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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. ]]></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>
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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.<br clear="all"/><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=469104350434" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=469104350434" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description>
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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. ]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Dana Milbank]]></dc:creator>
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<title><![CDATA[Washington Sketch: Will elections be a referendum on Obama? Depends on who wins.]]></title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[ So, will Tuesday's elections in Virginia, New Jersey and New York be a referendum on the Obama presidency? Let us put the question to a plebiscite. ]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Dana Milbank]]></dc:creator>
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<title><![CDATA[Washington Sketch: House Democrats' rally has a lot of salt, but little pep]]></title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 30 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[ As Speaker Nancy Pelosi led her House Democrats down the Capitol steps Thursday morning for a health-care pep rally, the sound system began to crank out . . . wait, that's not U2's "Elevation," is it? ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Washington Sketch: Defense spending bill is exercise in waste on want-not]]></title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[ Not quite three weeks ago, President Obama won the Nobel Peace Prize. On Wednesday afternoon, he put his signature on the largest military spending plan in the history of the world.<br clear="all"/><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=469104356677" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=469104356677" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Dana Milbank]]></dc:creator>
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<title><![CDATA[Washington Sketch: A hostile climate for Sen. Inhofe the warming skeptic]]></title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[ It must be very lonely being the last flat-earther. ]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Dana Milbank]]></dc:creator>
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<title><![CDATA[Washington Sketch: Harry Reid, party of one, on the health-care public option]]></title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 27 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[ What Harry Reid did Monday afternoon gave new meaning to the phrase "public option." ]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Dana Milbank]]></dc:creator>
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<title><![CDATA[Czar trouble]]></title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[ October revolutions just ain't what they used to be. ]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Dana Milbank]]></dc:creator>
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<title><![CDATA[A speech stuck on 'repeat']]></title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 22 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[ If he were a runner, he would do ultramarathons. If he were a swimmer, he would cross the English Channel. If he were a baseball player, he would be Cal Ripken.<br clear="all"/><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=469104403114" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=469104403114" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Dana Milbank]]></dc:creator>
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<title><![CDATA[The Democrats' fickle-and-dime health strategy]]></title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[ "Iwill not sign a plan that adds one dime to our deficits, either now or in the future -- period," President Obama told Congress in a health-care address last month. ]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Dana Milbank]]></dc:creator>
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<title><![CDATA[Washington Sketch: When breaking news is broken]]></title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 20 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[ A few minutes after 11 on Monday morning, investors got a surprising bit of news on CNBC.  ]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Dana Milbank]]></dc:creator>
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<title><![CDATA[Obama's War of Few Words]]></title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 16 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[ Who will fill the Afghanistan vacuum? ]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Dana Milbank]]></dc:creator>
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<title><![CDATA[Washington Sketch: Rep. Die Quickly Is a Real Die-Hard]]></title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 15 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[ There are no shades of gray in Alan Grayson's oratory.<br clear="all"/><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=469104407922" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=469104407922" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Dana Milbank]]></dc:creator>
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<title><![CDATA[Washington Sketch: Snowe's on the Other Team, but She Called the Plays]]></title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 14 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[ Sen. Olympia Snowe, Republican of Maine, is fast becoming the Brett Favre of the political world: She has trouble making up her mind, but she sure knows how to play ball. ]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Dana Milbank]]></dc:creator>
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<title><![CDATA[Washington Sketch: The Capital Is Still a Boys' Club]]></title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 09 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[ The old boys are back in town. ]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Dana Milbank]]></dc:creator>
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<title><![CDATA[Washington Sketch: A Cross in the Desert]]></title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 08 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[ Question: If a cross rises in the desert and no one knows about it, does it make a sound? ]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Dana Milbank]]></dc:creator>
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<title><![CDATA[The Forest, the Trees and ACORN]]></title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 07 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[ Bertha Lewis, the head of ACORN, is one tough nut.<br clear="all"/><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=469104412518" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=469104412518" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Dana Milbank]]></dc:creator>
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