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		<title>Culture Break</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mrs. Think Tank insists. I really like the cast: Billy Crudup, James Franco, Viola Davis, Richard Jenkins, Javier Bardem and Julia Roberts. She read the book. I didn&#8217;t.

Until tomorrow . . .

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		<title>The State of #hcr: Sat. Night Edition</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Mar 2010 23:35:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Jonathan Alter of Newsweek sums it up:
The remaining stumbling block is the Stupak faction,  which wants Obama to sign an executive order making the Senate bill more  like the original House bill that contained the Stupak amendment. It&#8217;s  not clear how far the White House is prepared to go in the executive [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fire the A**holes</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Mar 2010 23:15:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[From The Washington Post:
Black lawmakers said Saturday that &#8220;tea party&#8221; protesters outside the Capitol hurled racial epithets at Rep. John Lewis (D-Ga.), a former civil rights leader who was nearly beaten to death during a 1965 march, as he headed out of the building on his way to President Obama&#8217;s final health-care rally.
Rep. Andre Carson [...]]]></description>
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		<title>#AR04: Ross Issues Strange Statement</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Mar 2010 23:15:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Rep. Mike Ross, who has been opposed to health care reform from the very beginning, issued a statement today praising the Democratic leadership for not using the &#8220;deem and pass&#8221; rule for health care reform.
I&#8217;m trying to figure out why he cares. He&#8217;s a firm NO vote.
Here&#8217;s what Max Brantley of the Arkansas Times had [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Obama, Health Care and History</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Mar 2010 17:55:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[From Ron Brownstein in The National Journal:
Win or lose, Obama has pursued health care reform as tenaciously as any president has pursued any domestic initiative in decades. Health care has now been his presidency&#8217;s central domestic focus for a full year. That&#8217;s about as long as it took to pass the Civil Rights Act of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Remembering Medicare Part D</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Mar 2010 17:35:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Joe Klein of TIME reminds readers about Medicare Part D, an enormous entitlement program, that passed under President George W. Bush.
It should be noted that the Medicare Part D legislation was an unpaid for entitlement that will cost taxpayers an estimated $7 Trillion this century. But when Rove, and other Republicans, send up the sort [...]]]></description>
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		<title>AR Senate: Debate?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Mar 2010 17:15:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Lt. Gov. Bill Halter lobbed the accusation that Sen. Blanche Lincoln was ducking a debate. Today, the Lincoln campaign responded:
The campaign has received a handful of inquiries from media outlets about the Senator’s willingness to attend debates, and each time we have indicated that she is eager to debate the issues with her opponents,” Charlie [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Health Care Vote Sunday</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Mar 2010 14:35:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[All signs point to a vote for health care reform Sunday in the U.S. House of Representatives. As that floor fight prepares, The New York Times has an interactive graphic so you can chart those that remain undecided. They have vote count at 203-204 with 24 votes in play. 216 is the magic number.
13 votes [...]]]></description>
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		<title>AR Senate: The Role of Labor</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here are my thoughts on labor&#8217;s role in the Democratic primary for US Senate.

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		<title>AR Senate: Lincoln and Halter Make Announcements</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Mar 2010 13:55:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today, Sen. Blanche Lincoln will be in Forrest City, Arkansas to host a Child Nutrition Town Hall at 2:00 p.m.. Yesterday, she unveiled The Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act.
Lt. Governor Bill Halter will hold a press conference at his campaign headquarters at 11:00 a.m. to comment on the pending health care reform vote in the House [...]]]></description>
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