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	<title>Obama&#039;s Enemies List: A Growing List of Obama&#039;s Enemies &#187; Nancy Pelosi</title>
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		<title>Why Vulnerable Democrats Should Run Away From the Party</title>
		<link>http://www.obamashitlist.com/2010/09/06/why-vulnerable-democrats-should-run-away-from-the-party/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Sep 2010 20:06:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>markboabaca</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Filed under: 2010 Elections , Matt Lewis and the News DNC Chairman Tim Kaine says it would be "foolish" for Democrats to run away from the party this year. But most vulnerable Democrats seem to disagree... ]]></description>
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		<title>Can Steny Hoyer Be Beaten by &#8216;The Longest of Long Shots&#8217;?</title>
		<link>http://www.obamashitlist.com/2010/09/05/can-steny-hoyer-be-beaten-by-the-longest-of-long-shots/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Sep 2010 01:07:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>markboabaca</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ It's reported that Nancy Pelosi and the Democrats are doing "triage" in an attempt to save their House majority from an]]></description>
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		<title>Pelosi Is Circling the Wagons</title>
		<link>http://www.obamashitlist.com/2010/09/05/pelosi-is-circling-the-wagons/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Sep 2010 18:30:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>markboabaca</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[With the mid-terms less than two months away, Speaker Nancy Pelosi is taking desperate measures to try to maintain control of the House. This includes cutting off funding to candidates who are in dire straits and asking candidates in safe districts to share funds with those in highly competitive races. WASHINGTON &#8212; As Democrats brace for ]]></description>
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		<title>RNC Planning “Fire Nancy Pelosi” Bus Tour…</title>
		<link>http://www.obamashitlist.com/2010/09/04/rnc-planning-%e2%80%9cfire-nancy-pelosi%e2%80%9d-bus-tour%e2%80%a6/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Sep 2010 02:42:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>markboabaca</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ The bus will have the slogan, &#8220;Need a Job? Fire Pelosi&#8221; written on the side of it.  Heh&#8230; (The Hill) - Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele said Friday that a &#8220;Fire Nancy Pelosi&#8221; bus tour would be unveiled when Congress comes back into session after the summer recess. On Fox News&#8217; &#8220;Hannity&#8221; show Friday evening, Steele said the bus, to be unveiled around Sept. 14, would be &#8220;decked out in red&#8221; with the slogan aimed at the speaker of the House: &#8220;Need a job? Fire Pelosi.&#8221; &#8220;This is a 50-state strategy that the party&#8217;s never done before,&#8221; Steele said. &#8220;We have taken the last seven or eight months, hunkered down and figured out where do we need to go to be the most effective.&#8221; He said the effort would pull together efforts to get candidates in front of voters and get people on the ground to help drive turnout in November&#8217;s midterm elections. The bus tour would be putting forth economic policies recently espoused by Minority Leader John (R-Ohio) and Ranking Budget Committee Republican Rep. Paul Ryan (Wisc.), as well as the follow-up to the Contract With America being drafted in party by Chief Deputy Whip Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.). ]]></description>
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		<title>Insert &quot;Castle&quot; Wordplay Here</title>
		<link>http://www.obamashitlist.com/2010/09/03/insert-castle-wordplay-here/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Sep 2010 23:57:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>markboabaca</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ From reading various online sites, the contest in Delaware to replace Joe Biden's seat-warmer Ted Kaufman in the U.S. Senate is beginning to take on a feel like]]></description>
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		<title>Michael Bloomberg: Unamerican to Investigate Funding of Ground Zero Mosque</title>
		<link>http://www.obamashitlist.com/2010/09/02/michael-bloomberg-unamerican-to-investigate-funding-of-ground-zero-mosque/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Sep 2010 08:09:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>markboabaca</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ When the amazing is predictable: New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg says it would be un-American to investigate a mosque that is planned for construction near where the World Trade Center once stood. I&#8217;m listening hard for his condemnation of Nancy Pelosi&#8217;s call to investigate the mosque&#8217;s opponents, but I can&#8217;t hear it over all these damned crickets. Thanks to Dana. ]]></description>
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		<title>Got cancer &#8211; and millions of dollars?  Nancy Pelosi can help!</title>
		<link>http://www.obamashitlist.com/2010/08/30/got-cancer-and-millions-of-dollars-nancy-pelosi-can-help/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Aug 2010 22:00:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>markboabaca</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Let me summarize this Dallas Morning News article about Lisa Blue: if your husband (Fred Baron) is a millionaire and multimillion-dollar Democratic Party fundraiser - John Edwards&#8217; bagman , in fact - and also dying of bone marrow cancer, then you can not only get away with smuggling into the country experimental cancer medicine of dubious efficacy; you can get the Speaker of the House herself to lean on the FDA to let your husband get the medication in question - despite the fact that it didn&#8217;t actually work.  And then you get to brag about it, while piously talking about how awful it is that regular families don&#8217;t have your ability to violate federal regulations on access to experimental and untested medicines*.  Which is irrelevant, of course: because it&#8217;s not going to get any easier for people to get that access in a system where private health insurance is eliminated.  In fact, as the Avastin controversy demonstrates, access to experimental or possibly-marginal medicines will decrease under an universal health care regime.  Not that it matters to people like Lisa Blue, Fred Baron, and Nancy Pelosi - after all, they live in the other one of the Two Americas that Edwards liked to so pontificate about.  The one where you can publicly call in a marker like this to the Speaker of the House and not be shunned afterward. It takes a lot to erode my instinctive sympathy for both anybody dying of bone marrow cancer, and their families.  Being lectured on the need for universal health care coverage by a person who successfully evaded an intolerable medical regulatory regime that her own husband helped spawn will do it every time, though. Moe Lane *Regulations, by the way, that are in place partially because of unscrupulous tort lawyers like&#8230; Fred Baron.  You see, drug companies are terrified of lawsuits, because they&#8217;ve been taught to be by a generation of lawyers.  And those lawyers get away with it because many of them are heavy contributors to the Democratic party, like&#8230; Fred Baron. Crossposted to RedState . ]]></description>
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		<title>Lefties Beg For Their Sarah Palin</title>
		<link>http://www.obamashitlist.com/2010/08/30/lefties-beg-for-their-sarah-palin/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Aug 2010 16:00:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>markboabaca</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Since the moment she stepped onto the national scene, the Left has mocked Sarah Palin. The loathe her and everything she stands for. She is an offensive creature that they just can&#8217;t seem to destroy. Now, they&#8217;re begging for someone with the Palin Power they&#8217;ve mocked for so long - someone who inspires them. Anna Holmes and Rebecca Traister write in the New York Times: The left  should be outraged and exasperated by all this — but at their own failings as much as Ms. Palin’s ascension. Since the 2008 election, progressive leaders have done little to address the obvious national appetite for female leadership. And despite (or because of) their continuing obsession with Ms. Palin, they have done nothing to stop an anti-choice, pro-abstinence, socialist-bashing Tea Party enthusiast from becoming the 21st century symbol of American women in politics. Imagine that: a woman who places real value on life, sex and freedom - SHE MUST BE STOPPED! She can&#8217;t be a real woman! She wants to cut taxes and repeal ObamaCare! The things that make her appealing to conservatives and Republicans are the things that make her public enemy #1 for the Democrats and feminists. You can say a lot of things about Sarah Palin, and I have been known to disagree with her frequently, but I am grateful that she has brought strong, conservative, feminine women into the spotlight. There are more Republican women running for office than ever before - 129 GOP women are running for House seats this fall and 17 for Senate. We will see in November if this will translate into wins for Republican women, but the point has already been made: Americans are embracing conservative women running for political office. And that is in no small part because of Sarah Palin&#8217;s willingness to throw her support behind them and give them national exposure. For all the talk of their support for women, there is no one on a national level doing for liberals what Sarah Palin is doing for conservatives in this election. Who is helping the Democratic women win seats? The highest ranking woman in the Democratic Party? No, Nancy is focused on investigating the Ground Zero Mosque detractors and still trying to sell  a health care plan that has already been passed. The Left has been focused on gay marriage, abortion, and massive entitlement spending. Instead of finding better candidates to run against the fresh crop of small government advocates, Nancy Pelosi is cherrypicking the candidates she can throw under the bus this fall. The left’s failure to nurture and celebrate female politicians has had a significant effect on its policies. In recent years, Democratic majorities and progressive legislation seem to have been built on steady trade-offs of reproductive rights, culminating this year when the first female speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi, was forced to push through health care reform with a compromise on abortion financing. The assumption here is telling: If they just had more women, they&#8217;d have more funding for abortion. Because a woman is nothing but her uterus. If they are so certain about their hold over women, why are they struggling so much? Wouldn&#8217;t women respond? The country is changing. Americans still value life, and they value liberty. The legislated equality worked with we were fighting for our right to vote - but we aren&#8217;t there any more. Women are rejecting the notion that they are nothing but a protected class of big spending, pro-abortion liberals. I, for one, hope that trend continues. ]]></description>
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		<title>The Laugher Curve</title>
		<link>http://www.obamashitlist.com/2010/08/30/the-laugher-curve/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Aug 2010 15:08:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>markboabaca</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Many conservatives believe that the principle difference between traditional liberals and contemporary progressives is that the latter lack a sense of humor. In this, however, we do our left-of-center friends an injustice. Progressives are, in fact, a plentiful source of sidesplitting humor. Indeed, for irrefutable proof that they possess a genuine gift for comedy one need look no further than the claims they make for ObamaCare. In their increasingly frantic attempts to justify that big-government boondoggle, they routinely produce thigh-slappers that would have been the envy of any old-time Vaudeville comedian. As the late Jimmy Durante would have phrased it, they got a million of 'em. Among the most hilarious ObamaCare justifications is the claim that it will reduce the federal budget deficit. No less a jokester than Paul Krugman produced this gag in a recent blog post , "the Medicare actuaries believe that the cost-saving provisions in the Obama health reform will make a huge difference to the long-run budget outlook.… All the facts we have suggest that health reform was the biggest move toward fiscal responsibility in a long, long time." The comedy writers from whom Krugman got this quip are the CMS bureaucrats who produced the latest Medicare Trustees Report , which claims "reform" will control Medicare spending enough to keep the program solvent while easing upward pressure on the deficit. Alas, not everyone appreciates this brand of humor. One such stick-in-the-mud is Richard Foster, Medicare's Chief Actuary. On August 5, Foster became the first Chief Actuary in the program's history to openly question the plausibility of a Trustees Report. In fact, Foster authorized an eighteen-page memorandum whose introduction contains this astonishing passage: "[T]he projections shown in the report do not represent the 'best estimate' of actual future Medicare expenditures." Foster's memorandum was a response to the report's absurd assumption that Medicare physician payment rates will be reduced by 30% over the next three years, an assumption that fails… well… the laugh test. And Foster is by no means the only fuddy-duddy who fails to see the humor in the Medicare Trustees Report. Michael O. Leavitt, former Secretary of HHS and a member of the Medicare Board of Trustees from 2005 to 2009, also questions its plausibility : "Despite the report from Medicare's trustees... Medicare is no better off than it was a year ago." There are even fussbudgets on the left who find this particular joke in poor taste. One high-profile progressive consulting outfit has advised Democrats and their allies to avoid it altogether. In a recent presentation organized for Families USA and other pro-ObamaCare advocacy groups, the Herndon Alliance admonished them to stop claiming that the Democrat health care bill "will reduce costs and the deficit." Nonetheless, progressive wits still have plenty of good material, including the claim that ObamaCare will create hundreds of thousands of new jobs. This howler has long graced the repertoire of that talented comedienne, Nancy Pelosi, who advised the public last February that the health care bill would immediately create 400,000 new jobs . And it is still being told by a variety of ostensibly nonpartisan farceurs. National Journal , for example, plans a September policy summit in which various participants will be asked to maintain straight faces while discussing ObamaCare "as an economic engine" and whether it will "serve as a jobs creator and accelerate growth in health-related industries." If it seems self-evident that the $1 trillion "reform" bill will create jobs in the health care sector, you might want to talk to Patrick Muldoon. He is the CEO of HealthAlliance Hospital in Leominster, Massachusetts, which was forced to eliminate 50 jobs as a direct result of ObamaCare's passage. Muldoon explains that the staff reductions are necessary because "health care reform is expected to result in the loss of $24 million in Medicare reimbursements." Thus, the effect of Obama's "economic engine" on that hospital has been to add many of its employees to the ever-growing rolls of the unemployed. This is a story that will be repeated over and over again throughout the hospital industry as ObamaCare ramps up. The loss of productive jobs in the health care sector will inevitably be accompanied by similar losses in the health insurance industry. As ObamaCare's perverse incentives herd privately insured patients to Medicaid and other government-subsidized coverage programs, many small insurance companies will find it necessary to lay off employees. Among the first victims are the employees of HealthMarkets, which provides insurance plans to the self-employed, individuals, and small businesses. The Texas firm just laid off 70 employees and will need to eliminate 180 more positions in 2011. Why? Its SEC filing cites "national healthcare reform and related legislative developments." Presumably, these unemployed health and insurance workers will be a "tough room" for progressive comedians telling their ObamaCare jokes. And the mood of the crowd will not be elevated much by the presence of their employed brethren. The latter will not be amused, for example, to hear the hoary "you can keep your health plan" yarn. That routine increasingly dies on its feet, even when the comedian-in-chief himself tells it . All successful humor contains a kernel of truth, and that feature is conspicuously absent in this particular jape. This reality has become all too apparent to workers who stand to lose their current coverage because it doesn't meet the requirements of the new health care law. And yet the jokes keep coming, proving that progressives do have a very real -- if somewhat malicious -- sense of humor. Indeed, the very name they have given the health care law is a study in snide humor. The "Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act," which manifestly fails to protect patients from anything -- except the ability to make their own health decisions -- and actually renders health care more expensive, is a cruel joke at the expense of the electorate. But the voters get it, and opinion surveys increasingly suggest that they are preparing to issue a scathing review on November 2. They will, in effect, paraphrase an old Henny Youngman gag by telling Congress, "Take ObamaCare… please." ]]></description>
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		<title>Why the “Restoring Honor” Rally Mattered</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Whether you believe in God or not…whether you are a Christian or not…today mattered! This phrase in the Declaration of Independence is the real key to today’s rally at the Lincoln Memorial: “Endowed by Their Creator with Certain Unalienable Rights…” Try to substituting “Endowed by Barack Obama and Nancy Pelosi with Certain Rights…” and you will instantly ]]></description>
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