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	<title>organized chaos &#187; Democrats</title>
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	<description>possibly fair. never balanced.</description>
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		<title>a little more unserious</title>
		<link>http://chaos-blog.net/2011/07/27/a-little-more-unserious/</link>
		<comments>http://chaos-blog.net/2011/07/27/a-little-more-unserious/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Jul 2011 00:11:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lisa</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Democrats]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Republicans]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Debt Ceiling]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[President Obama]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://chaos-blog.net/?p=1079</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[One of my favorite movies is Dave. It is a movie where an average citizen (Dave) impersonates the President of the United States for a living, and is thrown into the real job due to some really shady political operatives.  (Quick aside &#8211; Kevin Kline is awesome in that role!) There&#8217;s a scene in that movie  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>motives</title>
		<link>http://chaos-blog.net/2011/07/12/motives/</link>
		<comments>http://chaos-blog.net/2011/07/12/motives/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Jul 2011 14:00:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lisa</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Democrats]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Republicans]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[President Obama]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Finally there appears to be some agreement that we must reduce spending.   Unfortunately, the mindset of those who wish to do this is all wrong. I guess I shouldn&#8217;t care about the motives of the Democrats and Republicans here, as long as they do what we all want them to do. But it does [...]]]></description>
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		<title>careful what you wish for</title>
		<link>http://chaos-blog.net/2010/06/09/careful-what-you-wish-for/</link>
		<comments>http://chaos-blog.net/2010/06/09/careful-what-you-wish-for/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Jun 2010 00:46:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lisa</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Conservatives]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Democrats]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Republicans]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[tea party]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://chaos-blog.net/?p=993</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[This is an uncomfortable position conservatives find themselves in as a result of last night&#8217;s election results &#8211; between electability and the raw passion of the tea party candidates. Not every conservative should be considered electable. For every Nikki Haley &#8211; who has shown incredible message discipline and restraint in the face of scurrilous accusations [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
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		<title>elena kagan &#8211; it could be worse</title>
		<link>http://chaos-blog.net/2010/05/11/elena-kagan-it-could-be-worse/</link>
		<comments>http://chaos-blog.net/2010/05/11/elena-kagan-it-could-be-worse/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 11 May 2010 23:10:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lisa</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Democrats]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Liberals]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Republicans]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Elena Kagan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[President Obama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[SCOTUS]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Supreme Court]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://chaos-blog.net/?p=988</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[How does it add anything to a SCOTUS nominee’s qualifications when it is noted that a nominee’s life story is inspirational, a real American rags-to-riches success story, and so forth and so on?  While the life experiences of Elena Kagan and Sonia Sotomayor are certainly a made-for-TV movie waiting to happen, they have nothing to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>the state of the middle ground</title>
		<link>http://chaos-blog.net/2010/03/29/the-pyramid/</link>
		<comments>http://chaos-blog.net/2010/03/29/the-pyramid/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Mar 2010 01:56:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lisa</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Random Musings]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Democrats]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[President Obama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[tea party]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://chaos-blog.net/?p=969</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[America was not designed to be run by elitists &#8211; nor was it designed for pure mob rule.  What we need to find here is some middle ground &#8211; a government that will be responsive to the needs of the people without being subject to the whims of daily polling and public opinion that is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>dirty tricks</title>
		<link>http://chaos-blog.net/2010/03/17/dirty-tricks/</link>
		<comments>http://chaos-blog.net/2010/03/17/dirty-tricks/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Mar 2010 00:23:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lisa</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Random Musings]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[deem and pass]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Democrats]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Speaker Nancy Pelosi]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://chaos-blog.net/?p=962</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[This is wrong, unethical &#8211; and somewhat boneheaded.  But enough about what I think about the Dems&#8217;  new (old) trick to pass the health care bill. Let&#8217;s read what the Washington Post had to say about it (bold text my addition). Pelosi (D-Calif.) would rely on a procedural sleight of hand: The House would vote [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>too much awesome</title>
		<link>http://chaos-blog.net/2010/03/09/too-much-awesome/</link>
		<comments>http://chaos-blog.net/2010/03/09/too-much-awesome/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Mar 2010 03:51:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lisa</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Democrats]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Liberals]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nancy Pelosi]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://chaos-blog.net/?p=959</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[(h/t Hot Air) Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, ladies and gentlemen (on the  must-pass health care bill): You’ve heard about the controversies within the bill, the process about the bill, one or the other. But I don’t know if you have heard that it is legislation for the future, not just about health care [...]]]></description>
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		<title>fratricide</title>
		<link>http://chaos-blog.net/2010/03/08/fratricide/</link>
		<comments>http://chaos-blog.net/2010/03/08/fratricide/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Mar 2010 02:36:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lisa</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Democrats]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Liberals]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Eric Massa]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rahm Emanuel]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://chaos-blog.net/?p=957</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[While we can all agree Rahm Emanuel is not the most warm and cuddly guy in politics, this Eric Massa sounds like a real jerk, and it doesn&#8217;t surprise me that these two hate each other&#8217;s guts.   It seems that the Democrats just can&#8217;t help themselves when it comes to the fratricide now in progress [...]]]></description>
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		<title>heading toward the cliff</title>
		<link>http://chaos-blog.net/2010/03/01/heading-toward-the-cliff/</link>
		<comments>http://chaos-blog.net/2010/03/01/heading-toward-the-cliff/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Mar 2010 02:28:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lisa</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Conservatives]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Democrats]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Speaker Nancy Pelosi]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://chaos-blog.net/?p=954</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi is willing to sacrifice the political futures of her fellow House Democrats in order to get the health care bill passed.  That&#8217;s generous of her, and the Republicans will absolutely accept that result.  I just wonder how many left-leaning true believers are left in the Democratic Congress.  The answer [...]]]></description>
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		<title>i don&#8217;t get it</title>
		<link>http://chaos-blog.net/2010/02/15/i-dont-get-it/</link>
		<comments>http://chaos-blog.net/2010/02/15/i-dont-get-it/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Feb 2010 03:11:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lisa</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Random Musings]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Democrats]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[moderates]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Senator Evan Bayh]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://chaos-blog.net/?p=948</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Senator Evan Bayh (D-IN) won&#8217;t seek re-election to the Senate. Looks like the Democrat juggernaut is running into a few problems on its way to liberal utopia.  It&#8217;s not just Republican obstructionists or tea partiers getting in the way of the Democrat agenda.  Some Democrats, like Evan Bayh, object to the focus of this administration [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>well&#8230;yeah</title>
		<link>http://chaos-blog.net/2010/02/01/well-yeah/</link>
		<comments>http://chaos-blog.net/2010/02/01/well-yeah/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Feb 2010 03:11:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lisa</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Democrats]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[George W. Bush]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[President Bush]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://chaos-blog.net/?p=938</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[What Alan Bock said in the OC Register: It&#8217;s not that there isn&#8217;t a good deal of truth in such criticisms of the ways of a &#8220;Washington&#8221; he invoked more as an epithet than a place. But at what point does a president of the United States take responsibility for his part in feeding the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>brown wins</title>
		<link>http://chaos-blog.net/2010/01/19/brown-wins/</link>
		<comments>http://chaos-blog.net/2010/01/19/brown-wins/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Jan 2010 03:30:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lisa</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Random Musings]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Democrats]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Massachusetts]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Republicans]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Scott Brown]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://chaos-blog.net/2010/01/19/brown-wins/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Congratulations to Senator-elect Brown.  Nice win in one of the bluest of blue states in the nation.  Who would have thought that Massachusetts of all states would possibly save us from ObamaCare?  Amazing. With that said,  this is another case of a generally unappealing Democratic candidate, who demonstrated how out of touch she was with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>unintentional comedy</title>
		<link>http://chaos-blog.net/2010/01/05/unintentional-comedy/</link>
		<comments>http://chaos-blog.net/2010/01/05/unintentional-comedy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Jan 2010 01:10:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lisa</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Democrats]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Liberals]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://chaos-blog.net/?p=921</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Courtesy of the LA Times:]]></description>
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		<title>that&#8217;s a scary proposition</title>
		<link>http://chaos-blog.net/2010/01/04/thats-a-scary-proposition/</link>
		<comments>http://chaos-blog.net/2010/01/04/thats-a-scary-proposition/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Jan 2010 01:37:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lisa</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Democrats]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://chaos-blog.net/?p=918</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[CBS newsman Bob Schieffer says that &#8220;Real security is built on trust in the government.&#8221;  He actually wrote that!  Read it here. Trust in the government.  That&#8217;s a scary proposition if you really think about it.  The more bureaucracy you add to deal with a potential crisis, the more likely it is that the potential [...]]]></description>
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		<title>flawed concept</title>
		<link>http://chaos-blog.net/2009/12/23/flawed-concept/</link>
		<comments>http://chaos-blog.net/2009/12/23/flawed-concept/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Dec 2009 04:21:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lisa</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Conservatives]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Democrats]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Reason]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://chaos-blog.net/?p=909</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Reason&#8217;s Jacob Sullum says there should be no fundamental right to health care. A right to health care thus requires the government to infringe on people’s liberty rights by commandeering their talents, labor, and earnings. And since new subsidies will only exacerbate the disconnect between payment and consumption that drives health care inflation, such interference is bound to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>lighten up scrooge</title>
		<link>http://chaos-blog.net/2009/12/21/lighten-up-scrooge/</link>
		<comments>http://chaos-blog.net/2009/12/21/lighten-up-scrooge/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Dec 2009 03:26:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lisa</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Conservatives]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Democrats]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Santa Claus]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://chaos-blog.net/?p=906</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Now for something a little different and somewhat holiday-themed&#8230; Eventually it would come to this &#8211; someone is compelled to attack the lifestyle and behavior of  Santa Claus.   Honestly, there&#8217;s just no good excuse for that. Some &#8220;public health expert&#8221; in Australia says that Santa is a bad example for children.  The charges against St. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>no sale</title>
		<link>http://chaos-blog.net/2009/09/10/no-sale/</link>
		<comments>http://chaos-blog.net/2009/09/10/no-sale/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Sep 2009 22:41:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lisa</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Conservatives]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Democrats]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Joe Wilson]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://chaos-blog.net/?p=891</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I agree with Congressman Joe Wilson.  The President has misrepresented what the Democrats are proposing to do with our health care.   Unfortunately, the rules of decorum prevent Republicans from saying what they think out loud unless it agrees with what President Obama has already said.   After all, we know how well the Democrats [...]]]></description>
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		<title>initial comments on health care “reform”</title>
		<link>http://chaos-blog.net/2009/08/12/initial-comments-on-health-care-%e2%80%9creform%e2%80%9d/</link>
		<comments>http://chaos-blog.net/2009/08/12/initial-comments-on-health-care-%e2%80%9creform%e2%80%9d/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Aug 2009 01:35:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lisa</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Conservatives]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Democracy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Democrats]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Dr. Arthur Laffer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[health care reform]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://chaos-blog.net/?p=878</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I will get to Dr. Arthur Laffer&#8217;s analysis in a future post. I have several initial comments on the subject of health care &#8220;reform&#8221; that I want to bring to the table before I get to his brilliant work. If you want to talk about a subject that should be demanding the attention of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>honest debate</title>
		<link>http://chaos-blog.net/2009/08/06/honest-debate/</link>
		<comments>http://chaos-blog.net/2009/08/06/honest-debate/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Aug 2009 01:48:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lisa</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Democrats]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Liberals]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Congress]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[health care reform]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://chaos-blog.net/?p=875</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[That&#8217;s all the citizens opposing this health care reform want here &#8211; an honest debate where we are told the truth about the proposals currently being discussed for transformative changes in the way health care works in this country.  We want our representatives to know and understand what they are voting on at least &#8212; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>wonder which side they are on?</title>
		<link>http://chaos-blog.net/2009/06/25/wonder-which-side-they-are-on/</link>
		<comments>http://chaos-blog.net/2009/06/25/wonder-which-side-they-are-on/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Jun 2009 02:32:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lisa</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This was on the Investor&#8217;s Business Daily editorial page: Not since a misguided piece of legislation imposed tariffs that turned a recession into a depression has there been a piece of legislation as bad as Waxman-Markey. The 1,000-plus-page American Clean Energy and Security Act (H.R. 2454) is being rushed to a vote by House Speaker [...]]]></description>
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