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	<title>Make Palin a Verb!</title>
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	<description>Make Palin A Verb! (MPAV!) is a forum for discussion of political speech. Created in late September of 2008 with the goal of introducing the verb “palin” into the English language, the group has evolved into a broader platform attempting to explore and dissect the absurdities of political discourse in the United States. Orwell called on thinking people to delve beneath the surface of political debate in order to avoid accepting platitudes without consideration. Our goal is to foster that examination of political rhetoric, by means both serious and silly.</description>
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		<title>And This Is How You Relate To Normal Folks?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By spending $180,000 of other people&#8217;s money on spa treatments and other inconsequential crap for yourself and your family in the space of a few months? See the article at Politico. The GOP is a train wreck.
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		<title>Oliver Stone moves through the alphabet in reverse</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I especially like the shot of Bullwinkle with a ball-gag:

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		<link>http://www.palined.com/?p=857</link>
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		<title>Another bailout</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In a surprise move today, representatives from Al Qaeda met with Congressional leaders to request a $10 billion dollar bailout package. The meeting, at an undisclosed location, came amid reports that the terrorist organisation responsible for the 911 attacks was struggling financially as a result of the global economic crisis.
“We’re broke, basically,” says Farouk al-Hassan, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.palined.com/?p=852</link>
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		<title>Let&#8217;s Get Something Straight</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Anyone following mainstream media outlets over the past week has seen a lot of articles on Obama&#8217;s picks to fill key administration positions. Many of these articles focus on the fact that a number of these picks worked for the Clinton Administration, and question whether these selections undermine Obama&#8217;s call for change. (CQ has a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.palined.com/?p=849</link>
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		<title>Towns Likely to Get Oversight Committee Slot (and why you should care)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So, it appears that Edolphus Towns (D-NY) is the runaway favorite to take the chairmanship of the House Oversight &#38; Government Reform Committee, with potential contenders Elijah Cummings (D-MD) and Carolyn Maloney (D-NY) saying they won&#8217;t force the issue. But no one appears to have any idea what would be on his agenda for the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why Polls Should Be Taken With a Grain of Salt</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Wall Street Journal did a nice job of deconstructing the ways in which the recent Ziegler/Zogby poll is problematic. I won&#8217;t go into it, because I can&#8217;t hold a candle to the column itself. Suffice to say that certain members of the Right Wing are more interested in slighting those who voted for Obama [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Getting Out the Georgia Vote</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Now that Ted Stevens has officially lost the Alaska Senate race to Mark Begich, the eyes of political junkies everywhere turn to Minnesota and Georgia. If Dems win the Senate seats up for grabs in those two states, they will have a 60-member caucus that can override stalling tactics in that chamber. Minnesota is engaged [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.palined.com/?p=841</link>
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		<title>Unlikely, and Interesting, Praise</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Today&#8217;s column from David Brooks in the NY Times is filled with cautious praise for Obama&#8217;s early moves in terms of filling key positions in the upcoming administration. It is surprising, inasmuch as Brooks is a conservative Republican columnist, but not as surprising as one might think. Brooks is definitely part of the intellectual branch [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.palined.com/?p=836</link>
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		<title>An Inaugural Poem</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Twas Inauguration &#8212; or, A Visit From Obama (apologies to C.C. Moore, and all of you)
Twas Inauguration, and in the White House,
Not a Neocon stirred, not one Leo Strauss.
The Democrats were lined up on Penn Ave. with care,
In hopes that Obama soon would be there.

The lobbyists nestled, all snug at their desks,
Vying for standing, and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.palined.com/?p=827</link>
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		<title>Transition Fever (and political fallout)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ This week has seen a flurry of speculation and confirmation on a ton of key Cabinet posts for the incoming Obama administration. Each of these picks could be a political minefield, so let&#8217;s take them one by one (and, no, I won&#8217;t even get to Clinton here).
Let&#8217;s start with the rumors that Arizona Governor [...]]]></description>
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