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		<title>By: Pablo in Mexico</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2005/09/23/insider-trading-runs-in-the-frist-family/comment-page-1/#comment-147983</link>
		<dc:creator>Pablo in Mexico</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Sep 2005 15:49:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Harken Oil was a company that the shrub ran out of 20 foot motor coach that was parked on a used car lot. He had no employees, only a telephone.

H traded in oil without ever seeing a barrel of the stuff and screwed as many people as he possibly could.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Harken Oil was a company that the shrub ran out of 20 foot motor coach that was parked on a used car lot. He had no employees, only a telephone.</p>
<p>H traded in oil without ever seeing a barrel of the stuff and screwed as many people as he possibly could.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=147983', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: Pablo in Mexico</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2005/09/23/insider-trading-runs-in-the-frist-family/comment-page-1/#comment-146245</link>
		<dc:creator>Pablo in Mexico</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Sep 2005 17:37:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Before retiring down here in Mexico I was a private investigator.

In 1999 I was hired by an attorney firm to do a complete background investigation on Columbia/HCA and the Frist family, to include Senator Frist.

I filled about 10 legal boxes with reports, records, lawsuits, briefs, etc., and my investigation proved that HCA and the Frist family, including Senator Frist were crooks to the core.

HCA was, and is, a closely held family corporation. They are the largest for profit hospital chain in the country. They have been under investigation for years for medicare fraud and overcharging. 

Their systemic approach to acquiring assets was to move into a city, buy up one or two hospital, and then run them into the ground. They would fire all the good nurses and hire only nurses assistants. The administration of the hospital would be fired, and they brought in their own man, usually a relative of some sort.

After running the hospital into the ground they would sell the property to a real estate developer for a huge sum and the property would be turned into a strip mall or some such entity.

They never ever had a hospital to pass any federal, state or local health inspection. Never. They overcharged and overbilled. A tongue depressor for example was on the billings at $10 a pop. They would not accept a patient unless he was covered by medicare or had private insurance that they could rip off.

They played with their books and usually showed a loss, or very little profit. The kicker was that they had a relative in Georgia where all excess and hidden profits were funneled to. After several years of lying fallow these excess profits were funneled to all members of this family corporation, including Senator Frist who knew full well what was going on.

I proved to myself, and my clients, in 1999 that HCA was a scam corporation. The purpose of the investigation was an attempt by citizens in a large western city to stop HCA from taking over 2 hospitals in the city, after they had ran another one into the ground.

My clients tried for a restraining order but after spending thousands and thousands of dollars the matter was merely thrown out of court by a Republican judge.

HCA and the Frist family are rotten and corrupt to the very core.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Before retiring down here in Mexico I was a private investigator.</p>
<p>In 1999 I was hired by an attorney firm to do a complete background investigation on Columbia/HCA and the Frist family, to include Senator Frist.</p>
<p>I filled about 10 legal boxes with reports, records, lawsuits, briefs, etc., and my investigation proved that HCA and the Frist family, including Senator Frist were crooks to the core.</p>
<p>HCA was, and is, a closely held family corporation. They are the largest for profit hospital chain in the country. They have been under investigation for years for medicare fraud and overcharging. </p>
<p>Their systemic approach to acquiring assets was to move into a city, buy up one or two hospital, and then run them into the ground. They would fire all the good nurses and hire only nurses assistants. The administration of the hospital would be fired, and they brought in their own man, usually a relative of some sort.</p>
<p>After running the hospital into the ground they would sell the property to a real estate developer for a huge sum and the property would be turned into a strip mall or some such entity.</p>
<p>They never ever had a hospital to pass any federal, state or local health inspection. Never. They overcharged and overbilled. A tongue depressor for example was on the billings at $10 a pop. They would not accept a patient unless he was covered by medicare or had private insurance that they could rip off.</p>
<p>They played with their books and usually showed a loss, or very little profit. The kicker was that they had a relative in Georgia where all excess and hidden profits were funneled to. After several years of lying fallow these excess profits were funneled to all members of this family corporation, including Senator Frist who knew full well what was going on.</p>
<p>I proved to myself, and my clients, in 1999 that HCA was a scam corporation. The purpose of the investigation was an attempt by citizens in a large western city to stop HCA from taking over 2 hospitals in the city, after they had ran another one into the ground.</p>
<p>My clients tried for a restraining order but after spending thousands and thousands of dollars the matter was merely thrown out of court by a Republican judge.</p>
<p>HCA and the Frist family are rotten and corrupt to the very core.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=146245', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: Hank</title>
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		<dc:creator>Hank</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Sep 2005 21:04:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>You got it, afterthought.  The who&#039;s-who dipsh*ts of the Republican party.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>You got it, afterthought.  The who&#8217;s-who dipsh*ts of the Republican party.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=145198', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: afterthought</title>
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		<dc:creator>afterthought</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Sep 2005 20:59:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>#15, You mean there are others like Frist
out there?

Like maybe:
DeLay
Abramoff
Ney
&quot;Duke&quot; Cunningham
Taft
Sanatorium</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>#15, You mean there are others like Frist<br />
out there?</p>
<p>Like maybe:<br />
DeLay<br />
Abramoff<br />
Ney<br />
&#8220;Duke&#8221; Cunningham<br />
Taft<br />
Sanatorium<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=145190', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: Leatherneck</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2005/09/23/insider-trading-runs-in-the-frist-family/comment-page-1/#comment-145131</link>
		<dc:creator>Leatherneck</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Sep 2005 20:04:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Now we know where Frist learned his &quot;family values&quot; from.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Now we know where Frist learned his &#8220;family values&#8221; from.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=145131', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: Hank</title>
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		<dc:creator>Hank</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Sep 2005 19:50:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Where is Northeast Dilemma and mighty aphrodite to help me defend one of our republican heroes?  I could use some help here, and get so tired that they sidestep any issue on graft and corruption or corporate wrong-doing.  All they want to do is attack the left over social issues.  But I&#039;ll do my best without them to help me.

You guys can pile it on about Senator Frist.  Go ahead.  Call him a typical, rightwing, republican  slimeball.  Call him a lowdown, two-faced, crooked-assed, dipsh*t who lines his pockets with corporate kickbacks and then rewards them with pork and friendly legislation.  Go ahead.  You might as well call him a unscrupulous, calculating scumbag with low principles, as well.  But, as a redneck republican myself, someone has to speak for him.  So I&#039;ll speak for NED and aphrodite here: He ain&#039;t the only one.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Where is Northeast Dilemma and mighty aphrodite to help me defend one of our republican heroes?  I could use some help here, and get so tired that they sidestep any issue on graft and corruption or corporate wrong-doing.  All they want to do is attack the left over social issues.  But I&#8217;ll do my best without them to help me.</p>
<p>You guys can pile it on about Senator Frist.  Go ahead.  Call him a typical, rightwing, republican  slimeball.  Call him a lowdown, two-faced, crooked-assed, dipsh*t who lines his pockets with corporate kickbacks and then rewards them with pork and friendly legislation.  Go ahead.  You might as well call him a unscrupulous, calculating scumbag with low principles, as well.  But, as a redneck republican myself, someone has to speak for him.  So I&#8217;ll speak for NED and aphrodite here: He ain&#8217;t the only one.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=145120', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: Terrytheturtle</title>
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		<dc:creator>Terrytheturtle</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Sep 2005 19:07:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>#3 Harken Oil 1990 - the SEC dropped his case - he was the Preznit&#039;s son at the time: http://www.commondreams.org/headlines02/1030-06.htm</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>#3 Harken Oil 1990 &#8211; the SEC dropped his case &#8211; he was the Preznit&#8217;s son at the time: <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/headlines02/1030-06.htm" rel="nofollow">http://www.commondreams.org/headlines02/1030-06.htm</a><a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=145058', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: Mary Poppin</title>
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		<dc:creator>Mary Poppin</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Sep 2005 18:56:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>#11  RIGHT ON!!!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>#11  RIGHT ON!!!<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=145012', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: WC</title>
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		<dc:creator>WC</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Sep 2005 18:54:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>#11

Too funny!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>#11</p>
<p>Too funny!<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=145005', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: Mr. Evil</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2005/09/23/insider-trading-runs-in-the-frist-family/comment-page-1/#comment-144975</link>
		<dc:creator>Mr. Evil</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Sep 2005 18:47:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Get your new Bush-O-Matic today! It slices! It dices! It cooks (the books)! It cleans (the records)! Watch as we put in some constitution. Out it comes perfectly shredded! Pour in some bill of rights. Perfectly squashed and mashed for easier consumption! Look at what it does to laws. Bending and twisting just like a pretzel! What a fun snack! Thousands of unethical and illegal uses!

Order today and also receive the Rove-A-Tron! Break any law or rule and automatically avoid any and all ramifications! When in need just turn on your Rove-A-Tron and watch the authorities turn away with smiles and waves! It&#039;s Amazing! 

Order now while supplies last!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Get your new Bush-O-Matic today! It slices! It dices! It cooks (the books)! It cleans (the records)! Watch as we put in some constitution. Out it comes perfectly shredded! Pour in some bill of rights. Perfectly squashed and mashed for easier consumption! Look at what it does to laws. Bending and twisting just like a pretzel! What a fun snack! Thousands of unethical and illegal uses!</p>
<p>Order today and also receive the Rove-A-Tron! Break any law or rule and automatically avoid any and all ramifications! When in need just turn on your Rove-A-Tron and watch the authorities turn away with smiles and waves! It&#8217;s Amazing! </p>
<p>Order now while supplies last!<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=144975', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: deegahl</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2005/09/23/insider-trading-runs-in-the-frist-family/comment-page-1/#comment-144957</link>
		<dc:creator>deegahl</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Sep 2005 18:43:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Afterthought:  No fine, no slap on the wrist?  If not, this man must really hate life right now, being that there is so mcuh open disent right now!  Good for him.  Pay the piper, bitch!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Afterthought:  No fine, no slap on the wrist?  If not, this man must really hate life right now, being that there is so mcuh open disent right now!  Good for him.  Pay the piper, bitch!<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=144957', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: wisedup</title>
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		<dc:creator>wisedup</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Sep 2005 18:35:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>he&#039;ll get a STRONG slap on the wrist...maybe.
IMPEACH HIM TOO</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>he&#8217;ll get a STRONG slap on the wrist&#8230;maybe.<br />
IMPEACH HIM TOO<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=144917', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: Darth Filibustrous</title>
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		<dc:creator>Darth Filibustrous</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Sep 2005 18:34:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Regardless of whether the media &quot;Martha-fies&quot; him or not, one hopes that the Feds go after him with the same vigour... that&#039;s the key.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Regardless of whether the media &#8220;Martha-fies&#8221; him or not, one hopes that the Feds go after him with the same vigour&#8230; that&#8217;s the key.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=144910', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: Mr. Evil</title>
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		<dc:creator>Mr. Evil</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Sep 2005 18:30:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>And they just reemed Martha Stewart for the same thing. What a bunch of hypocritical lowlifes.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>And they just reemed Martha Stewart for the same thing. What a bunch of hypocritical lowlifes.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=144891', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: afterthought</title>
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		<dc:creator>afterthought</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Sep 2005 18:29:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Opps, that&#039;s &quot;Quite a tale&quot;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Opps, that&#8217;s &#8220;Quite a tale&#8221;<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=144885', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: afterthought</title>
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		<dc:creator>afterthought</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Sep 2005 18:28:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>It was &quot;Harken&quot; Oil.
Quick a tale really.
Makes what they pinned on Martha look silly,
but the investigation was closed by Daddy&#039;s
SEC as &quot;neither proven or disproved&quot; or some
such. You could sort of tell by the wording
they thought there was something there.
Reading the history, I think I would be in
jail if I did it, but there you go, and that&#039;s why
Frist will be perfectly fine no matter
what the rules are.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>It was &#8220;Harken&#8221; Oil.<br />
Quick a tale really.<br />
Makes what they pinned on Martha look silly,<br />
but the investigation was closed by Daddy&#8217;s<br />
SEC as &#8220;neither proven or disproved&#8221; or some<br />
such. You could sort of tell by the wording<br />
they thought there was something there.<br />
Reading the history, I think I would be in<br />
jail if I did it, but there you go, and that&#8217;s why<br />
Frist will be perfectly fine no matter<br />
what the rules are.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=144882', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: Keith H.</title>
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		<dc:creator>Keith H.</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Sep 2005 18:20:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>If they could make a buck by killing children and selling the body parts, they&#039;d be on it in a hot second. And get away with it.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>If they could make a buck by killing children and selling the body parts, they&#8217;d be on it in a hot second. And get away with it.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=144855', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: deegahl</title>
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		<dc:creator>deegahl</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Sep 2005 18:13:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Didn&#039;t G-Dub get into hot water over a sale of Harkin Oil stock back in the day?  Look how he was &quot;punished&quot; by his party: They &quot;only&quot; nominated him as their presidential candidate!  &quot;That&#039;ll show &#039;em, he, he.&quot;


Where as this sort of thing is frowned upon by &quot;good ole boys&quot; and the Liberal Inteligentcia(sic), the Grand &#039;Ole Party will probably use this as a reason to buoy Frist.  

When will a nail be driven through these skanks?  When will we rid ourselves of this corruption, this cronyism?  

&quot;Dear God, I want my country back, please.&quot;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Didn&#8217;t G-Dub get into hot water over a sale of Harkin Oil stock back in the day?  Look how he was &#8220;punished&#8221; by his party: They &#8220;only&#8221; nominated him as their presidential candidate!  &#8220;That&#8217;ll show &#8216;em, he, he.&#8221;</p>
<p>Where as this sort of thing is frowned upon by &#8220;good ole boys&#8221; and the Liberal Inteligentcia(sic), the Grand &#8216;Ole Party will probably use this as a reason to buoy Frist.  </p>
<p>When will a nail be driven through these skanks?  When will we rid ourselves of this corruption, this cronyism?  </p>
<p>&#8220;Dear God, I want my country back, please.&#8221;<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=144816', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: Ted</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2005/09/23/insider-trading-runs-in-the-frist-family/comment-page-1/#comment-144783</link>
		<dc:creator>Ted</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Sep 2005 18:02:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>this should be a huge story. how can we tolerate a majority leader, much less a senator, doing this sort of thing. this is typical for Republicans -- blind eye to corporate malfeasance/insider trading; but hard core attacks on the poor</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>this should be a huge story. how can we tolerate a majority leader, much less a senator, doing this sort of thing. this is typical for Republicans &#8212; blind eye to corporate malfeasance/insider trading; but hard core attacks on the poor<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=144783', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: bigman9</title>
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		<dc:creator>bigman9</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Sep 2005 17:50:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>These guys are so crooked. It&#039;s like the the mafia in suits. Wait, the mafia wears suits -- but you know what I&quot;m saying.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>These guys are so crooked. It&#8217;s like the the mafia in suits. Wait, the mafia wears suits &#8212; but you know what I&#8221;m saying.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=144766', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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