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		<title>Another Town Hall Moment That Probably Won&#8217;t Make the News</title>
		<link>http://quorumblog.com/2009/08/24/another-town-hall-moment-that-probably-wont-make-the-news/</link>
		<comments>http://quorumblog.com/2009/08/24/another-town-hall-moment-that-probably-wont-make-the-news/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Aug 2009 15:11:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s the set up for the latest spark in the prarie fire. Two weeks ago, all of Washington was in high dudgeon over a photoshopped fax depicting Obama as the Joker that was making the rounds. The picture was captioned by the word &#8220;SOCIALISM&#8221; and contained a letter threatening &#8220;Death to All Marxists! Foreign and Domestic!&#8221; Liberals demanded [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=quorumblog.com&blog=7153279&post=431&subd=cuaquorum&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Obama&#8217;s 2+2=5</title>
		<link>http://quorumblog.com/2009/08/19/obamas-224/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Aug 2009 20:59:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Unless you&#8217;ve been living on a remote island off the coast of Cuba for the past six months, the health care debate has saturated one (or many) aspects of your daily life.  Whether you&#8217;ve taken your pitchfork to an Arlen Specter &#38; Friends tea time, had your Sunday night television inundated with over-dramatized pictures of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=quorumblog.com&blog=7153279&post=422&subd=cuaquorum&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Real Origin of the Town Hall Mobs</title>
		<link>http://quorumblog.com/2009/08/17/the-real-origin-of-the-town-hall-mobs/</link>
		<comments>http://quorumblog.com/2009/08/17/the-real-origin-of-the-town-hall-mobs/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Aug 2009 19:45:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mpurple</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The crowds of town hall protesters shouting down congressmen and expressing fury at their government has dominated the media cycle this month. MSNBC even interrupted its hard hitting investigative coverage of Michael Jackson&#8217;s plastic surgeon to discuss the grass roots phenomenon. Both political parties have tried to play the protests to their own advantage. Democrats [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=quorumblog.com&blog=7153279&post=402&subd=cuaquorum&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Attention CUAers&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://quorumblog.com/2009/08/14/attention-cuaers/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Aug 2009 20:40:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Our own Ryan J. Reilly, former Tower editor, contributed to this Bloomberg story which has been making a splash throughout the day. I think we can all agree that 3,300 lobbyists working on health care is far too many.
Six Lobbyists Per Lawmaker Work on Health Overhaul
By Jonathan D. Salant and Lizzie O’Leary
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		<title>Keith Olbermann Declares War on Nursing Homes</title>
		<link>http://quorumblog.com/2009/08/04/keith-olbermann-declares-war-on-nursing-homes/</link>
		<comments>http://quorumblog.com/2009/08/04/keith-olbermann-declares-war-on-nursing-homes/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Aug 2009 16:38:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[My eyes started to glaze over after the first two and a half hours of Keith Olbermann&#8217;s Special Comment on health care last night. The last thing I remember hearing was, &#8220;When you think of getting $237,000 in campaign contributions from nursing homes, Senator Baucus, do you ever think about whether they subtract that amount [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=quorumblog.com&blog=7153279&post=386&subd=cuaquorum&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Torches and Pitchforks Come Out on Health Care</title>
		<link>http://quorumblog.com/2009/08/03/the-torches-and-pitchforks-come-out-on-health-care/</link>
		<comments>http://quorumblog.com/2009/08/03/the-torches-and-pitchforks-come-out-on-health-care/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Aug 2009 15:16:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The liberal intelligentsia used to sneer at George W. Bush because he didn&#8217;t read newspapers. I&#8217;m starting to wonder if the same criticism should be applied to Barack Obama.
As Obama revs up for a barnstorming national road trip to convince us that health insurance companies are comprised exclusively of blackhearted sociopaths, a constant refrain from [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=quorumblog.com&blog=7153279&post=383&subd=cuaquorum&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Obama&#8217;s Race-Colored Glasses</title>
		<link>http://quorumblog.com/2009/07/28/obamas-race-colored-glasses/</link>
		<comments>http://quorumblog.com/2009/07/28/obamas-race-colored-glasses/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Jul 2009 16:15:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Barack Obama may want to take note of the fact that his approval rating fell to 48 percent today according to a Zogby poll. If a Massachusetts union is blind with rage at a Democrat a mere eight months into his presidency, it may be time to yank him from the TV circuit for a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=quorumblog.com&blog=7153279&post=377&subd=cuaquorum&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The New York Times Bids Farewell to George Tiller</title>
		<link>http://quorumblog.com/2009/07/27/the-new-york-times-bids-farewell-to-george-tiller/</link>
		<comments>http://quorumblog.com/2009/07/27/the-new-york-times-bids-farewell-to-george-tiller/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Jul 2009 02:41:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mpurple</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Grey Lady published the definitive article on the death of George Tiller and the controversy surrounding his work on Friday. I have yet to obtain an actual hard copy of the Times, but given the sheer length of the piece, one imagines it spilling into the sports section. The research done by journalist David Barstow is [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=quorumblog.com&blog=7153279&post=369&subd=cuaquorum&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Posse Cheneytatus</title>
		<link>http://quorumblog.com/2009/07/26/posse-cheneytatus/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 26 Jul 2009 18:44:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[John Yoo is the Sherlock Holmes of government lawyers. While other U.S. attorneys were telling the Bush administration that the Constitution guarded against things like &#8220;illegal searches and seizures&#8221; and &#8220;cruel and unusual punishment&#8221;, Yoo was hard at work combing through the Constitution with a magnifying glass, perhaps from his den with a large pipe [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=quorumblog.com&blog=7153279&post=365&subd=cuaquorum&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>How FDR Ended the Great Depression, Bill Clinton Created Peace and Prosperity, George W. Bush Knocked Up Your Daughter, and Barack Obama Will Save the Climate</title>
		<link>http://quorumblog.com/2009/07/23/how-fdr-ended-the-great-depression-bill-clinton-created-peace-and-prosperity-george-w-bush-knocked-up-your-daughter-and-barack-obama-will-save-the-climate/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Jul 2009 15:41:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Barack Obama&#8217;s toxic health care plan would place about 15 percent of the American economy under the control of the federal government. In response, conservatives have offered up a raft of valid criticisms, wondering how a medical bureaucratic behemoth can possibly be funded with a projected deficit of trillions, and querying how the federal government, which [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=quorumblog.com&blog=7153279&post=355&subd=cuaquorum&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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