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	<title>Comments on: Hastert wastes $20,000 in taxpayer money on lavish trips during last 11 months in office.</title>
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		<title>By: ucsbclassics53</title>
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		<dc:creator>ucsbclassics53</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jun 2008 04:07:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>theright and his ilk always do the Democrats did that, Clinton did that game...

Tell you what buddy, here&#039;s a secret teachers know (oh yes, we Commie Socialist bastards!), if a student used that as an excuse, we&#039;d be punishing him nonetheless...</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>theright and his ilk always do the Democrats did that, Clinton did that game&#8230;</p>
<p>Tell you what buddy, here&#8217;s a secret teachers know (oh yes, we Commie Socialist bastards!), if a student used that as an excuse, we&#8217;d be punishing him nonetheless&#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=5046462', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: Kira</title>
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		<dc:creator>Kira</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jun 2008 19:30:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>ninja96 - name a &quot;righty&quot; website that doesn&#039;t spew much worse venom aimed at the left.  Plus - they delete comments if they aren&#039;t in lockstep with GOP talking points.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>ninja96 &#8211; name a &#8220;righty&#8221; website that doesn&#8217;t spew much worse venom aimed at the left.  Plus &#8211; they delete comments if they aren&#8217;t in lockstep with GOP talking points.<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=5045040', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: ninja96</title>
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		<dc:creator>ninja96</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jun 2008 18:19:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I&#039;m disgusted to associate myself with the rest of you.  I joined the left wing to get away from hate and run square into it.

This is a site I used to link my righty friends too, and all the hate you spew here just gets thrown back in my face and I get laughed at.  Thanks a lot.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I&#8217;m disgusted to associate myself with the rest of you.  I joined the left wing to get away from hate and run square into it.</p>
<p>This is a site I used to link my righty friends too, and all the hate you spew here just gets thrown back in my face and I get laughed at.  Thanks a lot.<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=5044796', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: ninja96</title>
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		<dc:creator>ninja96</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jun 2008 18:18:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>You people are hateful bigots.  You have to make fun of someone being overweight?  That&#039;s real mature.  You all belong in the 3rd grade.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>You people are hateful bigots.  You have to make fun of someone being overweight?  That&#8217;s real mature.  You all belong in the 3rd grade.<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=5044788', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: sacopenapa</title>
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		<dc:creator>sacopenapa</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jun 2008 18:16:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>what a fat pig this FACIST is!!!! I hope he gets fater and have a stroke!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>what a fat pig this FACIST is!!!! I hope he gets fater and have a stroke!<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=5044776', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: shoeless</title>
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		<dc:creator>shoeless</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jun 2008 15:02:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;em&gt;“Hastert wastes $20,000 in taxpayer money on bratwurst during last 11 months in office.”&lt;/em&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><em>“Hastert wastes $20,000 in taxpayer money on bratwurst during last 11 months in office.”</em><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=5043850', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: Keith H.</title>
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		<dc:creator>Keith H.</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jun 2008 14:40:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Wow, the camera puts on a . . . couple-hundred-pounds.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Wow, the camera puts on a . . . couple-hundred-pounds.<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=5043670', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: shoeless</title>
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		<dc:creator>shoeless</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jun 2008 13:49:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;em&gt;TheRight Says: 

Al Bore are some of the biggest polluters in the US.&lt;/em&gt;

Wrong again.

&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/12/13/gore.home.ap/index.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Gore makes Nashville home more &#039;green&#039;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;

Al Gore, who was criticized for high electric bills at his Tennessee mansion, has completed a host of improvements to make the home more energy efficient, and a building-industry group has praised the house as one of the nation&#039;s most environmentally friendly.

The former vice president has installed solar panels, a rainwater-collection system and geothermal heating. He also replaced all incandescent lights with compact fluorescent or light-emitting diode bulbs -- even on his Christmas tree.

&quot;Short of tearing it down and staring anew, I don&#039;t know how it could have been rated any higher,&quot; said Kim Shinn of the U.S. Green Building Council, which gave the house its second-highest rating for sustainable design.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><em>TheRight Says: </p>
<p>Al Bore are some of the biggest polluters in the US.</em></p>
<p>Wrong again.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/12/13/gore.home.ap/index.html" rel="nofollow"><strong>Gore makes Nashville home more &#8216;green&#8217;</strong></a></p>
<p>Al Gore, who was criticized for high electric bills at his Tennessee mansion, has completed a host of improvements to make the home more energy efficient, and a building-industry group has praised the house as one of the nation&#8217;s most environmentally friendly.</p>
<p>The former vice president has installed solar panels, a rainwater-collection system and geothermal heating. He also replaced all incandescent lights with compact fluorescent or light-emitting diode bulbs &#8212; even on his Christmas tree.</p>
<p>&#8220;Short of tearing it down and staring anew, I don&#8217;t know how it could have been rated any higher,&#8221; said Kim Shinn of the U.S. Green Building Council, which gave the house its second-highest rating for sustainable design.<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=5043528', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: shoeless</title>
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		<dc:creator>shoeless</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jun 2008 13:44:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Denny Hastert, another Republican &quot;cut spending&quot;  hypocrite.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Denny Hastert, another Republican &#8220;cut spending&#8221;  hypocrite.<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=5043522', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: shoeless</title>
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		<dc:creator>shoeless</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jun 2008 13:40:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;em&gt;Klem Kiddilehopper Says: 

You’re about a year and a half behind the story of Pelosi and flying on the government tab! Turns out it was set up by the Republican Congress after 9-11!&lt;/em&gt;

Remember the stink raised in the liberal biased news media when the Republicans in Congress gave Denny Hastert a Learjet after 9/11?

No?  I don&#039;t either.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><em>Klem Kiddilehopper Says: </p>
<p>You’re about a year and a half behind the story of Pelosi and flying on the government tab! Turns out it was set up by the Republican Congress after 9-11!</em></p>
<p>Remember the stink raised in the liberal biased news media when the Republicans in Congress gave Denny Hastert a Learjet after 9/11?</p>
<p>No?  I don&#8217;t either.<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=5043516', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: Klem Kiddilehopper</title>
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		<dc:creator>Klem Kiddilehopper</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jun 2008 13:09:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>The Right@9:54 PM
 Would it be too much to ask you to Google &quot;Pelosi and Government flights?&quot; Yes I&#039;m sure it would be!
 I&#039;m not a Dr. but I can plainly read that your addiction to Faux News and the BS that spews from them daily has taken over what thinking process you might have had !
 You&#039;re about a year and a half behind the story of Pelosi and flying on the government tab! Turns out it was set up by the Republican Congress after 9-11!
 Do yourself,the day-ward you&#039;re locked down on, and the WWW,  stick to gluing popsicle sticks together and keep your dumb comments to the droolers on your left and right!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The Right@9:54 PM<br />
 Would it be too much to ask you to Google &#8220;Pelosi and Government flights?&#8221; Yes I&#8217;m sure it would be!<br />
 I&#8217;m not a Dr. but I can plainly read that your addiction to Faux News and the BS that spews from them daily has taken over what thinking process you might have had !<br />
 You&#8217;re about a year and a half behind the story of Pelosi and flying on the government tab! Turns out it was set up by the Republican Congress after 9-11!<br />
 Do yourself,the day-ward you&#8217;re locked down on, and the WWW,  stick to gluing popsicle sticks together and keep your dumb comments to the droolers on your left and right!<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=5043466', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: shoeless</title>
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		<dc:creator>shoeless</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jun 2008 13:02:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;em&gt;drick23 Says: 

A muslim prayer for OBama&lt;/em&gt;

Hussein Obama is a Muslim, who went to school in a madrassas.  No, wait Barak was a member of one of those nasty black Christian churches that we don&#039;t like.  Besides, Obama isn&#039;t white enough, and Barak isn&#039;t black enough.  And on top of that he&#039;s an elitist who put himself through an ivy league school after growing up in a poor single parent family.  Then he used his elitist education to help nasty homeless black people, that we don&#039;t like get, housing on the south side of Chicago, just so he could get elected to the Illinois legislature.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><em>drick23 Says: </p>
<p>A muslim prayer for OBama</em></p>
<p>Hussein Obama is a Muslim, who went to school in a madrassas.  No, wait Barak was a member of one of those nasty black Christian churches that we don&#8217;t like.  Besides, Obama isn&#8217;t white enough, and Barak isn&#8217;t black enough.  And on top of that he&#8217;s an elitist who put himself through an ivy league school after growing up in a poor single parent family.  Then he used his elitist education to help nasty homeless black people, that we don&#8217;t like get, housing on the south side of Chicago, just so he could get elected to the Illinois legislature.<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=5043456', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: shoeless</title>
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		<dc:creator>shoeless</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jun 2008 12:49:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;em&gt;TheRight Says: 

$20k is nothing compared to the cost of having a private jet fly Pelosi and her friends and family back and forth to Califonia.&lt;/em&gt;

Did you know that Dennis Hastert had a private C-20 Learjet?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><em>TheRight Says: </p>
<p>$20k is nothing compared to the cost of having a private jet fly Pelosi and her friends and family back and forth to Califonia.</em></p>
<p>Did you know that Dennis Hastert had a private C-20 Learjet?<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=5043448', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: barfly</title>
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		<dc:creator>barfly</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jun 2008 05:31:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;em&gt; i cringe at my paycheck for taxes, just wait for univ hc&lt;/em&gt;

Poor baby.

I pay out more in tips than you do in taxes, so buck up, little soldier.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><em> i cringe at my paycheck for taxes, just wait for univ hc</em></p>
<p>Poor baby.</p>
<p>I pay out more in tips than you do in taxes, so buck up, little soldier.<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=5043364', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: barfly</title>
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		<dc:creator>barfly</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jun 2008 05:30:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;em&gt; I guess A muslim prayer for OBama because we are screwed.&lt;/em&gt;

He&#039;s not a muslim, bonehead.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><em> I guess A muslim prayer for OBama because we are screwed.</em></p>
<p>He&#8217;s not a muslim, bonehead.<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=5043362', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: Kira</title>
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		<dc:creator>Kira</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jun 2008 04:55:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>hussein toasterhead #61

I&#039;m sure that&#039;s way over little drickey&#039;s head.  It&#039;s almost unfair to argue with such an unequipped opponent.</description>
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<p>I&#8217;m sure that&#8217;s way over little drickey&#8217;s head.  It&#8217;s almost unfair to argue with such an unequipped opponent.<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=5043302', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: hussein toasterhead</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2008/06/23/hastert-wastes-20000-in-taxpayer-money-on-lavish-trips-during-last-11-months-in-office/comment-page-2/#comment-5043294</link>
		<dc:creator>hussein toasterhead</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jun 2008 04:51:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;i&gt;drick23 Says:

what about all the money Hussein OBama wants to waste taxing us???? or do you guys just no t care about higher taxes , or are you ladies??

June 23rd, 2008 at 11:38 pm &lt;/i&gt;
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So let me see if I can understand this logic.  Does not caring about higher taxes make us ladies?  Are you implying that women and men have different senses of appropriation and fiscal policy?

And raising taxes is not necessarily &quot;wasting&quot; money.  Now starting a $4 trillion war over a lie - THAT&#039;s a waste of money.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><i>drick23 Says:</p>
<p>what about all the money Hussein OBama wants to waste taxing us???? or do you guys just no t care about higher taxes , or are you ladies??</p>
<p>June 23rd, 2008 at 11:38 pm </i><br />
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<p>So let me see if I can understand this logic.  Does not caring about higher taxes make us ladies?  Are you implying that women and men have different senses of appropriation and fiscal policy?</p>
<p>And raising taxes is not necessarily &#8220;wasting&#8221; money.  Now starting a $4 trillion war over a lie &#8211; THAT&#8217;s a waste of money.<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=5043294', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: Kira</title>
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		<dc:creator>Kira</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jun 2008 04:48:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;em&gt;drick23 Says:

20 grand what joke. who cares Obama saved that on his deals with rezko. no mention of that here of course&lt;/em&gt;

Getting your info from the morally bankrupt mental midget Lindsay Graham?

That&#039;s why we don&#039;t need to mention it - it&#039;s bunk.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><em>drick23 Says:</p>
<p>20 grand what joke. who cares Obama saved that on his deals with rezko. no mention of that here of course</em></p>
<p>Getting your info from the morally bankrupt mental midget Lindsay Graham?</p>
<p>That&#8217;s why we don&#8217;t need to mention it &#8211; it&#8217;s bunk.<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=5043288', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: Kira</title>
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		<dc:creator>Kira</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jun 2008 04:42:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;em&gt;drick23 Says: i guess good luck driving my suv next year if BHO is in office since gas will be 20 bucks a gallon&lt;/em&gt;

Oooo - you gotta crystal ball or sumpin&#039;?

Thanks to you repub-LIE-CONS gas is $4.50 a gallon.  Save your crap - you might need to burn it for cooking fuel.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><em>drick23 Says: i guess good luck driving my suv next year if BHO is in office since gas will be 20 bucks a gallon</em></p>
<p>Oooo &#8211; you gotta crystal ball or sumpin&#8217;?</p>
<p>Thanks to you repub-LIE-CONS gas is $4.50 a gallon.  Save your crap &#8211; you might need to burn it for cooking fuel.<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=5043270', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: hussein toasterhead</title>
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		<dc:creator>hussein toasterhead</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jun 2008 04:41:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;i&gt;drick23 Says:

no i just dont want BHO taxing oil cos making prices go up.

June 24th, 2008 at 12:00 am &lt;/i&gt;
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Like the oil companies need an excuse to make prices go up?</description>
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<p>no i just dont want BHO taxing oil cos making prices go up.</p>
<p>June 24th, 2008 at 12:00 am </i><br />
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<p>Like the oil companies need an excuse to make prices go up?<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=5043268', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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