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	<title>Comments on: Fred Wertheimer&#8217;s Weasel Words</title>
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		<title>By: Smgumby</title>
		<link>http://firedoglake.com/2008/02/28/fred-wertheimers-weasel-words/#comment-1303479</link>
		<dc:creator>Smgumby</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Feb 2008 01:10:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;p&gt;St. McCain.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Able to walk on water and leap campaign finance laws in a single bound.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;He will be teh most awe-sum preznit.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>St. McCain.</p>
<p>Able to walk on water and leap campaign finance laws in a single bound.</p>
<p>He will be teh most awe-sum preznit.</p>
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		<title>By: brendanx</title>
		<link>http://firedoglake.com/2008/02/28/fred-wertheimers-weasel-words/#comment-1303122</link>
		<dc:creator>brendanx</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Feb 2008 21:47:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;p&gt;This seems to call for a letter-writing action, given the double standard of the Obama stories in the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/28/us/politics/28obama.html?_r=1&amp;ref=politics&amp;oref=slogin&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;NYT&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>This seems to call for a letter-writing action, given the double standard of the Obama stories in the <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/28/us/politics/28obama.html?_r=1&amp;ref=politics&amp;oref=slogin" rel="nofollow">NYT</a>.</p>
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		<title>By: bobschacht</title>
		<link>http://firedoglake.com/2008/02/28/fred-wertheimers-weasel-words/#comment-1303034</link>
		<dc:creator>bobschacht</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Feb 2008 20:35:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;p&gt;I’m especially disappointed by the response of Common Cause. I expect better from them.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Bob in HI&lt;/p&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I’m especially disappointed by the response of Common Cause. I expect better from them.</p>
<p>Bob in HI</p>
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		<title>By: Mutant Poodle</title>
		<link>http://firedoglake.com/2008/02/28/fred-wertheimers-weasel-words/#comment-1303033</link>
		<dc:creator>Mutant Poodle</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Feb 2008 20:34:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;p&gt;I don’t blame you, but feel that meds-by mail might be necessary if he’s near your zip code…&lt;/p&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I don’t blame you, but feel that meds-by mail might be necessary if he’s near your zip code…</p>
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		<title>By: Albatross</title>
		<link>http://firedoglake.com/2008/02/28/fred-wertheimers-weasel-words/#comment-1303026</link>
		<dc:creator>Albatross</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Feb 2008 20:28:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;p&gt;foul up the works. Now how will they lay the blame on the dems?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;
&lt;p&gt;That’s why they have these quarter-century-old marketing firms called “Right-wing think tanks,” to figure out a way to catapult the propaganda.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Here in Minnesota we recently overturned years and years of Grover Norquist style government starvation to pass a (regrettably regressive) gas tax in order to maintain our highway system (you may have heard something about our bridges collapsing?)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;A &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.kare11.com/news/news_article.aspx?storyid=500390&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;local news station&lt;/a&gt; interviewed a couple of “deadbeat dad” style anti-tax zealots on the news the other day, the kinds of guys (and it’s always guys) who seethe at the idea of any taxes at all.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;One of them complained that his property taxes rose 17% last year.  What he doesn’t seem able to acknowledge was that this was because our Republican VP-wannabe Governor, Tim Pawlenty, has pushed cost increases off on the municipalities by refusing to increase any taxes, ever.  So the increase in property taxes, a direct result of Republican policies, is blamed on ‘liberals.’&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Another fellow (and you can watch the segment yourself) complained about traffic.  After years of Republicans starving the Department of Transporation, this guy blamed highway congestion on liberals. His assertion?  Liberals WANT the roads to be congested, because that will force everyone to use mass transit, and with mass transit Liberals can control where people are allowed to live.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;So… how will the Republicans blame the Democrats for the messes caused by Republicans?  Through the use of delusion, imagination, denial, and lies.  And they’re pretty darned good at it!&lt;/p&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<blockquote><p>foul up the works. Now how will they lay the blame on the dems?</p>
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<p>That’s why they have these quarter-century-old marketing firms called “Right-wing think tanks,” to figure out a way to catapult the propaganda.</p>
<p>Here in Minnesota we recently overturned years and years of Grover Norquist style government starvation to pass a (regrettably regressive) gas tax in order to maintain our highway system (you may have heard something about our bridges collapsing?)</p>
<p>A <a href="http://www.kare11.com/news/news_article.aspx?storyid=500390" rel="nofollow">local news station</a> interviewed a couple of “deadbeat dad” style anti-tax zealots on the news the other day, the kinds of guys (and it’s always guys) who seethe at the idea of any taxes at all.</p>
<p>One of them complained that his property taxes rose 17% last year.  What he doesn’t seem able to acknowledge was that this was because our Republican VP-wannabe Governor, Tim Pawlenty, has pushed cost increases off on the municipalities by refusing to increase any taxes, ever.  So the increase in property taxes, a direct result of Republican policies, is blamed on ‘liberals.’</p>
<p>Another fellow (and you can watch the segment yourself) complained about traffic.  After years of Republicans starving the Department of Transporation, this guy blamed highway congestion on liberals. His assertion?  Liberals WANT the roads to be congested, because that will force everyone to use mass transit, and with mass transit Liberals can control where people are allowed to live.</p>
<p>So… how will the Republicans blame the Democrats for the messes caused by Republicans?  Through the use of delusion, imagination, denial, and lies.  And they’re pretty darned good at it!</p>
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		<title>By: JimWhite</title>
		<link>http://firedoglake.com/2008/02/28/fred-wertheimers-weasel-words/#comment-1303020</link>
		<dc:creator>JimWhite</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Feb 2008 20:26:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;p&gt;Well, it seems we would have the whole country to venue-shop since he likely is setting up shop everywhere for the general election.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Well, it seems we would have the whole country to venue-shop since he likely is setting up shop everywhere for the general election.</p>
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		<title>By: Raven</title>
		<link>http://firedoglake.com/2008/02/28/fred-wertheimers-weasel-words/#comment-1303018</link>
		<dc:creator>Raven</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Feb 2008 20:26:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;p&gt;And they love him here!&lt;/p&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>And they love him here!</p>
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		<title>By: Marion in Savannah</title>
		<link>http://firedoglake.com/2008/02/28/fred-wertheimers-weasel-words/#comment-1303014</link>
		<dc:creator>Marion in Savannah</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Feb 2008 20:23:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;p&gt;You’re seeing the real Jack Kingston…&lt;/p&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>You’re seeing the real Jack Kingston…</p>
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		<title>By: sangemon</title>
		<link>http://firedoglake.com/2008/02/28/fred-wertheimers-weasel-words/#comment-1303013</link>
		<dc:creator>sangemon</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Feb 2008 20:22:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;p&gt;to get a court to enforce the law&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;
&lt;p&gt;in this post-Gonzalez world? Are you kidding?&lt;/p&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<blockquote><p>to get a court to enforce the law</p>
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<p>in this post-Gonzalez world? Are you kidding?</p>
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		<title>By: sangemon</title>
		<link>http://firedoglake.com/2008/02/28/fred-wertheimers-weasel-words/#comment-1303012</link>
		<dc:creator>sangemon</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Feb 2008 20:20:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;p&gt;Every time I’ve ever seen Jack Kingston on my TeeVee he’s come off as an ignorant, inbred, grinning fool.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Every time I’ve ever seen Jack Kingston on my TeeVee he’s come off as an ignorant, inbred, grinning fool.</p>
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