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		<title>No Need To Respond</title>
		<link>http://www.thefeeherytheory.com/2011/09/07/no-need-to-respond/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Sep 2011 11:48:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Feehery</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[assassinations of Robert Kennedy and Martin Luther King]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[President Johnson’s 1966 State of the Union Address]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thefeeherytheory.com/?p=3419</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Ev and Gerry started the whole response thing.
Everett Dirksen and Gerry Ford, the former Senate Republican leader from Illinois and the former House Minority Leader (and later President) from Michigan used to have a radio show broadcast from the Capitol.
They turned that radio show into a televised rebuttal to President Johnson’s 1966 State of the [...]]]></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>
				<category><![CDATA[Bailouts]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[the Iraq War]]></category>
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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>Fixers and Breakers</title>
		<link>http://www.thefeeherytheory.com/2011/07/19/fixers-and-breakers/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Jul 2011 16:45:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Feehery</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Financial Crisis]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Michele Bachmann]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mitch Daniels]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mitt Romney]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nancy Pelosi]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Newt Gingrich]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[politicians]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thefeeherytheory.com/?p=3228</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[There are two kinds of politicians.
Fixers come into office to fix things.  They seek to fix problems for their constituents, fix the legislative process and fix government.
Breakers come into office to break things.  They seek to take down the political order, break up the status quo and destroy icons.
Fixers occupy the political middle [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Regular Order</title>
		<link>http://www.thefeeherytheory.com/2010/10/01/regular-order/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thefeeherytheory.com/2010/10/01/regular-order/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Oct 2010 15:09:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Feehery</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Government]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Promises]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Theory]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[election]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Denny Hastert]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Newt Gingrich]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thefeeherytheory.com/?p=2140</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[When Denny Hastert started as Speaker of the House, he promised, after four tumultuous years of Newt Gingrich, to bring regular order back to the lower chamber.
To Hastert, regular order meant that the House would do its business in the right order.  First, it would do a budget.  Then it would work on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Conservative Urban Agenda?</title>
		<link>http://www.thefeeherytheory.com/2010/03/22/a-conservative-urban-agenda/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thefeeherytheory.com/2010/03/22/a-conservative-urban-agenda/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Mar 2010 17:00:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Feehery</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Government]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[election]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Black]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Denny Hastert]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Inner City]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[jesse jackson]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[race]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thefeeherytheory.com/?p=1172</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The same weekend that the President won his biggest legislative victory, a group of black leaders, including Jesse Jackson and radio talk show host Tavis Smiley, convened a meeting in Chicago to criticize the President for not doing enough for their besieged community.
“It would be fascinating right now to see how Martin Luther King Jr. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Can the House trust the Senate? (From CNN)</title>
		<link>http://www.thefeeherytheory.com/2010/03/12/can-the-house-trust-the-senate-from-cnn/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thefeeherytheory.com/2010/03/12/can-the-house-trust-the-senate-from-cnn/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Mar 2010 17:33:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Feehery</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Government]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Washington (CNN) &#8212; When the Founding Fathers decided to create a bicameral legislative branch, they were trying to make things difficult for the federal government to grab power from the people.
What the Founding Fathers may not have foreseen was how much the House and the Senate would grow to dislike and distrust each other. Why [...]]]></description>
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		<title>“Zest”</title>
		<link>http://www.thefeeherytheory.com/2010/03/11/%e2%80%9czest%e2%80%9d/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thefeeherytheory.com/2010/03/11/%e2%80%9czest%e2%80%9d/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Mar 2010 22:19:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Feehery</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Food]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[David Bonior]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Denny Hastert]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thefeeherytheory.com/?p=1129</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I always liked David Bonior.  Sure, he was a left-wing, pro-labor, hard-core Democrat, who opposed much of what my personal world-view may be.
But he had integrity.  He was pro-life Democrat, which takes a lot of courage.  And you could tell he really cared about people.
My former boss, Speaker Denny Hastert, liked Bonior too.  He was [...]]]></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>
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		<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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