of a new administration includes action to dismantle the corporate state and institute economic democracy.</p>
<p>We’re in a tub a shit here…the fuckin’ polar ice caps are meltin’, we’re runnin outta both oil and water, our treasury is bankrupt and our tax base is too, we have no civilian controlled military left, our foreign embassies are dependant on corporate mercenaries for security and private corporate armies run uncontrolled through the streets of our largest cities.  Am I missin’ sumpthin’ or are we already a banana republic?!!</p>
<p>If anyone within sight of my words here thinks that we aren’t already in a revolutionary situation…well, I want whatever yer smokin’!!  I firmly believe that absent mass direct action nation-wide between now and the Democratic convention, we are NOT gunna have an election that changes the balance of political power enough to respond to the crises that confront us.  Lets call a spade a shovel here folks…the problem is corporate capitalism and  the only solution to this crisis is the dismantling of the corporate state as an alternative to elected democratic institutions.  And if ya think that the rulin’ oligarchy is gunna let sumpthin’ as mundane as a free election take power…well, you can’t be trusted with sharp objects or hot coffee!</p>
<p>KEEP THE FAITH AND PASS THE FUCKIN’ AMMUNITION, THE WAR HAS ALREADY STARTED, YA DON’T WANNA MISS IT!!</p>
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		<title>By: Biodun</title>
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		<dc:creator>Biodun</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Dec 2007 15:20:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;p&gt;People can still stay on this thread if they wish. As Rayne told me yesterday, FDL is now working toward multiple threads, so people can stay on or visit threads on topics of their interest. Or they can hop over to emptwheel or TBogg’s houses to visit. No need to relog in. This idea of house-hopping is great: Just in time for the holidays….&lt;/p&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>People can still stay on this thread if they wish. As Rayne told me yesterday, FDL is now working toward multiple threads, so people can stay on or visit threads on topics of their interest. Or they can hop over to emptwheel or TBogg’s houses to visit. No need to relog in. This idea of house-hopping is great: Just in time for the holidays….</p>
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		<title>By: kathieinmn</title>
		<link>http://firedoglake.com/2007/12/07/the-republicans-fiscal-madness/#comment-1137081</link>
		<dc:creator>kathieinmn</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Dec 2007 15:17:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;p&gt;OT - but it’s about fiscal madness of a different sort - have you all seen this information about Huckabee’s misuse of public funds? Astonishing! This needs to broadcast far and wide!&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.realchange.org/huckabee.htm#publicmoney&quot;&gt;http://www.realchange.org/huckabee.htm#publicmoney&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;(sorry if the link doesn’t work - haven’t figured that out yet.)&lt;/p&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>OT &#8211; but it’s about fiscal madness of a different sort &#8211; have you all seen this information about Huckabee’s misuse of public funds? Astonishing! This needs to broadcast far and wide!</p>
<p><a href="http://www.realchange.org/huckabee.htm#publicmoney">http://www.realchange.org/huckabee.htm#publicmoney</a></p>
<p>(sorry if the link doesn’t work &#8211; haven’t figured that out yet.)</p>
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		<title>By: SanderO</title>
		<link>http://firedoglake.com/2007/12/07/the-republicans-fiscal-madness/#comment-1137079</link>
		<dc:creator>SanderO</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Dec 2007 15:16:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;p&gt;Without getting money out of politics the new leaders will act like the old leaders.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;All candidates you “support” MUST pledge to end the campaign finance system as we know it.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Without public financing, MONEY will always trump liberty and democracy.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;GET MONEY OUT OF POLITICS - Step one.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;TERM LIMITS - there are plenty of people who will gladly give 2-6 years of their live to serve their country. LET THEM, Destroy incumbency.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Cosmetic changes are EVEN skin deep.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;We need more than new make up, more than a face lift.  We need a NEW BEGINNING&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;STRUGGLE!&lt;/p&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Without getting money out of politics the new leaders will act like the old leaders.</p>
<p>All candidates you “support” MUST pledge to end the campaign finance system as we know it.</p>
<p>Without public financing, MONEY will always trump liberty and democracy.</p>
<p>GET MONEY OUT OF POLITICS &#8211; Step one.</p>
<p>TERM LIMITS &#8211; there are plenty of people who will gladly give 2-6 years of their live to serve their country. LET THEM, Destroy incumbency.</p>
<p>Cosmetic changes are EVEN skin deep.</p>
<p>We need more than new make up, more than a face lift.  We need a NEW BEGINNING</p>
<p>STRUGGLE!</p>
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		<title>By: Scarecrow</title>
		<link>http://firedoglake.com/2007/12/07/the-republicans-fiscal-madness/#comment-1137077</link>
		<dc:creator>Scarecrow</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Dec 2007 15:14:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;p&gt;Blue Texan has a &lt;a href=&quot;http://firedoglake.com/2007/12/07/why-is-the-new-york-times-whitewashing-romneys-religious-bigotry/&quot;&gt;new thread&lt;/a&gt; ready.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Blue Texan has a <a href="http://firedoglake.com/2007/12/07/why-is-the-new-york-times-whitewashing-romneys-religious-bigotry/">new thread</a> ready.</p>
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