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		<title>EBT</title>
		<link>http://www.thefeeherytheory.com/2011/09/20/ebt/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thefeeherytheory.com/2011/09/20/ebt/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Sep 2011 23:24:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Feehery</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thefeeherytheory.com/?p=3491</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The Electronic Benefits Transfer Card is the identification card for the SNAP/Food stamp program.  It works like a credit card with a magnetic strip on the back that slides through a machine at a grocery store and some restaurants (including some fast food places).
Meant as a way to help reform the Food Stamp system in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Gaddafi and Obama</title>
		<link>http://www.thefeeherytheory.com/2011/08/23/gaddafi-and-obama/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Aug 2011 15:48:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Feehery</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thefeeherytheory.com/?p=3368</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[If and when Muammar Gaddafi is finally deposed in Libya, President Obama probably deserves some credit.  He backed Nicholas Sarkozy and NATO’s efforts to aid the rebels (whoever they are).  He authorized the Navy and the Air Force to bomb the hell out of the bad guys.  And of course, he has [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Teach Your Children Well</title>
		<link>http://www.thefeeherytheory.com/2011/08/22/teach-your-children-well/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thefeeherytheory.com/2011/08/22/teach-your-children-well/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Aug 2011 14:37:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Feehery</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Education]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thefeeherytheory.com/?p=3363</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Are you ready for some college football?
After a summer of revelations about how corrupt the college football system has become, you could be excused for not being quite ready for a new season.
Apparently, a University of Miami booster spent millions of dollars providing prostitutes, payola, and other perks to star athletes at the program in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Boehner Is In Fine Shape</title>
		<link>http://www.thefeeherytheory.com/2011/07/27/boehner-is-in-fine-shape/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thefeeherytheory.com/2011/07/27/boehner-is-in-fine-shape/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Jul 2011 16:42:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Feehery</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thefeeherytheory.com/?p=3263</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[John Boehner is doing an exceptional job as Speaker under extraordinarily tough times.
When I first started working in Congress, Tom Foley had just taken over from Jim Wright as Speaker of the House.  Unlike the dictatorial Wright, Foley ran a decentralized process that gave too much power to Committee barons like Dan Rostenkowski, Jack Brooks [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Real Scandal</title>
		<link>http://www.thefeeherytheory.com/2011/06/17/the-real-scandal/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thefeeherytheory.com/2011/06/17/the-real-scandal/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Jun 2011 15:13:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Feehery</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thefeeherytheory.com/?p=3103</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I heard Congressman Steve Israel, the head of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, on television this morning talking about the real scandal.
His point was that the real scandal wasn’t Anthony Weiner.  The real scandal was the fact that Republicans are cutting the kind of government spending that he likes.
He is wrong on a couple [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Weiner’s Decline and Fall</title>
		<link>http://www.thefeeherytheory.com/2011/06/14/weiner%e2%80%99s-decline-and-fall/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thefeeherytheory.com/2011/06/14/weiner%e2%80%99s-decline-and-fall/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Jun 2011 18:08:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Feehery</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thefeeherytheory.com/?p=3087</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I actually thought he would survive.
When I first heard the allegations against Rep. Anthony Weiner (D-N.Y.), I assumed he would stick it out and stay in Congress.
After  all, this was a sex scandal without the sex — a goofy and, yes, creepy  case of tweeting without any sense. It seemed pretty harmless at the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Short Term, Long Term</title>
		<link>http://www.thefeeherytheory.com/2011/06/08/short-term-long-term/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thefeeherytheory.com/2011/06/08/short-term-long-term/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Jun 2011 17:26:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Feehery</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thefeeherytheory.com/?p=3070</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In the short term, the economy might dip back into a recession, which means that our debt picture in the long term gets only worse.
In the short term, it sure is fun to make fun of Anthony Weiner.  In the long term, do we really want to kick out members of Congress because of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Discussing Weinergate on Hardball</title>
		<link>http://www.thefeeherytheory.com/2011/06/07/discussing-weinergate-on-hardball/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thefeeherytheory.com/2011/06/07/discussing-weinergate-on-hardball/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Jun 2011 01:56:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Feehery</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[
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		<title>Should He Resign?</title>
		<link>http://www.thefeeherytheory.com/2011/06/07/should-he-resign/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thefeeherytheory.com/2011/06/07/should-he-resign/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Jun 2011 19:21:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Feehery</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thefeeherytheory.com/?p=3061</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[There are more than a few politicians at the federal level who share two conflicting traits:  They believe they are the center of the universe, but they also believe that they are anonymous.
That is especially true for Anthony Weiner, but he is not the first and certainly not the last political figure to be [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Weiner-Gate</title>
		<link>http://www.thefeeherytheory.com/2011/06/02/weiner-gate/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thefeeherytheory.com/2011/06/02/weiner-gate/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Jun 2011 15:12:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Feehery</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thefeeherytheory.com/?p=3040</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Anthony Weiner, the voluble Congressman from New York, may or may not have been caught with his pants down.  Nobody knows for sure, but it sure makes for a great media story.
The gist of the story is that a picture of Weiner in his underwear was sent, via Twitter, to a co-ed across the [...]]]></description>
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