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            <title><![CDATA[Politically Scandalous Deficit Fixes]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[As Obama's new budget threatens record debt levels, Matthew Yglesias says the only real solution is to crack down on defense, deductions-and yes, Medicare.
The release of today's budget by Barack Obama is a reminder that though everyone likes to...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Brilliant Speeches Only Get You So Far]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Once again, Obama delivered rhetorical gold. But great oratory does not translate into votes on Capitol Hill.
Barack Obama's State of the Union address is a reminder of a fact that people manage to somehow forget again and again: The man is really...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[How to Win 2010]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Health care was "too big to fail." Mending Wall Street is a different ballgame. Matthew Yglesias on how President Obama can woo back liberals, bedevil the GOP-and change the outcome this fall.
As health reform continues to wend its way through...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Fighting Yemen's Terror Factory]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[  Amid new calls from hawks to ramp up military efforts in Yemen, Matthew Yglesias on how to solve one of the War on Terror's thorniest problems.
Throughout the debate over sending additional troops to Afghanistan, skeptics of this course of action...]]></description>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Thu, 31 Dec 2009 19:24:48 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[The Politician of the Year]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[  Everyone hated Harry Reid, but Matthew Yglesias says today he proved himself a hero by squeezing 60 votes from a cranky, uncooperative Senate for historic health-care legislation.
There are some politicians who are more hated than Senate Majority...]]></description>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Sat, 19 Dec 2009 12:17:17 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Why Obama Can't Create Jobs]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[The White House summit on employment was a sham. The only way to bring the jobs back is to get rid of Ben Bernanke. 
The news cycle is fast, but political change is slow. Consequently, a president often faces the problem of how to create the...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[The Dubai Bubble Heads]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Of course, Dubai's financial crisis has rattled markets. What's surprising is that so many right-wingers had fallen in love with the emirate's bizarre society in the first place.
Middle Eastern banking regulations don't normally make headlines, but...]]></description>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Mon, 30 Nov 2009 09:46:30 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Why We Need a War Tax]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Amid reports that Obama will send 30,000 more troops to Afghanistan, liberals are rallying around a plan to raise revenue for the surge. Matthew Yglesias on how this war hits your wallet.
For months now,  liberals in the blogosphere and the press have...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Step Up to the Plate, China]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[With Obama barely making news in China, Matthew Yglesias says the real problem is that the country is barely throwing its weight around. Plus, our gallery of the president's trip.
President Barack Obama's trip to China comes at a time of rising...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Next Battle for Health Care]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[ Obama and the Democrats won a huge victory in the House, but a minefield awaits in the Senate-and it has nothing to do with the public option. 
The health-care reform bill that passed the House of Representatives late Saturday night is far from a...]]></description>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Sun, 08 Nov 2009 22:50:57 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Defending a Bomb-Thrower]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Republicans whine about partisanship-while stiff-arming Obama and sitting on their hands. Thank heavens for Alan Grayson, who's bringing moral backbone to the health-care debate.
The basic blueprint for a freshman Democrat newly elected to a marginal...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Battle for American Jews]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[An upstart Washington advocacy group called J Street has mounted a leftist challenge to the hawkish establishment over who speaks for American Jews-but Matthew Yglesias says the old guard's response risks alienating Jews and hurting Israel.
J Street,...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[What's the Public Option, Again?]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[  Yes, a new poll shows strong support for a health-care public option. But even the pollsters aren't sure what it is. Why Congress should ignore the survey and do the right thing.
Advocates of including a "public option" in a proposed health-care...]]></description>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Tue, 20 Oct 2009 23:01:39 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[The Best Deal the GOP Will Get]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[ The Senate Finance Committee passed Obamacare on Tuesday. Matthew Yglesias says if this bill doesn't pass the whole Senate, the president's next offer will be a far more bitter pill.
In Finland last December, where taxes are 43.6 percent of GDP...]]></description>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Tue, 13 Oct 2009 23:12:14 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[What Will Kill Health-Care Reform]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[  The public option may or may not survive. But the real problem for progressives, writes Matthew Yglesias, is that moderates' cost-cutting zeal will prevent affordable care for all Americans.
Liberals were expected to be disappointed by the...]]></description>
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