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		<title>Powers announces 2010 challenge of Kline in MN CD#2</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 01:57:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The plans have been filed, the site&#8217;s been cleared, supplies ordered, the foundation has been set, and now Dan Powers, a former construction worker and small business owner, is assembling the materials to build a campaign in Minnesota&#8217;s 2nd Congressional District to challenge incumbent U.S. Representative John Kline.
Tuesday morning at the State Office Building beside [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=obamesque.wordpress.com&blog=2830139&post=756&subd=obamesque&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Durbin&#8217;s Poll on Health Care Reform</title>
		<link>http://obamesque.wordpress.com/2009/11/16/durbins-poll-on-health-care-reform/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Nov 2009 22:23:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s been clear from many polls that a majority of Americans support the inclusion of a public health insurance option in the final health care reform bill. Something else is now clear based on the results U.S. Senator Dick Durbin (D-IL) got polling over 80,000 people: the American people who voted for change last November [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=obamesque.wordpress.com&blog=2830139&post=754&subd=obamesque&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Potential benefits of &#8220;Affordable Health Care for America&#8221; Act</title>
		<link>http://obamesque.wordpress.com/2009/11/10/potential-benefits-of-afforable-health-care-for-america-act/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 19:14:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s bound to change as any bill does when there are differing priorities in the U.S. House and Senate, but there are some very interesting changes coming down the pike which almost everybody who doesn&#8217;t work for a big insurance company is likely to appreciate.
The &#8220;temporary insurance&#8221; program created immediately to fill in the gap [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=obamesque.wordpress.com&blog=2830139&post=745&subd=obamesque&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>What&#8217;s wrong in Afghanistan?</title>
		<link>http://obamesque.wordpress.com/2009/11/05/whats-wrong-in-afghanistan/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 05:06:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The recent turmoil surrounding the re-election of President Karzai underscores that the government of Afghanistan has not attained the transparency and stability to win the basic fight against corruption, let alone drug trafficking and other threats to the peace, without help. The U.S. administration has been supporting and encouraging Afghan efforts to implement various UN [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=obamesque.wordpress.com&blog=2830139&post=734&subd=obamesque&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Reuters article cites changes in health care reform bills as evidence activists are prevailing despite insurance industry lobbyists</title>
		<link>http://obamesque.wordpress.com/2009/10/30/reuters-cites-changes-in-bills-as-evidence-activists-are-prevailing-despite-insurance-lobbyists/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Oct 2009 16:49:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[For-profit insurance is unique to the U.S. health care system. No other developed country has a profit motive warping the payment of health care, driving up costs.  That&#8217;s arguably the key reason Americans spend a much higher share of personal income on health care, and why small business owners shoulder a greater share of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=obamesque.wordpress.com&blog=2830139&post=726&subd=obamesque&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Does this &#8220;public option&#8221; lack critical mass?</title>
		<link>http://obamesque.wordpress.com/2009/10/27/does-this-public-option-lack-critical-mass/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Oct 2009 15:13:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Proving that even the most eloquent, inspirational leader in Washington still has to deal with business as usual in the Congress, Senator Reid has announced that a bill approaching what President Obama has been articulating since he was just a candidate for the office is poised to make it to the Senate floor &#8211; over [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=obamesque.wordpress.com&blog=2830139&post=719&subd=obamesque&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Who has government-run health care, and who could use it?</title>
		<link>http://obamesque.wordpress.com/2009/10/23/who-has-government-run-health-care-and-who-could-use-it/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2009 15:48:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[




Get a Widget
To add a widget that counts uninsured Americans for your own blog or Web site, click the &#8220;Get &#38; Share&#8221; button below the widget. Because WordPress takes exception to certain scripts, this is a screen capture, not the actual widget&#8230; just go here. I know, it&#8217;s &#8220;kinda lame.&#8221; I&#8217;ve tried several things to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=obamesque.wordpress.com&blog=2830139&post=693&subd=obamesque&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Income Redistribution: The Tax Myth Debunked</title>
		<link>http://obamesque.wordpress.com/2009/10/22/income-redistribution-the-tax-myth-debunked/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Oct 2009 15:58:42 +0000</pubDate>
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Before those of you who are firmly in the middle class get to feeling smug about the rich getting all the breaks, understand that the figures I&#8217;m about to share show that you&#8217;re doing better than those poorer than you, too. The focus first is on one midwestern state, to keep the facts and figures [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=obamesque.wordpress.com&blog=2830139&post=684&subd=obamesque&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Harkin&#8217;s reconciliation vs. Socialized banking</title>
		<link>http://obamesque.wordpress.com/2009/10/19/harkins-reconciliation-vs-socialized-banking/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Oct 2009 17:28:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Back in April the Senate agreed on budget reconciliation rules to move an education measure forward with 50 votes instead of having to break a filibuster with 60. And now Senator Tom Harkin (D-Iowa), the newly appointed chair of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee,  is preparing for just that approach.

Senator [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=obamesque.wordpress.com&blog=2830139&post=658&subd=obamesque&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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