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		<title>By: And the beat goes on</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2008/03/03/thinkfast-march-3-2008/comment-page-3/#comment-4286823</link>
		<dc:creator>And the beat goes on</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Mar 2008 19:52:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>What &quot;evidence&quot; could they possibly have shown these spineless bast%*ds to get them to roll over on immunity?  Blackmail is all I can readily bring to mind quickly.  If they were doing it, and they were doing it legally, they have nothing to worry about.  I have sent so many letters and emails already and look what good it did in the Senate.  I will keep trying, but I see this issue as a huge rallying point for progressives everywhere - we can&#039;t keep letting our elected reps roll over our rights to save their sorry *sses!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>What &#8220;evidence&#8221; could they possibly have shown these spineless bast%*ds to get them to roll over on immunity?  Blackmail is all I can readily bring to mind quickly.  If they were doing it, and they were doing it legally, they have nothing to worry about.  I have sent so many letters and emails already and look what good it did in the Senate.  I will keep trying, but I see this issue as a huge rallying point for progressives everywhere &#8211; we can&#8217;t keep letting our elected reps roll over our rights to save their sorry *sses!<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=4286823', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: bilbobaggins</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2008/03/03/thinkfast-march-3-2008/comment-page-3/#comment-4286664</link>
		<dc:creator>bilbobaggins</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Mar 2008 18:39:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;em&gt;bilbo, bilbo, bilboâ€¦. Even you should be smart enough to understand that there is little reason for Republicans to vote in the primaries when their nominee is pretty much already decided; while the Democrats still have a lot to fight about with Hillary and Obama in a knock down, drag out, fight to the Convention. This has very little to do with how many Republicans will vote in the General Election.
Comment by good_golly &lt;/em&gt;

Sweet little goon_golly lives in such a fantasy world.  The Democrats out voting the Republicans started with the first primary and has continued since then.  It wasn&#039;t until Romney dropped out that the Republican candidate was known.  So I wonder how this moronic troll explains the Democrats out voting the Republicans even when it was a fight in their party?  Must have been coincidence, huh.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><em>bilbo, bilbo, bilboâ€¦. Even you should be smart enough to understand that there is little reason for Republicans to vote in the primaries when their nominee is pretty much already decided; while the Democrats still have a lot to fight about with Hillary and Obama in a knock down, drag out, fight to the Convention. This has very little to do with how many Republicans will vote in the General Election.<br />
Comment by good_golly </em></p>
<p>Sweet little goon_golly lives in such a fantasy world.  The Democrats out voting the Republicans started with the first primary and has continued since then.  It wasn&#8217;t until Romney dropped out that the Republican candidate was known.  So I wonder how this moronic troll explains the Democrats out voting the Republicans even when it was a fight in their party?  Must have been coincidence, huh.<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=4286664', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: bilbobaggins</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2008/03/03/thinkfast-march-3-2008/comment-page-3/#comment-4286651</link>
		<dc:creator>bilbobaggins</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Mar 2008 18:35:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;em&gt;2Million, just as BushCo is not following the wishes of the US electorate, the Likudniks are not following the wishes of Israelis.
Comment by Sabyen91 â€” March 3, 2008 @ 10:26 am&lt;/em&gt;

And this is why Ahmadinejad said &quot;the government of Israel should be wiped off the map&quot;.  He never said that &quot;Israel&quot; should be wiped off the map.  He knows that it is the right wing government of Israel that is causing all the problems in the region.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><em>2Million, just as BushCo is not following the wishes of the US electorate, the Likudniks are not following the wishes of Israelis.<br />
Comment by Sabyen91 â€” March 3, 2008 @ 10:26 am</em></p>
<p>And this is why Ahmadinejad said &#8220;the government of Israel should be wiped off the map&#8221;.  He never said that &#8220;Israel&#8221; should be wiped off the map.  He knows that it is the right wing government of Israel that is causing all the problems in the region.<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=4286651', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: Chocolate Jesus</title>
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		<dc:creator>Chocolate Jesus</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Mar 2008 18:25:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>re: Jolie....sweet jesus...whoring herself out to the &quot;surge is working&quot; crowd?  I actually expected more from her.. sad...I wonder if shes getting an &quot;aid package&quot; as big as the multimillion dollar payouts those Sunni chieftans who formerly gave aid and comfort to AQI are getting to stop shooting at us. Isnt it ironic, if anyone, dem or repube, suggested we pay ever mexican within 100 miles of the border even one penny a year from american taxpayer coffers, the right wing would be howling like vivisected baboons.....but somehow giving insurgents with american blood on thier hands american money to stop shooting at us is ok...then again, the people running the show these days worry more about single celled embryos destined for the garbage than they do living, breathing, feeling children, so i suppose the perverse irony only makes sense..</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>re: Jolie&#8230;.sweet jesus&#8230;whoring herself out to the &#8220;surge is working&#8221; crowd?  I actually expected more from her.. sad&#8230;I wonder if shes getting an &#8220;aid package&#8221; as big as the multimillion dollar payouts those Sunni chieftans who formerly gave aid and comfort to AQI are getting to stop shooting at us. Isnt it ironic, if anyone, dem or repube, suggested we pay ever mexican within 100 miles of the border even one penny a year from american taxpayer coffers, the right wing would be howling like vivisected baboons&#8230;..but somehow giving insurgents with american blood on thier hands american money to stop shooting at us is ok&#8230;then again, the people running the show these days worry more about single celled embryos destined for the garbage than they do living, breathing, feeling children, so i suppose the perverse irony only makes sense..<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=4286622', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: Chocolate Jesus</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2008/03/03/thinkfast-march-3-2008/comment-page-3/#comment-4286607</link>
		<dc:creator>Chocolate Jesus</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Mar 2008 18:16:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Guys...regarding the Telecom immunity issue, there is hope....don&#039;t think that the victims lawyers arent going to challenge the constitionality of the immunity law...

http://writ.news.findlaw.com/sebok/20080129.html 

The argument that the lawsuits in progress are property that
the government cannot arbitrarily take without any sort of due process is a compelling one, and as you can see if you read the article, it has supreme court precedent which I believe at least 9th circuit judges will have the integrity to respect. I beleive there are other strong arguments as to why this immunity provision is unconstitional. So even if our cowardly and/or bribed congressmen cave, there IS still hope.
 The supremes would screw the constition but if we can get Obama in office I believe he would stop the obstruction before it ever got to them.... Make no mistake, Obama is no saint but if he gets elected I have a feeling there will be some people going to jail in the next 4 years...thats the main reason im rooting for him..</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Guys&#8230;regarding the Telecom immunity issue, there is hope&#8230;.don&#8217;t think that the victims lawyers arent going to challenge the constitionality of the immunity law&#8230;</p>
<p><a href="http://writ.news.findlaw.com/sebok/20080129.html" rel="nofollow">http://writ.news.findlaw.com/sebok/20080129.html</a> </p>
<p>The argument that the lawsuits in progress are property that<br />
the government cannot arbitrarily take without any sort of due process is a compelling one, and as you can see if you read the article, it has supreme court precedent which I believe at least 9th circuit judges will have the integrity to respect. I beleive there are other strong arguments as to why this immunity provision is unconstitional. So even if our cowardly and/or bribed congressmen cave, there IS still hope.<br />
 The supremes would screw the constition but if we can get Obama in office I believe he would stop the obstruction before it ever got to them&#8230;. Make no mistake, Obama is no saint but if he gets elected I have a feeling there will be some people going to jail in the next 4 years&#8230;thats the main reason im rooting for him..<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=4286607', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: Jeremy in Denver</title>
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		<dc:creator>Jeremy in Denver</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Mar 2008 18:15:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Yeah, you know, the easiest way to honestly win the independents, which will be who truly sinks the Republicans?

Marginalize Bush NOW.    Turn on the light at the end of the tunnel and force troop reductions and let the Iraqis know that we&#039;re on our way out.  Yes, give the Telcoms their immunity in the wake of 9/11, but anything BEFORE 9/11 is fair game.    Force Bush to go with FISA.   Cut the gravy train to the corps off.   Begin investing in science and education again.   

They could even take a moderate right path to this.   Welfare?  Really reform it.  Make it so that to earn welfare, you have to go to school and get the grades, then get a job.   If you&#039;re on unemployment, open up options to get retrained, but emphasize getting back in the workforce.   Right-wing doesn&#039;t have to be inhuman, but it does need to be balanced with care for the individual, with the overriding goal of getting the individual back in the system, contributing to the nation&#039;s wellness.   HONESTLY &#039;trust but verify&#039;, and when a company violates that trust, stick them and stick them hard.   _Use_ the free market to motivate companies to not foul nature and injure consumers, and when companies begin colluding, break that collusion up without mercy.

Good_golly, when your people realize that, the Republican Party may well raise from its ashes sooner rather than later.   For now, however, 7 years of Republican policies taken to their extreme, especially 6 years of a compliant legislature controlled by the Republicans, drives many centrists away from your platform...and if the Democrats play their cards right, come November, McCain will be reeling under the blows of &quot;There&#039;ll be more wars&quot; and &quot;I admire Bush&quot; ads released by the Democratic candidate, whoever that is.  As much as you would like the election to not be about Bush, honestly?

It will be.

And if you want to be on the winning side, perhaps, if you have any control over your masters at all, you ought to motivate them to divorce themselves from the policies of Bush 43.

Just sayin&#039;...</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Yeah, you know, the easiest way to honestly win the independents, which will be who truly sinks the Republicans?</p>
<p>Marginalize Bush NOW.    Turn on the light at the end of the tunnel and force troop reductions and let the Iraqis know that we&#8217;re on our way out.  Yes, give the Telcoms their immunity in the wake of 9/11, but anything BEFORE 9/11 is fair game.    Force Bush to go with FISA.   Cut the gravy train to the corps off.   Begin investing in science and education again.   </p>
<p>They could even take a moderate right path to this.   Welfare?  Really reform it.  Make it so that to earn welfare, you have to go to school and get the grades, then get a job.   If you&#8217;re on unemployment, open up options to get retrained, but emphasize getting back in the workforce.   Right-wing doesn&#8217;t have to be inhuman, but it does need to be balanced with care for the individual, with the overriding goal of getting the individual back in the system, contributing to the nation&#8217;s wellness.   HONESTLY &#8216;trust but verify&#8217;, and when a company violates that trust, stick them and stick them hard.   _Use_ the free market to motivate companies to not foul nature and injure consumers, and when companies begin colluding, break that collusion up without mercy.</p>
<p>Good_golly, when your people realize that, the Republican Party may well raise from its ashes sooner rather than later.   For now, however, 7 years of Republican policies taken to their extreme, especially 6 years of a compliant legislature controlled by the Republicans, drives many centrists away from your platform&#8230;and if the Democrats play their cards right, come November, McCain will be reeling under the blows of &#8220;There&#8217;ll be more wars&#8221; and &#8220;I admire Bush&#8221; ads released by the Democratic candidate, whoever that is.  As much as you would like the election to not be about Bush, honestly?</p>
<p>It will be.</p>
<p>And if you want to be on the winning side, perhaps, if you have any control over your masters at all, you ought to motivate them to divorce themselves from the policies of Bush 43.</p>
<p>Just sayin&#8217;&#8230;<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=4286605', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: Lefty Patriot</title>
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		<dc:creator>Lefty Patriot</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Mar 2008 18:00:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>You better question any â€˜mathâ€™ that comes up before then. ;)

Comment by Jeremy in Denver â€” March 3, 2008 @ 12:56 pm

She&#039;d be better off moving to North Korea, where they do things her way.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>You better question any â€˜mathâ€™ that comes up before then. ;)</p>
<p>Comment by Jeremy in Denver â€” March 3, 2008 @ 12:56 pm</p>
<p>She&#8217;d be better off moving to North Korea, where they do things her way.<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=4286568', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: Jeremy in Denver</title>
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		<dc:creator>Jeremy in Denver</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Mar 2008 17:56:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>bilbo, bilbo, bilboâ€¦. Even you should be smart enough to understand that there is little reason for Republicans to vote in the primaries when their nominee is pretty much already decided; while the Democrats still have a lot to fight about with Hillary and Obama in a knock down, drag out, fight to the Convention. This has very little to do with how many Republicans will vote in the General Election.

Comment by good_golly â€” March 3, 2008 @ 10:19 am
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Except that this pattern has held out since the very first elections.   At least 1.5 Democrats per every Republican voter in the early caucuses and primaries....while Mitt Romney and Mike Huckabee were still in the race.   

GG, I hope for your sake that you are just trying to say this to demoralize us (not that it&#039;s working, mind you...)  If you truly believe this, and things go the way I suspect they&#039;ll go come November, you&#039;ll be screaming impotently, as your masters are told to clean out their desks and are then escorted out of the building by security.   I hope you don&#039;t mind if we point at you and laugh while that&#039;s happening.

Remember.  In 2006, you thought that you had &#039;the Math&#039;.  It&#039;s 2008 now, and we&#039;re in the beginning of a second year of what your masters said was impossible, a Democratic House, and what _I_ thought was impossible, a Democratic Senate.   The only reason this hasn&#039;t turned the way we hoped it would has been a masterful manipulation of the system in a display of hypocrisy that may well sink your battleship come November.   :)  You better question any &#039;math&#039; that comes up before then.  ;)</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>bilbo, bilbo, bilboâ€¦. Even you should be smart enough to understand that there is little reason for Republicans to vote in the primaries when their nominee is pretty much already decided; while the Democrats still have a lot to fight about with Hillary and Obama in a knock down, drag out, fight to the Convention. This has very little to do with how many Republicans will vote in the General Election.</p>
<p>Comment by good_golly â€” March 3, 2008 @ 10:19 am<br />
&#8212;&#8212;<br />
Except that this pattern has held out since the very first elections.   At least 1.5 Democrats per every Republican voter in the early caucuses and primaries&#8230;.while Mitt Romney and Mike Huckabee were still in the race.   </p>
<p>GG, I hope for your sake that you are just trying to say this to demoralize us (not that it&#8217;s working, mind you&#8230;)  If you truly believe this, and things go the way I suspect they&#8217;ll go come November, you&#8217;ll be screaming impotently, as your masters are told to clean out their desks and are then escorted out of the building by security.   I hope you don&#8217;t mind if we point at you and laugh while that&#8217;s happening.</p>
<p>Remember.  In 2006, you thought that you had &#8216;the Math&#8217;.  It&#8217;s 2008 now, and we&#8217;re in the beginning of a second year of what your masters said was impossible, a Democratic House, and what _I_ thought was impossible, a Democratic Senate.   The only reason this hasn&#8217;t turned the way we hoped it would has been a masterful manipulation of the system in a display of hypocrisy that may well sink your battleship come November.   :)  You better question any &#8216;math&#8217; that comes up before then.  ;)<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=4286561', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: katy</title>
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		<dc:creator>katy</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Mar 2008 17:56:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>deal.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>deal.<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=4286557', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: Juan C.</title>
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		<dc:creator>Juan C.</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Mar 2008 17:36:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;em&gt;try never to lose itâ€¦
Comment by katy &lt;/em&gt;

I&#039;ll remain idealist for the two of us, but you remain cool and mature among the trolls for the two of us.  ;)</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><em>try never to lose itâ€¦<br />
Comment by katy </em></p>
<p>I&#8217;ll remain idealist for the two of us, but you remain cool and mature among the trolls for the two of us.  ;)<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=4286521', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: Bluedahlia</title>
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		<dc:creator>Bluedahlia</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Mar 2008 17:31:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Dictatortot, 
I hear you. I am not quite in grad school yet  and am trying to keep up on my interest payments so that I don&#039;t end up paying interest on interest when I am done. It is sickening.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Dictatortot,<br />
I hear you. I am not quite in grad school yet  and am trying to keep up on my interest payments so that I don&#8217;t end up paying interest on interest when I am done. It is sickening.<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=4286512', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: TheRadicalRightisRadicallyWrong</title>
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		<dc:creator>TheRadicalRightisRadicallyWrong</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Mar 2008 17:29:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Bilbo,

Thanks! I just sent her (speaker Pelosi) another letter and will be spendiing most of the day calling the house and urging them to stand up for the constitution.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Bilbo,</p>
<p>Thanks! I just sent her (speaker Pelosi) another letter and will be spendiing most of the day calling the house and urging them to stand up for the constitution.<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=4286510', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: dictatortot</title>
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		<dc:creator>dictatortot</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Mar 2008 17:24:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Those of us with student loans outstanding already know that under Bush, rates have risen from around 3 or 4% to over 7%. Rates were lowered by the Pelosi/Reid contingent, but only for future loans.

My student loan has an interest rate higher than my car loan or mortgage...and it&#039;s almost DOUBLE my credit card rate.

Thanks for the helping hand, Dept. of Education. I would have been better off putting my higher education on my Visa card.

http://newsprism.wordpress.com</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Those of us with student loans outstanding already know that under Bush, rates have risen from around 3 or 4% to over 7%. Rates were lowered by the Pelosi/Reid contingent, but only for future loans.</p>
<p>My student loan has an interest rate higher than my car loan or mortgage&#8230;and it&#8217;s almost DOUBLE my credit card rate.</p>
<p>Thanks for the helping hand, Dept. of Education. I would have been better off putting my higher education on my Visa card.</p>
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		<title>By: katy</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2008/03/03/thinkfast-march-3-2008/comment-page-3/#comment-4286499</link>
		<dc:creator>katy</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Mar 2008 17:21:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>juan - you are correct... but, ah, to be young and idealist again...
:-)

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		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>juan &#8211; you are correct&#8230; but, ah, to be young and idealist again&#8230;<br />
:-)</p>
<p>try never to lose it&#8230;<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=4286499', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: katy</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2008/03/03/thinkfast-march-3-2008/comment-page-3/#comment-4286495</link>
		<dc:creator>katy</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Mar 2008 17:19:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>*
&lt;strong&gt;http://www.crooksandliars.com/
has the 60minutes RAM story up also...
.&lt;/strong&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>*<br />
<strong><a href="http://www.crooksandliars.com/" rel="nofollow">http://www.crooksandliars.com/</a><br />
has the 60minutes RAM story up also&#8230;<br />
.</strong><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=4286495', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: Keith H.</title>
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		<dc:creator>Keith H.</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Mar 2008 17:17:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Ahh yessss . . the immunity is on it&#039;s way . . 
A sure sign that the law no longer applies to the federal government or the corporations and that your democracy is looonnng gooonnne.

Just wait till McBush and Scum-bur-man are installed as the next &#039;Team Destroy America&#039; .</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Ahh yessss . . the immunity is on it&#8217;s way . .<br />
A sure sign that the law no longer applies to the federal government or the corporations and that your democracy is looonnng gooonnne.</p>
<p>Just wait till McBush and Scum-bur-man are installed as the next &#8216;Team Destroy America&#8217; .<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=4286490', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: Juan C.</title>
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		<dc:creator>Juan C.</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Mar 2008 17:15:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;em&gt;you really think â€œthe peopleâ€ have much say about it, juan?
for some reason, i donâ€™tâ€¦
Comment by katy &lt;/em&gt;

Of course I do. People are the enablers in every conflict. Leaders like Napoleon, Hitler, Stalin etc. may decide but they won&#039;t be wielding any sword or flying any jet. All the things happening are made by common people. If those common people decide that they won&#039;t follow orders, those orders won&#039;t be executed, as simple as that. 

There is a book of Tolstoi called War and Peace. I haven&#039;t read it all, but I will do. 

People tend to forget how powerful are people.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><em>you really think â€œthe peopleâ€ have much say about it, juan?<br />
for some reason, i donâ€™tâ€¦<br />
Comment by katy </em></p>
<p>Of course I do. People are the enablers in every conflict. Leaders like Napoleon, Hitler, Stalin etc. may decide but they won&#8217;t be wielding any sword or flying any jet. All the things happening are made by common people. If those common people decide that they won&#8217;t follow orders, those orders won&#8217;t be executed, as simple as that. </p>
<p>There is a book of Tolstoi called War and Peace. I haven&#8217;t read it all, but I will do. </p>
<p>People tend to forget how powerful are people.<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=4286488', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: Joefriday</title>
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		<dc:creator>Joefriday</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Mar 2008 17:12:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>GG-Even Faux snooze can&#039;t put lipstick on this pig.

http://www.foxbusiness.com/markets/market-overview/article/data-weighs-market-stocks-set-red-open_502128_42.html</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>GG-Even Faux snooze can&#8217;t put lipstick on this pig.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.foxbusiness.com/markets/market-overview/article/data-weighs-market-stocks-set-red-open_502128_42.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.foxbusiness.com/markets/market-overview/article/data-weighs-market-stocks-set-red-open_502128_42.html</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=4286486', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: Joefriday</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2008/03/03/thinkfast-march-3-2008/comment-page-3/#comment-4286481</link>
		<dc:creator>Joefriday</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Mar 2008 17:09:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>GG-The economy part II

http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/us/AP-Economy.html</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>GG-The economy part II</p>
<p><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/us/AP-Economy.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/us/AP-Economy.html</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=4286481', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: Joefriday</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2008/03/03/thinkfast-march-3-2008/comment-page-3/#comment-4286475</link>
		<dc:creator>Joefriday</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Mar 2008 17:04:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>GG-&quot;it&#039;s the economy stupid&quot;.

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&amp;sid=aouttWQi0.U8&amp;refer=home</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>GG-&#8221;it&#8217;s the economy stupid&#8221;.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&amp;sid=aouttWQi0.U8&amp;refer=home" rel="nofollow">http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&amp;sid=aouttWQi0.U8&amp;refer=home</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=4286475', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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