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<title><![CDATA[Washington Sketch: The crashing Salahis had other parties in mind]]></title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 04 Dec 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[ Among party crashers, it must be considered gauche to attend a party to which you were actually invited. ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Washington Sketch: Afghan withdrawal timeline is more aspiration than commitment]]></title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 03 Dec 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[ President Obama's 18-month deadline for starting the Afghanistan pullout didn't survive its first 18 hours. ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Washington Sketch: Obama's Afghan deadline all but missed]]></title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 03 Dec 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[ President Obama's 18-month deadline for the Afghanistan surge didn't even survive 18 hours. ]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Dana Milbank]]></dc:creator>
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<title><![CDATA[Washington Sketch: Already tired of the Senate health-care reform debate]]></title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 02 Dec 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[ Our leaders seem to have come down with an acute case of health-care fatigue syndrome.<br clear="all"/><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=49394322258" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=49394322258" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Dana Milbank]]></dc:creator>
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<title><![CDATA[Washington Sketch: The perils of being commander in chief]]></title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 01 Dec 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[ First, the good news: President Obama will not be wearing a flight suit when he addresses the cadets at West Point on Tuesday night. Nor will he wear a bomber jacket with the presidential seal on the chest, nor even, the White House promises, a windbreaker with the word ARMY in big letters. ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Washington Sketch: The perils of being commander in chief]]></title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 01 Dec 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[ First, the good news: President Obama will not be wearing a flight suit when he addresses the cadets at West Point on Tuesday night. Nor will he wear a bomber jacket with the presidential seal on the chest, nor even, the White House promises, a windbreaker with the word ARMY in big letters. ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Bankers making turkeys out of taxpayers]]></title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 25 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[ The nation's bankers have much to be thankful for as they sit down to their turkey dinners on Thursday. ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Washington Sketch: Seeing a setback in the race against breast cancer]]></title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 24 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[ Nancy Brinker, the breast cancer activist who painted the world pink, was feeling blue.<br clear="all"/><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=49394333910" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=49394333910" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Dana Milbank]]></dc:creator>
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<title><![CDATA[Sweeteners for the South]]></title>
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<pubDate>Sun, 22 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[ Staffers on Capitol Hill were calling it the Louisiana Purchase. ]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Dana Milbank]]></dc:creator>
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<title><![CDATA[An opaque transparency]]></title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[ As the first congressional investigation of the Fort Hood massacre began Thursday, a curious collection of witnesses assembled in the committee room. ]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Dana Milbank]]></dc:creator>
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<title><![CDATA[Washington Sketch: In China, Obama leaves more questions than he takes]]></title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[ Listening to President Obama and his Chinese counterpart this week, it was hard to tell who was Hu. ]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Dana Milbank]]></dc:creator>
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<title><![CDATA[Washington Sketch: Republican senators do an about-face on judicial filibusters]]></title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[ In their quest to thwart President Obama, Republicans do not fear the hobgoblin of consistency.<br clear="all"/><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=49394341299" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=49394341299" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Dana Milbank]]></dc:creator>
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<title><![CDATA[Washington Sketch: No arrests for conservative Christians' anti-gay talk]]></title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[ Conservative Christian ministers from across the land, determined to test the bounds of a new law punishing anti-gay hate crimes, assembled outside the Justice Department on Monday to denounce the sin of homosexuality and see whether they would be charged with lawbreaking. ]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Dana Milbank]]></dc:creator>
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<title><![CDATA[Obama's world record]]></title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 13 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[ It sounds tailor-made for a GOP ad: ]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Dana Milbank]]></dc:creator>
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<title><![CDATA[Washington Sketch: Globe may not be big enough for One World Government]]></title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 11 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[ The New World Order came into being at 4:25 Tuesday afternoon. ]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Dana Milbank]]></dc:creator>
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<title><![CDATA[Washington Sketch: Gingrich is no longer conservative about showing his religion]]></title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[ It says much about the transformation of the Republican Party that even Newt Gingrich is now carrying the cross.<br clear="all"/><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=49394350056" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=49394350056" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Dana Milbank]]></dc:creator>
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<title><![CDATA[Washington Sketch: No shortage of Republican objections during House health-care debate]]></title>
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<pubDate>Sun, 08 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[ At long last House Democrats passed their health-care legislation Saturday night. The Republicans objected. Often. ]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Dana Milbank]]></dc:creator>
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<title><![CDATA[No one said freedom was pretty]]></title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[ The call to arms went out last week. ]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Dana Milbank]]></dc:creator>
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<title><![CDATA[Michael Steele on the election]]></title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[ Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele was doing a victory lap on the morning shows Wednesday after the GOP gubernatorial candidates won in New Jersey and Virginia. ]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Dana Milbank]]></dc:creator>
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<title><![CDATA[Washington Sketch: Republicans give global-warming hearing the cold shoulder]]></title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[ The senators' nameplates were lined up neatly on the green felt. A row of black leather chairs awaited senatorial bottoms. The microphones were live and the water iced.<br clear="all"/><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=49394356017" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=49394356017" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Dana Milbank]]></dc:creator>
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