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		<title>Promises, Promises</title>
		<link>http://backboneamerica.net/2010/06/03/promises-promises/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Jun 2010 12:08:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Red at Heart</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hillary Clinton&#8217;s statements on the Israeli flotilla situation might well have been replaced with, &#8220;blah, blah, blah.&#8221;  I&#8217;d recommend you watch the YouTube video of her formal statement but it&#8217;s so full of boring platitudes, all of which could easily have been extracted from the speeches made during her husband&#8217;s Israeli-Palestinian peace talks way back when.   &#8220;We [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Let them eat&#8230;cake</title>
		<link>http://backboneamerica.net/2009/08/12/let-them-eat-cake/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Aug 2009 04:42:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kenneth Davenport</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m constantly amazed at the arrogance of our elected officials in Washington.  Service in the government was supposed to be a privilege, and members of Congress were supposed to be the people&#8217;s representatives. Perhaps there was a time, before big money lobbying and ballooning budget deficits, when that was largely true. But not today. Today [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bailouts beget corruption, history warns</title>
		<link>http://backboneamerica.net/2009/02/25/bailouts-beget-corruption-history-warns/</link>
		<comments>http://backboneamerica.net/2009/02/25/bailouts-beget-corruption-history-warns/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Feb 2009 18:28:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>William Watson</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Bailout & stimulus]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Obama’s attempt to save America’s failing financial sector, automakers, etc., perhaps by nationalizing them, is classic socialism. It will result in failure not only of those industries but of our entire economic system. It will also produce the same massive societal corruption found in former states of the Soviet Union. I served as a Fulbright [...]]]></description>
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		<title>If the Rocky folds</title>
		<link>http://backboneamerica.net/2009/02/03/if-the-rocky-folds/</link>
		<comments>http://backboneamerica.net/2009/02/03/if-the-rocky-folds/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Feb 2009 18:43:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Andrews</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Colorado]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[As Tom Daschle exits the Obama administration in his tax-free chauffeured limo, kudos to the Rocky Mountain News for editorializing today that this hypocritical scofflaw wasn&#8217;t fit for confirmation as HHS Secretary. Sorry to see nothing on that from the Denver Post editorial page. A Rocky editorial likewise called for the rejection of Tim Geithner, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why should WE pay our taxes?</title>
		<link>http://backboneamerica.net/2009/02/03/why-should-we-pay-our-taxes/</link>
		<comments>http://backboneamerica.net/2009/02/03/why-should-we-pay-our-taxes/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Feb 2009 15:24:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Red at Heart</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Corruption & scandals]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[As the list of influential Democrats with tax evasion problems grows, it causes the average  law abiding American to give pause and wonder why we struggle to meet our tax obligations and fear the consequences if we don&#8217;t. Apparently, we don&#8217;t have to worry whether we pay or not.  Just ask Rangel, Franken, Daschel, and Geitner.  If we are [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bill Richardson, politician on the make</title>
		<link>http://backboneamerica.net/2009/01/09/bill-richardson-politician-on-the-make/</link>
		<comments>http://backboneamerica.net/2009/01/09/bill-richardson-politician-on-the-make/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Jan 2009 20:52:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Dendahl</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Corruption & scandals]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Editor: New Mexico scion John Dendahl was the 2006 GOP nominee against Gov. Bill Richardson, recently dropped from Obama&#8217;s cabinet under a cloud of scandal. We asked Dendahl, now a Coloradan, for his candid impressions of a 30-year acquaintance with Richardson. Here they are. LEAVING EMPEROR BILL&#8217;S REALM Years of Buyers’ Remorse over Richardson Lie [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Nevadans, please fire Harry Reid</title>
		<link>http://backboneamerica.net/2009/01/07/nevadans-please-fire-harry-reid/</link>
		<comments>http://backboneamerica.net/2009/01/07/nevadans-please-fire-harry-reid/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Jan 2009 19:40:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Red at Heart</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Once again, Sen. Harry Reid has overreached his elected authority and exposed his lack of moral authority in the Roland Burris issue. The people of Nevada could do a great service to our country in making sure that Harry Reid is defeated in 2010. He reportedly is concerned already about holding his seat and has [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Colorado GOP in legislative ethics mess</title>
		<link>http://backboneamerica.net/2009/01/02/colorado-gop-in-legislative-ethics-mess/</link>
		<comments>http://backboneamerica.net/2009/01/02/colorado-gop-in-legislative-ethics-mess/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Jan 2009 22:10:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Welsh</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Corruption & scandals]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Legislature]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The GOP ethical dustup over who would succeed House Minority Leader Mike May, now rendered moot by May deciding he will stay, makes you want to say a number of things, some of them printable. You could say that the actions of a few have brought shame on many; you could say that those involved, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>99 golden political quotes of 2008</title>
		<link>http://backboneamerica.net/2008/12/22/99-golden-political-quotes-of-2008/</link>
		<comments>http://backboneamerica.net/2008/12/22/99-golden-political-quotes-of-2008/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Dec 2008 20:44:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Huntwork</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Clinton]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Election 2008 aftermath]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The year 2008 was politically the most exciting and unusual in a generation. It hosted a long, divisive and drama-filled campaign season that featured the rapid rise and fall of Rudy Guiliani, Fred Thompson and Mike Huckabee, the unlikely rise of John McCain and Barack Obama, and the eventual bitter defeat of Hillary Clinton. It [...]]]></description>
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		<title>No pies in face for the Great Obama</title>
		<link>http://backboneamerica.net/2008/12/17/the-pies-miss-obama-but-we%e2%80%99ll-keep-watch-anyway/</link>
		<comments>http://backboneamerica.net/2008/12/17/the-pies-miss-obama-but-we%e2%80%99ll-keep-watch-anyway/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Dec 2008 00:49:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Reeb</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Corruption & scandals]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[How wondrous is President-elect Obama’s amazing ability to &#8220;transcend&#8221; the seamy politics in which he has been deeply involved for most of his adult life. Close associates have been knee deep in scandal, bribery, defamation, misrepresentation and even bombing, and Obama (so far) is the white knight that eludes any taint. The most telling metaphor [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Funny how Blago rhymes with BHO</title>
		<link>http://backboneamerica.net/2008/12/11/funny-how-blago-rhymes-with-bho/</link>
		<comments>http://backboneamerica.net/2008/12/11/funny-how-blago-rhymes-with-bho/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Dec 2008 17:20:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Red at Heart</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Corruption & scandals]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[This week&#8217;s spin is what a bad guy the governor of Illinois is yet how Obama, once again, knew nothing about this guy&#8217;s character. As before, here&#8217;s a person that Obama once had very congenial and close relationships with that turns out to be less than an honorable person. He just seems to have a [...]]]></description>
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