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	<title>The Feehery Theory &#187; George W Bush</title>
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		<title>Viva Las Vegas</title>
		<link>http://www.thefeeherytheory.com/2011/10/24/viva-las-vegas-2/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thefeeherytheory.com/2011/10/24/viva-las-vegas-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Oct 2011 15:36:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Feehery</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thefeeherytheory.com/?p=3661</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Politicians in Washington rushed Nevada into Statehood in 1864 to assure Abraham Lincoln a comfortable margin in his bid for reelection smack dab in the middle of the Civil War, and ever since then, the Silver State has played a unique role in American political history.
Nevada is mostly desert, so it has always been a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Obama&#8217;s Fatal Missteps</title>
		<link>http://www.thefeeherytheory.com/2011/10/04/obamas-fatal-missteps/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thefeeherytheory.com/2011/10/04/obamas-fatal-missteps/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Oct 2011 15:25:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Feehery</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thefeeherytheory.com/?p=3584</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Originally posted on THE HILL &#8211; October 3, 2011

It might be too early to start analyzing what went wrong with the Obama administration in its first three years, but I am going to do it anyway.
Here are seven turning points that led to the president’s decline and fall, seven places where Obama or his Democratic [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Master of Disaster</title>
		<link>http://www.thefeeherytheory.com/2011/09/27/master-of-disaster/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thefeeherytheory.com/2011/09/27/master-of-disaster/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Sep 2011 23:16:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Feehery</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thefeeherytheory.com/?p=3549</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In an Administration full of disasters, one appointment stands out…in a good way.
When my wife worked for the State of Florida office, she told me about this guy who headed up the Florida’s disaster response unit.  She told me he was awesome, that he knew what he was doing and that he was a really [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Caption Contest #3</title>
		<link>http://www.thefeeherytheory.com/2011/09/21/caption-contest-3/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Sep 2011 17:56:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Feehery</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thefeeherytheory.com/?p=3501</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Presenting caption contest week three. The winning caption will be announced next Wednesday and its author awarded their very own Feehery  Theory mug.
Week two was competitive. Can&#8217;t wait to see what gets posted this week.

 Caption this photo! 
Post your captions as comments below to be entered to win.
]]></description>
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		<title>Postponement Perhaps Gives Us More Time To Reflect</title>
		<link>http://www.thefeeherytheory.com/2011/08/31/postponement-perhaps-gives-us-more-time-to-reflect/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thefeeherytheory.com/2011/08/31/postponement-perhaps-gives-us-more-time-to-reflect/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Aug 2011 18:10:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Feehery</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thefeeherytheory.com/?p=3387</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Hurricane Irene blew in to Washington over the weekend and the biggest casualty was the Martin Luther King Memorial ceremony.
It turns out that the weather was pretty nice on Sunday afternoon, and the event could have still occurred, but it is hard to predict the weather.
It’s also hard to predict the future.
Are we as a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Ames Straw Poll</title>
		<link>http://www.thefeeherytheory.com/2011/08/11/the-ames-straw-poll/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thefeeherytheory.com/2011/08/11/the-ames-straw-poll/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Aug 2011 20:33:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Feehery</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[GOP]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thefeeherytheory.com/?p=3330</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[So why are so many political reporters traipsing to Iowa this August?
Well, it must be the Ames Straw poll, a tradition like no other.
The Iowa Republican party plays host to this political beauty contest that has little actual bearing on the actual race for the White House.
Since the straw poll was first started in 1979, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Obama Downgrade</title>
		<link>http://www.thefeeherytheory.com/2011/08/08/the-obama-downgrade/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thefeeherytheory.com/2011/08/08/the-obama-downgrade/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Aug 2011 16:58:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Feehery</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thefeeherytheory.com/?p=3311</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Democratic spinmeisters have concocted a nice little phrase to describe the actions of the Standard and Poor’s Ratings Agency, which was used to little effect over the weekend:  The Tea Party Downgrade.
Nice try.  That is kind of like blaming the fire department for not putting out the fire fast enough.
The S&#38;P believes that [...]]]></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>
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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>Debt and Taxes</title>
		<link>http://www.thefeeherytheory.com/2011/06/27/debt-and-taxes/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thefeeherytheory.com/2011/06/27/debt-and-taxes/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Jun 2011 17:25:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Feehery</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thefeeherytheory.com/?p=3137</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Ben Franklin was the one who first said that the only inevitable things in life were death and taxes.
These days, the same could probably be said for debt and taxes, but that doesn’t mean that the debt limit should include tax provisions. Here are seven reasons why:

Raising taxes during a slowing economy is bad policy: [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dems Punt on Taxes</title>
		<link>http://www.thefeeherytheory.com/2011/04/07/dems-punt-on-taxes/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thefeeherytheory.com/2011/04/07/dems-punt-on-taxes/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Apr 2011 14:04:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Feehery</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thefeeherytheory.com/?p=2879</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Balancing the federal budget (or at least making the unbalanced budget look more respectable) usually requires two kinds of actions from policy makers:  cutting spending and raising revenue.
Republicans like to focus on cutting spending.  Their political philosophy includes an innate distrust of government interference and an abiding faith in the free market, so [...]]]></description>
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