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            <title><![CDATA[America's Next Top Tea Partier]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Michael Williams announced a bid Thursday for Texas' Senate seat. The Tea Party loves him, but can he overcome a tough primary to become the Senate's lone black member? Williams talks to Benjamin Sarlin about his plan to win, his friendship with George...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Budget Deficit to Hit $1.5 Trillion]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Next year's deficit will run up to $1.5 trillion, according to new figures from the CBO-thanks in no small part to a deal extending the Bush tax cuts. Benjamin Sarlin asks the pro-stimulus crowd when it's time to rein in spending.
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            <title><![CDATA[The Next Joe Lieberman]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[The Connecticut senator may be quietly riding off into the sunset after driving liberals mad, but plenty of other Democratic senators have progressives up in arms with forays across party lines. Benjamin Sarlin reports on the moderates who could follow...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Health-Care Repeal Vote Sparks Surprising Unity From Democrats]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Democrats could barely cobble together enough votes for health-care reform last year, but with the Republicans now in charge, even Democratic opponents of the bill are toeing the party line against the repeal vote Wednesday. Benjamin Sarlin on the...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[After Giffords Shooting, Tea Party Under Siege]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[In the wake of the Arizona shooting, Tea Party leaders are rejecting critics who say their anti-government rhetoric is to blame. Benjamin Sarlin talks to conservative activists about their frustrating task.
- Feds have filed five criminal charges...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[John Boehner's GOP Headaches]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[The House speaker's tears of joy may soon turn to frustration with the 85 Republican freshmen. The Daily Beast talks to Mike Pence, Paul Ryan, and Ron Paul about trouble spots in the new GOP majority-and pinpoints seven potential backstabbers.
John...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[The Boehner Bunch Celebrates the New House Speaker]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Ten of John Boehner's 11 brothers and sisters were on hand for his swearing-in as House speaker Wednesday. The Daily Beast talks to them about the bus trip from Ohio and growing up Boehner-and catches up with the one sibling missing the party. Plus, 14...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[The GOP's Charlie Rangel]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Republicans take back the House Wednesday, pledging a hard line on ethics. Their first scandal: Rep.-elect David Rivera, reportedly under investigation for corruption.
UPDATE: Rivera told The Daily Beast on Wednesday that GOP leaders have not talked...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[What the Feds Should Ask O'Donnell]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Christine O'Donnell is reportedly under investigation for misusing campaign funds. Benjamin Sarlin on the questions she has yet to address.
Christine O'Donnell was one of the country's most covered politicians in 2010, yet her refusal to answer...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[John Boehner's Tea Party Nightmare]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[The incoming House speaker rode a Tea Party wave into the majority, but a debt-limit vote as early as next month could cost him their backing. Benjamin Sarlin on the battle that can't come soon enough for Democrats.
Rep. John Boehner owes no small...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Tea Party Victims Support Group]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Republicans Mike Castle and Bob Bennett, ousted by Tea Party challengers, gathered with defeated Democrats to commiserate in a panel discussion Thursday. Benjamin Sarlin talked to them about the polarized politics that took them down-and whether...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Tea Party Could Sink the Tax-Cut Deal in the House]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[After an initial outcry, House Democrats appear resigned to passing President Obama's compromise plan to extend the Bush tax cuts-but now Tea Party groups are threatening to upend the vote instead.
Just days ago, the White House was scrambling to...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Did the Dems Blow It on Health Care?]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[A judge shut down the crux of health-care reform on Monday, threatening its legal viability-but many Democrats saw this day coming long ago. Benjy Sarlin on the individual mandate's contentious origins.
A judge's ruling that provisions in the...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[The Liberal Thorn in Obama's Side]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[The Progressive Change Campaign Committee is blasting the president for his tax-cut bargain. Benjamin Sarlin talks to its leaders about why they want Obama to be more like Bush. 
Stephanie Taylor and Adam Green, co-founders of the Progressive Change...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[The One Man Who Can Sink Obama's Tax Plans]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[President Obama may be preparing to push through part of his deficit commission's plan, which has found surprising bipartisan support. But first he has to get by Grover Norquist, whose influential anti-tax group is waging war on the proposal-and any...]]></description>
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