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							<title><![CDATA[Racism &amp; Cruelty Behind Obamacare Attacks]]></title>
							<link>http://www.thenation.com/article/176540/racism-and-cruelty-whats-behind-gops-healthcare-agenda</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 09 Oct 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Robert Scheer</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Before he was disgraced into resigning his presidency over the Watergate burglary scandal, Richard Nixon had successfully engineered an even more odious plot known as his Southern Strategy. The trick was devilishly simple: Appeal to the persistent racist inclination of Southern whites by...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[It's Time for the Return of the Public Option]]></title>
							<link>http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-scheer/health-care-give-the-peop_b_1614552.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 22 Jun 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Robert Scheer</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The nutty thing about the health care debate that will play a prominent role in the next election is that most Americans want pretty much the same outcome: to control costs without sacrificing quality. And that's not what either major-party candidate is offering. Few think that...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Biggest Little Hypocrite in Texas]]></title>
							<link>http://www.thenation.com/article/162821/rick-perry-biggest-little-hypocrite-texas</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 19 Aug 2011 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Robert Scheer</author>
							<description><![CDATA[It is unfathomable that yet another Texas blowhard governor has emerged as a front-runner for the GOP presidential nomination. The persistent appeal of the mythology of Texas as a model for the nation defies the lessons of logic and experience, and yet here we are with Rick Perry, a...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Geithner and Goldman, Thick as Thieves]]></title>
							<link>http://www.thenation.com/article/161054/geithner-and-goldman-thick-thieves</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 03 Jun 2011 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Robert Scheer</author>
							<description><![CDATA[What was Timothy Geithner thinking back in  2008 when, as president of  the New York Fed, he decided to give Goldman  Sachs a $30 billion  interest-free loan as part of an $80 billion secret  float to favored  banks? The sordid details of that program were finally  made public this  week...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The False Debate on the Debt]]></title>
							<link>http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-scheer/the-false-debate-on-the-d_b_848457.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 13 Apr 2011 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Robert Scheer</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In the ever-so-smug company of the rich and powerful it is a given  that there is never to be any expression of remorse or other  acknowledgment of the pain they have inflicted on the lesser mortals  they so cavalierly plunder. It's convenient for them that the media and  the...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[America's Class Problem]]></title>
							<link>http://www.thenation.com/article/159716/americas-class-problem</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 07 Apr 2011 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Robert Scheer</author>
							<description><![CDATA[A &ldquo;working class hero,&rdquo; John Lennon told us  in his song of that title,  &ldquo;is something to be/ Keep you doped with  religion and sex and TV/ And  you think you&rsquo;re so clever and classless  and free/ But you&rsquo;re still  fucking peasants as far as I can...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Fail and Grow Rich on Wall Street]]></title>
							<link>http://www.thenation.com/article/156666/fail-and-grow-rich-wall-street</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 25 Nov 2010 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Robert Scheer</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Welcome to the brave new world of post-bailout capitalism. The Commerce  Department announced Tuesday that corporate profits are at their highest  level in US history, and the Fed released minutes of an early November  meeting in which officials predicted a stagnant economy and continued...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The GOP Grinches Who Stole Summer]]></title>
							<link>http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-scheer/the-grinches-who-stole-su_b_653750.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 21 Jul 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Robert Scheer</author>
							<description><![CDATA[It was a branding moment. With their lock-step vote against extending  unemployment benefits, the Republicans are indelibly marked as not only  heartless but also frivolous in their much-professed concern over the  soaring national debt. Thanks to the defection of the two relatively ...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Obama Earning His Nobel Prize]]></title>
							<link>http://www.thenation.com/doc/20100419/scheer</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 07 Apr 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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							<description><![CDATA[At last, a believable sighting of that peace president many of us thought we had elected. Give Barack Obama credit, big time, for the startling progress he has made in tempering the threat of nuclear annihilation.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Obama's Presidency Isn't Too Big to Fail]]></title>
							<link>http://www.thenation.com/doc/20090928/scheer</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 17 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Robert Scheer</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[Afghanistan Looking More Like Vietnam]]></title>
							<link>http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/09/03/EDE419HPL5.DTL</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 03 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Robert Scheer</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[Sheila Bair is On Your Side]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2009/06/11/sheila_bair_is_on_your_side__96925.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 11 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Robert Scheer</author>
							<description><![CDATA[You probably don't know much about Sheila Bair, but she is looking out for you, and that is why the big guys on Wall Street and their allies in the Obama administration are out to get her.
Bair is the Republican whom President Obama reappointed to head the Federal Deposit Insurance...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why the Rush on TARP 2?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2009/01/why_the_rush_on_tarp_2.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 14 Jan 2009 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Robert Scheer</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Why rush to throw another $350 billion of taxpayer money at the Wall Street bandits and their political cronies who created the biggest financial mess since the Great Depression? And why should we taxpayers be expected to double our debt exposure when the 10 still-secret bailout...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Bush's Mideast Legacy - Shoes]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2008/12/bushs_mideast_legacy_shoes.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 18 Dec 2008 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Robert Scheer</author>
							<description><![CDATA[They hate us for our shoes. Somewhere in what passes for the deeper regions of President Bush's mind might come that reassuring giggle of a thought as he once again rationalizes away Iraqi ingratitude for the benevolence he has bestowed upon them. Ever at peace with himself, despite many...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Will Obama Stay the Course?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2008/12/will_obama_stay_the_course.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 03 Dec 2008 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Robert Scheer</author>
							<description><![CDATA[I do so want to believe that Barack Obama is on the right track. His brain is big, his style fresh, his pronouncements both logical and compelling, and it does feel good to have a president-elect elicit universal respect rather than make the world cringe. Indeed, he's downright inspiring...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Obama Picks Foxes to Guard Henhouse]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 27 Nov 2008 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Robert Scheer</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[No To Summers or Rubin at Treasury]]></title>
							<link>http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/11/19/EDRI1479FT.DTL</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 19 Nov 2008 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Robert Scheer</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[McCain's Taxing Logic]]></title>
							<link>http://www.thenation.com/doc/20081110/scheer</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 29 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Robert Scheer</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Battle for Obama's Economic Soul]]></title>
							<link>http://www.thenation.com/doc/20081103/scheer</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 23 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Robert Scheer</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[Hoover, 2008: McCain's Bogus Reform]]></title>
							<link>http://www.thenation.com/doc/20081027/scheer</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 15 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Robert Scheer</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[McCain and W.]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2008/10/mccain_and_w.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 10 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Robert Scheer</author>
							<description><![CDATA[I am not a conventionally religious man, or even a very superstitious one, but I do wish George Bush would stop asking God to bless America. Every time he does, we seem to be visited with another plague, suggesting divine wrath over our president's evil ways. How else to explain the...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[McCain Can Win Only as a War President]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2008/08/mccain_can_win_only_as_a_war_p.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 27 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Robert Scheer</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Just great! Nuclear-armed Pakistan is falling apart, Iran's nuclear program is unchecked, and congressional legislation on cooperation with the Russians on controlling nuclear proliferation is now dead in the water. Horrid news except for Sen. John McCain, who thrills to a repeat of the...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[McCain's Warped Worldview]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2008/08/mccains_warped_worldview.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 21 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Robert Scheer</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The world according to John McCain is one in which America is triumphant at home and abroad thanks to the Bush legacy, rolling to victory internationally and mastering its domestic economic problems. If daily news, like the 10 French soldiers killed by a resurgent Taliban in Afghanistan...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Georgia War is a Neocon Election Ploy]]></title>
							<link>http://www.thenation.com/doc/20080818/scheer2</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 13 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Robert Scheer</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[A Campaign Driven by Fear]]></title>
							<link>http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/07/23/EDR111T9PI.DTL</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 23 Jul 2008 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Robert Scheer</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[Who's the Real John McCain?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/06/04/EDE7112RH2.DTL</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 04 Jun 2008 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Robert Scheer</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[Are Americans Unusually Stupid?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/04/15/EDHF1060SL.DTL</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 17 Apr 2008 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Robert Scheer</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[Bush is a Failure]]></title>
							<link>http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/03/19/EDVOVLURS.DTL</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 20 Mar 2008 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Robert Scheer</author>
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