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		<title>Say it with me now:</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A vote for cloture is not a vote for the bill.
A vote for cloture is not a vote for the bill.
A vote for cloture is not a vote for the bill.
One of the aspects of the health care debate I and many others have found most frustrating is the repeated emphasis, coming from the media [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=garnetdonkey.com&blog=2867216&post=979&subd=thegarnetdonkey&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://garnetdonkey.com/2009/10/24/say-it-with-me-now/</link>
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		<title>Health Insurers Giving it 111%</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As the health insurance &#8220;reform&#8221; bill (the current incarnation from Baucus) clears the Senate Finance Committee today, a report [PDF] by PricewaterhouseCoopers surfaces with rather disturbing news: under the current plan, insurers expect rates to more than double! There&#8217;s a good analysis here on ThinkProgress (with a link to a video of Anthony Weinder D-NY). [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=garnetdonkey.com&blog=2867216&post=977&subd=thegarnetdonkey&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://garnetdonkey.com/2009/10/13/health-insurers-giving-it-111/</link>
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		<title>Because that is who we are. That is our calling. That is our character.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The presidents words, as quoted above and available in full here, reminded me of the great irony of this health care debate&#8211;that we&#8217;re having it at all in this country in 2009.
Like many Americans,  I have viewed the health care debate not in the abstract, but on a very tangible level. I have been incredibly [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=garnetdonkey.com&blog=2867216&post=972&subd=thegarnetdonkey&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://garnetdonkey.com/2009/09/09/because-that-is-who-we-are-that-is-our-calling-that-is-our-character/</link>
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		<title>Sestak gets the &#8220;Colbert bump&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Joe Sestak was on Colbert last night, where he claimed that everyone in the military is really a Democrat and Stephen showed a clip of Joe failing to pronounce the name of the state in which he is running, although he managed to pronounce it correctly on the show.  Also, DelCo is Sestak&#8217;s favorite county. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=garnetdonkey.com&blog=2867216&post=956&subd=thegarnetdonkey&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://garnetdonkey.com/2009/08/06/sestak-gets-the-colbert-bump/</link>
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		<title>In the Loop</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A fantastic political satire that you need to go see.  Fast, funny, and (unfortunately) perhaps, on some level, horribly possible.
In the Loop was directed by Armando Iannucci and stars Peter Capaldi, Tom Hollander, Mimi Kennedy, James Gandolfini, and Chris Addison.
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		<link>http://garnetdonkey.com/2009/08/05/in-the-loop/</link>
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		<title>Small Nice Thing</title>
		<description><![CDATA[President Bush used the Medal of Freedom, the highest civillian honor in this country, to reward his own appointees and allies for, more often than not, terrible performance and questionable decisions.
President Obama announced his first round of Medal recipients today. Among them:

Susan J. Komen Foundation founder Nancy Goodman Brinker, US Ambassador to Hungary and then [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=garnetdonkey.com&blog=2867216&post=950&subd=thegarnetdonkey&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://garnetdonkey.com/2009/07/30/small-nice-thing/</link>
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		<title>Toomey Gains Ground, Makes Sestak More Appealing</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Nate Silver over at 538 has a post about a recent Quinnipaic pole showing that Specter is just a 45-44 favorite over Republican challenger Toomey.  This is probably not good news for Specter, given that Toomey still has relatively poor name recognition.  Silver points out that those that have heard of Toomey view him as [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=garnetdonkey.com&blog=2867216&post=947&subd=thegarnetdonkey&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://garnetdonkey.com/2009/07/23/toomey-gains-ground-makes-sestak-more-appealing/</link>
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		<title>Democrats on the fence about discrimination</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This morning, Washington Monthly reports that 48 House Democrats are still on the fence about HR 2981, a new version of the Employment Non-Discrimination Act. Unlike previous versions of this bill, if enacted, HR 2981 would prohibit discrimination against transgendered Americans as well as against gay and lesbian Americans. The text of the legislation makes [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=garnetdonkey.com&blog=2867216&post=945&subd=thegarnetdonkey&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://garnetdonkey.com/2009/06/30/democrats-on-the-fence-about-discrimination/</link>
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		<title>We Rock!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[College Dems went to D.C. in early May to do some lobbying for comprehensive sex ed.  One of the offices that we met with was that of Senator Arlen Specter, Republican turned Democrat of Pennsylvania (at the time of our meeting he had just made the switch).  Of all of the people we met with, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=garnetdonkey.com&blog=2867216&post=943&subd=thegarnetdonkey&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://garnetdonkey.com/2009/06/25/we-rock/</link>
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		<title>Made me laugh</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The governor of South Carolina went missing for 5 days recently.  He returned yesterday to explain his disappearance:
In a rambling news conference, Mark Sanford apologized for having an affair, ending a mystery over his recent activities.
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		<link>http://garnetdonkey.com/2009/06/25/made-me-laugh/</link>
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