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		<title>By: KayInMaine</title>
		<link>http://firedoglake.com/2009/09/10/id-like-to-thank-congressman-dumbass/#comment-1975038</link>
		<dc:creator>KayInMaine</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Sep 2009 23:58:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;p&gt;Wrong. It is a good bill. The House has the public option in it. It’s up to the Senate to pass the whole thing, but what I think is going to happen is the House will pass their bill and the Senate will wait until January 2010 when Kennedy’s replacement is appointed.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Wrong. It is a good bill. The House has the public option in it. It’s up to the Senate to pass the whole thing, but what I think is going to happen is the House will pass their bill and the Senate will wait until January 2010 when Kennedy’s replacement is appointed.</p>
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		<title>By: JaneaneTheAcerbicGoblin</title>
		<link>http://firedoglake.com/2009/09/10/id-like-to-thank-congressman-dumbass/#comment-1974986</link>
		<dc:creator>JaneaneTheAcerbicGoblin</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Sep 2009 19:15:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;p&gt;You’re right.  The Democrat would “do the right thing” and resign, probably within a week.  The Democrats would have thrown him under the bus immediately.  When a Dem gets into trouble, they’re always ostracised by the party, usually immediately (ask Van Jones).  Republicans stay behind their people for as long as they can.    &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I concur.  Wilson will not resign, and will probably be re-elected next year by a comfortable margin.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>You’re right.  The Democrat would “do the right thing” and resign, probably within a week.  The Democrats would have thrown him under the bus immediately.  When a Dem gets into trouble, they’re always ostracised by the party, usually immediately (ask Van Jones).  Republicans stay behind their people for as long as they can.    </p>
<p>I concur.  Wilson will not resign, and will probably be re-elected next year by a comfortable margin.</p>
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		<title>By: OldFatGuy</title>
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		<dc:creator>OldFatGuy</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Sep 2009 17:23:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;p&gt;I also have no doubt, no doubt whatsoever, that had that been a Democrat from, say, Massachusettes, during Bush’s term, that when all was said and done, that Democrat would not finish out that term.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Guarantee it.  He’d be finished, resigned within 60 days.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I have equally as little doubt that Wilson not only won’t resign, he will be re-elected.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Funny old world, ain’t it?&lt;/p&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I also have no doubt, no doubt whatsoever, that had that been a Democrat from, say, Massachusettes, during Bush’s term, that when all was said and done, that Democrat would not finish out that term.</p>
<p>Guarantee it.  He’d be finished, resigned within 60 days.</p>
<p>I have equally as little doubt that Wilson not only won’t resign, he will be re-elected.</p>
<p>Funny old world, ain’t it?</p>
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		<title>By: JaneaneTheAcerbicGoblin</title>
		<link>http://firedoglake.com/2009/09/10/id-like-to-thank-congressman-dumbass/#comment-1974852</link>
		<dc:creator>JaneaneTheAcerbicGoblin</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Sep 2009 17:17:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;p&gt;At least Obama didn’t stop in the middle of his speech and say “Despite our differences, I will work together with you, Mr. Wilson.”.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Thank goodness Obama isn’t that gullible.  &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;It would be nice if Wilson lost, but there’s probably a ton of people in his district who approved of what he did last night.  &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Of course, those same people would be calling for the head(s) of any Democratic congressman/woman that heckled Bush during his administration.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>At least Obama didn’t stop in the middle of his speech and say “Despite our differences, I will work together with you, Mr. Wilson.”.</p>
<p>Thank goodness Obama isn’t that gullible.  </p>
<p>It would be nice if Wilson lost, but there’s probably a ton of people in his district who approved of what he did last night.  </p>
<p>Of course, those same people would be calling for the head(s) of any Democratic congressman/woman that heckled Bush during his administration.</p>
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		<title>By: OldFatGuy</title>
		<link>http://firedoglake.com/2009/09/10/id-like-to-thank-congressman-dumbass/#comment-1974845</link>
		<dc:creator>OldFatGuy</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Sep 2009 16:28:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;p&gt;Wilson’s Democratic challenger raised $40000 since last nights outburst ,these dumb asses keep shooting themselves in the foot&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;
&lt;p&gt;It sure would be nice if they’d aim higher.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<blockquote><p>Wilson’s Democratic challenger raised $40000 since last nights outburst ,these dumb asses keep shooting themselves in the foot</p>
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<p>It sure would be nice if they’d aim higher.</p>
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		<title>By: solerso</title>
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		<dc:creator>solerso</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Sep 2009 16:23:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;p&gt;you know what they say about the guy who jumps right to liar - “that word comes too oft and easy from your lips”.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>you know what they say about the guy who jumps right to liar &#8211; “that word comes too oft and easy from your lips”.</p>
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		<title>By: Adam503</title>
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		<dc:creator>Adam503</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Sep 2009 15:25:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;p&gt;Another recent “proud moment” for S. Carolina.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Clemson U. caught fixing US News college rankings.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;“Clemson’s president has a goal of moving Clemson onto U.S. News’s list of the top 20 public research universities, an ambition that has put great stress on the number-crunching staff, Watt said.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;To be sure, some of what she described was fairly innocuous: alumni are encouraged to give the college as little as $1 annually, in order to goose the proportion of alumni donors, which the magazine uses as a measure of alumni satisfaction. (My own college does this, as I’m sure do many others.)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Clemson’s is also pursuing a more elite student body each year– higher GPAs, higher SATs — drawing criticism from some conference attendees, who suggested that that approach compromised the university’s mission as a public, land-grandt institution.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;More dubiously, the university increased the proportion of classes with fewer than 20 people mainly by moving bodies around, Watt said. It let classes with 50 people swell to 60 or 70, she said, so that others could shrink from, say, 25 to 19. “Two or three students here and there, what a difference it can make,” Watt said.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Then Watt shocked the audience by saying that, on surveys distributed by U.S. News,, the Clemson brass “rates all programs other than Clemson below average,” adding: “And I’m confident my president is not the only one who does that.” (The online magazine said Watt seemed aware of the cynicism of what she was describing, and not entirely happy with it.)…”&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/ideas/brainiac/2009/06/did_clemson_gam.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.boston.com/bostongl.....n_gam.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Another recent “proud moment” for S. Carolina.</p>
<p>Clemson U. caught fixing US News college rankings.</p>
<p>“Clemson’s president has a goal of moving Clemson onto U.S. News’s list of the top 20 public research universities, an ambition that has put great stress on the number-crunching staff, Watt said.</p>
<p>To be sure, some of what she described was fairly innocuous: alumni are encouraged to give the college as little as $1 annually, in order to goose the proportion of alumni donors, which the magazine uses as a measure of alumni satisfaction. (My own college does this, as I’m sure do many others.)</p>
<p>Clemson’s is also pursuing a more elite student body each year– higher GPAs, higher SATs — drawing criticism from some conference attendees, who suggested that that approach compromised the university’s mission as a public, land-grandt institution.</p>
<p>More dubiously, the university increased the proportion of classes with fewer than 20 people mainly by moving bodies around, Watt said. It let classes with 50 people swell to 60 or 70, she said, so that others could shrink from, say, 25 to 19. “Two or three students here and there, what a difference it can make,” Watt said.</p>
<p>Then Watt shocked the audience by saying that, on surveys distributed by U.S. News,, the Clemson brass “rates all programs other than Clemson below average,” adding: “And I’m confident my president is not the only one who does that.” (The online magazine said Watt seemed aware of the cynicism of what she was describing, and not entirely happy with it.)…”</p>
<p><a href="http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/ideas/brainiac/2009/06/did_clemson_gam.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.boston.com/bostongl&#8230;..n_gam.html</a></p>
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		<title>By: serge</title>
		<link>http://firedoglake.com/2009/09/10/id-like-to-thank-congressman-dumbass/#comment-1974786</link>
		<dc:creator>serge</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Sep 2009 14:41:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;p&gt;Raven, I’ll submit to you regarding Jack Kingston.  He is an idiot of cosmic proportions.  He has competition, though…Patrick McHenry of NC, Lynn Westmoreland (from your fair state).&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Savannah and Charleston…perhaps we could merge as city states and let the rest of Georgia and South Carolina secede as they’ve continued to want since 1865.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Raven, I’ll submit to you regarding Jack Kingston.  He is an idiot of cosmic proportions.  He has competition, though…Patrick McHenry of NC, Lynn Westmoreland (from your fair state).</p>
<p>Savannah and Charleston…perhaps we could merge as city states and let the rest of Georgia and South Carolina secede as they’ve continued to want since 1865.</p>
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		<title>By: serge</title>
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		<dc:creator>serge</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Sep 2009 14:36:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;p&gt;I have, and I had a great time on the north shore of Chicago, John Hughes territory.  I figured politics in Illinois was simply corrupt.  In my cynical way of thinking, evil and corrupt trumps just plain stupid.  At least you have a weathervane of some sort.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I have, and I had a great time on the north shore of Chicago, John Hughes territory.  I figured politics in Illinois was simply corrupt.  In my cynical way of thinking, evil and corrupt trumps just plain stupid.  At least you have a weathervane of some sort.</p>
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		<title>By: hychka</title>
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		<dc:creator>hychka</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Sep 2009 14:13:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;p&gt;Well, we did cheer when the Iraq reporter threw two shoes at Bush and lemented that the tosser missed…of course that wasn’t in a joint meeting of Congress, etc., etc., etc.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I don’t know what to think this morning. There are many “Joe Wilsons” in Congress. Our Rep, Steve Buyer (pronounces it “Boo-your,” as in “Boo your President!”) is holding a townhall meeting in Lafayette (our sister city) Saturday morning. Seems to me that it will just be a big love fest of the crazies…a kind of Woodstock for wingnuts and others on day leave from the mental health facilites. Seems to me that do nothing GOPPERS got themselves read out of the health care process. “Boo-your” will vote “no” on anything for the rest of his term. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Get rid of “Boo-your?” isn’t going to happen…his district is constructed like Michelle Bachmann’s…a long sliver of very rural areas in the center of the state just north of Indy. He’d have to be caught selling drugs to get thrown out.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Should i go and waste a morning trying to show reason at a local meeting when I could be  playing with my grandsons?&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I’m beginning to think that the GOPPERS are just irrelevant and I shouldn’t read about them, think about them or care at all about whatever they do to get themselves back in the driver’s seat. I’ll stay home with the grandsons Saturday.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Well, we did cheer when the Iraq reporter threw two shoes at Bush and lemented that the tosser missed…of course that wasn’t in a joint meeting of Congress, etc., etc., etc.</p>
<p>I don’t know what to think this morning. There are many “Joe Wilsons” in Congress. Our Rep, Steve Buyer (pronounces it “Boo-your,” as in “Boo your President!”) is holding a townhall meeting in Lafayette (our sister city) Saturday morning. Seems to me that it will just be a big love fest of the crazies…a kind of Woodstock for wingnuts and others on day leave from the mental health facilites. Seems to me that do nothing GOPPERS got themselves read out of the health care process. “Boo-your” will vote “no” on anything for the rest of his term. </p>
<p>Get rid of “Boo-your?” isn’t going to happen…his district is constructed like Michelle Bachmann’s…a long sliver of very rural areas in the center of the state just north of Indy. He’d have to be caught selling drugs to get thrown out.</p>
<p>Should i go and waste a morning trying to show reason at a local meeting when I could be  playing with my grandsons?</p>
<p>I’m beginning to think that the GOPPERS are just irrelevant and I shouldn’t read about them, think about them or care at all about whatever they do to get themselves back in the driver’s seat. I’ll stay home with the grandsons Saturday.</p>
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