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		<title>Santorum Investment Advice, Then and Now</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Jan 2012 13:00:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Grunwald</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m on leave writing a book about my beloved stimulus, but when I heard about Rick Santorum&#8217;s big finish in Iowa, it reminded me: Didn&#8217;t someone advise Swampland readers to invest in Santorum back in May when Intrade was giving him a 0.5% chance to win the nomination, because &#8220;that&#8217;s going to rise as the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=swampland.time.com&#038;blog=5284847&#038;post=62582&#038;subd=timeswampland&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Republicans Are Right to Pressure the Fed, Even If What They Want Is Wrong</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Sep 2011 16:06:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Grunwald</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Monetary policy is dull, so the Republican Party&#8217;s bizarre advocacy of job-killing tight-money policies during a jobs crisis hasn&#8217;t gotten much attention. But political food fights are exciting, so today&#8217;s letter from GOP leaders pressuring Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke not to approve more monetary stimulus is likely to get a lot of attention. The [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=swampland.time.com&#038;blog=5284847&#038;post=56477&#038;subd=timeswampland&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Solyndra Hypocrisy: David Vitter Sought Energy Loans He Now Seeks to Scrutinize</title>
		<link>http://swampland.time.com/2011/09/19/solyndra-hypocrisy-david-vitter-sought-energy-loans-he-now-seeks-to-scrutinize/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Sep 2011 04:01:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Grunwald</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[david vitter]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[louisiana]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Republican Party]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Washington &#8220;scandals&#8221; have a predictable rhythm, and the Solyndra solar loan &#8220;scandal&#8221; has entered the phase where critics start exploiting the controversy to push their ideological agenda. For example, Republican Senator David Vitter of Louisiana has filed a bill to increase scrutiny of taxpayer-financed renewable energy projects. It wouldn’t scrutinize taxpayer-financed non-renewable energy projects, like [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=swampland.time.com&#038;blog=5284847&#038;post=56219&#038;subd=timeswampland&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Unemployed Aren&#8217;t Victims of Discrimination. They&#8217;re Victims of a Lousy Economy.</title>
		<link>http://swampland.time.com/2011/09/14/the-unemployed-arent-victims-of-discrimination-theyre-victims-of-a-lousy-economy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Sep 2011 19:57:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Grunwald</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[jobs act]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[It will not surprise my loyal fans—Hey, Dad!—that I like President Obama’s jobs bill.  It’s a second stimulus, and when I haven’t been flacking the first, I’ve been kvetching for more.  When unemployment is 9% and federal borrowing is practically free, it’s time to pay construction workers who need jobs to fix schools that need [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=swampland.time.com&#038;blog=5284847&#038;post=56027&#038;subd=timeswampland&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Don&#8217;t Be Fooled By the Solyndra Bankruptcy Circus &#8212; Solar Is Booming</title>
		<link>http://swampland.time.com/2011/09/14/dont-be-fooled-by-the-solyndra-bankruptcy-circus-solar-is-booming/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Sep 2011 17:34:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Grunwald</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Energy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Congress]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Nobody’s going to care that all successful loan programs have failures, that the Solyndra venture was barely 1% of the Energy Department’s $40 billion clean-energy portfolio, that there will still be over $2 billion in reserves for busted loans no matter how Solyndra shakes out. That’s politics.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=swampland.time.com&#038;blog=5284847&#038;post=56005&#038;subd=timeswampland&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Sisyphean Stimulus Sell: Why Obama&#8217;s Big Job Speech Will Likely Prove Unpersuasive</title>
		<link>http://swampland.time.com/2011/09/08/the-sisyphean-stimulus-sell-why-obamas-big-job-speech-will-likely-be-unpersuasive/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Sep 2011 16:20:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Grunwald</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Governor Rick “Galileo” Perry declared at the Reagan Library last night that President Obama and his 2009 stimulus have “proven once and for all that government spending will not create one job.” Actually, in the last quarter, even though the stimulus was winding down, it created 555,029 jobs directly, and according to the nonpartisan Congressional [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=swampland.time.com&#038;blog=5284847&#038;post=55537&#038;subd=timeswampland&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Forget Solyndra: Obama&#8217;s Green Loan Program Is Still Worth It</title>
		<link>http://swampland.time.com/2011/09/08/forget-solyndra-obamas-green-loan-program-is-still-worth-it/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Sep 2011 13:30:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Grunwald</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Nobody’s going to notice this, because nobody’s going bankrupt, but the Obama administration just approved a conditional commitment for the largest residential solar project in history, an effort to install photovoltaic panels on up to 160,000 rooftops at 124 military bases in 33 states. With its $344 million federal loan guarantee, the SolarStrong Project will [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=swampland.time.com&#038;blog=5284847&#038;post=55483&#038;subd=timeswampland&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Obama&#8217;s Ozone Flip-Flop: Bad Policy and Bad Politics</title>
		<link>http://swampland.time.com/2011/09/06/obamas-ozone-flip-flop-bad-policy-and-bad-politics/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Sep 2011 18:28:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Grunwald</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[2012]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[al gore]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[environmentalists]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[My lefty friends have been asking me: If I think President Obama has been so great for the earth, and I think his enviro critics are ungrateful whiners, then how do I defend his capitulation to industry on new smog regulations? And the answer is…I don’t. He ignored the science, threw the EPA under the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=swampland.time.com&#038;blog=5284847&#038;post=55419&#038;subd=timeswampland&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Big Name Investors Behind Obama&#8217;s Failed Green Tech Bet First in Line to Recoup Losses</title>
		<link>http://swampland.time.com/2011/09/03/big-name-investors-to-recoup-losses-before-taxpayers-in-obamas-failed-green-tech-bet/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Sep 2011 14:00:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Grunwald</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Exclusives]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[george kaiser]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[walton family]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Republicans are already dancing on the grave of Solyndra, the solar panel manufacturer that received a $535 million federal loan in 2009 and collapsed on Wednesday. Here&#8217;s more music they can dance to: Sources tell me the Obama administration restructured the loan this winter, so taxpayers probably won&#8217;t even be the first creditors to get [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=swampland.time.com&#038;blog=5284847&#038;post=55353&#038;subd=timeswampland&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Department of I&#8217;m an Idiot: A Solar Company Goes Bust</title>
		<link>http://swampland.time.com/2011/08/31/department-of-im-an-idiot-a-solar-company-goes-bust/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Aug 2011 19:43:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Grunwald</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Domestic Policy]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Well, I guess the reports of the solar manufacturer Solyndra&#8217;s death weren&#8217;t so exaggerated after all. Just a few months premature. Solyndra declared bankruptcy on Wednesday and laid off its 1,100 employees. I&#8217;ll have more to say about this after I chat with the smooth-talkers who got me to report in June that Solyndra &#8220;no [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=swampland.time.com&#038;blog=5284847&#038;post=55199&#038;subd=timeswampland&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Ben Bernanke Embraces Obama&#8217;s Reality-Based Presidency</title>
		<link>http://swampland.time.com/2011/08/29/ben-bernanke-embraces-obamas-reality-based-presidency/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Aug 2011 09:00:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Grunwald</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Texas governor and GOP presidential candidate Rick Perry still knows about as much about monetary policy as Sarah Palin knows about American history—or, for that matter, about monetary policy—but maybe there was a glimmer of insight in Perry’s dopey rant about Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke’s treasonous plot to re-elect President Obama.  Because if you [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=swampland.time.com&#038;blog=5284847&#038;post=55048&#038;subd=timeswampland&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Spending Cuts Are Great When the Spending Is Stupid</title>
		<link>http://swampland.time.com/2011/08/24/spending-cuts-are-great-when-the-spending-is-stupid/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Aug 2011 15:00:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Grunwald</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There’s a tired fight raging in Washington between anti-government people who want spending cuts and pro-government people who don’t. Here’s a crazy thought: Maybe we should spend more on good things and less on dumb things. I’m in the pro-government camp, but I’d be thrilled to eliminate almost all of the $380 billion worth of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=swampland.time.com&#038;blog=5284847&#038;post=54859&#038;subd=timeswampland&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Don&#8217;t You Dare Try to Juice the Economy. That&#8217;s Treason!</title>
		<link>http://swampland.time.com/2011/08/16/dont-you-dare-try-to-juice-the-economy-thats-treason/</link>
		<comments>http://swampland.time.com/2011/08/16/dont-you-dare-try-to-juice-the-economy-thats-treason/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Aug 2011 17:50:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Grunwald</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Viewpoint]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ben bernanke]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[As the resident Fed bore, what interested me about Rick Perry’s attack on Ben Bernanke, aside from the additional evidence that the guy seems a few books short of a library, was his implicit acknowledgment that printing more money could help juice the economy. Presumably that’s why it would be so treasonous to do it [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=swampland.time.com&#038;blog=5284847&#038;post=54522&#038;subd=timeswampland&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Pawlenty Had That Not-So-Special Something Republicans Need in 2012</title>
		<link>http://swampland.time.com/2011/08/15/pawlenty-had-that-not-so-special-something-republicans-need-in-2012/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Aug 2011 13:01:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Grunwald</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As Adam mentioned, on paper, Tim Pawlenty fit the profile of the perfect Republican presidential candidate: A blue-state governor with blue-collar roots, a conservative evangelical with potential appeal to the Tea Party and establishment wings of the GOP. (Was his staff really that savvy? I’ll have to take Adam’s word for it.) But Pawlenty had another [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=swampland.time.com&#038;blog=5284847&#038;post=54438&#038;subd=timeswampland&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Stop Whining About What Obama Hasn&#8217;t Said. Look at What He&#8217;s Actually Done.</title>
		<link>http://swampland.time.com/2011/08/11/stop-whining-about-what-obama-hasnt-said-look-at-what-hes-actually-done/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Aug 2011 13:01:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Grunwald</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I know President Obama is supposed to be an awful disappointment to environmentalists because he doesn’t talk enough about climate change, just like he’s an awful disappointment to progressives because he doesn’t say enough nasty things about bankers. But people who actually care about what Presidents do, as opposed to how they talk, might be interested in [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=swampland.time.com&#038;blog=5284847&#038;post=54214&#038;subd=timeswampland&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Fed&#8217;s Impotence Would Be Funny If It Weren&#8217;t So Tragic</title>
		<link>http://swampland.time.com/2011/08/09/the-feds-impotence-would-be-funny-if-it-werent-so-tragic/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Aug 2011 21:10:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Grunwald</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[ben bernanke]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Persistent unemployment is tragic, not funny. The Federal Reserve is boring, not funny. The Fed’s impotence in the face of persistent unemployment is scary, not funny. But the newsy statement from the Fed’s meeting on Wednesday, while full of the usual eyes-glaze-over econo-jargon about “investment in non-residential structures” and “low rates of resource utilization,” is [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=swampland.time.com&#038;blog=5284847&#038;post=54145&#038;subd=timeswampland&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Gas Guzzlers Be Gone: Obama Makes a Big Deal with the Big Three</title>
		<link>http://swampland.time.com/2011/07/29/gas-guzzlers-be-gone-obama-makes-a-big-deal-with-the-big-three/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Jul 2011 13:00:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Grunwald</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Environment]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[It’s always nice when political antagonists stop running nasty ads and work out a reasonable compromise. No, no, the insane debt-limit debate continues in Washington. But the insane gas-guzzler debate is over. On Friday, President Obama will announce a near-doubling of fuel efficiency standards for cars and light trucks, and the Big Three automakers &#8212; GM, Ford [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=swampland.time.com&#038;blog=5284847&#038;post=53263&#038;subd=timeswampland&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Still True Today: Frequently Forgotten Facts of the Debt Debate</title>
		<link>http://swampland.time.com/2011/07/27/still-true-today-frequently-forgotten-facts-of-the-debt-debate/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Jul 2011 18:03:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Grunwald</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[debt ceiling]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://swampland.time.com/?p=53177</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[If the debt-limit debate had anything to do with reality, every story about it would include a few basic facts. Starting with: President Obama inherited a $1.2 trillion budget deficit.   And: Republican leaders supported the tax cuts and wars that (along with the recession, another pre-Obama phenomenon) created that deficit. Also: Republicans engineered this crisis [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=swampland.time.com&#038;blog=5284847&#038;post=53177&#038;subd=timeswampland&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>FAA Standoff Escalates: You Highlight Our Pork, We&#8217;ll Highlight Yours</title>
		<link>http://swampland.time.com/2011/07/23/faa-standoff-escalates-you-highlight-our-pork-well-highlight-yours/</link>
		<comments>http://swampland.time.com/2011/07/23/faa-standoff-escalates-you-highlight-our-pork-well-highlight-yours/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 23 Jul 2011 15:43:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Grunwald</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Aviation]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[It’s not the most important example of bipartisan gridlock these days, but the legislation funding the Federal Aviation Administration expired Friday at midnight after House and Senate leaders failed to reach agreement on a routine extension. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood announced that nearly 4,000 FAA employees will be furloughed, and the agency would shut down [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=swampland.time.com&#038;blog=5284847&#038;post=52890&#038;subd=timeswampland&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The FAA Funding Standoff: Hostage-Taking We Can Believe In</title>
		<link>http://swampland.time.com/2011/07/22/the-faa-funding-standoff-hostage-taking-we-can-believe-in/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Jul 2011 13:00:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Grunwald</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Congress]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I’ve repeatedly criticized Republicans for holding the global economy hostage to try to force President Obama to adopt their right-wing fiscal agenda. For consistency’s sake, I suppose I should criticize Republican Congressman John Mica for holding a routine extension of the Federal Aviation Administration’s funding hostage to try to insert some union-bashing language. But I have [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=swampland.time.com&#038;blog=5284847&#038;post=52742&#038;subd=timeswampland&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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