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		<title>Rubio and the Hispanic Vote</title>
		<link>http://www.thefeeherytheory.com/2011/10/21/rubio-and-the-hispanic-vote/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thefeeherytheory.com/2011/10/21/rubio-and-the-hispanic-vote/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Oct 2011 15:44:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Feehery</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thefeeherytheory.com/?p=3657</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Chris Matthews thought he would get me with his question on Marco Rubio.  He asked me, breaking news style, what I thought about the revelations that Rubio’s family fled Cuba two whole years before Castro came to power.
I didn’t scratch my head on camera, but I did so in my mind.
What the hell is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bain Capital</title>
		<link>http://www.thefeeherytheory.com/2011/09/28/bain-capital/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thefeeherytheory.com/2011/09/28/bain-capital/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Sep 2011 00:50:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Feehery</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thefeeherytheory.com/?p=3561</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I was talking to a Democratic friend of mine this morning, and he told me to expect the President’s people to go after Mitt Romney on the jobs issue.  “There is a lot more that hasn’t come to the surface,” he told me confidently.
I’m sure there is.  There is always more on just about everybody.  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ping-Pong</title>
		<link>http://www.thefeeherytheory.com/2011/09/26/ping-pong/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thefeeherytheory.com/2011/09/26/ping-pong/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Sep 2011 17:08:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Feehery</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Financial Crisis]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[GOP]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Government]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[spending]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[America]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[John Boehner]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Ping-Pong]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[the Senate Majority Leader]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thefeeherytheory.com/?p=3541</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Ping-Pong is a wonderful game, requiring skill, finesse, great hand-eye coordination, and at times, power.
Ping-Pong is a different game in the Congressional sense.
When one legislative body ping-pongs back a piece of legislation to another legislative body (like the House jamming the Senate) it can be both exhilarating and frustrating at the same time.
Last week, the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fighting Fraud In Medicare</title>
		<link>http://www.thefeeherytheory.com/2011/09/16/fighting-fraud-in-medicare/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thefeeherytheory.com/2011/09/16/fighting-fraud-in-medicare/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Sep 2011 16:32:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Feehery</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thefeeherytheory.com/?p=3480</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;In  such condition, there is no place for industry; because the fruit  thereof is uncertain: and consequently no culture of the earth; no  navigation, nor use of the commodities that may be imported by sea; no  commodious building; no instruments of moving, and removing, such things  as require much force; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>No Need To Respond</title>
		<link>http://www.thefeeherytheory.com/2011/09/07/no-need-to-respond/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thefeeherytheory.com/2011/09/07/no-need-to-respond/#comments</comments>
		<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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		<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>Perry and Romney</title>
		<link>http://www.thefeeherytheory.com/2011/08/19/perry-and-romney/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thefeeherytheory.com/2011/08/19/perry-and-romney/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Aug 2011 16:35:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Feehery</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thefeeherytheory.com/?p=3360</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[For a lot of non-Tea Party Republicans, Rick Perry’s entrance into the Republican Primary makes Mitt Romney look a lot more attractive.
It is wrong to say that the Republican establishment wants Mitt Romney to be their Presidential candidate.  First, that assumes that there is a Republican establishment that can make a decision, which I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Tea Party Takes It on the Chin</title>
		<link>http://www.thefeeherytheory.com/2011/08/02/the-tea-party-takes-it-on-the-chin/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thefeeherytheory.com/2011/08/02/the-tea-party-takes-it-on-the-chin/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Aug 2011 10:00:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Feehery</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thefeeherytheory.com/?p=3288</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[John Boehner won a complete and total victory in the House with an overwhelming vote to extend the debt limit.
His victory was so complete, many of his closest allies in the House could safely vote no to avoid primary fights next year.
House Democrats divided almost exactly in half, and their left wing is livid at [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Reunion</title>
		<link>http://www.thefeeherytheory.com/2011/08/01/reunion/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thefeeherytheory.com/2011/08/01/reunion/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Aug 2011 18:42:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Feehery</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thefeeherytheory.com/?p=3284</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[As we were driving back from the airport, my 5-year old son Jack asked me, “Daddy, what’s the debt limit?”
We had just flown in from Chicago.  I had dropped off my son at grandma’s house, and drove up to Milwaukee for my 25 year college reunion.
The debt limit wasn’t just on the mind of [...]]]></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>
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		<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>Bad Reason, Good Reason</title>
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		<dc:creator>John Feehery</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bad reason:  Opposing the grand bargain because you think a grand bargain would help President Obama get re-elected.
Good reason:  Opposing the grand bargain because you think raising taxes will hurt the economy.
Bad reason:  You strongly support a tax increase because you want to stick it to Republicans.
Good reason:  You want to [...]]]></description>
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