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            <title><![CDATA[Obama's Sham Bipartisan Show]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[The coming health-care summit is just the latest example of how the president prefers public discussion of problems to rolling up his sleeves and fixing them. 
Three cheers for democracy! Obama's appearance at the Republicans' retreat in Baltimore was...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[The Betrayed Wives Club]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Like Jenny Sanford, Elizabeth Edwards and Silda Spitzer, we've all been seduced and deceived by political scoundrels. Lee Siegel on the fall and rise of America's First Victims. Plus, our speed read of Jenny Sanford's new memoir. 
We are all betrayed...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Obama's Desperate Gay Pander]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[ The president should be focusing on jobs and reaching out to the GOP. So this seems like an especially crazy time to revisit "Don't Ask, Don't Tell"-and reinflame the culture wars.
How has "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" suddenly become one of Obama's...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[How to Handle GOP Tantrums]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[  The "party of no" is acting out-and getting its way. Lee Siegel on the lessons parenting could teach the president about dealing with the petulant opposition party.
It's bad enough being an American citizen and watching the GOP's brick-wall...]]></description>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Sat, 30 Jan 2010 18:38:33 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Obama Needs a Killer App]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[  If only passing legislation were as easy as introducing new products from Apple. Lee Siegel on how Steve Jobs is ruining politics.
It may be just a coincidence that Wednesday, the day of President Obama's first State of the Union address, was also...]]></description>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Tue, 26 Jan 2010 22:51:12 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Stop Whining About Edwards, Already]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[ Why do liberals seem to delight in the moral condemnation of their fallen stars? Lee Siegel on why the right gets their sex scandals right. 
One of the more peculiar contradictions of American politics is that liberals, who are constantly scolding...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[The Cynical Bush-Clinton Show]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Sure, it's great to see ex-presidents team up to raise money for Haiti. But why does it take tragedy abroad to unite them? Lee Siegel on why America's problems aren't worth their time.
On the surface, the appearance of former Presidents George W. Bush...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Telling the Boss Off]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[ We don't really care what happens to Jay Leno or Conan O'Brien. We can't stop watching because it feels so good to watch them beating the hell out of the corporate suits. 
There's a reason why the feud between the late-night comedians and NBC has...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Leave Elizabeth Alone]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[John Edwards' wife was an American saint, coping with infidelity in the face of cancer-until new accounts painted her as a monster. Lee Siegel on why we misread her, and should leave her in peace. 
No matter how sophisticated we seem to get about...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Our Gutless Turn-Tail Politics]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[When the going gets tough, America's politicians increasingly switch parties or decide to retire. Lee Siegel on the current epidemic of political cowardice-and the death of the noble defeat. 
Dodd, Dorgan, Ritter; Griffith, Chafee, Specter. It's hard...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[America's Terrorism Amnesia]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Why do our politicians and press react to every terrorist incident as though it was happening for the very first time? Lee Siegel on learning to live in a modern state of siege.
In his comments on homeland security Tuesday, President Obama spoke...]]></description>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Tue, 05 Jan 2010 23:37:50 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Monsters vs. Weenies]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Where are the real statesmen when you need them? Somehow the 2009 stage got hijacked by grandstanding brutes like Glenn Beck and simpering compromisers like Harry Reid. Lee Siegel reviews the year in political theater.
We so often hear people...]]></description>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Tue, 29 Dec 2009 23:11:53 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Pass the Christmas Pork, Please]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[As Senator Nelson comes under increasing fire for a sweetheart deal, Lee Siegel asks: What's wrong with a little grease in exchange for a vote?
The adolescent outrage over the concessions Harry Reid made to Ben Nelson to win the latter's vote for...]]></description>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Thu, 24 Dec 2009 00:24:08 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Joe, Start Acting Jewish!]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[  With Democrats forgoing a Medicare buy-in, Lieberman says he's "ready to vote for health-care reform." Lee Siegel on why the senator should stop stonewalling and start acting Jewish.
Joe Lieberman's vow to vote against any health-care bill that...]]></description>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Mon, 14 Dec 2009 23:18:08 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[If Only Tiger Were a Socialist]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Is Tiger Woods greedier than Hamid Karzai? Maybe capitalism itself is partly to blame for his sexual infidelities. Lee Siegel on how this sort of scandal just wouldn't happen in Stockholm.
Tiger Woods is the reason Americans cannot get universal...]]></description>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Fri, 11 Dec 2009 21:19:19 -0400]]></pubDate>
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