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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>
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		<category><![CDATA[Ping-Pong]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Senate Minority Leader McConnell]]></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>Questions That I Would Like To Be Asked During a Debate</title>
		<link>http://www.thefeeherytheory.com/2011/09/13/questions-that-i-would-like-to-be-asked-during-a-debate/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thefeeherytheory.com/2011/09/13/questions-that-i-would-like-to-be-asked-during-a-debate/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Sep 2011 14:03:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Feehery</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Government]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Presidential election]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[election]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[national security]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[taxes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[welfare]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ambassador to Saudi Arabia]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[China and Brazil]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[England]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[House]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Jimmy Carter]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Medicaid]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Ronald Reagan]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[The American people]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[United Nations]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Vice President]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[welfare reform]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thefeeherytheory.com/?p=3448</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Here are some questions that I would like to be asked at the next debate:
1.	What kind of person are you going to hire to lead your Office of Presidential Personnel?
2.	Will that person be an expert at executive placement or will they be the person who is most loyal to you?
3.	What kind of relationship do you [...]]]></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>
				<category><![CDATA[Bad Decisions]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Economy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Financial Crisis]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[GOP]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Theory]]></category>
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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>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>
				<category><![CDATA[Economy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Financial Crisis]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[GOP]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Government]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Laws]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Liberal Media]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Promises]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[election]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[terrorism]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[extend the debt limit]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Harry Reid]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Jim DeMint]]></category>
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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>The Lessons of 1990</title>
		<link>http://www.thefeeherytheory.com/2011/07/19/the-lessons-of-1990/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thefeeherytheory.com/2011/07/19/the-lessons-of-1990/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Jul 2011 15:46:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Feehery</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[GOP]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Government]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Laws]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[John Boehner]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Newt Gingrich]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Obama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[President Clinton]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thefeeherytheory.com/?p=3222</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I  learned to drink coffee in 1990.
I worked for House Minority Leader Bob Michel as a junior-level staffer, and I spent many a late night and quite a few weekends at the Capitol building, doing junior-level stuff as Republicans and Democrats wrangled over the budget. I learned to drink coffee so that I could [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Where’s Nancy?</title>
		<link>http://www.thefeeherytheory.com/2011/07/18/where%e2%80%99s-nancy/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thefeeherytheory.com/2011/07/18/where%e2%80%99s-nancy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Jul 2011 20:27:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Feehery</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Bad Decisions]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Financial Crisis]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thefeeherytheory.com/?p=3218</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The media loves to spend time speculating about how John Boehner and Eric Cantor are going to round up the votes to pass President Obama’s debt limit legislation.
But they haven’t asked one of the most important questions out there?  Where’s Nancy?
The former Speaker and now House Minority Leader has been mostly kept out of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Reasonable, Unreasonable</title>
		<link>http://www.thefeeherytheory.com/2011/07/14/reasonable-unreasonable/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thefeeherytheory.com/2011/07/14/reasonable-unreasonable/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Jul 2011 16:11:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Feehery</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[McConnell plan]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thefeeherytheory.com/?p=3207</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[It is altogether reasonable to have grave concerns about our national debt.  It is unreasonable to have grave concerns about our debt, and then refuse to do anything about it.
It is reasonable to vote against an increase in the debt ceiling.  It is unreasonable to complain, though, when a debt ceiling increase passes [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The McConnell Gambit</title>
		<link>http://www.thefeeherytheory.com/2011/07/13/the-mcconnell-gambit/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thefeeherytheory.com/2011/07/13/the-mcconnell-gambit/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Jul 2011 16:09:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Feehery</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Economy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Financial Crisis]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[GOP]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thefeeherytheory.com/?p=3202</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[So what exactly is Mitch McConnell up to?
McConnell offered a solution to the debt limit imbroglio that has been described as cynical, stupid, worthless, traitorous and worse.
It may be all of those things.  But it is also brilliant.
Mitch McConnell is perhaps the most gifted political infighter in Washington today.
He knows when to inject himself [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Class Warfare</title>
		<link>http://www.thefeeherytheory.com/2011/07/13/class-warfare/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Jul 2011 11:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Feehery</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thefeeherytheory.com/?p=3196</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[It was Karl Marx who first wrote about class warfare in The Communist Manifesto.  Marx believed that the exploited proletariat would eventually rise up against bourgeoisie, overthrow them and then seize their property.  In the Marxist view, only communal ownership would eliminate class conflict.
Marx clearly believed that class warfare would be directed upward, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Senate Should Act First</title>
		<link>http://www.thefeeherytheory.com/2011/05/24/senate-should-act-first/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thefeeherytheory.com/2011/05/24/senate-should-act-first/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 24 May 2011 16:09:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Feehery</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Financial Crisis]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[“Après vous, Monsieur Senate.”
John Boehner should say that to his friends in the upper chamber when it comes to raising the debt limit.
I know the parliamentarians in the crowd will say that because the debt limit is at heart a revenue issue, the House, constitutionally, should go first, but there are plenty of ways to [...]]]></description>
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