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<channel><title><![CDATA[washingtonpost.com - Washington Sketch by Dana Milbank (washingtonpost.com)]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/linkset/2005/03/25/LI2005032501825.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><description><![CDATA[Dana Milbank's Washington Sketch looks at the political scene in the White House, Congress and throughout the nation's capital.]]></description><language>en-us</language><ttl>15</ttl><image><title>washingtonpost.com</title><width>140</width><height>20</height><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com?nav=rss</link><url>http://media3.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/hp/image/wp_web.gif </url></image>
<item><title><![CDATA[ No Magic From the GOP Version of Penn and Teller ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/10/AR2008101002555.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/10/AR2008101002555.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Sat, 11 Oct 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[  ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Dana Milbank]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[No]]></category><category><![CDATA[Magic]]></category><category><![CDATA[From]]></category><category><![CDATA[the]]></category><category><![CDATA[GOP]]></category><category><![CDATA[Version]]></category><category><![CDATA[of]]></category><category><![CDATA[Penn]]></category><category><![CDATA[and]]></category><category><![CDATA[Teller]]></category><category><![CDATA[George W. Bush]]></category><category><![CDATA[The White House]]></category><category><![CDATA[Dana Perino]]></category><category><![CDATA[John McCain]]></category><category><![CDATA[Air Force One]]></category><category><![CDATA[Florida]]></category><category><![CDATA[Franklin D. Roosevelt]]></category><category><![CDATA[Deb Riechmann]]></category><category><![CDATA[Miami]]></category><category><![CDATA[Rick Davis]]></category><category><![CDATA[Saddam Hussein]]></category><category><![CDATA[Coral Gables]]></category><category><![CDATA[CBS Corporation]]></category><category><![CDATA[Dow Jones & Co. Inc.]]></category><category><![CDATA[The Associated Press]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Republican Party]]></category><category><![CDATA[South Carolina]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Rage in the Town of Bethlehem ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/08/AR2008100803601.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/08/AR2008100803601.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Thu, 09 Oct 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ BETHLEHEM, Pa. Now, it's personal. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Dana Milbank]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Rage]]></category><category><![CDATA[in]]></category><category><![CDATA[the]]></category><category><![CDATA[Town]]></category><category><![CDATA[of]]></category><category><![CDATA[Bethlehem]]></category><category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category><category><![CDATA[Sarah Palin]]></category><category><![CDATA[United States]]></category><category><![CDATA[John McCain]]></category><category><![CDATA[Cindy McCain]]></category><category><![CDATA[Bethlehem (Pennsylvania)]]></category><category><![CDATA[Lehigh County]]></category><category><![CDATA[Chicago]]></category><category><![CDATA[Karen Beyer]]></category><category><![CDATA[Northampton County]]></category><category><![CDATA[Peg Ferraro]]></category><category><![CDATA[Lehigh University]]></category><category><![CDATA[The Washington Post Company]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Open Season on Small Game ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/08/AR2008100800028.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/08/AR2008100800028.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Wed, 08 Oct 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ NASHVILLE, Oct. 7 ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Dana Milbank]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Open]]></category><category><![CDATA[Season]]></category><category><![CDATA[on]]></category><category><![CDATA[Small]]></category><category><![CDATA[Game]]></category><category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category><category><![CDATA[John McCain]]></category><category><![CDATA[Fannie Mae]]></category><category><![CDATA[Tom Brokaw]]></category><category><![CDATA[Freddie Mac Holdings]]></category><category><![CDATA[Medicare]]></category><category><![CDATA[Nashville]]></category><category><![CDATA[Chicago]]></category><category><![CDATA[Iran]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jell-O Desserts]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jeremiah Wright]]></category><category><![CDATA[NBC Universal Inc.]]></category><category><![CDATA[Sarah Palin]]></category><category><![CDATA[The Christian Science Monitor]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Senate]]></category><category><![CDATA[William Ayers]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Unleashed, Palin Makes a Pit Bull Look Tame ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/06/AR2008100602935.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/06/AR2008100602935.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Tue, 07 Oct 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ FORT MYERS, Fla., Oct. 6 John McCain is collapsing in the polls in Florida and other swing states, but Sarah Palin, God bless her, has a solution.<br clear="all"/><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=4212122404581" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=4212122404581" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Dana Milbank]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Unleashed,]]></category><category><![CDATA[Palin]]></category><category><![CDATA[Makes]]></category><category><![CDATA[a]]></category><category><![CDATA[Pit]]></category><category><![CDATA[Bull]]></category><category><![CDATA[Look]]></category><category><![CDATA[Tame]]></category><category><![CDATA[John McCain]]></category><category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category><category><![CDATA[Sarah Palin]]></category><category><![CDATA[Clearwater]]></category><category><![CDATA[Florida]]></category><category><![CDATA[United States]]></category><category><![CDATA[Afghanistan]]></category><category><![CDATA[The New York Times Company]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Republican Party]]></category><category><![CDATA[Weather Underground Organization]]></category><category><![CDATA[Fort Myers]]></category><category><![CDATA[Bill Kristol]]></category><category><![CDATA[David Broder]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jack Donahue]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jeremiah Wright]]></category><category><![CDATA[Katie Couric]]></category><category><![CDATA[Lindsey Graham]]></category><category><![CDATA[Naples]]></category><category><![CDATA[William Ayers]]></category><category><![CDATA[Woody Johnson]]></category><category><![CDATA[AFC East Division]]></category><category><![CDATA[American Football Conference]]></category><category><![CDATA[Dow Jones & Co. Inc.]]></category><category><![CDATA[National Football League]]></category><category><![CDATA[New York Jets]]></category><category><![CDATA[Republican Party of Florida]]></category><category><![CDATA[St. Petersburg Times]]></category><category><![CDATA[The Pentagon]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Capitol]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Joe, and Sarah Six-Pack ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/02/AR2008100204250.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/02/AR2008100204250.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Fri, 03 Oct 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ ST. LOUIS, Oct. 2 This week, Sarah Palin gave a curious rationale for her candidacy. "It's time," the Republican vice presidential nominee said, "that normal Joe Six-Pack American is finally represented in the position of vice presidency." ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Dana Milbank]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Joe,]]></category><category><![CDATA[and]]></category><category><![CDATA[Sarah]]></category><category><![CDATA[Six-Pack]]></category><category><![CDATA[Sarah Palin]]></category><category><![CDATA[Joseph Biden]]></category><category><![CDATA[Katie Couric]]></category><category><![CDATA[Sarah Six-Pack]]></category><category><![CDATA[Gwen Ifill]]></category><category><![CDATA[John McCain]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington, DC]]></category><category><![CDATA[St. Louis]]></category><category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category><category><![CDATA[Geraldine Ferraro]]></category><category><![CDATA[Mahmoud Ahmadinejad]]></category><category><![CDATA[Tina Fey]]></category><category><![CDATA[Wasilla]]></category><category><![CDATA[CBS Corporation]]></category><category><![CDATA[Iran]]></category><category><![CDATA[Iraq]]></category><category><![CDATA[Israel]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Senate Committee on Foreign Relations]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington University in St. Louis]]></category><category><![CDATA[Darfur]]></category><category><![CDATA[Middle East]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Kumbaya, Distinguished Gentlemen, Kumbaya ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/01/AR2008100103049.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/01/AR2008100103049.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Thu, 02 Oct 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ As a leader of the "Pray at the Pump" movement, Rocky Twyman spent the summer visiting service stations to ask God for lower gas prices. But after he saw the House of Representatives collapse in chaos as it attempted to pass a financial bailout on Monday, Twyman headed to Capitol Hill yesterday with a new cause. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Dana Milbank]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Kumbaya,]]></category><category><![CDATA[Distinguished]]></category><category><![CDATA[Gentlemen,]]></category><category><![CDATA[Kumbaya]]></category><category><![CDATA[Mitch McConnell]]></category><category><![CDATA[Rocky Twyman]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Senate]]></category><category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category><category><![CDATA[Harry Reid]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jim DeMint]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. House of Representatives]]></category><category><![CDATA[Claire McCaskill]]></category><category><![CDATA[Daniel Inouye]]></category><category><![CDATA[Don Stewart]]></category><category><![CDATA[John McCain]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ken Salazar]]></category><category><![CDATA[Kent Conrad]]></category><category><![CDATA[Tom Coburn]]></category><category><![CDATA[Capitol Hill]]></category><category><![CDATA[Colorado]]></category><category><![CDATA[Hawaii]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ A House Divided Along Twisted Lines ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/29/AR2008092903406.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/29/AR2008092903406.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Tue, 30 Sep 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ The bailout bill was going down to defeat on the House floor yesterday, and Democratic and Republican leaders were desperately trying to twist arms and change votes when a bipartisan group of backbenchers began to heckle them. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Dana Milbank]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[A]]></category><category><![CDATA[House]]></category><category><![CDATA[Divided]]></category><category><![CDATA[Along]]></category><category><![CDATA[Twisted]]></category><category><![CDATA[Lines]]></category><category><![CDATA[John Boehner]]></category><category><![CDATA[Nancy Pelosi]]></category><category><![CDATA[Louie Gohmert]]></category><category><![CDATA[Roy Blunt]]></category><category><![CDATA[Barney Frank]]></category><category><![CDATA[Brad Sherman]]></category><category><![CDATA[Dan Lungren]]></category><category><![CDATA[Dennis Kucinich]]></category><category><![CDATA[Lloyd Doggett]]></category><category><![CDATA[Marcy Kaptur]]></category><category><![CDATA[Paul Broun]]></category><category><![CDATA[Paul Ryan]]></category><category><![CDATA[Steny Hoyer]]></category><category><![CDATA[Steve King]]></category><category><![CDATA[Thaddeus McCotter]]></category><category><![CDATA[Todd Akin]]></category><category><![CDATA[Virginia Foxx]]></category><category><![CDATA[Walter B. Jones (Politician)]]></category><category><![CDATA[Dow Jones & Co. Inc.]]></category><category><![CDATA[Mary Kay Inc.]]></category><category><![CDATA[United States]]></category><category><![CDATA[Iowa]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ohio]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Temperature of Debate? Lukewarm. ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/26/AR2008092603593.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/26/AR2008092603593.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Sat, 27 Sep 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ OXFORD, Miss., Sept. 26 It was supposed to have been a Goldilocks debate.<br clear="all"/><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=4212122406289" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=4212122406289" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Dana Milbank]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Temperature]]></category><category><![CDATA[of]]></category><category><![CDATA[Debate?]]></category><category><![CDATA[Lukewarm.]]></category><category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category><category><![CDATA[John McCain]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jim Lehrer]]></category><category><![CDATA[Iraq]]></category><category><![CDATA[Mahmoud Ahmadinejad]]></category><category><![CDATA[Israel]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Senate]]></category><category><![CDATA[Oxford]]></category><category><![CDATA[Chris Matthews]]></category><category><![CDATA[David Petraeus]]></category><category><![CDATA[Franklin D. Roosevelt]]></category><category><![CDATA[Hillary Clinton]]></category><category><![CDATA[Iran]]></category><category><![CDATA[Osama bin Laden]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ryan David]]></category><category><![CDATA[The White House]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ukraine]]></category><category><![CDATA[United States]]></category><category><![CDATA[University of Mississippi]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ The Aw-Shucks Defense ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/25/AR2008092504299.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/25/AR2008092504299.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Fri, 26 Sep 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Sen. Ted Stevens, his career and his freedom in jeopardy, did the honorable thing as he went on trial yesterday on corruption-related charges. He blamed his wife. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Dana Milbank]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[The]]></category><category><![CDATA[Aw-Shucks]]></category><category><![CDATA[Defense]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ted Stevens]]></category><category><![CDATA[Brendan Sullivan]]></category><category><![CDATA[Brenda Morris]]></category><category><![CDATA[Alaska]]></category><category><![CDATA[Daniel Inouye]]></category><category><![CDATA[Edward M. Kennedy]]></category><category><![CDATA[Henry Cisneros]]></category><category><![CDATA[Oliver North]]></category><category><![CDATA[Orrin Hatch]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington, DC]]></category><category><![CDATA[Brookstone Inc.]]></category><category><![CDATA[Capitol Hill]]></category><category><![CDATA[Land Rover Group Ltd.]]></category><category><![CDATA[Quentin Wilber]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, & Transportation]]></category><category><![CDATA[United States]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Bailing Out of the Bailout ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/24/AR2008092403137.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/24/AR2008092403137.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Thu, 25 Sep 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Congressional leaders assembled yesterday on the West Front of the Capitol for the "First Nail Ceremony" to start work on the viewing platform for the Jan. 20th presidential inauguration. While they had the hammer out, they should have nailed a sign to the Capitol door: "Help Wanted." ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Dana Milbank]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Bailing]]></category><category><![CDATA[Out]]></category><category><![CDATA[of]]></category><category><![CDATA[the]]></category><category><![CDATA[Bailout]]></category><category><![CDATA[Henry M. Paulson]]></category><category><![CDATA[John McCain]]></category><category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category><category><![CDATA[George W. Bush]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ben Bernanke]]></category><category><![CDATA[Harry Reid]]></category><category><![CDATA[Wall Street]]></category><category><![CDATA[Al Green]]></category><category><![CDATA[Barney Frank]]></category><category><![CDATA[Dick Cheney]]></category><category><![CDATA[Dunedin]]></category><category><![CDATA[Emanuel Cleaver]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jeb Hensarling]]></category><category><![CDATA[Lincoln Davis]]></category><category><![CDATA[Paul Kane]]></category><category><![CDATA[Sarah Palin]]></category><category><![CDATA[Bloomberg LP]]></category><category><![CDATA[The White House]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. House Committee on Financial Services]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington, DC]]></category><category><![CDATA[Florida]]></category><category><![CDATA[Tennessee]]></category><category><![CDATA[Texas]]></category><category><![CDATA[New York]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ I Come to You, Cashmere Hat in Hand . . . ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/23/AR2008092302791.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/23/AR2008092302791.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Wed, 24 Sep 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ "I don't like to be in this position, asking for things and, you know, answering to the American taxpayer," Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson informed the Senate banking committee yesterday. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Dana Milbank]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[I]]></category><category><![CDATA[Come]]></category><category><![CDATA[to]]></category><category><![CDATA[You,]]></category><category><![CDATA[Cashmere]]></category><category><![CDATA[Hat]]></category><category><![CDATA[in]]></category><category><![CDATA[Hand]]></category><category><![CDATA[.]]></category><category><![CDATA[.]]></category><category><![CDATA[.]]></category><category><![CDATA[Henry M. Paulson]]></category><category><![CDATA[Wall Street]]></category><category><![CDATA[George W. Bush]]></category><category><![CDATA[Goldman Sachs Group Inc.]]></category><category><![CDATA[Charles Schumer]]></category><category><![CDATA[Christopher Dodd]]></category><category><![CDATA[Elizabeth Dole]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jim Bunning]]></category><category><![CDATA[Mike Crapo]]></category><category><![CDATA[Mike Enzi]]></category><category><![CDATA[Richard Shelby]]></category><category><![CDATA[Robert Menendez]]></category><category><![CDATA[Sherrod Brown]]></category><category><![CDATA[Wayne Allard]]></category><category><![CDATA[Dirksen Senate Office Building]]></category><category><![CDATA[Iraq]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Department of Homeland Security]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Department of the Treasury]]></category><category><![CDATA[Alabama]]></category><category><![CDATA[CNBC Inc.]]></category><category><![CDATA[New York]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Hard Landing for the Golden Parachute ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/22/AR2008092202849.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/22/AR2008092202849.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Tue, 23 Sep 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ It's about time somebody in this town stood up for the big guy.<br clear="all"/><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=4212122406654" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=4212122406654" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Dana Milbank]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Hard]]></category><category><![CDATA[Landing]]></category><category><![CDATA[for]]></category><category><![CDATA[the]]></category><category><![CDATA[Golden]]></category><category><![CDATA[Parachute]]></category><category><![CDATA[Henry M. Paulson]]></category><category><![CDATA[Wall Street]]></category><category><![CDATA[George W. Bush]]></category><category><![CDATA[Abraham Lincoln]]></category><category><![CDATA[Barney Frank]]></category><category><![CDATA[Bob Corker]]></category><category><![CDATA[Charles Schumer]]></category><category><![CDATA[Chris Wallace]]></category><category><![CDATA[Christopher Dodd]]></category><category><![CDATA[Dana Perino]]></category><category><![CDATA[George Stephanopoulos]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jim Webb]]></category><category><![CDATA[John McCain]]></category><category><![CDATA[Lori Montgomery]]></category><category><![CDATA[Louie Gohmert]]></category><category><![CDATA[Mel Martinez]]></category><category><![CDATA[Mitch McConnell]]></category><category><![CDATA[Paul Kane]]></category><category><![CDATA[Richard Shelby]]></category><category><![CDATA[CBS Corporation]]></category><category><![CDATA[CNBC Inc.]]></category><category><![CDATA[FOX News Network LLC]]></category><category><![CDATA[Goldman Sachs Group Inc.]]></category><category><![CDATA[Lincoln Memorial]]></category><category><![CDATA[MSNBC Interactive News LLC]]></category><category><![CDATA[National Mall]]></category><category><![CDATA[The United States Mint]]></category><category><![CDATA[The White House]]></category><category><![CDATA[Alabama]]></category><category><![CDATA[Florida]]></category><category><![CDATA[Texas]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Third-Party Candidates Choose Clown Makeup Over Pig Lipstick ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/10/AR2008091003463.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/10/AR2008091003463.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Thu, 11 Sep 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ There's no putting lipstick on this pig. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Dana Milbank]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Third-Party]]></category><category><![CDATA[Candidates]]></category><category><![CDATA[Choose]]></category><category><![CDATA[Clown]]></category><category><![CDATA[Makeup]]></category><category><![CDATA[Over]]></category><category><![CDATA[Pig]]></category><category><![CDATA[Lipstick]]></category><category><![CDATA[Bob Barr]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ron Paul]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ralph Nader]]></category><category><![CDATA[John McCain]]></category><category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category><category><![CDATA[Cynthia McKinney]]></category><category><![CDATA[Sarah Palin]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ted Stevens]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Libertarian Party]]></category><category><![CDATA[National Press Club]]></category><category><![CDATA[Charles Rangel]]></category><category><![CDATA[Chuck Baldwin]]></category><category><![CDATA[Dan Balz]]></category><category><![CDATA[Dante Alighieri]]></category><category><![CDATA[Emmet Sullivan]]></category><category><![CDATA[George W. Bush]]></category><category><![CDATA[Phil Gramm]]></category><category><![CDATA[Wasilla]]></category><category><![CDATA[ABC Inc.]]></category><category><![CDATA[Dominican Republic]]></category><category><![CDATA[Internal Revenue Service]]></category><category><![CDATA[Italy]]></category><category><![CDATA[Revlon Inc.]]></category><category><![CDATA[Alaska]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ The Commander in Speech ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/09/AR2008090903137.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/09/AR2008090903137.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Wed, 10 Sep 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ "The president," Bob Woodward writes in his new book, "talked irritably of how he believed there was an 'elite' class in America that thought he could do nothing right." ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Dana Milbank]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[The]]></category><category><![CDATA[Commander]]></category><category><![CDATA[in]]></category><category><![CDATA[Speech]]></category><category><![CDATA[George W. Bush]]></category><category><![CDATA[Iraq]]></category><category><![CDATA[Bob Woodward]]></category><category><![CDATA[United States]]></category><category><![CDATA[Fort McNair]]></category><category><![CDATA[Afghanistan]]></category><category><![CDATA[Al Qaeda]]></category><category><![CDATA[The Gallup Organization]]></category><category><![CDATA[AL West Division]]></category><category><![CDATA[American League (Baseball)]]></category><category><![CDATA[Andover]]></category><category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category><category><![CDATA[Coalition of the Willing]]></category><category><![CDATA[Frances Wilson]]></category><category><![CDATA[George Casey]]></category><category><![CDATA[Japan]]></category><category><![CDATA[Japan Broadcasting Corporation]]></category><category><![CDATA[Major League Baseball]]></category><category><![CDATA[Michael G. Mullen]]></category><category><![CDATA[National Defense University]]></category><category><![CDATA[Texas Rangers]]></category><category><![CDATA[The White House]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Department of State]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff]]></category><category><![CDATA[Yale, Kennebunkport]]></category><category><![CDATA[Anbar Province]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ McCain the Nominee Delivers a Eulogy for McCain the Maverick ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/05/AR2008090500046.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/05/AR2008090500046.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Fri, 05 Sep 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ ST. PAUL, Minn., Sept. 4 ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Dana Milbank]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[McCain]]></category><category><![CDATA[the]]></category><category><![CDATA[Nominee]]></category><category><![CDATA[Delivers]]></category><category><![CDATA[a]]></category><category><![CDATA[Eulogy]]></category><category><![CDATA[for]]></category><category><![CDATA[McCain]]></category><category><![CDATA[the]]></category><category><![CDATA[Maverick]]></category><category><![CDATA[John McCain]]></category><category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category><category><![CDATA[Sarah Palin]]></category><category><![CDATA[Hanoi]]></category><category><![CDATA[United States]]></category><category><![CDATA[St. Paul (Minnesota)]]></category><category><![CDATA[Damien LaVera]]></category><category><![CDATA[Danny Diaz]]></category><category><![CDATA[David Cappiello]]></category><category><![CDATA[George W. Bush]]></category><category><![CDATA[Kenny Loggins]]></category><category><![CDATA[Lindsey Graham]]></category><category><![CDATA[Mel Martinez]]></category><category><![CDATA[Nancy Pelosi]]></category><category><![CDATA[Tim Pawlenty]]></category><category><![CDATA[Tom Cole]]></category><category><![CDATA[Tom Ridge]]></category><category><![CDATA[Iraq]]></category><category><![CDATA[Republican National Committee]]></category><category><![CDATA[Xcel Energy Center]]></category><category><![CDATA[Oklahoma]]></category><category><![CDATA[Pennsylvania]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ GOP Deals With the Storm -- and the Stork ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/01/AR2008090102553.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/01/AR2008090102553.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Tue, 02 Sep 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ ST. PAUL, Minn., Sept. 1 Hurricane Gustav made landfall on the Louisiana coast about 10:30 a.m. Monday. Hurricane Bristol made landfall in Minnesota at 11:43 a.m.<br clear="all"/><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=4212122407046" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=4212122407046" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Dana Milbank]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[GOP]]></category><category><![CDATA[Deals]]></category><category><![CDATA[With]]></category><category><![CDATA[the]]></category><category><![CDATA[Storm]]></category><category><![CDATA[--]]></category><category><![CDATA[and]]></category><category><![CDATA[the]]></category><category><![CDATA[Stork]]></category><category><![CDATA[Sarah Palin]]></category><category><![CDATA[Steve Schmidt]]></category><category><![CDATA[John McCain]]></category><category><![CDATA[Hurricane Gustav]]></category><category><![CDATA[St. Paul (Minnesota)]]></category><category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category><category><![CDATA[Bristol]]></category><category><![CDATA[Denver]]></category><category><![CDATA[Don Fowler]]></category><category><![CDATA[George W. Bush]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jackie Calmes]]></category><category><![CDATA[James Dobson]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jerry Falwell]]></category><category><![CDATA[John Hagee]]></category><category><![CDATA[Juneau]]></category><category><![CDATA[Kevin McCarthy]]></category><category><![CDATA[Laura Bush]]></category><category><![CDATA[Michael Moore]]></category><category><![CDATA[New Orleans]]></category><category><![CDATA[Orlando (Florida)]]></category><category><![CDATA[Pat Robertson]]></category><category><![CDATA[Rick Perry]]></category><category><![CDATA[Steve Holland]]></category><category><![CDATA[Tucker Bounds]]></category><category><![CDATA[Cable News Network LP LLLP]]></category><category><![CDATA[Democratic National Committee]]></category><category><![CDATA[Dick Cheney]]></category><category><![CDATA[Focus on the Family Action Inc.]]></category><category><![CDATA[Louisiana]]></category><category><![CDATA[MSNBC Interactive News LLC]]></category><category><![CDATA[Republican National Convention]]></category><category><![CDATA[Reuters Group plc]]></category><category><![CDATA[The Christian Broadcasting Network Inc.]]></category><category><![CDATA[The New York Times Company]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Republican Party]]></category><category><![CDATA[Xcel Energy Center]]></category><category><![CDATA[Alaska]]></category><category><![CDATA[Minnesota]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington, DC]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Obama's Big Fat Greek Setting ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/28/AR2008082804068.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/28/AR2008082804068.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Fri, 29 Aug 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ DENVER, Aug. 28 It was a ceremony fit for the gods. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Dana Milbank]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Obama's]]></category><category><![CDATA[Big]]></category><category><![CDATA[Fat]]></category><category><![CDATA[Greek]]></category><category><![CDATA[Setting]]></category><category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category><category><![CDATA[John McCain]]></category><category><![CDATA[George W. Bush]]></category><category><![CDATA[The White House]]></category><category><![CDATA[Denver]]></category><category><![CDATA[Anne Hathaway]]></category><category><![CDATA[Britney Spears]]></category><category><![CDATA[David Plouffe]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jennifer Hudson]]></category><category><![CDATA[John Ashcroft]]></category><category><![CDATA[Martin Luther King Jr.]]></category><category><![CDATA[Oprah Winfrey]]></category><category><![CDATA[Sheryl Crow]]></category><category><![CDATA[Stevie Wonder]]></category><category><![CDATA[Susan Sarandon]]></category><category><![CDATA[Temple]]></category><category><![CDATA[Air Force One]]></category><category><![CDATA[Invesco Field]]></category><category><![CDATA[Iraq]]></category><category><![CDATA[Monday Night Football]]></category><category><![CDATA[Mount Olympus]]></category><category><![CDATA[Sony Jumbotron]]></category><category><![CDATA[The Cheesecake Factory Inc.]]></category><category><![CDATA[The Parthenon]]></category><category><![CDATA[The Washington Post Company]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Live, From Golden, Colo., It's Al-Jazeera ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/27/AR2008082703977.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/27/AR2008082703977.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Thu, 28 Aug 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ GOLDEN, Colo., Aug. 27 Deep divisions, bad feelings. Tensions that threaten to boil over during this week's gathering in Colorado. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Dana Milbank]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Live,]]></category><category><![CDATA[From]]></category><category><![CDATA[Golden,]]></category><category><![CDATA[Colo.,]]></category><category><![CDATA[It's]]></category><category><![CDATA[Al-Jazeera]]></category><category><![CDATA[Al Jazeera Satellite Channel]]></category><category><![CDATA[Murray Martinez]]></category><category><![CDATA[Bill Clinton]]></category><category><![CDATA[Josh Rushing]]></category><category><![CDATA[Mick Woodworth]]></category><category><![CDATA[Steve Stevens]]></category><category><![CDATA[Tokyo]]></category><category><![CDATA[Al Qaeda]]></category><category><![CDATA[Colorado]]></category><category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category><category><![CDATA[Denver]]></category><category><![CDATA[Hollywood]]></category><category><![CDATA[Joseph Biden]]></category><category><![CDATA[Mike Bestor]]></category><category><![CDATA[Osama bin Laden]]></category><category><![CDATA[Travis Henry]]></category><category><![CDATA[William "Buffalo Bill" Cody]]></category><category><![CDATA[Adolph Coors Company]]></category><category><![CDATA[Bud Light]]></category><category><![CDATA[Democratic National Committee]]></category><category><![CDATA[FOX News Network LLC]]></category><category><![CDATA[Hells Angels Motorcycle Club]]></category><category><![CDATA[Iraq]]></category><category><![CDATA[Museum of Net Zero Carbon Transportation]]></category><category><![CDATA[Qatar]]></category><category><![CDATA[United States]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ For One More Night, It's Hillary Clinton's Party ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/26/AR2008082603459.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/26/AR2008082603459.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Wed, 27 Aug 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ DENVER, Aug. 26 At noon on Tuesday, two young men walked onto the podium at the Democratic National Convention carrying four women's suit jackets -- red, orange, light blue and teal -- and holding each one up to the lights to see which would look best in the hall. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Dana Milbank]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[For]]></category><category><![CDATA[One]]></category><category><![CDATA[More]]></category><category><![CDATA[Night,]]></category><category><![CDATA[It's]]></category><category><![CDATA[Hillary]]></category><category><![CDATA[Clinton's]]></category><category><![CDATA[Party]]></category><category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category><category><![CDATA[Hillary Clinton]]></category><category><![CDATA[John McCain]]></category><category><![CDATA[Mark Warner]]></category><category><![CDATA[EMILY's List]]></category><category><![CDATA[Bill Clinton]]></category><category><![CDATA[Deval Patrick]]></category><category><![CDATA[George W. Bush]]></category><category><![CDATA[James Carville]]></category><category><![CDATA[Terry McAuliffe]]></category><category><![CDATA[Cable News Network LP LLLP]]></category><category><![CDATA[Democrats' Senate]]></category><category><![CDATA[Sheraton Hotels & Resorts Worldwide Inc.]]></category><category><![CDATA[The White House]]></category><category><![CDATA[Arkansas]]></category><category><![CDATA[Virginia]]></category><category><![CDATA[Michelle Obama]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Where Everything Is Recycled and Sustainable, Including the Grudges ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/25/AR2008082502134.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/25/AR2008082502134.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Tue, 26 Aug 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ DENVER, Aug. 25 Most political conventions begin with the fall of the gavel. The 2008 Democratic convention began in the "downward dog" position.<br clear="all"/><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=4212122407871" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=4212122407871" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Dana Milbank]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Where]]></category><category><![CDATA[Everything]]></category><category><![CDATA[Is]]></category><category><![CDATA[Recycled]]></category><category><![CDATA[and]]></category><category><![CDATA[Sustainable,]]></category><category><![CDATA[Including]]></category><category><![CDATA[the]]></category><category><![CDATA[Grudges]]></category><category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category><category><![CDATA[Hillary Clinton]]></category><category><![CDATA[Denver]]></category><category><![CDATA[Andy Colon]]></category><category><![CDATA[Don Morreale]]></category><category><![CDATA[Bill Clinton]]></category><category><![CDATA[HuffingtonPost.com Inc.]]></category><category><![CDATA[Colorado Springs]]></category><category><![CDATA[Edward Rendell]]></category><category><![CDATA[John McCain]]></category><category><![CDATA[Arab American Institute]]></category><category><![CDATA[Cable News Network LP LLLP]]></category><category><![CDATA[CODEPINK]]></category><category><![CDATA[Democratic National Committee]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ethnic Coordinated Caucus]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ford Escape]]></category><category><![CDATA[Pacific Islander Caucus]]></category><category><![CDATA[Planned Parenthood Federation of America]]></category><category><![CDATA[Politico.com]]></category><category><![CDATA[Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice]]></category><category><![CDATA[Republican National Committee]]></category><category><![CDATA[Rural Caucus]]></category><category><![CDATA[Senior Council]]></category><category><![CDATA[Transgendered Caucus]]></category><category><![CDATA[Trojan Condoms]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Democratic Party]]></category><category><![CDATA[South Pacific]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ DANA MILBANK ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/13/AR2008081303958.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/13/AR2008081303958.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Thu, 14 Aug 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Dana Milbank is away. Washington Sketch will resume when he returns. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Dana Milbank]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[DANA]]></category><category><![CDATA[MILBANK]]></category><category><![CDATA[Dana Milbank]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Outspoken Pawlenty Auditions for Role of Mr. Discretion ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/06/AR2008080603529.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/06/AR2008080603529.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Thu, 07 Aug 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Tim Pawlenty is an uncommonly forthright man. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Dana Milbank]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Outspoken]]></category><category><![CDATA[Pawlenty]]></category><category><![CDATA[Auditions]]></category><category><![CDATA[for]]></category><category><![CDATA[Role]]></category><category><![CDATA[of]]></category><category><![CDATA[Mr.]]></category><category><![CDATA[Discretion]]></category><category><![CDATA[Tim Pawlenty]]></category><category><![CDATA[John McCain]]></category><category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category><category><![CDATA[Cable News Network LP LLLP]]></category><category><![CDATA[MSNBC Interactive News LLC]]></category><category><![CDATA[SAM'S West Inc.]]></category><category><![CDATA[Charlie Crist]]></category><category><![CDATA[Evan Bayh]]></category><category><![CDATA[George W. Bush]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ronald Reagan]]></category><category><![CDATA[Iraq]]></category><category><![CDATA[Bill Richardson (Politician)]]></category><category><![CDATA[Bobby Jindal]]></category><category><![CDATA[Brett Favre]]></category><category><![CDATA[Joe Scarborough]]></category><category><![CDATA[John Edwards (Politician)]]></category><category><![CDATA[Mitt Romney]]></category><category><![CDATA[Paris Hilton]]></category><category><![CDATA[Thomas Daschle]]></category><category><![CDATA[Microsoft PowerPoint]]></category><category><![CDATA[Minnesota]]></category><category><![CDATA[National Press Club]]></category><category><![CDATA[Indiana]]></category><category><![CDATA[Massachusetts]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington, DC]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ At Recess, a Little One-Sided Dodgeball ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/04/AR2008080401862.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/04/AR2008080401862.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Tue, 05 Aug 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ House Republicans can't seem to make up their minds. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Dana Milbank]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[At]]></category><category><![CDATA[Recess,]]></category><category><![CDATA[a]]></category><category><![CDATA[Little]]></category><category><![CDATA[One-Sided]]></category><category><![CDATA[Dodgeball]]></category><category><![CDATA[Marsha Blackburn]]></category><category><![CDATA[Mike Pence]]></category><category><![CDATA[Nancy Pelosi]]></category><category><![CDATA[Will Rogers]]></category><category><![CDATA[Gresham Barrett]]></category><category><![CDATA[Tom Price]]></category><category><![CDATA[Steve King]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Republican Party]]></category><category><![CDATA[Don Manzullo]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jim Jordan]]></category><category><![CDATA[John Kline]]></category><category><![CDATA[John Quincy Adams]]></category><category><![CDATA[Lynn Westmoreland]]></category><category><![CDATA[Marilyn Musgrave]]></category><category><![CDATA[Mike Conaway]]></category><category><![CDATA[Phil Gingrey]]></category><category><![CDATA[Thomas More]]></category><category><![CDATA[Tom Cole]]></category><category><![CDATA[Wally Herger]]></category><category><![CDATA[National Cable Satellite Corporation]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. House of Representatives]]></category><category><![CDATA[Oklahoma]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Problems Bigger Than Bridges and Tubes ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/30/AR2008073002940.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/30/AR2008073002940.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Thu, 31 Jul 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ It was a tender moment between the Senate's two oldest members: one infirm, the other indicted.<br clear="all"/><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=4212122408335" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=4212122408335" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Dana Milbank]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Problems]]></category><category><![CDATA[Bigger]]></category><category><![CDATA[Than]]></category><category><![CDATA[Bridges]]></category><category><![CDATA[and]]></category><category><![CDATA[Tubes]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ted Stevens]]></category><category><![CDATA[Larry Craig]]></category><category><![CDATA[David Vitter]]></category><category><![CDATA[Land Rover Group Ltd.]]></category><category><![CDATA[Robert Byrd]]></category><category><![CDATA[Pete Domenici]]></category><category><![CDATA[Countrywide Financial Corporation]]></category><category><![CDATA[FOX News Network LLC]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Department of Justice]]></category><category><![CDATA[Viking Gas Grills]]></category><category><![CDATA[Alaska]]></category><category><![CDATA[Arlen Specter]]></category><category><![CDATA[Christopher Dodd]]></category><category><![CDATA[Daniel Inouye]]></category><category><![CDATA[John Thune]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jon Kyl]]></category><category><![CDATA[Kent Conrad]]></category><category><![CDATA[Mark Pryor]]></category><category><![CDATA[Mel Martinez]]></category><category><![CDATA[Norm Coleman]]></category><category><![CDATA[Sam Brownback]]></category><category><![CDATA[West Virginia]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ford Mustang]]></category><category><![CDATA[LexisNexis Group]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary]]></category><category><![CDATA[United States]]></category><category><![CDATA[Arizona]]></category><category><![CDATA[Florida]]></category><category><![CDATA[Hawaii]]></category><category><![CDATA[Idaho]]></category><category><![CDATA[Kansas]]></category><category><![CDATA[Louisiana]]></category><category><![CDATA[Minnesota]]></category><category><![CDATA[South Dakota]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington, DC]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ President Obama Continues Hectic Victory Tour ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/29/AR2008072902068.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/29/AR2008072902068.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Wed, 30 Jul 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Barack Obama has long been his party's presumptive nominee. Now he's becoming its presumptuous nominee. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Dana Milbank]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[President]]></category><category><![CDATA[Obama]]></category><category><![CDATA[Continues]]></category><category><![CDATA[Hectic]]></category><category><![CDATA[Victory]]></category><category><![CDATA[Tour]]></category><category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category><category><![CDATA[George W. Bush]]></category><category><![CDATA[John McCain]]></category><category><![CDATA[The White House]]></category><category><![CDATA[Adam Nagourney]]></category><category><![CDATA[Dick Cheney]]></category><category><![CDATA[Gabriel Sherman]]></category><category><![CDATA[Gordon Brown]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jerusalem]]></category><category><![CDATA[Marc Ambinder]]></category><category><![CDATA[Yousaf Raza Gilani]]></category><category><![CDATA[Capitol Hill]]></category><category><![CDATA[New Republic Inc.]]></category><category><![CDATA[Pakistan]]></category><category><![CDATA[Project for Excellence in Journalism]]></category><category><![CDATA[The Gallup Organization]]></category><category><![CDATA[The New York Times Company]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Federal Reserve]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Secret Service]]></category><category><![CDATA[United States]]></category><category><![CDATA[USA TODAY]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington, DC]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Kinda Sorta Impeaching the President ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/25/AR2008072503077.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/25/AR2008072503077.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Sat, 26 Jul 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ "It seems that we are hosting an anger management class," Republican Rep. Lamar Smith of Texas told his colleagues on the House Judiciary Committee yesterday morning. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Dana Milbank]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Kinda]]></category><category><![CDATA[Sorta]]></category><category><![CDATA[Impeaching]]></category><category><![CDATA[the]]></category><category><![CDATA[President]]></category><category><![CDATA[Dennis Kucinich]]></category><category><![CDATA[John Conyers]]></category><category><![CDATA[Lamar Smith]]></category><category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category><category><![CDATA[Bob Barr]]></category><category><![CDATA[Brad Miller]]></category><category><![CDATA[Dan Lungren]]></category><category><![CDATA[David Swanson]]></category><category><![CDATA[Hank Johnson]]></category><category><![CDATA[Mike Pence]]></category><category><![CDATA[Robert Wexler]]></category><category><![CDATA[Steve King]]></category><category><![CDATA[Trent Franks]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. House Committee on the Judiciary]]></category><category><![CDATA[Walter Jones]]></category><category><![CDATA[George W. Bush]]></category><category><![CDATA[Texas]]></category><category><![CDATA[Iraq]]></category><category><![CDATA[United States]]></category><category><![CDATA[Arizona]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Capitol Hill Gets Exercised ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/24/AR2008072403501.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/24/AR2008072403501.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Fri, 25 Jul 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Congress, its support at 14 percent in the latest Gallup poll, is having some self-esteem issues. Yesterday, lawmakers happened upon a novel solution. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Dana Milbank]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Capitol]]></category><category><![CDATA[Hill]]></category><category><![CDATA[Gets]]></category><category><![CDATA[Exercised]]></category><category><![CDATA[Richard Simmons]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ric Keller]]></category><category><![CDATA[Zach Wamp]]></category><category><![CDATA[Carol Shea-Porter]]></category><category><![CDATA[Dale Kildee]]></category><category><![CDATA[Donald Payne]]></category><category><![CDATA[George Miller]]></category><category><![CDATA[Lori Rose Benson]]></category><category><![CDATA[New York City]]></category><category><![CDATA[Phil Hare]]></category><category><![CDATA[Robert Keiser]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ron Kind]]></category><category><![CDATA[The Gallup Organization]]></category><category><![CDATA[Tim Brown]]></category><category><![CDATA[AFC West Division]]></category><category><![CDATA[American Football Conference]]></category><category><![CDATA[Capitol Hill]]></category><category><![CDATA[National Football League]]></category><category><![CDATA[Oakland Raiders]]></category><category><![CDATA[The Washington Post Company]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Sorry We Asked, Sorry You Told ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/23/AR2008072303642.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/23/AR2008072303642.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Thu, 24 Jul 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Don't ask, don't tell. And, whatever you do, don't ask Elaine Donnelly to tell you what she thinks about gays in the military.<br clear="all"/><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=4212122408941" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=4212122408941" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Dana Milbank]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Sorry]]></category><category><![CDATA[We]]></category><category><![CDATA[Asked,]]></category><category><![CDATA[Sorry]]></category><category><![CDATA[You]]></category><category><![CDATA[Told]]></category><category><![CDATA[Elaine Donnelly]]></category><category><![CDATA[Christopher Shays]]></category><category><![CDATA[Cynthia Yost]]></category><category><![CDATA[Vic Snyder]]></category><category><![CDATA[Iraq]]></category><category><![CDATA[Brian Jones]]></category><category><![CDATA[Carol Shea-Porter]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ellen Tauscher]]></category><category><![CDATA[Eric Alva]]></category><category><![CDATA[Hollywood]]></category><category><![CDATA[Joan Darrah]]></category><category><![CDATA[John McHugh]]></category><category><![CDATA[Larry Craig]]></category><category><![CDATA[Minneapolis]]></category><category><![CDATA[Patrick J. Murphy (Politician)]]></category><category><![CDATA[San Francisco]]></category><category><![CDATA[Susan Davis]]></category><category><![CDATA[Vance Coleman]]></category><category><![CDATA[Center for Military Readiness]]></category><category><![CDATA[Joe Sestak]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Oops! We Did It Again. ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/22/AR2008072202857.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/22/AR2008072202857.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Wed, 23 Jul 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ The generals were nervous. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Dana Milbank]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Oops!]]></category><category><![CDATA[We]]></category><category><![CDATA[Did]]></category><category><![CDATA[It]]></category><category><![CDATA[Again.]]></category><category><![CDATA[John McHugh]]></category><category><![CDATA[Walter Reed]]></category><category><![CDATA[Afghanistan]]></category><category><![CDATA[Iraq]]></category><category><![CDATA[Robert Wilson]]></category><category><![CDATA[David Rubenstein]]></category><category><![CDATA[Fort Hood]]></category><category><![CDATA[Gary Cheek]]></category><category><![CDATA[Michael Rochelle]]></category><category><![CDATA[Susan Davis]]></category><category><![CDATA[Texas]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Irreverent Reverends ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/21/AR2008072102736.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/21/AR2008072102736.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Tue, 22 Jul 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ John McCain's pastors have gone to ground. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Dana Milbank]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Irreverent]]></category><category><![CDATA[Reverends]]></category><category><![CDATA[John McCain]]></category><category><![CDATA[Gary Bauer]]></category><category><![CDATA[David Brog]]></category><category><![CDATA[Rod Parsley]]></category><category><![CDATA[Israel]]></category><category><![CDATA[Avraleigh Keats]]></category><category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category><category><![CDATA[Joseph Lieberman]]></category><category><![CDATA[United States]]></category><category><![CDATA[Adolf Hitler]]></category><category><![CDATA[Dennis Prager]]></category><category><![CDATA[Hillary Clinton]]></category><category><![CDATA[John Hagee]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jonathan Falwell]]></category><category><![CDATA[Lynchburg]]></category><category><![CDATA[Michael Little]]></category><category><![CDATA[Michael Pfleger]]></category><category><![CDATA[Randy Travis]]></category><category><![CDATA[Rick Santorum]]></category><category><![CDATA[Roy Casanova]]></category><category><![CDATA[Cable News Network LP LLLP]]></category><category><![CDATA[Reuters Group plc]]></category><category><![CDATA[The Associated Press]]></category><category><![CDATA[The Christian Broadcasting Network Inc.]]></category><category><![CDATA[The Jerusalem Post]]></category><category><![CDATA[The Roman Catholic Church]]></category><category><![CDATA[The Washington Post Company]]></category><category><![CDATA[Thomas Road Baptist Church]]></category><category><![CDATA[YouTube Inc.]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington, DC]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ John Ashcroft, Riding Back on a White Horse ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/17/AR2008071702653.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/17/AR2008071702653.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Fri, 18 Jul 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ The rehabilitation of John David Ashcroft has been a wonder to behold. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Dana Milbank]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[John]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ashcroft,]]></category><category><![CDATA[Riding]]></category><category><![CDATA[Back]]></category><category><![CDATA[on]]></category><category><![CDATA[a]]></category><category><![CDATA[White]]></category><category><![CDATA[Horse]]></category><category><![CDATA[John Ashcroft]]></category><category><![CDATA[John Conyers]]></category><category><![CDATA[Walter Dellinger]]></category><category><![CDATA[Lamar Smith]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Department of Justice]]></category><category><![CDATA[Alberto Gonzales]]></category><category><![CDATA[Robert Wexler]]></category><category><![CDATA[George W. Bush]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. House Committee on the Judiciary]]></category><category><![CDATA[Abu Zubaida]]></category><category><![CDATA[Adam Schiff]]></category><category><![CDATA[Al Qaeda]]></category><category><![CDATA[David Letterman]]></category><category><![CDATA[F. Scott Fitzgerald]]></category><category><![CDATA[Hank Johnson]]></category><category><![CDATA[Scooby Doo]]></category><category><![CDATA[The White House]]></category><category><![CDATA[United States]]></category><category><![CDATA[Texas]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Keeping His Eye on the Ball ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/16/AR2008071602484.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/16/AR2008071602484.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Thu, 17 Jul 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ It was another day of turmoil in the capital. The Federal Reserve chairman again tried to reassure jittery markets. The chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff said he wanted more troops in Afghanistan to put down the growing insurgency. And just before 4 p.m., President Bush stepped onto the South Lawn for what he called a "historic" moment.<br clear="all"/><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=4212122409527" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=4212122409527" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Dana Milbank]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Keeping]]></category><category><![CDATA[His]]></category><category><![CDATA[Eye]]></category><category><![CDATA[on]]></category><category><![CDATA[the]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ball]]></category><category><![CDATA[George W. Bush]]></category><category><![CDATA[The White House]]></category><category><![CDATA[Major League Baseball]]></category><category><![CDATA[National League (Baseball)]]></category><category><![CDATA[NL East Division]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington Nationals]]></category><category><![CDATA[Curious George]]></category><category><![CDATA[Frank Robinson]]></category><category><![CDATA[Hank Aaron]]></category><category><![CDATA[Hu Jintao]]></category><category><![CDATA[John Smoltz]]></category><category><![CDATA[Kenny Chesney]]></category><category><![CDATA[Kevin Millar]]></category><category><![CDATA[Mark Knoller]]></category><category><![CDATA[Rick Monday]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ryne Sandberg]]></category><category><![CDATA[Shaquille O'Neal]]></category><category><![CDATA[Stan Musial]]></category><category><![CDATA[Vladimir Putin]]></category><category><![CDATA[Afghanistan]]></category><category><![CDATA[AL West Division]]></category><category><![CDATA[American League (Baseball)]]></category><category><![CDATA[CBS Corporation]]></category><category><![CDATA[China]]></category><category><![CDATA[ESPN Inc.]]></category><category><![CDATA[Fannie Mae]]></category><category><![CDATA[Freddie Mac Holdings]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ghana]]></category><category><![CDATA[Little League Baseball Inc.]]></category><category><![CDATA[Pennsylvania State University]]></category><category><![CDATA[Russia]]></category><category><![CDATA[Texas Rangers]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Federal Reserve]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff]]></category><category><![CDATA[University of California-Los Angeles]]></category><category><![CDATA[University of Maryland-Eastern Shore]]></category><category><![CDATA[Kentucky]]></category><category><![CDATA[Northern Ireland]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Let the Games Begin! ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/15/AR2008071502670.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/15/AR2008071502670.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Wed, 16 Jul 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ For months, if not years, congressional Democrats had craved the chance to pounce on Doug Feith, the former No. 3 at the Pentagon and the brains behind the Iraq WMD claims, torture policy and other great adventures. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Dana Milbank]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Let]]></category><category><![CDATA[the]]></category><category><![CDATA[Games]]></category><category><![CDATA[Begin!]]></category><category><![CDATA[Douglas Feith]]></category><category><![CDATA[Steve King]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jerrold Nadler]]></category><category><![CDATA[Keith Ellison (Politician)]]></category><category><![CDATA[Darrell Issa]]></category><category><![CDATA[Philippe Sands]]></category><category><![CDATA[Artur Davis]]></category><category><![CDATA[John Conyers]]></category><category><![CDATA[ABC Inc.]]></category><category><![CDATA[Iraq]]></category><category><![CDATA[Nancy Pelosi]]></category><category><![CDATA[Prince George's County]]></category><category><![CDATA[The Pentagon]]></category><category><![CDATA[The Washington Post Company]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary]]></category><category><![CDATA[United States]]></category><category><![CDATA[Iowa]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Pull Up a Chair, Mr. Rove ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/10/AR2008071002549.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/10/AR2008071002549.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Fri, 11 Jul 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Karl Rove had never been so agreeable. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Dana Milbank]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Pull]]></category><category><![CDATA[Up]]></category><category><![CDATA[a]]></category><category><![CDATA[Chair,]]></category><category><![CDATA[Mr.]]></category><category><![CDATA[Rove]]></category><category><![CDATA[Karl Rove]]></category><category><![CDATA[Linda Sanchez]]></category><category><![CDATA[The White House]]></category><category><![CDATA[Chris Cannon]]></category><category><![CDATA[George W. Bush]]></category><category><![CDATA[Fred Fielding]]></category><category><![CDATA[Harriet Miers]]></category><category><![CDATA[Joshua Bolten]]></category><category><![CDATA[Lamar Smith]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. House Committee on the Judiciary]]></category><category><![CDATA[Woody Allen]]></category><category><![CDATA[CODEPINK]]></category><category><![CDATA[Texas]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Department of Justice]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary]]></category><category><![CDATA[United States]]></category><category><![CDATA[Utah]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Putting Her Foot Down and Getting the Boot ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/09/AR2008070902169.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/09/AR2008070902169.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Thu, 10 Jul 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ The ghost of Rummy is proving difficult to exorcise. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Dana Milbank]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Putting]]></category><category><![CDATA[Her]]></category><category><![CDATA[Foot]]></category><category><![CDATA[Down]]></category><category><![CDATA[and]]></category><category><![CDATA[Getting]]></category><category><![CDATA[the]]></category><category><![CDATA[Boot]]></category><category><![CDATA[Arlington]]></category><category><![CDATA[Phyllis White]]></category><category><![CDATA[Thurman Higginbotham]]></category><category><![CDATA[Iraq]]></category><category><![CDATA[Robert Gates]]></category><category><![CDATA[John Metzler]]></category><category><![CDATA[Donald H. Rumsfeld]]></category><category><![CDATA[Pete Geren]]></category><category><![CDATA[The Pentagon]]></category><category><![CDATA[173rd Airborne Brigade]]></category><category><![CDATA[Arlington National Cemetery]]></category><category><![CDATA[BlackBerry Mobile Devices]]></category><category><![CDATA[Crystal City]]></category><category><![CDATA[Geoff Morrell]]></category><category><![CDATA[Germany]]></category><category><![CDATA[Italy]]></category><category><![CDATA[The Washington Post Company]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Marine Corps]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Latin Lovers ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/08/AR2008070802781.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/08/AR2008070802781.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Wed, 09 Jul 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Como se dice "pander" en Español?<br clear="all"/><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=4212122410703" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=4212122410703" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Dana Milbank]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Latin]]></category><category><![CDATA[Lovers]]></category><category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category><category><![CDATA[John McCain]]></category><category><![CDATA[League of United Latin American Citizens]]></category><category><![CDATA[National Mall]]></category><category><![CDATA[Chicago]]></category><category><![CDATA[Everett Alvarez]]></category><category><![CDATA[United States]]></category><category><![CDATA[Vietnam]]></category><category><![CDATA[Arizona]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Risky Business ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/07/AR2008070702265.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/07/AR2008070702265.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Tue, 08 Jul 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ The waiters were still clearing the breakfast dishes yesterday when John McCain's most prominent adviser raised the subject of erection enhancement. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Dana Milbank]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Risky]]></category><category><![CDATA[Business]]></category><category><![CDATA[Carly Fiorina]]></category><category><![CDATA[Hewlett-Packard Company]]></category><category><![CDATA[John McCain]]></category><category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category><category><![CDATA[Viagra]]></category><category><![CDATA[George W. Bush]]></category><category><![CDATA[Susan Page]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Department of State]]></category><category><![CDATA[Bob Schieffer]]></category><category><![CDATA[Dave Cook]]></category><category><![CDATA[George Stephanopoulos]]></category><category><![CDATA[Hillary Clinton]]></category><category><![CDATA[London]]></category><category><![CDATA[Lynn Sweet]]></category><category><![CDATA[Republican National Committee]]></category><category><![CDATA[Stu Rothenberg]]></category><category><![CDATA[Central Intelligence Agency]]></category><category><![CDATA[Chicago Sun-Times]]></category><category><![CDATA[Dell Inc.]]></category><category><![CDATA[Iraq]]></category><category><![CDATA[Massachusetts Institute of Technology]]></category><category><![CDATA[St. Regis Hotel]]></category><category><![CDATA[Stanford University]]></category><category><![CDATA[The Christian Science Monitor]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Department of Defense]]></category><category><![CDATA[USA TODAY]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington, DC]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ The Economy? Words Fail Me. ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/03/AR2008070303317.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/03/AR2008070303317.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Fri, 04 Jul 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Think you're worried about the economy? Phillip Swagel is a wreck. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Dana Milbank]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[The]]></category><category><![CDATA[Economy?]]></category><category><![CDATA[Words]]></category><category><![CDATA[Fail]]></category><category><![CDATA[Me.]]></category><category><![CDATA[Phillip Swagel]]></category><category><![CDATA[Henry M. Paulson]]></category><category><![CDATA[London]]></category><category><![CDATA[Harvard University]]></category><category><![CDATA[International Monetary Fund]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Department of the Treasury]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Federal Reserve]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Institute for Supply Management]]></category><category><![CDATA[White House Council of Economic Advisers]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Not So Quiet on the Third Front ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/02/AR2008070202798.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/02/AR2008070202798.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Thu, 03 Jul 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ At this rate, the October Surprise won't be very surprising. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Dana Milbank]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Not]]></category><category><![CDATA[So]]></category><category><![CDATA[Quiet]]></category><category><![CDATA[on]]></category><category><![CDATA[the]]></category><category><![CDATA[Third]]></category><category><![CDATA[Front]]></category><category><![CDATA[Israel]]></category><category><![CDATA[Iran]]></category><category><![CDATA[United States]]></category><category><![CDATA[George W. Bush]]></category><category><![CDATA[Michael G. Mullen]]></category><category><![CDATA[Elizabeth Cheney]]></category><category><![CDATA[Kevin Cosgriff]]></category><category><![CDATA[Sean McCormack]]></category><category><![CDATA[ABC Inc.]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Armed Forces]]></category><category><![CDATA[Brett Baier]]></category><category><![CDATA[John McCain]]></category><category><![CDATA[Manouchehr Mottaki]]></category><category><![CDATA[Martha Raddatz]]></category><category><![CDATA[Seymour Hersh]]></category><category><![CDATA[Afghanistan]]></category><category><![CDATA[Center for Strategic and International Studies]]></category><category><![CDATA[FOX News Network LLC]]></category><category><![CDATA[Iraq]]></category><category><![CDATA[Persian Gulf]]></category><category><![CDATA[Strait of Hormuz]]></category><category><![CDATA[The Associated Press]]></category><category><![CDATA[The Pentagon]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Central Command]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Department of State]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ When Anonymity Fails, Be Nasty, Brutish and Short ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/26/AR2008062603456.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/26/AR2008062603456.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Fri, 27 Jun 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Throughout the Bush presidency, he toiled in secrecy deep within the White House, a mysterious and feared presence who never stepped into the sunlight of public disclosure.<br clear="all"/><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=4212122411155" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=4212122411155" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Dana Milbank]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[When]]></category><category><![CDATA[Anonymity]]></category><category><![CDATA[Fails,]]></category><category><![CDATA[Be]]></category><category><![CDATA[Nasty,]]></category><category><![CDATA[Brutish]]></category><category><![CDATA[and]]></category><category><![CDATA[Short]]></category><category><![CDATA[David Addington]]></category><category><![CDATA[John Yoo]]></category><category><![CDATA[Steve Cohen]]></category><category><![CDATA[Debbie Wasserman Schultz]]></category><category><![CDATA[Keith Ellison (Politician)]]></category><category><![CDATA[George W. Bush]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jerry Nadler]]></category><category><![CDATA[John Conyers]]></category><category><![CDATA[The White House]]></category><category><![CDATA[Artur Davis]]></category><category><![CDATA[Gollum]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. House Committee on the Judiciary]]></category><category><![CDATA[William Delahunt]]></category><category><![CDATA[Guantanamo Bay]]></category><category><![CDATA[Al Qaeda]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ In the Physics of Capitol Hill, Energy Generates Friction ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/25/AR2008062502710.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/25/AR2008062502710.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Thu, 26 Jun 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ One shudders to think about how much carbon dioxide was emitted into the atmosphere by members of the United States Congress yesterday as they bemoaned high gas prices. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Dana Milbank]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[In]]></category><category><![CDATA[the]]></category><category><![CDATA[Physics]]></category><category><![CDATA[of]]></category><category><![CDATA[Capitol]]></category><category><![CDATA[Hill,]]></category><category><![CDATA[Energy]]></category><category><![CDATA[Generates]]></category><category><![CDATA[Friction]]></category><category><![CDATA[Charles Schumer]]></category><category><![CDATA[George W. Bush]]></category><category><![CDATA[Byron Dorgan]]></category><category><![CDATA[John Mica]]></category><category><![CDATA[Nancy Pelosi]]></category><category><![CDATA[Pete Domenici]]></category><category><![CDATA[Rayburn House Office Building]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Congress]]></category><category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category><category><![CDATA[Bob Bennett]]></category><category><![CDATA[Bruce Braley]]></category><category><![CDATA[Charlie Wilson]]></category><category><![CDATA[Christopher Dodd]]></category><category><![CDATA[Dick Cheney]]></category><category><![CDATA[James Clyburn]]></category><category><![CDATA[James Sensenbrenner]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jeff Bingaman]]></category><category><![CDATA[John Boehner]]></category><category><![CDATA[John Ensign]]></category><category><![CDATA[John Kerry]]></category><category><![CDATA[Marsha Blackburn]]></category><category><![CDATA[Mitch McConnell]]></category><category><![CDATA[Roy Blunt]]></category><category><![CDATA[Russell Building]]></category><category><![CDATA[Dirksen Senate Office Building]]></category><category><![CDATA[The White House]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Republican Party]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Senate Committee on Appropriations]]></category><category><![CDATA[United States]]></category><category><![CDATA[Wisconsin]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ To the Loser Go the Spoils ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/24/AR2008062401282.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/24/AR2008062401282.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Wed, 25 Jun 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Hillary Clinton was taking the elevator up to her Senate office yesterday for the first time since she lost the Democratic presidential nomination when one of her aides, Philippe Reines, warned her about the condition of her office. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Dana Milbank]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[To]]></category><category><![CDATA[the]]></category><category><![CDATA[Loser]]></category><category><![CDATA[Go]]></category><category><![CDATA[the]]></category><category><![CDATA[Spoils]]></category><category><![CDATA[Hillary Clinton]]></category><category><![CDATA[Philippe Reines]]></category><category><![CDATA[Harry Reid]]></category><category><![CDATA[John Kerry]]></category><category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category><category><![CDATA[Evan Bayh]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ann Gavaghan]]></category><category><![CDATA[Barbara Mikulski]]></category><category><![CDATA[Charles Schumer]]></category><category><![CDATA[Dick Cheney]]></category><category><![CDATA[Greta Van Susteren]]></category><category><![CDATA[Mike Szymanski]]></category><category><![CDATA[Russell Building]]></category><category><![CDATA[Foot Locker Inc.]]></category><category><![CDATA[Lincoln Town Car]]></category><category><![CDATA[Wesley Clark]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Burned Up About the Other Fossil Fuel ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/23/AR2008062301920.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/23/AR2008062301920.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Tue, 24 Jun 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Here's something to ponder as you park your Prius: What if gas guzzling isn't the problem? ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Dana Milbank]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Burned]]></category><category><![CDATA[Up]]></category><category><![CDATA[About]]></category><category><![CDATA[the]]></category><category><![CDATA[Other]]></category><category><![CDATA[Fossil]]></category><category><![CDATA[Fuel]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jim Hansen]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ed Markey]]></category><category><![CDATA[George W. Bush]]></category><category><![CDATA[Saudi Arabia]]></category><category><![CDATA[James E. Hansen]]></category><category><![CDATA[Tim Wirth]]></category><category><![CDATA[Toyota Prius]]></category><category><![CDATA[Rayburn House Office Building]]></category><category><![CDATA[Russia]]></category><category><![CDATA[Columbia (Maryland)]]></category><category><![CDATA[Diane Rehm]]></category><category><![CDATA[Goddard Institute for Space Studies]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jay Inslee]]></category><category><![CDATA[Michael Crichton]]></category><category><![CDATA[Paul Revere]]></category><category><![CDATA[Sally Quinn]]></category><category><![CDATA[ABC Inc.]]></category><category><![CDATA[National Press Club]]></category><category><![CDATA[Phoenix Mercury]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. House of Representatives]]></category><category><![CDATA[WNBA Western Conference]]></category><category><![CDATA[Women's National Basketball Association]]></category><category><![CDATA[Iowa]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington, DC]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ House Panel Proves McClellan's Point Without Even Trying ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/20/AR2008062002881.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/20/AR2008062002881.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Sat, 21 Jun 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ The people's representatives set aside the hard work of governing yesterday and instead stretched their minds in the unfamiliar field of literary criticism.<br clear="all"/><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=4212122411577" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=4212122411577" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Dana Milbank]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[House]]></category><category><![CDATA[Panel]]></category><category><![CDATA[Proves]]></category><category><![CDATA[McClellan's]]></category><category><![CDATA[Point]]></category><category><![CDATA[Without]]></category><category><![CDATA[Even]]></category><category><![CDATA[Trying]]></category><category><![CDATA[Scott McClellan]]></category><category><![CDATA[Lamar Smith]]></category><category><![CDATA[The White House]]></category><category><![CDATA[George W. Bush]]></category><category><![CDATA[Karl Weber]]></category><category><![CDATA[Book-of-the-Month Club Holdings LLC]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ann Coulter]]></category><category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category><category><![CDATA[Bob Goodlatte]]></category><category><![CDATA[Darrell Issa]]></category><category><![CDATA[John Wiley & Sons Inc.]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ric Keller]]></category><category><![CDATA[Robert Wexler]]></category><category><![CDATA[Sheila Jackson Lee]]></category><category><![CDATA[Texas]]></category><category><![CDATA[Tom Feeney]]></category><category><![CDATA[Trent Franks]]></category><category><![CDATA[Little League Baseball Inc.]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington, DC]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ The Humble Moderator's Grand Goodbye ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/18/AR2008061802910.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/18/AR2008061802910.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Thu, 19 Jun 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Luke Russert has his father's sense of mischief. Speaking to the well-heeled mourners at Tim Russert's funeral yesterday, he read his father's favorite biblical passage: To whom much is given, much is expected. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Dana Milbank]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[The]]></category><category><![CDATA[Humble]]></category><category><![CDATA[Moderator's]]></category><category><![CDATA[Grand]]></category><category><![CDATA[Goodbye]]></category><category><![CDATA[Georgetown]]></category><category><![CDATA[Tim Russert]]></category><category><![CDATA[Luke Russert]]></category><category><![CDATA[Matt Lauer]]></category><category><![CDATA[Meet the Press]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Secret Service]]></category><category><![CDATA[Brian Williams]]></category><category><![CDATA[John McCain]]></category><category><![CDATA[Tom Brokaw]]></category><category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category><category><![CDATA[Cardinal Theodore McCarrick]]></category><category><![CDATA[Mario Cuomo]]></category><category><![CDATA[Michael Bloomberg]]></category><category><![CDATA[Peter King]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ronan Tynan]]></category><category><![CDATA[Victoria Kennedy]]></category><category><![CDATA[NBC Universal Inc.]]></category><category><![CDATA[Buffalo (New York)]]></category><category><![CDATA[George Stephanopoulos]]></category><category><![CDATA[Harry Reid]]></category><category><![CDATA[John Kerry]]></category><category><![CDATA[Nancy Pelosi]]></category><category><![CDATA[Aaron Burr]]></category><category><![CDATA[Alexander Hamilton]]></category><category><![CDATA[Andrea Mitchell]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ben Bradlee]]></category><category><![CDATA[Bill Bradley]]></category><category><![CDATA[Bob Woodruff]]></category><category><![CDATA[Bryant Gumbel]]></category><category><![CDATA[Campbell Brown]]></category><category><![CDATA[Chris Matthews]]></category><category><![CDATA[Christopher Dodd]]></category><category><![CDATA[Condoleezza Rice]]></category><category><![CDATA[Dan Senor]]></category><category><![CDATA[Daniel Patrick Moynihan]]></category><category><![CDATA[David Gregory]]></category><category><![CDATA[David Paterson]]></category><category><![CDATA[E.J. Dionne]]></category><category><![CDATA[George W. Bush]]></category><category><![CDATA[Gwen Ifill]]></category><category><![CDATA[Hillary Clinton]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jack Welch]]></category><category><![CDATA[James Carville]]></category><category><![CDATA[Joseph Biden]]></category><category><![CDATA[Madeleine Albright]]></category><category><![CDATA[Margaret Carlson]]></category><category><![CDATA[Maureen Dowd]]></category><category><![CDATA[Maureen Orth]]></category><category><![CDATA[Michael Patrick Avedon]]></category><category><![CDATA[Mike McCurry]]></category><category><![CDATA[Paul Begala]]></category><category><![CDATA[Sally Quinn]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ted Koppel]]></category><category><![CDATA[Thomas Daschle]]></category><category><![CDATA[Vernon Jordan]]></category><category><![CDATA[Wolf Blitzer]]></category><category><![CDATA[Yogi Berra]]></category><category><![CDATA[AFC East Division]]></category><category><![CDATA[American Football Conference]]></category><category><![CDATA[Boston College]]></category><category><![CDATA[Buffalo Bills]]></category><category><![CDATA[Cadillac Escalade]]></category><category><![CDATA[John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts]]></category><category><![CDATA[Lincoln Town Car]]></category><category><![CDATA[MSNBC Interactive News LLC]]></category><category><![CDATA[National Football League]]></category><category><![CDATA[New York]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington, DC]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Abu Ghraib? Doesn't Ring a Bell. ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/17/AR2008061702673.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/17/AR2008061702673.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Wed, 18 Jun 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ If ever there was a case that cried out for enhanced interrogation techniques, it was yesterday's Senate appearance by the Pentagon's former top lawyer. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Dana Milbank]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Abu]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ghraib?]]></category><category><![CDATA[Doesn't]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ring]]></category><category><![CDATA[a]]></category><category><![CDATA[Bell.]]></category><category><![CDATA[Alberto Gonzales]]></category><category><![CDATA[The Pentagon]]></category><category><![CDATA[Carl Levin]]></category><category><![CDATA[Claire McCaskill]]></category><category><![CDATA[Donald H. Rumsfeld]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jack Reed]]></category><category><![CDATA[Lindsey Graham]]></category><category><![CDATA[West Point]]></category><category><![CDATA[Chevron Corporation]]></category><category><![CDATA[Diet Pepsi]]></category><category><![CDATA[Dirksen Senate Office Building]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Armed Forces]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Department of Defense]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Department of Justice]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Put Your Right Wing In, Take Your Left Wing Out ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/16/AR2008061602148.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/16/AR2008061602148.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Tue, 17 Jun 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ If John McCain keeps dancing like this, he's liable to break a hip. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Dana Milbank]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Put]]></category><category><![CDATA[Your]]></category><category><![CDATA[Right]]></category><category><![CDATA[Wing]]></category><category><![CDATA[In,]]></category><category><![CDATA[Take]]></category><category><![CDATA[Your]]></category><category><![CDATA[Left]]></category><category><![CDATA[Wing]]></category><category><![CDATA[Out]]></category><category><![CDATA[John McCain]]></category><category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category><category><![CDATA[Iraq]]></category><category><![CDATA[Bill O'Reilly]]></category><category><![CDATA[Byron Dorgan]]></category><category><![CDATA[Carl Cameron]]></category><category><![CDATA[Clayton Williams]]></category><category><![CDATA[Crystal City]]></category><category><![CDATA[George W. Bush]]></category><category><![CDATA[Larry Kudlow]]></category><category><![CDATA[Russ Feingold]]></category><category><![CDATA[ABC Inc.]]></category><category><![CDATA[Arctic National Wildlife Refuge]]></category><category><![CDATA[FOX News Network LLC]]></category><category><![CDATA[National Review Inc.]]></category><category><![CDATA[The Washington Post Company]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Republican Party]]></category><category><![CDATA[United States]]></category><category><![CDATA[Alaska]]></category><category><![CDATA[California]]></category><category><![CDATA[Pennsylvania]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Why Tomatoes Hate America ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/12/AR2008061203771.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/12/AR2008061203771.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Fri, 13 Jun 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ The tomatoes attacked us brutally and without warning. Yesterday, our leaders struck back against the pernicious produce.<br clear="all"/><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=4212122411960" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=4212122411960" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Dana Milbank]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Why]]></category><category><![CDATA[Tomatoes]]></category><category><![CDATA[Hate]]></category><category><![CDATA[America]]></category><category><![CDATA[David Acheson]]></category><category><![CDATA[Food and Drug Administration]]></category><category><![CDATA[John Dingell]]></category><category><![CDATA[John Shimkus]]></category><category><![CDATA[Diana DeGette]]></category><category><![CDATA[Bart Stupak]]></category><category><![CDATA[Greg Walden]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jan Schakowsky]]></category><category><![CDATA[Marsha Blackburn]]></category><category><![CDATA[Mexico]]></category><category><![CDATA[Peter Pan Peanut Butter]]></category><category><![CDATA[Science Board]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Government Accountability Office]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Impeach Bush? But That Would Mean . . . ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/11/AR2008061103558.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/11/AR2008061103558.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Thu, 12 Jun 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ The House had a busy day yesterday. There was the Amtrak bill, an extension of unemployment benefits, and legislation on NASA's budget. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Dana Milbank]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Impeach]]></category><category><![CDATA[Bush?]]></category><category><![CDATA[But]]></category><category><![CDATA[That]]></category><category><![CDATA[Would]]></category><category><![CDATA[Mean]]></category><category><![CDATA[.]]></category><category><![CDATA[.]]></category><category><![CDATA[.]]></category><category><![CDATA[Dick Cheney]]></category><category><![CDATA[George W. Bush]]></category><category><![CDATA[Dennis Kucinich]]></category><category><![CDATA[United States]]></category><category><![CDATA[Tom Donohue]]></category><category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category><category><![CDATA[Amtrak]]></category><category><![CDATA[Halliburton Company]]></category><category><![CDATA[NASA]]></category><category><![CDATA[Toyota Prius]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Chamber of Commerce]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Republican Party]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington, DC]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Democrats Still Struggling With Whole 'Party Unity' Thing ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/10/AR2008061002705.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/10/AR2008061002705.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Wed, 11 Jun 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ It was billed as a post-primary unity event at Democratic National Committee headquarters yesterday. But the unity fell apart before the opening "thank you all for coming." ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Dana Milbank]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Democrats]]></category><category><![CDATA[Still]]></category><category><![CDATA[Struggling]]></category><category><![CDATA[With]]></category><category><![CDATA[Whole]]></category><category><![CDATA['Party]]></category><category><![CDATA[Unity']]></category><category><![CDATA[Thing]]></category><category><![CDATA[Hillary Clinton]]></category><category><![CDATA[John McCain]]></category><category><![CDATA[George W. Bush]]></category><category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category><category><![CDATA[Howard Dean]]></category><category><![CDATA[Nancy Pelosi]]></category><category><![CDATA[Harry Reid]]></category><category><![CDATA[Charles Schumer]]></category><category><![CDATA[Democratic National Committee]]></category><category><![CDATA[Patty Murray]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Democratic Party]]></category><category><![CDATA[James Clyburn]]></category><category><![CDATA[Joe Manchin]]></category><category><![CDATA[Kathleen Koch]]></category><category><![CDATA[BlackBerry Mobile Devices]]></category><category><![CDATA[Cable News Network LP LLLP]]></category><category><![CDATA[Iraq]]></category><category><![CDATA[South Carolina]]></category><category><![CDATA[The White House]]></category><category><![CDATA[United States]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Indiana Jones and the Temple of Celebrity ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/09/AR2008060902399.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/09/AR2008060902399.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Tue, 10 Jun 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ It was hotter than the Sumatran jungle in Woodley Park for yesterday's unveiling of the National Zoo's latest animal exhibit. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Dana Milbank]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Indiana]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jones]]></category><category><![CDATA[and]]></category><category><![CDATA[the]]></category><category><![CDATA[Temple]]></category><category><![CDATA[of]]></category><category><![CDATA[Celebrity]]></category><category><![CDATA[Bo Derek]]></category><category><![CDATA[Harrison Ford]]></category><category><![CDATA[Robert Zoellick]]></category><category><![CDATA[Hollywood]]></category><category><![CDATA[John Berry]]></category><category><![CDATA[Indiana Jones]]></category><category><![CDATA[The World Bank Group]]></category><category><![CDATA[Woodley Park]]></category><category><![CDATA[Angelina Jolie]]></category><category><![CDATA[Bono (Musician)]]></category><category><![CDATA[Indy Jones]]></category><category><![CDATA[Joshua Bolten]]></category><category><![CDATA[Richard Gere]]></category><category><![CDATA[Robert Duvall]]></category><category><![CDATA[Steven Spielberg]]></category><category><![CDATA[American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research]]></category><category><![CDATA[CBS Corporation]]></category><category><![CDATA[The White House]]></category><category><![CDATA[White House Correspondents' Association]]></category><category><![CDATA[Central America]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington, DC]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ A Thank-You for 18 Million Cracks in the Glass Ceiling ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/07/AR2008060701879.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/07/AR2008060701879.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Sun, 08 Jun 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ During the campaign, it was her opponent who owned the lofty rhetoric. But on the day she finally conceded defeat, it was Hillary Clinton's words that soared.<br clear="all"/><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=4212122413963" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=4212122413963" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Dana Milbank]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[A]]></category><category><![CDATA[Thank-You]]></category><category><![CDATA[for]]></category><category><![CDATA[18]]></category><category><![CDATA[Million]]></category><category><![CDATA[Cracks]]></category><category><![CDATA[in]]></category><category><![CDATA[the]]></category><category><![CDATA[Glass]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ceiling]]></category><category><![CDATA[Bill Clinton]]></category><category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category><category><![CDATA[United States]]></category><category><![CDATA[Maria Cardona]]></category><category><![CDATA[Hillary Clinton]]></category><category><![CDATA[Dallas]]></category><category><![CDATA[John McCain]]></category><category><![CDATA[Matt Drudge]]></category><category><![CDATA[Norma Mobley]]></category><category><![CDATA[Sidney Blumenthal]]></category><category><![CDATA[Silver Spring]]></category><category><![CDATA[Goo Goo Dolls]]></category><category><![CDATA[International Space Station]]></category><category><![CDATA[National Building Museum]]></category><category><![CDATA[The White House]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Pension Bureau]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ It's a Mitzvah ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/04/AR2008060403508.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/04/AR2008060403508.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Thu, 05 Jun 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Now, here's a change we can believe in. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Dana Milbank]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[It's]]></category><category><![CDATA[a]]></category><category><![CDATA[Mitzvah]]></category><category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category><category><![CDATA[Israel]]></category><category><![CDATA[Hillary Clinton]]></category><category><![CDATA[American Israel Public Affairs Committee]]></category><category><![CDATA[Iran]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jerusalem]]></category><category><![CDATA[George W. Bush]]></category><category><![CDATA[Mahmoud Ahmadinejad]]></category><category><![CDATA[Tehran]]></category><category><![CDATA[Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps]]></category><category><![CDATA[Benjamin Netanyahu]]></category><category><![CDATA[Hamas]]></category><category><![CDATA[Iraq]]></category><category><![CDATA[Palestinian National Authority]]></category><category><![CDATA[Quds Force]]></category><category><![CDATA[Syria]]></category><category><![CDATA[United States]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington Convention Center]]></category><category><![CDATA[Gaza Strip]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington, DC]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ In Defeat, Clinton Graciously Pretends to Win ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/03/AR2008060303568.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/03/AR2008060303568.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Wed, 04 Jun 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ NEW YORK "What does Hillary want?" ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Dana Milbank]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[In]]></category><category><![CDATA[Defeat,]]></category><category><![CDATA[Clinton]]></category><category><![CDATA[Graciously]]></category><category><![CDATA[Pretends]]></category><category><![CDATA[to]]></category><category><![CDATA[Win]]></category><category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category><category><![CDATA[Hillary Clinton]]></category><category><![CDATA[South Dakota]]></category><category><![CDATA[Dan Pfeiffer]]></category><category><![CDATA[Michigan]]></category><category><![CDATA[Baruch College]]></category><category><![CDATA[Florida]]></category><category><![CDATA[Massachusetts]]></category><category><![CDATA[John Fogerty]]></category><category><![CDATA[Lanny Davis]]></category><category><![CDATA[Manhattan]]></category><category><![CDATA[Terry McAuliffe]]></category><category><![CDATA[Tom Petty]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington, DC]]></category><category><![CDATA[Westchester]]></category><category><![CDATA[American Samoa]]></category><category><![CDATA[BlackBerry Mobile Devices]]></category><category><![CDATA[California]]></category><category><![CDATA[Delaware]]></category><category><![CDATA[Domino's Pizza Inc.]]></category><category><![CDATA[Mississippi]]></category><category><![CDATA[The Daily Show]]></category><category><![CDATA[United States]]></category><category><![CDATA[Bill Clinton]]></category><category><![CDATA[New York]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ A No-Name Town Looks Like Waterloo ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/02/AR2008060202622.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/02/AR2008060202622.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Tue, 03 Jun 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ MILBANK, S.D. It is a measure of the peculiarity of this year's presidential race that the road to the Democratic nomination runs through Milbank. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Dana Milbank]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[A]]></category><category><![CDATA[No-Name]]></category><category><![CDATA[Town]]></category><category><![CDATA[Looks]]></category><category><![CDATA[Like]]></category><category><![CDATA[Waterloo]]></category><category><![CDATA[Hillary Clinton]]></category><category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category><category><![CDATA[South Dakota]]></category><category><![CDATA[Bill Clinton]]></category><category><![CDATA[Todd Purdum]]></category><category><![CDATA[Dakota Wesleyan University]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jason Kettwig]]></category><category><![CDATA[Merlin Smart]]></category><category><![CDATA[Boyd Sussex]]></category><category><![CDATA[Edward M. Kennedy]]></category><category><![CDATA[George W. Bush]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jesse Jackson]]></category><category><![CDATA[John Kerry]]></category><category><![CDATA[John McCain]]></category><category><![CDATA[Sue Kulbeik]]></category><category><![CDATA[The American Legion]]></category><category><![CDATA[Dodge Dakota]]></category><category><![CDATA[HuffingtonPost.com Inc.]]></category><category><![CDATA[Indiana]]></category><category><![CDATA[Montana]]></category><category><![CDATA[Puerto Rico]]></category><category><![CDATA[South Carolina]]></category><category><![CDATA[Vanity Fair Magazine]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Democrats Come Together To Tear Their Party in Half ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/05/31/AR2008053102354.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/05/31/AR2008053102354.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Sun, 01 Jun 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Leave it to the Democrats to make a hash of democracy.<br clear="all"/><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=4212122414965" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=4212122414965" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Dana Milbank]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Democrats]]></category><category><![CDATA[Come]]></category><category><![CDATA[Together]]></category><category><![CDATA[To]]></category><category><![CDATA[Tear]]></category><category><![CDATA[Their]]></category><category><![CDATA[Party]]></category><category><![CDATA[in]]></category><category><![CDATA[Half]]></category><category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category><category><![CDATA[Florida]]></category><category><![CDATA[Michigan]]></category><category><![CDATA[Harold Ickes]]></category><category><![CDATA[Robert Wexler]]></category><category><![CDATA[Hillary Clinton]]></category><category><![CDATA[Howard Dean]]></category><category><![CDATA[Woodley Park]]></category><category><![CDATA[Alice Huffman]]></category><category><![CDATA[Carl Levin]]></category><category><![CDATA[David Bonior]]></category><category><![CDATA[Donald Fowler]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jim Blanchard]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jon Ausman]]></category><category><![CDATA[Mark Brewer]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Democratic Party]]></category><category><![CDATA[Will Rogers]]></category><category><![CDATA[Democratic National Committee]]></category><category><![CDATA[Marriott International Inc.]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Monster's Ball ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/05/29/AR2008052903675.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/05/29/AR2008052903675.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Fri, 30 May 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Bush loyalists watching Scott McClellan kick off his media tour yesterday must have felt a revulsion akin to Dr. Frankenstein's. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Dana Milbank]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Monster's]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ball]]></category><category><![CDATA[Scott McClellan]]></category><category><![CDATA[The White House]]></category><category><![CDATA[George W. Bush]]></category><category><![CDATA[Meredith Vieira]]></category><category><![CDATA[National Public Radio Inc.]]></category><category><![CDATA[Dana Perino]]></category><category><![CDATA[Karl Rove]]></category><category><![CDATA[MSNBC Interactive News LLC]]></category><category><![CDATA[NBC Universal Inc.]]></category><category><![CDATA[Richard Clarke]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington, DC]]></category><category><![CDATA[Iraq]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ari Fleischer]]></category><category><![CDATA[Dan Bartlett]]></category><category><![CDATA[Keith Olbermann]]></category><category><![CDATA[Lewis Libby]]></category><category><![CDATA[Renee Montagne]]></category><category><![CDATA[Saddam Hussein]]></category><category><![CDATA[Valerie Plame]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ The Man Who Wasn't There, Still Here ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/05/28/AR2008052803030.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/05/28/AR2008052803030.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Thu, 29 May 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ "Anybody seen Steve Hadley? Anybody seen Steve Hadley?" ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Dana Milbank]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[The]]></category><category><![CDATA[Man]]></category><category><![CDATA[Who]]></category><category><![CDATA[Wasn't]]></category><category><![CDATA[There,]]></category><category><![CDATA[Still]]></category><category><![CDATA[Here]]></category><category><![CDATA[George W. Bush]]></category><category><![CDATA[Steve Hadley]]></category><category><![CDATA[Scott McClellan]]></category><category><![CDATA[International Atomic Energy Agency]]></category><category><![CDATA[Iraq]]></category><category><![CDATA[Dick Cheney]]></category><category><![CDATA[George Tenet]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jane Purcell]]></category><category><![CDATA[The White House]]></category><category><![CDATA[Condoleezza Rice]]></category><category><![CDATA[Donald H. Rumsfeld]]></category><category><![CDATA[John McCain]]></category><category><![CDATA[Paul Wolfowitz]]></category><category><![CDATA[Richard Perle]]></category><category><![CDATA[Central Intelligence Agency]]></category><category><![CDATA[Iran]]></category><category><![CDATA[North Korea]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Department of State]]></category><category><![CDATA[United States]]></category><category><![CDATA[White House National Security Council]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Obama as You've Never Known Him! ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/05/22/AR2008052203905.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/05/22/AR2008052203905.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Fri, 23 May 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Here are some things we can look forward to learning about Barack Obama: ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Dana Milbank]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Obama]]></category><category><![CDATA[as]]></category><category><![CDATA[You've]]></category><category><![CDATA[Never]]></category><category><![CDATA[Known]]></category><category><![CDATA[Him!]]></category><category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category><category><![CDATA[Herbert Romerstein]]></category><category><![CDATA[United States]]></category><category><![CDATA[Max Friedman]]></category><category><![CDATA[Chicago]]></category><category><![CDATA[Michelle Obama]]></category><category><![CDATA[William Ayers]]></category><category><![CDATA[The Weather Underground Inc.]]></category><category><![CDATA[David Axelrod]]></category><category><![CDATA[Gary (Indiana)]]></category><category><![CDATA[Hillary Clinton]]></category><category><![CDATA[John Kerry]]></category><category><![CDATA[Moscow]]></category><category><![CDATA[Tony Rezko]]></category><category><![CDATA[Trevor Loudon]]></category><category><![CDATA[Capitol Hill]]></category><category><![CDATA[Federal Bureau of Investigation]]></category><category><![CDATA[Illinois]]></category><category><![CDATA[Survival Inc.]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. House of Representatives]]></category><category><![CDATA[Weather Underground Organization]]></category><category><![CDATA[Hawaii]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Pumping for Answers ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/05/21/AR2008052102571.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/05/21/AR2008052102571.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Thu, 22 May 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ As oil hit a new record of $134 a barrel yesterday, lawmakers summoned energy executives to Capitol Hill for the latest in a series of ritual immolations. But this one felt more like "The Price Is Right."<br clear="all"/><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=4212122417308" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=4212122417308" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Dana Milbank]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Pumping]]></category><category><![CDATA[for]]></category><category><![CDATA[Answers]]></category><category><![CDATA[Patrick Leahy]]></category><category><![CDATA[Peter Robertson]]></category><category><![CDATA[Chevron Corporation]]></category><category><![CDATA[Exxon Mobil Corporation]]></category><category><![CDATA[Dick Durbin]]></category><category><![CDATA[Stephen Simon]]></category><category><![CDATA[George W. Bush]]></category><category><![CDATA[Arlen Specter]]></category><category><![CDATA[Bob Barker]]></category><category><![CDATA[Capitol Hill]]></category><category><![CDATA[Dianne Feinstein]]></category><category><![CDATA[Dick Cheney]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jeff Sessions]]></category><category><![CDATA[John Lowe]]></category><category><![CDATA[Orrin Hatch]]></category><category><![CDATA[Sheldon Whitehouse]]></category><category><![CDATA[Center for Responsive Politics]]></category><category><![CDATA[ConocoPhillips Company]]></category><category><![CDATA[Forbes Media LLC]]></category><category><![CDATA[Lowe's Companies Inc.]]></category><category><![CDATA[OPEC]]></category><category><![CDATA[The Price Is Right]]></category><category><![CDATA[The White House]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary]]></category><category><![CDATA[United States]]></category><category><![CDATA[Vermont]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ The Land of Bluegrass, Bourbon and Kool-Aid ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/05/20/AR2008052001915.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/05/20/AR2008052001915.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Wed, 21 May 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ LOUISVILLE Suspend what you know, or think you know, about the Democratic presidential nomination, and picture yourself in the Marriott ballroom here for Hillary Clinton's Kentucky victory celebration. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Dana Milbank]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[The]]></category><category><![CDATA[Land]]></category><category><![CDATA[of]]></category><category><![CDATA[Bluegrass,]]></category><category><![CDATA[Bourbon]]></category><category><![CDATA[and]]></category><category><![CDATA[Kool-Aid]]></category><category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category><category><![CDATA[Hillary Clinton]]></category><category><![CDATA[Kool-Aid]]></category><category><![CDATA[Bill Clinton]]></category><category><![CDATA[Louisville]]></category><category><![CDATA[Kentucky]]></category><category><![CDATA[Lexington (Kentucky)]]></category><category><![CDATA[Terry McAuliffe]]></category><category><![CDATA[Cable News Network LP LLLP]]></category><category><![CDATA[Michigan]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ann Compton]]></category><category><![CDATA[Clinton Kool-Aid]]></category><category><![CDATA[Donna Brazile]]></category><category><![CDATA[Gloria Borger]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jerry Lundergan]]></category><category><![CDATA[John McCain]]></category><category><![CDATA[Lois Romano]]></category><category><![CDATA[San Francisco]]></category><category><![CDATA[Wolf Blitzer]]></category><category><![CDATA[ABC Inc.]]></category><category><![CDATA[Starbucks Corporation]]></category><category><![CDATA[The Louisville Courier-Journal]]></category><category><![CDATA[Florida]]></category><category><![CDATA[West Virginia]]></category><category><![CDATA[Marriott International Inc.]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Still After the Holy Grail ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/05/19/AR2008051902369.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/05/19/AR2008051902369.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Tue, 20 May 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ MAYSVILLE, Ky.  Black Knight: "I move for no man." King Arthur: "So be it." (Chops off knight's left arm). Black Knight: " 'Tis but a scratch." ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Dana Milbank]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Still]]></category><category><![CDATA[After]]></category><category><![CDATA[the]]></category><category><![CDATA[Holy]]></category><category><![CDATA[Grail]]></category><category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category><category><![CDATA[Knight Clinton]]></category><category><![CDATA[Oregon]]></category><category><![CDATA[Maysville]]></category><category><![CDATA[Hillary Clinton]]></category><category><![CDATA[Hazel Carpenter]]></category><category><![CDATA[Karl Rove]]></category><category><![CDATA[Kentucky]]></category><category><![CDATA[George W. Bush]]></category><category><![CDATA[John Edwards (Politician)]]></category><category><![CDATA[Lowmansville]]></category><category><![CDATA[Martha Lane Collins]]></category><category><![CDATA[Portland]]></category><category><![CDATA[Tim Russert]]></category><category><![CDATA[Monty Python]]></category><category><![CDATA[Michigan]]></category><category><![CDATA[The White House]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Agitated? Irritable? Hostile? Aggressive? Impulsive? Restless? ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/05/14/AR2008051403186.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/05/14/AR2008051403186.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Thu, 15 May 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ House Republicans may be heading off a cliff in November, but give them credit for perseverance. Even after the new slogan they floated -- "The Change You Deserve" -- was discovered to be trademarked ad copy for the antidepressant drug Effexor, GOP leaders decided to go with the rollout anyway. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Dana Milbank]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Agitated?]]></category><category><![CDATA[Irritable?]]></category><category><![CDATA[Hostile?]]></category><category><![CDATA[Aggressive?]]></category><category><![CDATA[Impulsive?]]></category><category><![CDATA[Restless?]]></category><category><![CDATA[John Boehner]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Republican Party]]></category><category><![CDATA[Tom Davis]]></category><category><![CDATA[Effexor]]></category><category><![CDATA[Adam Putnam]]></category><category><![CDATA[Eric Cantor]]></category><category><![CDATA[George W. Bush]]></category><category><![CDATA[Steny Hoyer]]></category><category><![CDATA[Kay Granger]]></category><category><![CDATA[Michael Steel]]></category><category><![CDATA[Phil English]]></category><category><![CDATA[Steve Chabot]]></category><category><![CDATA[Tom Cole]]></category><category><![CDATA[United States]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Strategic Petroleum Reserve]]></category><category><![CDATA[Wyeth Corporation]]></category><category><![CDATA[Florida]]></category><category><![CDATA[Louisiana]]></category><category><![CDATA[Mississippi]]></category><category><![CDATA[Virginia]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ This Is an Ex-Candidate ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/05/13/AR2008051302862.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/05/13/AR2008051302862.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Wed, 14 May 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Customer: "Look, matey, I know a dead parrot when I see one, and I'm looking at one right now."<br clear="all"/><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=4212122418004" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=4212122418004" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Dana Milbank]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[This]]></category><category><![CDATA[Is]]></category><category><![CDATA[an]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ex-Candidate]]></category><category><![CDATA[Hillary Clinton]]></category><category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category><category><![CDATA[Charleston]]></category><category><![CDATA[West Virginia]]></category><category><![CDATA[Terry McAuliffe]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington Dulles International Airport]]></category><category><![CDATA[American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees]]></category><category><![CDATA[Cable News Network LP LLLP]]></category><category><![CDATA[Clinton Country]]></category><category><![CDATA[Denver]]></category><category><![CDATA[James Carville]]></category><category><![CDATA[Melrose Hotel]]></category><category><![CDATA[Monty Python]]></category><category><![CDATA[Oreo Cookies]]></category><category><![CDATA[Tim Russert]]></category><category><![CDATA[United States]]></category><category><![CDATA[Indiana]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ A Spoiler, by Way of the Dairy Case ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/05/12/AR2008051202395.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/05/12/AR2008051202395.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Tue, 13 May 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ In his career in public service, Bob Barr has performed many important roles. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Dana Milbank]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[A]]></category><category><![CDATA[Spoiler,]]></category><category><![CDATA[by]]></category><category><![CDATA[Way]]></category><category><![CDATA[of]]></category><category><![CDATA[the]]></category><category><![CDATA[Dairy]]></category><category><![CDATA[Case]]></category><category><![CDATA[Bob Barr]]></category><category><![CDATA[John McCain]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ron Paul]]></category><category><![CDATA[Russ Verney]]></category><category><![CDATA[Iran]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Libertarian Party]]></category><category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category><category><![CDATA[Bill Clinton]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ross Perot]]></category><category><![CDATA[AL East Division]]></category><category><![CDATA[American League (Baseball)]]></category><category><![CDATA[Iraq]]></category><category><![CDATA[Major League Baseball]]></category><category><![CDATA[National Press Club]]></category><category><![CDATA[New York Yankees]]></category><category><![CDATA[Georgia]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Republicans Vote Against Moms; No Word Yet on Puppies, Kittens ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/05/08/AR2008050802999.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/05/08/AR2008050802999.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Fri, 09 May 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ It was already shaping up to be a difficult year for congressional Republicans. Now, on the cusp of Mother's Day, comes this: A majority of the House GOP has voted against motherhood. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Dana Milbank]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Republicans]]></category><category><![CDATA[Vote]]></category><category><![CDATA[Against]]></category><category><![CDATA[Moms;]]></category><category><![CDATA[No]]></category><category><![CDATA[Word]]></category><category><![CDATA[Yet]]></category><category><![CDATA[on]]></category><category><![CDATA[Puppies,]]></category><category><![CDATA[Kittens]]></category><category><![CDATA[John Boehner]]></category><category><![CDATA[Vito Fossella]]></category><category><![CDATA[George W. Bush]]></category><category><![CDATA[Steny Hoyer]]></category><category><![CDATA[Todd Tiahrt]]></category><category><![CDATA[Louisiana]]></category><category><![CDATA[Mississippi]]></category><category><![CDATA[Virginia]]></category><category><![CDATA[David Vitter]]></category><category><![CDATA[Greg Davis]]></category><category><![CDATA[John Kerry]]></category><category><![CDATA[Kathy Castor]]></category><category><![CDATA[Richard Baker]]></category><category><![CDATA[Roger Wicker]]></category><category><![CDATA[Staten Island]]></category><category><![CDATA[Travis Childers]]></category><category><![CDATA[Kevin Smith]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Republican Party]]></category><category><![CDATA[United States]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington, DC]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ What Part of 'In It to Win It' Does America Not Understand? ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/05/07/AR2008050703267.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/05/07/AR2008050703267.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Thu, 08 May 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ SHEPHERDSTOWN, W.Va. They say it's all over but the shouting. Fortunately, Hillary Clinton does that part very well. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Dana Milbank]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[What]]></category><category><![CDATA[Part]]></category><category><![CDATA[of]]></category><category><![CDATA['In]]></category><category><![CDATA[It]]></category><category><![CDATA[to]]></category><category><![CDATA[Win]]></category><category><![CDATA[It']]></category><category><![CDATA[Does]]></category><category><![CDATA[America]]></category><category><![CDATA[Not]]></category><category><![CDATA[Understand?]]></category><category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category><category><![CDATA[Bill Clinton]]></category><category><![CDATA[Shepherdstown]]></category><category><![CDATA[Chelsea Clinton]]></category><category><![CDATA[George Stephanopoulos]]></category><category><![CDATA[Howard Wolfson]]></category><category><![CDATA[McMurran Hall]]></category><category><![CDATA[Tim Russert]]></category><category><![CDATA[Hillary Clinton]]></category><category><![CDATA[Indiana]]></category><category><![CDATA[Arlington]]></category><category><![CDATA[Carol Dunleavy]]></category><category><![CDATA[Dan Frost]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ken Martin]]></category><category><![CDATA[Matt Drudge]]></category><category><![CDATA[NBC Universal Inc.]]></category><category><![CDATA[NYP Holdings Inc.]]></category><category><![CDATA[Shepherd University]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Democratic Party]]></category><category><![CDATA[Florida]]></category><category><![CDATA[Michigan]]></category><category><![CDATA[North Carolina]]></category><category><![CDATA[Virginia]]></category><category><![CDATA[Kentucky]]></category><category><![CDATA[Oregon]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Waiting for the Game to Change ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/05/06/AR2008050602715.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/05/06/AR2008050602715.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Wed, 07 May 2