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		<title>Obama&#8217;s Politics of Austerity</title>
		<link>http://theactivist.org/blog/obamas-politics-of-austerity</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Aug 2011 15:19:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ydsblog</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[debt ceiling]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[JOSEPH M. SCHWARTZ Political scientists have traditionally termed Medicare and Social Security “the third rail” of American politics: touch them (in order to cut benefits) and your political career is over. Why, then, is a Democratic president offering to slow the growth of Social Security benefits and raise the premiums paid by wealthy Medicare beneficiaries, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Wisconsin Shows Failure of Democrats to Back Pro-Labor Reforms</title>
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		<comments>http://theactivist.org/blog/wisconsin-shows-failure-of-democrats-to-back-pro-labor-reforms#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Feb 2011 20:23:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ydsblog</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Bill Clinton]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[card check]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[EFCA]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[labor law]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[labor movement]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[obama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Protests]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[MARK ENGLER We should all know by now that Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker’s attacks on organized labor (and similar attacks by Republicans in Ohio, Michigan, and beyond) are not about balancing budgets. They are about undermining the single most important institutional force opposing exclusive big business control over U.S. politics. As Fox News anchor Shep [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Inevitable Failure of Labor Law Reform</title>
		<link>http://theactivist.org/blog/the-inevitable-failure-of-labor-law-reform</link>
		<comments>http://theactivist.org/blog/the-inevitable-failure-of-labor-law-reform#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Feb 2010 15:39:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jake Blumgart</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Domestic]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[AFL-CIO]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Congress]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[labor law reform]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[JAKE BLUMGART At the beginning of 2009, unions had a reason to feel a little hopeful. The electoral victory spearheaded by Barack Obama the year before seemed to ensure a wave of progressive legislation. The new president even promised to advance the two policies closes to labor’s heart: health care reform and the Employee Free [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Jared Bernstein: Missing in Action</title>
		<link>http://theactivist.org/blog/jared-bernstein-missing-in-action</link>
		<comments>http://theactivist.org/blog/jared-bernstein-missing-in-action#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Oct 2009 15:19:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Frase</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Domestic]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Jared Bernstein]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Larry Summers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[obama]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[PETER FRASE The talk of blog-land this week is Ryan Lizza&#8217;s long New Yorker profile of Obama administration economist-guru Larry Summers. It&#8217;s an interesting and useful piece, although I think it&#8217;s far too forgiving of Summers and the Obama administration for all the reasons Dean Baker provides here. I would only add that it&#8217;s shameful [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Beltway Consensus</title>
		<link>http://theactivist.org/blog/the-beltway-consensus</link>
		<comments>http://theactivist.org/blog/the-beltway-consensus#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Aug 2009 20:15:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Guest Author</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Blue Dog Democrats]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[red-baiting]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[GLENN GREENWALD The prevailing Beltway wisdom has now ossified that the problem with the health care debate is that those hardened Leftist ideologues cling childishly and petulantly to their little &#34;public option&#34; fetish and their refusal to give it up is jeopardizing enactment of a reform bill.&#160; Just see The Washington Post Editorial Page, Post [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rep. Anthony Weiner &gt; Joe Scarborough</title>
		<link>http://theactivist.org/blog/rep-anthony-weiner-joe-scarborough</link>
		<comments>http://theactivist.org/blog/rep-anthony-weiner-joe-scarborough#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Aug 2009 23:19:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bhaskar Sunkara</dc:creator>
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		<title>Dispatches From a Town Hall: Philly YDS Finds Some Brotherly Love</title>
		<link>http://theactivist.org/blog/dispatches-from-a-town-hall-philly-yds-finds-some-brotherly-love</link>
		<comments>http://theactivist.org/blog/dispatches-from-a-town-hall-philly-yds-finds-some-brotherly-love#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Aug 2009 02:00:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ydsblog</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://theactivist.org/blog/?p=1757</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[SEAN MONAGHAN AND DON HOPKINS We set out for the health care town hall expecting battle. Dan Assaraf, Colin Johnson, and Don Hopkins had seen the news earlier in the day, and consequently feared the worst. As a fledgling Young Democratic Socialists chapter at Temple University in Philadelphia, we might have been just a little [...]]]></description>
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		<title>R.I.P. Public Option?</title>
		<link>http://theactivist.org/blog/r-i-p-public-option</link>
		<comments>http://theactivist.org/blog/r-i-p-public-option#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 16 Aug 2009 21:37:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bhaskar Sunkara</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[health care]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[BHASKAR SUNKARA The signals from the White House today don’t look promising: Bowing to Republican pressure and an uneasy public, President Barack Obama&#8217;s administration signaled Sunday it is ready to abandon the idea of giving Americans the option of government-run insurance as part of a new health care system. Facing mounting opposition to the overhaul, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Obama Issues Signing Statement to Ignore Labor, Environmental Provisions</title>
		<link>http://theactivist.org/blog/obama-issues-signing-statement-to-ignore-labor-environmental-provisions</link>
		<comments>http://theactivist.org/blog/obama-issues-signing-statement-to-ignore-labor-environmental-provisions#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2009 01:49:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ydsblog</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[President Obama has issued a signing statement refusing to comply with several provisions of the $106 billion war funding bill he signed into law last week. Obama says he will ignore a congressional mandate to pressure the World Bank to strengthen labor and environmental standards. Obama has also rejected a provision calling for the Treasury [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Obama should be more like Dubya</title>
		<link>http://theactivist.org/blog/obama-should-be-more-like-bush</link>
		<comments>http://theactivist.org/blog/obama-should-be-more-like-bush#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Jun 2009 16:45:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ydsblog</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Bill Maher]]></category>
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