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		<title>Is the Private Sector Doing Just Fine?</title>
		<link>http://www.thefeeherytheory.com/2011/10/20/is-the-private-sector-doing-just-fine/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Oct 2011 16:41:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Feehery</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said yesterday:  &#8220;It&#8217;s very clear that private sector jobs have been doing just fine, it&#8217;s the public sector jobs where we&#8217;ve lost huge numbers, and that&#8217;s what this legislation is all about.”
He was talking about his plan to give more money to states so they can give more money [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Religion, Politics a Toxic mix</title>
		<link>http://www.thefeeherytheory.com/2011/10/18/religion-politics-a-toxic-mix/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Oct 2011 15:53:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Feehery</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Religion]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Originally posted on The Hill: 10/17/2011
Rarely has such a positive story in The New York Times been so potentially damaging to a presidential candidate.
There  was nothing in Sheryl Stolberg’s piece about Mitt Romney’s role in the  Mormon Church that was in any way incriminating, disqualifying or  threatening, unless, of course, you have [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Obamaville</title>
		<link>http://www.thefeeherytheory.com/2011/10/18/obamaville/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Oct 2011 15:47:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Feehery</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thefeeherytheory.com/?p=3638</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Wasting away again in Obamaville.

Looking for my lost shaker of salt.
Some people claim that George Bush is still to blame.
But I know.
It’s Barack Obama’s fault.
In the wake of the stock market crash of 1929, and in the depths of the Great Depression, shantytowns sprung up around America.
Called Hoovervilles, these itinerant communities came to symbolize the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Obama Campaign Announces It Will Protest Obama Administration</title>
		<link>http://www.thefeeherytheory.com/2011/10/17/obama-campaign-announces-it-will-protest-obama-administration/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thefeeherytheory.com/2011/10/17/obama-campaign-announces-it-will-protest-obama-administration/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Oct 2011 14:17:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Feehery</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thefeeherytheory.com/?p=3633</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[(Chicago, IL)  Today, David Axelrod, the chief of the Re-elect Obama Campaign, today announced that it will formally join the Occupy Wall Street protests and start mobilizing against the policies endorsed by the Obama Administration.
Axelrod brandished a Tim Geithner bobblehead doll, which he stabbed repeatedly with a pen knife while chanting an indecipherable spell, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Taxing the Rich Won’t Help</title>
		<link>http://www.thefeeherytheory.com/2011/10/11/taxing-the-rich-won%e2%80%99t-help/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thefeeherytheory.com/2011/10/11/taxing-the-rich-won%e2%80%99t-help/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Oct 2011 15:01:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Feehery</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thefeeherytheory.com/?p=3614</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[President Obama has made taxing the rich the centerpiece of his  reelection campaign. He talks incessantly about it. It is a key part of  his jobs package. So far, an apt summary of the Obama presidency might  very well be: “He killed Osama bin Laden and he really, really wanted to  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Columbus Day</title>
		<link>http://www.thefeeherytheory.com/2011/10/10/columbus-day/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thefeeherytheory.com/2011/10/10/columbus-day/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Oct 2011 22:25:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Feehery</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economy]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thefeeherytheory.com/?p=3609</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In 1492, Columbus sailed the ocean blue.
That was a long time ago.
It used to be that Christopher Columbus was a big deal in America.  In 1892, the worlds fare in Chicago celebrated the 400th anniversary of the Italian sailor&#8217;s &#8220;discovery&#8221; of the new world.
These days, we don&#8217;t even get Columbus day off.
There is still [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dilatory Motions</title>
		<link>http://www.thefeeherytheory.com/2011/10/07/dilatory-motions/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thefeeherytheory.com/2011/10/07/dilatory-motions/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Oct 2011 20:17:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Feehery</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Senate majority leader moved last night to cut off republican amendments to a Chinese currency bill, calling the amendments dilatory.  In doing so, he changed Senate rules and caused a firestorm in the halls of the world&#8217;s greatest debating society (or so it thinks of itself).
I was in the Senate press gallery as [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Applying the Steve Jobs Lesson to Politics</title>
		<link>http://www.thefeeherytheory.com/2011/10/06/applying-the-steve-jobs-lesson-to-politics/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thefeeherytheory.com/2011/10/06/applying-the-steve-jobs-lesson-to-politics/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Oct 2011 17:42:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Feehery</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thefeeherytheory.com/?p=3599</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[We are all going to hear a lot of stories about Steve Jobs and his impact on our daily lives.  How are kids can figure out the iPad before we can.  How Grandma is truly hip with her new iPhone.  And all of the other really cool family stories. (By the way, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Protest</title>
		<link>http://www.thefeeherytheory.com/2011/10/05/protest-2/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thefeeherytheory.com/2011/10/05/protest-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Oct 2011 15:25:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Feehery</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Apparently, Radiohead couldn’t get its schedule straight with the Occupy Wall Street protesters and they didn’t play for the grungy crowd last week.  I am not hip enough to know exactly what kind of music the band plays, but I do know that a couple of years ago, the members of the band came [...]]]></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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		<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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