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            <title><![CDATA[The Anthony Weiner Scandal: C'mon, America, Nobody's Perfect]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Creepy as Anthony Weiner's photos are, the level of outrage aimed at him is wildly unfair. If we'd scrutinized the private behavior of past leaders to the same ridiculous degree, we'd blow up all our heroes, says Lee Siegel.
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            <title><![CDATA[The Tea Party's Phantom Menace]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[For all the fountains of vitriol and frantic media coverage aimed at the Tea Partiers, the movement doesn't have the money or sophistication to win anything, much less roll back the new health-care law.
Health-care reform, student-loan reform,...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[The New Republican War Room]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Ground zero for the GOP's health-care repeal movement is Erick Erickson's Redstate.com. He calls his site "right of center." It's a polite way of launching a conservative revolution. 
No sooner had the House passed the health-care reform bill than...]]></description>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Sat, 27 Mar 2010 06:24:04 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Washington's Only Grown-Up]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[As Obama and the GOP trade childish sports metaphors about health care, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is actually leading-and reminding the country of its moral obligations.
Health-care reform might pass or it might not. But one thing is for sure. After...]]></description>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Wed, 17 Mar 2010 13:20:17 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Daddy's Girl]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[ As talk that Liz Cheney may run for Congress swirls, she's hell-bent on topping her father's blunt force conservative trauma. Lee Siegel puts Liz on the couch. 
Whatever happened to the psychological exploration of political leaders? I don't mean the...]]></description>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Tue, 09 Mar 2010 08:26:28 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Palin's Reality TV Makeover]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Sarah Barracuda's new venture with Mark Burnett is just her latest bid to upend political convention, keep her name in the news-and mock herself before we get the chance to. 
Sarah Palin and reality-TV titan Mark Burnett are about to collaborate on a...]]></description>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Fri, 05 Mar 2010 22:08:20 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Jay Leno's Painful Comeback]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[The Tonight Show host's return to the 11:30 slot in the late-night lineup proved that the flailing comic no longer eases our daily anxieties; he now provokes them.
A not-so-funny thing. Jay Leno, the comedian for the middle-class, has come to...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[The Paterson Scandal Is Overblown]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[New York Gov. David Paterson's fall from grace shows America is hopelessly hooked on political flameouts. Lee Siegel on what made Paterson a lousy high. 
It's strange how, at a time when people are asking where the public's outrage is over this, that,...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[The Scary Rise of Anti-Government Attacks]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[How big-brother paranoia spawns terror like the suicide plane crash against the IRS in Austin.
It captured the spirit of the age with horrifying exactitude: At first, we thought the small plane that crashed into the IRS office building in Austin...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Evan Bayh's Shameful Retreat]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[The perennial veep shortlister bashed Congress in announcing his retirement. What if, writes Lee Siegel, he'd taken responsibility for it? Plus, Peter Beinart on how Bayh's exit endangers a Democratic dream.
In the mass exodus of the political class...]]></description>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Mon, 15 Feb 2010 22:47:39 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[A Kennedy Fleeing the Fight]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[You know the game has forever changed when Patrick Kennedy volunteers to leave the stage. Lee Siegel on the sea change in how personal our politics have become. 
As Representative Patrick Kennedy, Democrat of Rhode Island was announcing that he would...]]></description>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Sat, 13 Feb 2010 19:14:12 -0400]]></pubDate>
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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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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Mon, 08 Feb 2010 22:48:52 -0400]]></pubDate>
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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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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Sat, 06 Feb 2010 12:58:54 -0400]]></pubDate>
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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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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Tue, 02 Feb 2010 22:39:25 -0400]]></pubDate>
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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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