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							<title><![CDATA[Longing for a Middle Class]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2009/10/15/longing_for_a_middle_class_98726.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 15 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Marie Cocco</author>
							<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON -- The challenge of our time is to re-create America as a middle-class nation.
The idea does not find voice in the cacophony of the 24-hour news cycle. It has no place in the media's daily digest of gossip, false controversy and ideological cant. It is barely mentioned in the...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Cold Cash's Long Reach]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2009/10/13/cold_cashs_long_reach_98683.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 13 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Marie Cocco</author>
							<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON -- I don't have a sex scandal for you. The foibles of politicians and celebrities titillate. But ultimately, they have little to do with the most enduring and corrosive scandal of our civic life. It unfolds out in the open, day after day.
Millions of dollars slosh from the...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Meltdown After the Meltdown]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2009/10/08/the_meltdown_after_the_meltdown_98626.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 08 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Marie Cocco</author>
							<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON -- It would be nice to believe that things will be different next time.
"What's the point in bailing them out if there aren't any jobs?'' asks one of the organizers of the Christmastime protest at Republic Windows and Doors, the Chicago company whose laid-off workers staged a...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[A Slippery Slope on Guns]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2009/10/06/a_slippery_slope_on_guns_98590.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 06 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Marie Cocco</author>
							<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON -- Whatever significance is attached to Chicago's failed bid to host the 2016 Olympics, it is of small importance to the rest of the country. More far-reaching and frightening is the Supreme Court's decision to take up a case challenging the city's ban on handgun ownership in...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Making Tragedy Out of Farce]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2009/10/01/making_tragedy_out_of_farce_98534.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 01 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Marie Cocco</author>
							<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON -- The Full Employment for Filmmaker Michael Moore Act is coming soon to a theater near you.
Well, not exactly.
But by exquisite coincidence, Michael Moore was in Washington this week promoting his latest comedic expose of greed, corporate malfeasance and our government's...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Playing Games Amid a Threat]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2009/09/29/playing_games_amid_a_threat_98490.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 29 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Marie Cocco</author>
							<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON -- The latest turn in the nation's confrontation with the terrorism comes to us as opera buffa. The scenario would be comic if it were not so unnerving.
In New York, law-enforcement authorities have begun laying out a chilling case against a legal immigrant from Afghanistan...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Going Red Over Health Care]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2009/09/24/going_red_over_health_care_98442.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 24 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Marie Cocco</author>
							<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON -- It is "a stunning assault on liberty" (Sen. Jon Kyl, Republican of Arizona). It is "trying to force or foist a one-size-fits-all solution on the states" (Sen. Orrin Hatch, Republican of Utah). It is a plan that "taxes too much and grows government too much" (Sen. John...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[A Clunker, Not a Cadillac]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2009/09/22/a_clunker_not_a_cadillac_98405.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 22 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Marie Cocco</author>
							<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON -- Finally, a health care proposal George W. Bush could love.
Well, maybe not love, but certainly like -- especially since the draft plan by Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus takes its cue about how to pay for expanded health insurance from a tax policy that Bush...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Right Time on Trade]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2009/09/17/the_right_time_on_trade_98337.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 17 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Marie Cocco</author>
							<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON -- It's not the right time. But then, it never is.
It was never the right time for federal regulators pry into Wall Street's mysterious derivatives and other opaque markets -- that is, until the whole gluttonous enterprise fell. There was never a proper moment to rein in the...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Government Health Care Works]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2009/09/15/the_overlooked_opinions_98304.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 15 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Marie Cocco</author>
							<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON -- Now that everyone in politics has concluded that the "public option" is about to be very publicly dropped from health overhaul legislation, perhaps it is time that everyone understands that the public options we already have are working very well.
The upside-down logic of...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[A 9/11 Debt Still Unpaid]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2009/09/10/a_911_debt_still_unpaid_98226.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 10 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Marie Cocco</author>
							<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON -- The first "shift" that John Feal worked at the smoldering labyrinth of fallen buildings at Ground Zero lasted 43 hours. Over the next few days -- until Sept. 17, 2001 -- the young, athletic construction worker from Long Island labored amid the molten metal and shattered...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Our Wallets Get Emptier]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2009/09/08/our_wallets_get_emptier_98196.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 08 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Marie Cocco</author>
							<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON -- It isn't all in our heads. Americans did not balk at buying back-to-school clothes, or forgo a Labor Day weekend trip, or refuse to invest in a new television for football season just because they are, to use the overworked shorthand, "feeling cautious."
They are feeling...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Cheney Plays to His Own Crowd]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2009/09/03/cheney_plays_to_his_own_crowd_98145.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 03 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Marie Cocco</author>
							<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON -- In politics as in physics, for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction. Thus, former Vice President Dick Cheney's most recent and thoroughly extraordinary public support of torture has produced, with almost mathematical precision, the following chain of...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why We Must Stay in Afghanistan]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2009/09/01/why_we_must_stay_in_afghanistan_98108.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 01 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Marie Cocco</author>
							<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON -- We will never forget, say the bumper stickers, which often bear the image of the smoking Twin Towers superimposed across the red and white stripes of the flag.
But we have forgotten. Or at least we have forgotten that the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, demanded that...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Eternal Flame]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2009/08/27/the_eternal_flame_98052.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 27 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Marie Cocco</author>
							<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON -- Ten summers ago, for reasons I do not now recall, I asked Ted Kennedy's office to provide an account of key legislation he had sponsored in what already was a long and distinguished career.
The 32-page fax I received in response is as notable for what it lacks as it is for...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Status Quo is Not An Option]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2009/08/25/status_quo_is_not_an_option_98020.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 25 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Marie Cocco</author>
							<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON -- The summer of disinformation seems to have accomplished its goal: to preserve for the private insurance industry an effective monopoly over how much most Americans pay for health care, and on what terms they can buy it.
No one will come out and say this. But that will be...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Of Guns and Appeasement]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2009/08/20/of_guns_and_appeasement_97960.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 20 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Marie Cocco</author>
							<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON -- We won't have to cope with delusional believers in nonexistent "death panels" stalking those health care town hall meetings much longer, not with politicians left and right racing to remove from health care legislation any hint that perhaps people might want medical...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Phantom of the Health Care Soap Opera]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2009/08/18/phantom_of_the_health_care_soap_opera_97931.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 18 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Marie Cocco</author>
							<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON -- I missed the hot fun this summer. While much of America seemed to be screeching over the incredible -- in the truest sense of the word -- notion that angry citizens could tote a gun even to a town hall meeting with the president of the United States, I was pondering the...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Marvel That is Medicare]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2009/07/30/the_marvel_that_is_medicare_97696.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 30 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Marie Cocco</author>
							<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON -- Happy Birthday, Medicare.
It's a fine time -- perfect, in fact -- to celebrate the government-run, taxpayer-supported colossus in the American health care system that turns 44 this week. Medicare has done all it was supposed to do, and more.
It thrives despite apocalyptic...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[A Rebound Without Recovery]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2009/07/28/a_rebound_without_recovery_97648.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 28 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Marie Cocco</author>
							<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON -- So is there good news, or bad? Are we poised for an economic rebound or are we perched on the edge of another unnerving cycle in which Wall Street analysts -- along with politicians with a huge stake in talking things up -- try to chat us out of our funk?
Goldman Sachs,...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Health Reform Mustn't Hinge On Deadlines]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2009/07/23/whats_in_the_health_plan_not_when_97583.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 23 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Marie Cocco</author>
							<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON -- It's not yet time to say that the political debate over this year's effort at health insurance reform has reached its low, since we're sure to hear more hyperbolic charges about socialized medicine, meddlesome government bureaucrats that might replace meddlesome corporate...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[When Media and Trust Were One]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2009/07/21/when_media_and_trust_were_one_97539.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 21 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Marie Cocco</author>
							<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON -- That's not the way it is -- not now, and not for a long time.      Remembering Walter Cronkite means recalling when there really was a media figure who was "the most trusted man in America." In moments of profound national tragedy and unparalleled triumph, the country...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Reflection No Longer An Option]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2009/07/16/reflection_no_longer_an_option_97477.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 16 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Marie Cocco</author>
							<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON -- It is the damned spot that simply will not go out.
The legacy of the Bush administration's antiterrorism tactics cannot be washed away in a tide of feel-good rhetoric about moving on, nor will it fade eventually if we apply President Barack Obama's spiritual wisdom that...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Empathy Beyond the Beltway]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2009/07/14/empathy_beyond_the_beltway_97436.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 14 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Marie Cocco</author>
							<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON -- The sound and the fury at Sonia Sotomayor's confirmation hearings signify almost nothing. Yet they still tell us almost everything we need to know about race and politics in the age of Obama.
No matter how much drama Senate Republicans wish to concoct, it is practically a...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Unemployed Will Roar]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2009/07/09/the_unemployed_will_roar_97365.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 09 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Marie Cocco</author>
							<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON -- When a virulent disease is ravaging you like a cancer, you don't want a cacophony of voices promoting different or contradictory cures. Yet that is what we're starting to hear about the economic crisis, not only from a politically divided -- and pretty scared -- capital,...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Like Hillary, Sarah Faces Media Sexism]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2009/07/07/a_trashing_as_old_as_suffrage_97321.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 07 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Marie Cocco</author>
							<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON -- As Donald Rumsfeld might put it, there is only one known known in the tsunami of speculation touched off by Sarah Palin's announcement that she's stepping down as governor of Alaska: The media will almost certainly have Palin to kick around some more.
Her forthcoming book...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Reaping What We've Sown]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2009/07/02/reaping_what_weve_sown_97271.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Marie Cocco</author>
							<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON -- It hardly seems worth mentioning that the search for role models of sexual rectitude has gone pretty badly lately. That famous poster of Farrah Fawcett -- her golden locks tumbling around her shoulders and her gleaming smile offering a girl-next-door counterpoint to the...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Still Needing U.S. Glue in Iraq]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2009/06/30/still_needing_us_glue_in_iraq_97226.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Marie Cocco</author>
							<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON -- As the media trumpets sound for the pullback of American troops from urban areas in Iraq, the essential lesson of our involvement must be recalled: Nothing about our entanglement in Iraq has ever been as it seemed.
We did not invade because Saddam Hussein was behind the...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Poster Addict for Tobacco Law]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2009/06/25/poster_addict_for_tobacco_law_97165.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 25 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Marie Cocco</author>
							<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON -- It's all right to be just a bit defensive when you're the addict in chief.
"You just think it's neat to ask me about my smoking as opposed to it being relevant to my new law," President Obama snapped when a reporter justifiably asked him at a news conference how he's doing...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[America's Past, On Youtube To Boot]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2009/06/23/americas_past_on_youtube_to_boot_97114.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 23 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Marie Cocco</author>
							<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON -- The price at the gas pump has been ticking up and unemployment is tightening its grip. Pay cuts, salary freezes and furloughs strangle the wallet. The easy cuts to the family budget -- no summer camp, no family vacation -- already have been made.
But the school year has...]]></description>
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