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		<title>Chris Christie Wins Stuffed Bear For President Obama</title>
		<link>http://swampland.time.com/2013/05/28/chris-christie-wins-stuffed-bear-for-president-obama/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 May 2013 16:59:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Zeke J Miller</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Does it count as an endorsement? On a tour through the rebuilt New Jersey shoreline, Gov. Chris Christie saved President Barack Obama from arcade-game humiliation, winning the commander in chief a stuffed &#8220;Chicago&#8221; bear in a football tossing game after Obama went 0-for-5 on the Point Pleasant boardwalk. In town to inspect Hurricane Sandy recovery, Obama and the Republican governor appeared to be the best of friends Tuesday, smiling and backslapping their way across the Garden State. At the boardwalk, the pair visited a half-finished sand sculpture and the &#8220;TouchDown Fever&#8221; game. As Christie threw the football through the tire on his first and only attempt, Obama gave him a high five ending in clasped hands. He added of Christie, &#8220;That&#8217;s because he&#8217;s running for office.&#8221; He left out, &#8220;as a Republican.&#8221; Christie, who is a sure-thing to win a second term in the governors mansion this November, is indeed a Republican, though it may have been hard to tell. His opponent, Democratic State Sen. Barbara Buono, was nowhere to be seen Tuesday as Obama jogged down the steps of Air Force One to shake Christie&#8217;s hand and give him a buddy-buddy slap on the shoulder. The pair has been friendly since the devastating hurricane hit barely a week before the 2012 election, when Obama pledged swift and massive support and the Romney-surrogate reciprocated with a hug and praise of Obama&#8217;s presidential leadership. &#8220;The Hug&#8221; cost Christie, a leading contender for the 2016 Republican presidential nomination, support within his own party and with the conservative grassroots saying he should have been less enthusiastic about Obama after the storm. Christie has said he was only doing right by his state. Despite being the odds-on favorite in November, Christie isn&#8217;t taking any chances. He stars along with his family in a $25 million state-funded campaign to highlight the revitalized Jersey Shore before the summer tourist season. Buono told reporters last week that she was &#8220;not disappointed&#8221; with Obama for meeting with Christie. Her campaign said she was scheduled to meet with Obama before his remarks at the Asbury<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=swampland.time.com&#038;blog=5284847&#038;post=96560&#038;subd=timeswampland&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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			<media:title type="html">U.S. President Barack Obama holds up a stuffed bear that New Jersey Governor Chris Christie won at the boardwalk during their visit to Point Pleasant, NJ., on May 28, 2013.</media:title>
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		<title>AP Exclusive: Boxer Wants Probe on Troubled Plant</title>
		<link>http://swampland.time.com/2013/05/28/ap-exclusive-boxer-wants-probe-on-troubled-plant/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 May 2013 10:16:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>AP / MICHAEL R. BLOOD</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[(LOS ANGELES) &#8212; U.S. Sen. Barbara Boxer wants the Justice Department to investigate if California utility executives deceived federal regulators about an equipment swap at the San Onofre nuclear power plant that eventually led to a radiation leak, the Associated Press has learned. The California Democrat obtained a 2004 internal letter written by a senior Southern California Edison executive that she said &#8220;leads me to believe that Edison intentionally misled the public and regulators&#8221; to avoid a potentially long and costly review of four replacement steam generators before they went into service. (MORE: A Nuke Scare in San Diego Shakes an Already Nervous Public) The twin-domed plant between Los Angeles and San Diego hasn&#8217;t produced electricity since January 2012, after a small radiation leak led to the discovery of unusually rapid wear inside hundreds of tubes that carry radioactive water in the nearly new generators. The letter was written to Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, which manufactured the generators that now sit idle in a plant that once produced power for 1.4 million households. Boxer, who chairs the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, said in a statement Monday that she is providing the correspondence to the Justice Department and other federal and state officials to determine if Edison &#8220;engaged in willful wrongdoing.&#8221; Nuclear Regulatory Commission spokesman Eliot Brenner declined comment. An Edison statement said the letter reflected part of the company&#8217;s effort to ensure flaws were not inadvertently introduced into the generator design. It said Edison took numerous steps to ensure that Mitsubishi addressed the concerns. &#8220;These documents demonstrate the type of careful oversight that SCE exercised during the replacement steam generator project and also served to establish our expectations of MHI,&#8221; said Pete Dietrich, SCE senior vice president and chief nuclear officer. &#8220;SCE&#8217;s own oversight &#8230; complied with industry standards and best practices,&#8221; Dietrich added. &#8220;SCE would never, and did not, install steam generators that it believed would impact public safety or impair reliability.&#8221; Mitsubishi did not respond to requests for comment Monday. The letter goes to a central issue<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=swampland.time.com&#038;blog=5284847&#038;post=96535&#038;subd=timeswampland&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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	<primary_category>Senate</primary_category><primary_category_link>http://swampland.time.com/category/congress/senate/</primary_category_link>
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		<title>Cheney Confesses</title>
		<link>http://swampland.time.com/2013/05/15/cheney-confesses/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 May 2013 15:04:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joe Klein</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Former Vice President Dick Cheney has confessed to changing the CIA&#8217;s accurate information on Iraqi Weapons of Mass Destruction for political reasons. You start out with the truth as reported by the intelligence community, and then you turn it into a total distortion once the political types in the White House and some senior folks at the State Department get their hands on it. Oh. Wait a minute. Cheney was actually talking&#8211;quite inaccurately&#8211;about Benghazi. But, boy, the lack of self-knowledge is staggering, or perhaps a spectacular rebellion by his subconscious. The shamelessness is staggering as well. He really should go away.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=swampland.time.com&#038;blog=5284847&#038;post=95690&#038;subd=timeswampland&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Gov. Chris Christie’s Weight Loss Surgery Demystified</title>
		<link>http://healthland.time.com/2013/05/07/gov-chris-christies-weight-loss-surgery-demystified/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 May 2013 01:52:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bonnie Rochman</dc:creator>
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		<title>Fresh Air</title>
		<link>http://swampland.time.com/2013/04/29/fresh-air/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Apr 2013 19:12:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joe Klein</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m exhilarated by the news that Jason Collins, who plays professional basketball for the Washington Wizards, has come out of the closet. Andrew Sullivan, who has been such a stalwart and brilliant leader on this issue, quotes an absolutely crucial part of Collins&#8217; coming out article: No one wants to live in fear. I’ve always been scared of saying the wrong thing. I don’t sleep well. I never have. But each time I tell another person, I feel stronger and sleep a little more soundly. That is the crucial element for me, the reason why I&#8217;m exhilarated: the anguish that our gay brothers and sisters have felt has been not only a plague on their lives, but an idiotic toll on the sum of human happiness. There have been too many sleepless nights, too many business ideas not pursued, athletic dreams deferred, Friday nights&#8211;no,whole lives&#8211;spent in isolation. There are those who will say that the creative anguish helped contribute to the gay world&#8217;s amazing impact on the arts, and there is some truth to that. Just look at what 5000 years pariahdom did for the Jews! But this will be a small price to pay for all the gay doctors and nurses, lawyers, firefighters, bus drivers and certified public accountants who no longer have to lie&#8211;keeping secrets requires a lot of energy&#8211;and who will be able to pursue happiness without having to look over their shoulders. Jason Collins has smashed down one of the closet&#8217;s strongest doors. This great exhalation, the ability to breathe easier, is something to celebrate, indeed. And if you&#8217;ll permit me a slightly tortured segue: I believe that the same principle will hold if Obamacare is successfully enacted. The great exhale isn&#8217;t limited to those with pre-existing medical conditions. There are millions of self-employed individuals who have been oppressed by their general lack of market power when it comes to health insurance, their inability to get the same sort or rates and plans that employees of, say, Time-Warner do. There are millions more, trapped in stultifying<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=swampland.time.com&#038;blog=5284847&#038;post=94374&#038;subd=timeswampland&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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			<media:title type="html">Washington Wizards&#039; Jason Collins goes to the basket against Chicago Bulls&#039; Taj Gibson during the first half of their NBA basketball game in Chicago, Illinois</media:title>
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		<title>Hallowed Be Thy Name: Ron Paul Tries to Retrieve RonPaul.com</title>
		<link>http://swampland.time.com/2013/03/19/hallowed-be-thy-name-ron-paul-tries-to-retrieve-ronpaul-com/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Mar 2013 16:22:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Katy Steinmetz</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Now that he’s no longer giving speeches on Capitol Hill, Ron Paul’s main platform for spreading his libertarian message is the Web. He’d like for his command center to be RonPaul.com. But right now, that domain name is owned by a cohort of his supporters, who since 2008 have used the address to post Paul-related news. There is an existential logic behind Paul’s desire to own his eponymous domain. “Everybody knows that RonPaul.com should be Ron Paul,” the former congressman said when TIME spoke with him recently about life after Congress. “It’s your identity.” Yet the owners, including Tim Martin, who via email identifies the group as several expats living in Panama, aren’t ready to hand it over. That means recovering the address won’t be as simple as Paul’s reasoning. Just ask Bill Clinton, whose attempt to recover williamclinton.com and presidentbillclinton.com failed in 2009. Those websites still redirect to the Republican Party’s homepage. Or ask Michael Bloomberg, whose company failed to take over michaelbloombergsucks.com when the magnate was running for New York City mayor in 2001. Back then, the site pointed to sucks.com, “a place where all people can get together and vent their grievances about Corporate America, American Politics and Politicians.” One option politicians can use to recover control of their namesake websites is to accuse the owner of cybersquatting, the practice of buying domain names with the intent of selling them back to the “true” owners at inflated prices. That practice was outlawed in 1999, when Clinton signed the Anti-Cybersquatting Consumer Protection Act into law. But going to court is costly, in terms of time and money. Politicians can also look to the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), which is what Clinton, Bloomberg and Paul all did. ICANN is a nonprofit organization that helps govern the wild digital frontiers of the Internet, and approved arbitrators use its policy to settle disputes. When a politician requests a domain name to be transferred to them or cancelled, they have to prove three things: that the domain name<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=swampland.time.com&#038;blog=5284847&#038;post=90790&#038;subd=timeswampland&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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			<media:title type="html">Former U.S. Representative Ron Paul speaks at George Washington University March 4, 2013 in Washington, DC.</media:title>
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		<title>Ron Paul&#8217;s Transition from Politician to Pundit</title>
		<link>http://swampland.time.com/2013/03/06/ron-pauls-transition-from-politician-to-pundit/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Mar 2013 10:45:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Katy Steinmetz</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Little things are different for former Texas Rep. Ron Paul, now that his name no longer hangs outside a Capitol Hill office door. He wears ties less often. He writes his own posts on “the Facebook.” He had time to plant tomatoes at his Texas home last weekend. But his role as a libertarian political hero hasn’t really changed since he retired from Congress in January: the outsider status he spent decades cultivating from within Washington is simply official. He is still anxious to weigh in on the issues of the day. The sequester “is a farce.” Secretary of State John Kerry is “stirring up more war.” And he maintains his distinctive obsessions. In just the first five minutes of a speech to George Washington University students on Monday, Paul struck his favorite themes: individual liberty, the gold standard, the Federal Reserve, the wealth gap, inflation and the future of the Republican Party. He even declared that “We’re all Austrians now!” (a reference to his economic messiah, Ludwig von Mises). The speech could have been pulled directly from his 2008 or 2012 presidential campaign bids. Except now Paul is working purely to change minds, not win votes. And that’s a kind of liberation. Speaking to TIME, Paul says that he doesn’t miss the Washington job he had, on and off, for nearly a quarter century. He just carries on with his longtime message of personal and economic freedom. “My focus has always been about the same,” he says. “I just look for different vehicles.” His vehicles used to be hearings and speeches aired on C-SPAN. These days, his vehicles include his non-profit group and lobbying arm Campaign for Liberty; a weekly online column called “Texas Straight Talk;” an upcoming one-minute radio program dubbed “Ron Paul’s America;” a book he’s writing on home-schooling; and, of course, speaking engagements. After GWU, he’s heading to Canada and New York where he will continue to spin what he calls the “broken record.” Paul’s style may be better suited to life outside of Congress, where he’s even less bound by political practicalities. During a Q&#38;A<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=swampland.time.com&#038;blog=5284847&#038;post=89726&#038;subd=timeswampland&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>No Nashville Blues for Al Gore</title>
		<link>http://swampland.time.com/2013/01/24/no-nashville-blues/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Jan 2013 12:30:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Von Drehle</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A few weeks shy of his 65th birthday, the grandfather of three, Al Gore is free of the past and all about the future. More specifically, he’s all about The Future, his latest book. An attempt to sum up six key ­realities—he calls them drivers—that will shape the years ahead, Gore&#8217;s book touches every base: robots, deep-sea phosphorus, financial derivatives, even urine recycling and goats modified to secrete spider-silk proteins from their udders. In the classroom of life, he’ll always be the kid whose hand is up. The Future offers a glimpse of the thinking that has made the former Vice-President a go-to guy for the giants of Silicon Valley. Many high-ranking public officials make millions peddling their names and connections, but Gore, the subject of a new piece in the latest issue of TIME (available to subscribers here), has something extra, which the business world values at a steep premium. The late Steve Jobs installed him on Apple’s board, encouraged Gore’s regular interventions around company head­quarters in Cupertino, Calif., and compensated him with stock options that Gore recently exercised for nearly $30 million. That check landed close behind Gore’s estimated $100 million profit on the sale of Current TV to al-Jazeera, a deal in the waning hours of 2012 that sent Gore bashers into orbit. Gore is also a co-founder, along with former Goldman Sachs executive David Blood, of Generation Investment Management, a private partnership that pursues what Gore calls sustainable capitalism. With more than $3.5 billion under management, the firm pursues Gore&#8217;s belief that companies prosper over the long haul if they pay attention to values beyond the quarterly earnings report. (MORE: Viewpoint: Why Al-Jazeera’s Entry into the U.S. Is a Good Thing) Through these and other enterprises, Gore has built his net worth to some $300 million, according to the scorekeepers at Forbes. By their measure, he is now richer than the renowned super­capitalist Mitt Romney. Explaining his book during an interview with TIME, Gore begins with a simple premise: “One of the striking characteristics of our<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=swampland.time.com&#038;blog=5284847&#038;post=86092&#038;subd=timeswampland&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Born to Run: The Life and Times of New Jersey Governor Chris Christie</title>
		<link>http://swampland.time.com/2013/01/10/born-to-run-the-life-and-times-of-new-jersey-governor-chris-christie/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Jan 2013 13:02:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[TIME takes a photographic look at the formative years of the Garden State&#8217;s larger-than-life governor<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=swampland.time.com&#038;blog=5284847&#038;post=84582&#038;subd=timeswampland&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Boss</title>
		<link>http://swampland.time.com/2013/01/09/the-boss/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Jan 2013 02:00:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Crowley</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When New Jersey Governor Chris Christie took the podium for his Jan. 8 State of the State address, Trenton’s Democratic legislature received him less as the pugnacious leader of the opposition than as its own conquering hero. Christie was welcomed with a standing ovation, and his speech was staccatoed by thunderous applause. So what if many of those Democrats privately refer to Christie in terms not fit to print? As Christie might say, Don’t be stupid: At this moment, there’s virtually no challenging the man. Christie’s textbook performance after Hurricane Sandy devastated his state in October pushed his approval ratings above 70% and sent his opponents scurrying for cover. Local TV commentators wonder if his upcoming 2013 re-­election fight might be more coronation than campaign. In short, Christie may now be America’s most popular politician. And at a moment when Republicans in Washington look ham-fisted, inflexible and incapable of governing, Christie is poised to show a demoralized post–Mitt Romney GOP how to regain its majority status. The past three months have transformed a man who was already on virtually everyone’s short list for 2016 into something else entirely. In mid-October, Christie was bogged down in tedious wrangling with the state assembly and reading about the various Democrats eager to steal his job. Then came Sandy. Arriving with ghoulish timing just before Halloween, it was the worst storm to hit New Jersey in a century. Almost 350,000 homes were destroyed, 116,000 people were evacuated or displaced, and nearly 7 million people lost power. Huge swaths of the Jersey Shore, where tourism is an indispensable part of the economy, were devastated. The television airwaves were filled with sobbing, homeless families. (VIDEO: Chris Christie: Master of Disaster) The moment was ready-made for Christie’s full-bore political style. “Don’t be stupid,” Christie instructed lollygaggers as the storm approached. “Get out.” His response to the storm acquired a nonpartisan sheen when he set aside his support for Romney to tour storm-ravaged areas with President Obama, whose response he praised as “outstanding.” Recently, Christie tore into House Republicans<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=swampland.time.com&#038;blog=5284847&#038;post=84626&#038;subd=timeswampland&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Chris Christie: Master of Disaster</title>
		<link>http://swampland.time.com/2013/01/09/chris-christie-master-of-disaster/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Jan 2013 13:03:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>TIME.com</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This morning on NBC&#8217;s Today Show, Chris Christie reacted to being on the brand new cover of TIME. The full cover story will be available on time.com later today and on newsstands Friday.  Gov. Christie was featured as one of 13 members in TIME&#8217;s Class of 2016: Political Leaders to Watch in our 2012 Person of the Year issue.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=swampland.time.com&#038;blog=5284847&#038;post=84470&#038;subd=timeswampland&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Paul Ryan&#8217;s Rough Return</title>
		<link>http://swampland.time.com/2012/12/06/paul-ryans-rough-return/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Dec 2012 12:00:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Paul Ryan’s in a bind. Even as he’s being touted as the great white hope for the GOP in 2016, he’s voluntarily strapped himself to the party’s fast-sinking position on the fiscal cliff as a member of House Speaker John Boehner’s negotiating team. Now he has to decide which way to go: embrace a tax-hike deal, if one takes shape, and risk enraging the right; or buck compromise and potentially split the party. Which way will Ryan go? &#8220;I believe, in this budget fight, that you can get to common ground without compromising principles,&#8221; he told TIME Tuesday evening in the House budget committee offices. But moments later Ryan declares that common ground is only possible &#8220;so long as the [tax] rates are not going up.&#8221; We have a close look at Ryan’s ambitious attempt to reconcile his new national status with his wonky budget chairman persona in this week’s magazine (available to subscribers here). Among the interesting details we get at in part through Ryan’s first national print interview since the vote: -His quick decision to return to the House, ignoring the advice of campaign aides, in part thanks to Boehner’s entreaties the morning after the vote. -How the fiscal cliff is partly a problem of his own making—he and his budget committee staffers are the ones who rewrote the 1985 Budget Act in a mad 48-hour rush in the summer of 2011, effectively turning long-dormant sequestration back on. -How many dozens of votes advisers think Ryan takes with him either way as he weighs compromise on the fiscal cliff. -Ryan’s efforts to distance himself from the failed Romney campaign, and to reestablish himself as a defender of the poor—even as he sells broad cuts to the programs the Catholic bishops say are crucial to fighting poverty. It is interesting to watch Ryan try to readjust. While advisers say some GOP House leaders have an air of inevitable concession about them in the fiscal cliff talks, Ryan seems to be still swept along by campaign-style certainty that the President can<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=swampland.time.com&#038;blog=5284847&#038;post=83171&#038;subd=timeswampland&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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