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	<title>Comments on: Rep. Pete Sessions: Obama wants to &#8216;diminish employment&#8217; in order to consolidate power.</title>
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		<title>By: username007</title>
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		<dc:creator>username007</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 12 May 2009 19:33:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Unemployment still rising...except in the government.
What happened to all the answers?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Unemployment still rising&#8230;except in the government.<br />
What happened to all the answers?<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=5639215', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: rightwing-leftwing</title>
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		<dc:creator>rightwing-leftwing</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 12 May 2009 01:46:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Maddow slammed Sessions and he comment tonight in her spot, &quot;GOP in Exile.&quot;  hehe!  I love those.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Maddow slammed Sessions and he comment tonight in her spot, &#8220;GOP in Exile.&#8221;  hehe!  I love those.<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=5638267', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: herecomestheangst</title>
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		<dc:creator>herecomestheangst</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 11 May 2009 20:58:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Why do Texans and Georgians hate the rest of America so much?  

I mean, can&#039;t they change their own laws to marry their cousins and other family members if they&#039;re true &quot;Reagan Republicans&quot;?!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Why do Texans and Georgians hate the rest of America so much?  </p>
<p>I mean, can&#8217;t they change their own laws to marry their cousins and other family members if they&#8217;re true &#8220;Reagan Republicans&#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=5637758', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: wiley</title>
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		<dc:creator>wiley</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 11 May 2009 19:56:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>What do they think they&#039;re going to accomplish with that 21%? It&#039;s so crazy, it&#039;s frightening. I wonder if they have &lt;em&gt;a real plan&lt;/em&gt;. They probably really are that stupid and mired in group-thing and compensatory believing, and I&#039;ll try to enjoy it.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>What do they think they&#8217;re going to accomplish with that 21%? It&#8217;s so crazy, it&#8217;s frightening. I wonder if they have <em>a real plan</em>. They probably really are that stupid and mired in group-thing and compensatory believing, and I&#8217;ll try to enjoy 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=5637467', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: pbeeg</title>
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		<dc:creator>pbeeg</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 11 May 2009 19:11:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I really have to wonder what Sessions hopes to accomplish by this line of attack.
Is it simply for the teabaggers&#039; benefit? Or is he trying to scare the populace?
the latter would truly be nuts. I suppose somebody might think that saying, &quot;Look! It isn&#039;t working! Obama&#039;s doing this deliberately to divide the nation!&quot;
THat is a tough path to take when they&#039;re obstructing him at every turn. Sesssions&#039; point, then, would have to be that Obama is deliberately engineering the Republicans&#039; opposition to him.

I think he&#039;s just keeping the fire stoked under the teabagging faithful. Which is more understandable, but equally foolish.

The Republlicans have been going from disaster to disaster, but their worst nightmare is, aafter calling Obama te antichrist, a Marrxist and a terrorist sympathizer, is if he suceeds in the atmosphere of well-publicized Republican hysteria.

Then (to violate Godwin&#039;s law) he&#039;s Jesse Owens at the 1936 Olympics winning his events as Hitler scowls from the stands.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I really have to wonder what Sessions hopes to accomplish by this line of attack.<br />
Is it simply for the teabaggers&#8217; benefit? Or is he trying to scare the populace?<br />
the latter would truly be nuts. I suppose somebody might think that saying, &#8220;Look! It isn&#8217;t working! Obama&#8217;s doing this deliberately to divide the nation!&#8221;<br />
THat is a tough path to take when they&#8217;re obstructing him at every turn. Sesssions&#8217; point, then, would have to be that Obama is deliberately engineering the Republicans&#8217; opposition to him.</p>
<p>I think he&#8217;s just keeping the fire stoked under the teabagging faithful. Which is more understandable, but equally foolish.</p>
<p>The Republlicans have been going from disaster to disaster, but their worst nightmare is, aafter calling Obama te antichrist, a Marrxist and a terrorist sympathizer, is if he suceeds in the atmosphere of well-publicized Republican hysteria.</p>
<p>Then (to violate Godwin&#8217;s law) he&#8217;s Jesse Owens at the 1936 Olympics winning his events as Hitler scowls from the stands.<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=5637307', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: shoeless</title>
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		<dc:creator>shoeless</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 11 May 2009 19:04:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;blockquote&gt;wiley Says: 
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Yeah, but the bankers couldn&#039;t hold out til after the election.&lt;/blockquote&gt;

Oh, they tried. Since 2006, everyone knew the Democratic nominee would win the presidential election. The plan was to stall the coming economic disaster until Jan. 21, 2009. They were done in by their won unbridled greed and corruption. It was just so bad that they couldn&#039;t hide it for another six months and then blame it all on Barack Obama.</description>
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<p>Yeah, but the bankers couldn&#8217;t hold out til after the election.</p></blockquote>
<p>Oh, they tried. Since 2006, everyone knew the Democratic nominee would win the presidential election. The plan was to stall the coming economic disaster until Jan. 21, 2009. They were done in by their won unbridled greed and corruption. It was just so bad that they couldn&#8217;t hide it for another six months and then blame it all on Barack Obama.<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=5637285', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: wiley</title>
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		<dc:creator>wiley</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 11 May 2009 17:59:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Yeah, but the bankers couldn&#039;t hold out til after the election.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Yeah, but the bankers couldn&#8217;t hold out til after the election.<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=5637167', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: Dirty Hippie</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2009/05/11/sessions-obama-diminish/comment-page-2/#comment-5637152</link>
		<dc:creator>Dirty Hippie</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 11 May 2009 17:51:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Actually I&#039;d be more inclined to think that Pete&#039;s corporate handlers want to increase unemployment to make Obama look bad. They can afford to sh*t in their own nest at the expense of the workers.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Actually I&#8217;d be more inclined to think that Pete&#8217;s corporate handlers want to increase unemployment to make Obama look bad. They can afford to sh*t in their own nest at the expense of the workers.<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=5637152', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: Reparations4TheBlackHolocaustNOW</title>
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		<dc:creator>Reparations4TheBlackHolocaustNOW</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 11 May 2009 17:34:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>So I guess this means that 23 percent of the people polled are smart.

Why do you think Obama wants to get things done this year?

Because he got the signal from the banksters that its time for him and Rahm to knock it off with the fearmongering about the economy.

He just ordered congress to send him credit card legislation now because he knows the recession is about to end.

&quot;Never let a crisis go to waist&quot; - Rahm Emanuel</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>So I guess this means that 23 percent of the people polled are smart.</p>
<p>Why do you think Obama wants to get things done this year?</p>
<p>Because he got the signal from the banksters that its time for him and Rahm to knock it off with the fearmongering about the economy.</p>
<p>He just ordered congress to send him credit card legislation now because he knows the recession is about to end.</p>
<p>&#8220;Never let a crisis go to waist&#8221; &#8211; Rahm Emanuel<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=5637110', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: wiley</title>
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		<dc:creator>wiley</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 11 May 2009 17:21:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>What membership are you talking about, CFP? I&#039;m registered as a Republican and I have never in my life voted for a Republican. I was going to vote for Ron Paul in the primaries, with no intention of voting for him on Nov. 4, didn&#039;t get around to it, and then I forgot to change it. It was fun to vote for Obama as a &quot;Republican&quot;.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>What membership are you talking about, CFP? I&#8217;m registered as a Republican and I have never in my life voted for a Republican. I was going to vote for Ron Paul in the primaries, with no intention of voting for him on Nov. 4, didn&#8217;t get around to it, and then I forgot to change it. It was fun to vote for Obama as a &#8220;Republican&#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=5637077', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: shoeless</title>
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		<dc:creator>shoeless</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 11 May 2009 17:09:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>CFP, did you know that your name is an oxymoron?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>CFP, did you know that your name is an oxymoron?<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=5637049', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: shoeless</title>
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		<dc:creator>shoeless</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 11 May 2009 17:04:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;blockquote&gt;Bilbo Hussein Baggins Says: 
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I see a trend there. Other than Nixon and Reagan, all of the Presidents with the highest job growth rates were Democrats. I wonder why that is?&lt;/blockquote&gt;

I once heard a cop say that most criminals are not very smart. Republicans are not only corrupt, they are also incompetent.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<blockquote><p>Bilbo Hussein Baggins Says:<br />
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<p>I see a trend there. Other than Nixon and Reagan, all of the Presidents with the highest job growth rates were Democrats. I wonder why that is?</p></blockquote>
<p>I once heard a cop say that most criminals are not very smart. Republicans are not only corrupt, they are also incompetent.<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=5637032', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: shoeless</title>
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		<dc:creator>shoeless</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 11 May 2009 17:01:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;blockquote&gt;ConservativeForProgress Says: 
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And yet, even a &lt;strong&gt;weak ticket of McCain/Palin&lt;/strong&gt; got 60,000,000 popular votes.&lt;/blockquote&gt;

And that &quot;weak ticket&quot; is the best your party could put together. You guys have become a national joke.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<blockquote><p>ConservativeForProgress Says:<br />
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<p>And yet, even a <strong>weak ticket of McCain/Palin</strong> got 60,000,000 popular votes.</p></blockquote>
<p>And that &#8220;weak ticket&#8221; is the best your party could put together. You guys have become a national joke.<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=5637017', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: Bilbo Hussein Baggins</title>
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		<dc:creator>Bilbo Hussein Baggins</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 11 May 2009 17:00:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;em&gt;Keith Says:
Clinton&#039;s job creation was TEN TIMES that of Bush&#039;s, which was the worst since the Great Depression. Why are the Repubs allowed to say Bush&#039;s employment record was the best???
Annual employment-growth rates for all 11 postwar presidents: &lt;/em&gt;

I see a trend there.  Other than Nixon and Reagan, all of the Presidents with the highest job growth rates were Democrats.  I wonder why that is?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><em>Keith Says:<br />
Clinton&#8217;s job creation was TEN TIMES that of Bush&#8217;s, which was the worst since the Great Depression. Why are the Repubs allowed to say Bush&#8217;s employment record was the best???<br />
Annual employment-growth rates for all 11 postwar presidents: </em></p>
<p>I see a trend there.  Other than Nixon and Reagan, all of the Presidents with the highest job growth rates were Democrats.  I wonder why that is?<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=5637016', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: Bilbo Hussein Baggins</title>
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		<dc:creator>Bilbo Hussein Baggins</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 11 May 2009 16:58:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>BTW CFP, 4% of 60,000,000 is 2,400,000.  That is a pretty large number of people who have abandoned your party.  Too bad so sad for you and yours.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>BTW CFP, 4% of 60,000,000 is 2,400,000.  That is a pretty large number of people who have abandoned your party.  Too bad so sad for you and yours.<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=5637010', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: Bilbo Hussein Baggins</title>
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		<dc:creator>Bilbo Hussein Baggins</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 11 May 2009 16:55:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;em&gt;ConservativeForProgress Says:
And yet, even a weak ticket of McCain/Palin got 60,000,000 popular votes. It seems your count is off by about 99%.&lt;/em&gt;

You are correct about the math error.  But, I think I&#039;ll ask you how you feel about the current state of your party.  Your membership is now somewhere between 18% and 21%, down 4 in the last couple of months.  Do you see any correlation between people leaving the Republican party in droves and the rhetoric that is coming out of the party these days?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><em>ConservativeForProgress Says:<br />
And yet, even a weak ticket of McCain/Palin got 60,000,000 popular votes. It seems your count is off by about 99%.</em></p>
<p>You are correct about the math error.  But, I think I&#8217;ll ask you how you feel about the current state of your party.  Your membership is now somewhere between 18% and 21%, down 4 in the last couple of months.  Do you see any correlation between people leaving the Republican party in droves and the rhetoric that is coming out of the party these days?<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=5637007', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: Bilbo Hussein Baggins</title>
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		<dc:creator>Bilbo Hussein Baggins</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 11 May 2009 16:54:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;em&gt;wiley Says:

Yeah, what Bilbo said. I was just wondering, during this sleepless night, if there were happy trolls visiting TP before the last presidential campaign fired up enough to rally the trolls. Happy, happy, happy trolls telling everyone how happy they were with the Republican party and how we could all be happy if we voted Republican. It&#039;s my suspicion that they&#039;ve always been angry and fearful.&lt;/em&gt;

Apparently Americans are getting the message.  Two recent polls have the Republicans at 18% or 21%, both having them lose 4% in the last couple of months.

http://www.ap-gfkpoll.com/pdf/AP-GfK_Poll_Topline_April_2009.pdf (18%)

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/polls/postpoll_042609.html (21%)</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><em>wiley Says:</p>
<p>Yeah, what Bilbo said. I was just wondering, during this sleepless night, if there were happy trolls visiting TP before the last presidential campaign fired up enough to rally the trolls. Happy, happy, happy trolls telling everyone how happy they were with the Republican party and how we could all be happy if we voted Republican. It&#8217;s my suspicion that they&#8217;ve always been angry and fearful.</em></p>
<p>Apparently Americans are getting the message.  Two recent polls have the Republicans at 18% or 21%, both having them lose 4% in the last couple of months.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.ap-gfkpoll.com/pdf/AP-GfK_Poll_Topline_April_2009.pdf" rel="nofollow">http://www.ap-gfkpoll.com/pdf/AP-GfK_Poll_Topline_April_2009.pdf</a> (18%)</p>
<p><a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/polls/postpoll_042609.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/polls/postpoll_042609.html</a> (21%)<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=5636999', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: barfly</title>
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		<dc:creator>barfly</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 11 May 2009 16:41:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Rep. Pete Sessions: &lt;em&gt;Obama wants to ‘diminish employment’ in order to consolidate power.&lt;/em&gt;

Meaning, rescinding Bush tax cuts will kill the job creation goose, making companies ship jobs overseas, allow the federal government to snap up the failing businesses left for pennies on the dollar, and turn them into government-run enterprises.  

Judging by the recent failure of capitalism to self-correct itself, for some overcompensated-executive-run companies, no doubt, it&#039;s a good idea.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Rep. Pete Sessions: <em>Obama wants to ‘diminish employment’ in order to consolidate power.</em></p>
<p>Meaning, rescinding Bush tax cuts will kill the job creation goose, making companies ship jobs overseas, allow the federal government to snap up the failing businesses left for pennies on the dollar, and turn them into government-run enterprises.  </p>
<p>Judging by the recent failure of capitalism to self-correct itself, for some overcompensated-executive-run companies, no doubt, it&#8217;s a good idea.<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=5636976', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: Buckie Boy</title>
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		<dc:creator>Buckie Boy</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 11 May 2009 16:39:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Doesn&#039;t this guy have a white sheet and pointy hat to model somewhere.

Republican&#039;ts are morons on march to total irrelevancy.

Which is a good thing.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Doesn&#8217;t this guy have a white sheet and pointy hat to model somewhere.</p>
<p>Republican&#8217;ts are morons on march to total irrelevancy.</p>
<p>Which is a good thing.<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=5636974', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: konchster</title>
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		<dc:creator>konchster</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 11 May 2009 16:35:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Mr. Sessions, in his seventh term demonstrating that Texans elect morons over and over which I think qualifies them as morons as well</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Mr. Sessions, in his seventh term demonstrating that Texans elect morons over and over which I think qualifies them as morons as well<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=5636972', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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