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		<title>America’s Mid-Life Crisis</title>
		<link>http://www.thefeeherytheory.com/2010/03/10/america%e2%80%99s-mid-life-crisis/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thefeeherytheory.com/2010/03/10/america%e2%80%99s-mid-life-crisis/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Mar 2010 18:36:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Feehery</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Financial Crisis]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Government]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[election]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Elliott Jaques]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[laid off]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mid-life crisis]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[stock market collapse]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tea Party]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thefeeherytheory.com/?p=1118</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I have a theory.
America is going through its version of a mid-life crisis.
According to Wikipedia, the term midlife crisis was first coined “in 1965 by Elliott Jaques and used in Western societies to describe a period of dramatic self-doubt that is felt by some individuals in the &#8220;middle years&#8221; or middle age of life…The result [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rude, Nude and Crazy?</title>
		<link>http://www.thefeeherytheory.com/2010/03/09/rude-nude-and-crazy/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thefeeherytheory.com/2010/03/09/rude-nude-and-crazy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Mar 2010 16:27:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Feehery</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[health care]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Democrats]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Erica Massa]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Obama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rahm Emmanuel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[RUSH LIMBAUGH]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thefeeherytheory.com/?p=1113</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Last week, Ways and Means Committee Chairman Charlie Rangel had to step down because he had been bedeviled by ethics problems, including a failure to pay his taxes.  That wasn’t the direct reason he stepped down, but it wasn’t just his little junket to the Caribbean that ended his tax-writing career.
Nancy Pelosi, the House Speaker, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Iraq Elections</title>
		<link>http://www.thefeeherytheory.com/2010/03/08/the-iraq-elections/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thefeeherytheory.com/2010/03/08/the-iraq-elections/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Mar 2010 21:51:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Feehery</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Foreign Relations]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Government]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[election]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Alex mistri]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[democracy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[George W Bush]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Iran]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Iraq]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[middle-east]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Persian]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Saudi Arabia]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thefeeherytheory.com/?p=1110</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[It wasn’t as exciting as the first time that Iraq held democratic elections, but it was probably more significant.
I asked my friend Alex Mistri, who spent a year in Iraq working at the highest levels of the American government, what these elections mean to him.
He told me two things.
First, Iraq is slowly but surely becoming [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The March 18th Deadline</title>
		<link>http://www.thefeeherytheory.com/2010/03/08/the-march-18th-deadline/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thefeeherytheory.com/2010/03/08/the-march-18th-deadline/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Mar 2010 18:15:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Feehery</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Financial Crisis]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Government]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[spending]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Africa]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bertie Ahern]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Brian Cowan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Celtic Tiger]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Economy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fianna Fail]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Inflation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ireland]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[socialist]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[St. Patrick’s Day]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[the Euro]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thefeeherytheory.com/?p=1106</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Most people looked at the President’s March 18th health care deadline and saw a totally unrealistic, pie-in-the-sky, hail Mary pass from a guy who has set down several totally unrealistic, pie-in-the-sky, hail Mary pass deadlines in the past.
Remember, when he wanted a health care law on his desk last August?  Or when he wanted it [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Life is Complicated For Speaker Pelosi</title>
		<link>http://www.thefeeherytheory.com/2010/03/06/life-is-complicated-for-speaker-pelosi/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thefeeherytheory.com/2010/03/06/life-is-complicated-for-speaker-pelosi/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Mar 2010 15:58:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Feehery</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Government]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Scandals]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[election]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[abortion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bart Stupak]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bill Clinton]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Charlie Rangel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Congress]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Democrats]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Denny Hastert]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Eric Massa]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[health care]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[House]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Joe Biden]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mark Foley]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nancy Pelosi]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Republicans]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Senate]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tom DeLay]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ways and Means Committee]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thefeeherytheory.com/?p=1103</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The resignation of Congressman Eric Massa complicates the life of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.  And her life is already pretty complicated.
Of course, it means one less vote for a health care bill that Congressional Democrats are trying to get through a reluctant House.
And one vote is a big deal, because it looks like pro-life Democrats [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Are Tea-Partiers Really Conservative?</title>
		<link>http://www.thefeeherytheory.com/2010/03/05/are-tea-partiers-really-conservative/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thefeeherytheory.com/2010/03/05/are-tea-partiers-really-conservative/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Mar 2010 19:39:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Feehery</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Government]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Radicalism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Abby Hoffman]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Conservatives]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[David Brooks]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[democratic process]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dick Armey]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Edmund Burke]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Glen Beck]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[James O’Keefe]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[RUSH LIMBAUGH]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Russell Kirk]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tea Party]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The New Left]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thefeeherytheory.com/?p=1098</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I hate it when David Brooks writes a column on a subject that I have been researching on and planning to write about for weeks.  And he did it to me this morning, with a great column about “The Wall Mart Hippies” (http://budurl.com/2r5v).
His central thesis is that tea-party crowd is not really conservative at all.  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>When PAYGO Doesn’t Mean PAYGO</title>
		<link>http://www.thefeeherytheory.com/2010/03/04/when-paygo-doesn%e2%80%99t-mean-paygo/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thefeeherytheory.com/2010/03/04/when-paygo-doesn%e2%80%99t-mean-paygo/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Mar 2010 22:30:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Feehery</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Government]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Promises]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Unemployment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[George Lemieux]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jim Bunning]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[PAYGO]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Republicans]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thefeeherytheory.com/?p=1091</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The junior Senator from Florida put a simple question to the Chairman of the Senate Finance Committee yesterday on the Senate floor.
When does PAYGO really mean PAYGO?
Senate Democrats answered with a resounding “never”.
For the second time in a week, Republicans in the Upper Body exposed the lie that is the President’s version of PAYGO.
You remember [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why Pelosi Stuck With Rangel</title>
		<link>http://www.thefeeherytheory.com/2010/03/04/why-pelosi-stuck-with-rangel/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thefeeherytheory.com/2010/03/04/why-pelosi-stuck-with-rangel/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Mar 2010 15:48:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Feehery</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Government]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bill Clinton]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Charlie Rangel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Crazy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dan Rostenkowski]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nancy Pelosi]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pete Stark]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sam Gibbons]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tom Foley]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ways and Means Committee]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thefeeherytheory.com/?p=1087</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Charlie Rangel is not crazy.  He may be liberal.  He may be corrupt.  He may be a partisan.  But he is not crazy.
The same cannot be said of Pete Stark, the man who will take Charlie Rangel’s place.
This reminds me a little bit of when Tom Foley had to find a replacement for Dan Rostenkowski [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Getting Caught in The Changing Times</title>
		<link>http://www.thefeeherytheory.com/2010/03/03/getting-caught-in-the-changing-times/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thefeeherytheory.com/2010/03/03/getting-caught-in-the-changing-times/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Mar 2010 17:36:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Feehery</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Fundraising]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Government]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Scandals]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Charlie Rangel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Charlie Wilson]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[CODELs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Congress]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jack Abramoff]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jim Wright]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[K Street]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lobbyist]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nancy Pelosi]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Republicans]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thefeeherytheory.com/?p=1084</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[“The times, they are a changing.”
That anthem of the 60’s should always be in the minds of all Hill ethics counselors.
Charlie Rangel’s troubles with the Ethics Committee follow a familiar path.
I remember well in November of 1994, when an obscure challenger named Michael Patrick Flanagan knocked off a powerful Ways and Means Chairman who had [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Glowing Profile, Growing Dysfunction</title>
		<link>http://www.thefeeherytheory.com/2010/03/02/glowing-profile-growing-dysfunction/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thefeeherytheory.com/2010/03/02/glowing-profile-growing-dysfunction/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Mar 2010 04:39:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Feehery</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Government]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bunning]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Chief of Staff]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Democrats]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[GOP]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Obama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pelosi]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rahm]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Republicans]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thefeeherytheory.com/?p=1070</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Rarely has a glowing, front-page profile in a leading daily newspaper been so controversial.  The President’s Chief of Staff got the full treatment today, as his allies let it be known that he is the only voice of reason in a White House that is struggling to remain relevant.
It was Rahm who said that the [...]]]></description>
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