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	<title>Comments on: Boehner&#8217;s PAC spent over $30,000 on a Florida golf outing with lobbyists.</title>
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		<title>By: seslikent</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2009/06/24/boehner-30000-golf/comment-page-2/#comment-5704506</link>
		<dc:creator>seslikent</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Jun 2009 06:48:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>By: republicanSScareme</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Jun 2009 09:29:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Zooey Says:

&quot;Exactly how is this not bribery?&quot;

It&#039;s bribery and extortion on a merry-go-round, each feeding on the other. Sometimes it&#039;s hard to tell the prey from the hunter. It&#039;s where lobbyists learn that so-in-so will vote for their great ideas if only they had more money to get elected. It&#039;s where congressmen learn that they&#039;ll find some instant donors if only they felt the same way the donors did about such-and-such. It&#039;s where a congressman can discover that...if he&#039;s having financial problems in his personal life...he can get instant solutions down there at the Old Country Club Bar &amp; Grill. Talk to a guy named Frank in a blue fedora.

And everybody just wants to be friends. What&#039;s wrong with that? You&#039;re not a socialist or something are you?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Zooey Says:</p>
<p>&#8220;Exactly how is this not bribery?&#8221;</p>
<p>It&#8217;s bribery and extortion on a merry-go-round, each feeding on the other. Sometimes it&#8217;s hard to tell the prey from the hunter. It&#8217;s where lobbyists learn that so-in-so will vote for their great ideas if only they had more money to get elected. It&#8217;s where congressmen learn that they&#8217;ll find some instant donors if only they felt the same way the donors did about such-and-such. It&#8217;s where a congressman can discover that&#8230;if he&#8217;s having financial problems in his personal life&#8230;he can get instant solutions down there at the Old Country Club Bar &amp; Grill. Talk to a guy named Frank in a blue fedora.</p>
<p>And everybody just wants to be friends. What&#8217;s wrong with that? You&#8217;re not a socialist or something are you?<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=5701760', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: Lora</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2009/06/24/boehner-30000-golf/comment-page-2/#comment-5701149</link>
		<dc:creator>Lora</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Jun 2009 22:35:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Of course, Bonehead does not realize that there are many families that have to live a year on that kind of money or less.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Of course, Bonehead does not realize that there are many families that have to live a year on that kind of money or less.<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=5701149', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: dasm</title>
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		<dc:creator>dasm</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Jun 2009 20:43:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>This sort of blatant partisan expenditure is completely acceptable to Repugnants;  however, if the President takes his wife on a date, they scream about what that might cost. Total hypocrites, those Repubs.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>This sort of blatant partisan expenditure is completely acceptable to Repugnants;  however, if the President takes his wife on a date, they scream about what that might cost. Total hypocrites, those Repubs.<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=5700887', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: ElBruce</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2009/06/24/boehner-30000-golf/comment-page-2/#comment-5700695</link>
		<dc:creator>ElBruce</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Jun 2009 19:42:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;em&gt;Zimzone Says:

It takes balls to play golf, where did Boner find any?&lt;/em&gt;

What really takes balls is such blatantly elitist cash-swapping with K Street in the post-Abramoff era.  Wherever he found &#039;em, they&#039;re pretty damn big.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><em>Zimzone Says:</p>
<p>It takes balls to play golf, where did Boner find any?</em></p>
<p>What really takes balls is such blatantly elitist cash-swapping with K Street in the post-Abramoff era.  Wherever he found &#8216;em, they&#8217;re pretty damn big.<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=5700695', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: krystalview</title>
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		<dc:creator>krystalview</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Jun 2009 19:12:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Zimzone....good question! He probably used up his own to pull off this blatantly fraudulent scheme with a traight face!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Zimzone&#8230;.good question! He probably used up his own to pull off this blatantly fraudulent scheme with a traight face!<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=5700587', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: Zimzone</title>
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		<dc:creator>Zimzone</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Jun 2009 19:02:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>It takes balls to play golf, where did Boner find any?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>It takes balls to play golf, where did Boner find any?<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=5700560', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: 08Dariana</title>
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		<dc:creator>08Dariana</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Jun 2009 19:00:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;em&gt;63 krystalvie&lt;/em&gt;&lt;em&gt;w Says: &lt;/em&gt;

Agreed that&#039;s why I don&#039;t post here as often.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><em>63 krystalvie</em><em>w Says: </em></p>
<p>Agreed that&#8217;s why I don&#8217;t post here as often.<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=5700554', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: misscoleopteramolly</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2009/06/24/boehner-30000-golf/comment-page-2/#comment-5700549</link>
		<dc:creator>misscoleopteramolly</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Jun 2009 18:59:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Dr. Hussein Matt Says
June 24th, 2009 at 2:54 pm 

On Fox, Mark Sanford &quot;(D)&quot; holds press conference
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OMG -- did Fox really do that AGAIN?  Or are you just being snarky?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Dr. Hussein Matt Says<br />
June 24th, 2009 at 2:54 pm </p>
<p>On Fox, Mark Sanford &#8220;(D)&#8221; holds press conference<br />
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<p>OMG &#8212; did Fox really do that AGAIN?  Or are you just being snarky?<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=5700549', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: Zimzone</title>
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		<dc:creator>Zimzone</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Jun 2009 18:58:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>joe, 57, thanks for that MN link. The good Colonel came to his senses, apparently.

Unfortunately, the Bachmann virus is still contagious.

Our Gov. here, unlike Sanford, refuses to go away, even though we asked him nicely. I&#039;m sure he found the Sanford Sex story delightful...it&#039;s one less competitor in &#039;12.

But...MN is still &#039;Living With Less in the Land of Pawlenty&#039;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>joe, 57, thanks for that MN link. The good Colonel came to his senses, apparently.</p>
<p>Unfortunately, the Bachmann virus is still contagious.</p>
<p>Our Gov. here, unlike Sanford, refuses to go away, even though we asked him nicely. I&#8217;m sure he found the Sanford Sex story delightful&#8230;it&#8217;s one less competitor in &#8216;12.</p>
<p>But&#8230;MN is still &#8216;Living With Less in the Land of Pawlenty&#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=5700546', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: misscoleopteramolly</title>
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		<dc:creator>misscoleopteramolly</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Jun 2009 18:57:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>delafield Says
June 24th, 2009 at 2:55 pm 

How much bribe money would we have to give Boehner to vote &quot;for&quot; Universal Health Care for all Americans?
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We&#039;d have to find out what his going rates are.  Right now, all we know is that it costs almost a quarter of a million dollars to play golf with him.  Heaven only knows what it costs for actual legislation.

Maybe there&#039;s a price schedule his staff could fax out?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>delafield Says<br />
June 24th, 2009 at 2:55 pm </p>
<p>How much bribe money would we have to give Boehner to vote &#8220;for&#8221; Universal Health Care for all Americans?<br />
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<p>We&#8217;d have to find out what his going rates are.  Right now, all we know is that it costs almost a quarter of a million dollars to play golf with him.  Heaven only knows what it costs for actual legislation.</p>
<p>Maybe there&#8217;s a price schedule his staff could fax out?<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=5700543', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: delafield</title>
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		<dc:creator>delafield</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Jun 2009 18:55:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>How much bribe money would we have to give Boehner to vote &quot;for&quot; Universal Health Care for all Americans?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>How much bribe money would we have to give Boehner to vote &#8220;for&#8221; Universal Health Care for all Americans?<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=5700535', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: krystalview</title>
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		<dc:creator>krystalview</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Jun 2009 18:48:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;em&gt;Pachydiplax de St. Augustine Says: 
&quot;Another Joe is on your ignore list.&quot;
&quot;FreeMarketLiberal is on your ignore list.&quot;&lt;/em&gt;

Exactly! If more rational posters would follow these instructions, we&#039;d have our TP blog back, with intelligent comments. Without allowing the lunatic fringe to impose their agenda on this forum.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><em>Pachydiplax de St. Augustine Says:<br />
&#8220;Another Joe is on your ignore list.&#8221;<br />
&#8220;FreeMarketLiberal is on your ignore list.&#8221;</em></p>
<p>Exactly! If more rational posters would follow these instructions, we&#8217;d have our TP blog back, with intelligent comments. Without allowing the lunatic fringe to impose their agenda on this forum.<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=5700511', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: joe cantwell</title>
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		<dc:creator>joe cantwell</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Jun 2009 18:30:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;em&gt;shoeless Says:
joe cantwell Says:
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i guess things aren&#039;t so bad

for progressives after all.

If FML was a player for the Washington Nationals, he would be writing emails to the Los Angeles Dodgers telling them they suck.

June 24th, 2009 at 2:15 pm&lt;/em&gt;

...

shoeless,

baseball is life,

no doubt about it.

:)</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><em>shoeless Says:<br />
joe cantwell Says:<br />
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i guess things aren&#8217;t so bad</p>
<p>for progressives after all.</p>
<p>If FML was a player for the Washington Nationals, he would be writing emails to the Los Angeles Dodgers telling them they suck.</p>
<p>June 24th, 2009 at 2:15 pm</em></p>
<p>&#8230;</p>
<p>shoeless,</p>
<p>baseball is life,</p>
<p>no doubt about it.</p>
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		<title>By: delafield</title>
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		<dc:creator>delafield</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Jun 2009 18:23:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>How can this be legal and why isn&#039;t Boehner in prison?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>How can this be legal and why isn&#8217;t Boehner in prison?<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=5700434', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: shoeless</title>
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		<dc:creator>shoeless</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Jun 2009 18:15:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;blockquote&gt;joe cantwell Says: 
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i guess things aren&#039;t so bad

for progressives after all.&lt;/blockquote&gt;

If FML was a player for the Washington Nationals, he would be writing emails to the Los Angeles Dodgers telling them they suck.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<blockquote><p>joe cantwell Says:<br />
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i guess things aren&#8217;t so bad</p>
<p>for progressives after all.</p></blockquote>
<p>If FML was a player for the Washington Nationals, he would be writing emails to the Los Angeles Dodgers telling them they suck.<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=5700423', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: evangenital</title>
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		<dc:creator>evangenital</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Jun 2009 18:12:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Doesn&#039;t the Boner play golf with Jesus?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Doesn&#8217;t the Boner play golf with Jesus?<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=5700416', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: joe cantwell</title>
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		<dc:creator>joe cantwell</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Jun 2009 18:10:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>...

the gop is doing so well,

we might as well give up.

oh, wait... here&#039;s a &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.twincities.com/ci_12673724?IADID=Search-www.twincities.com-www.twincities.com&amp;IADID=Search-www.twincities.com-www.twincities.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;story&lt;/a&gt; out of minnesota.

&lt;strong&gt;long time party member quits!&lt;/strong&gt;

he writes:

&lt;em&gt;&quot;After years of ineffective party leadership resulting in a record number of defeats, lack of transparency in party dealings, alleged financial impropriety by former party employees, and numerous Federal Election Commission problems, can you really blame the electorate for abandoning the Minnesota GOP?

On June 13, the party continued its death spiral by electing the same failed leadership that has lost the last two elections. The &quot;old guard&quot; network of the GOP State Central Delegates continued to imitate lemmings gleefully following each other over the cliff to the political abyss below. [...]

In my opinion, the new party leaders are rabid, power-hungry ideologues and the former attack dogs of the previous party chairman. They will not provide a message of inclusiveness or willingness to discuss contrary opinions. Honest, open and transparent party operations will not exist.&quot;&lt;/em&gt;


***

i guess things aren&#039;t so bad

for progressives after all.


:)

h/t huffpo


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<p>the gop is doing so well,</p>
<p>we might as well give up.</p>
<p>oh, wait&#8230; here&#8217;s a <a href="http://www.twincities.com/ci_12673724?IADID=Search-www.twincities.com-www.twincities.com&amp;IADID=Search-www.twincities.com-www.twincities.com" rel="nofollow">story</a> out of minnesota.</p>
<p><strong>long time party member quits!</strong></p>
<p>he writes:</p>
<p><em>&#8220;After years of ineffective party leadership resulting in a record number of defeats, lack of transparency in party dealings, alleged financial impropriety by former party employees, and numerous Federal Election Commission problems, can you really blame the electorate for abandoning the Minnesota GOP?</p>
<p>On June 13, the party continued its death spiral by electing the same failed leadership that has lost the last two elections. The &#8220;old guard&#8221; network of the GOP State Central Delegates continued to imitate lemmings gleefully following each other over the cliff to the political abyss below. [...]</p>
<p>In my opinion, the new party leaders are rabid, power-hungry ideologues and the former attack dogs of the previous party chairman. They will not provide a message of inclusiveness or willingness to discuss contrary opinions. Honest, open and transparent party operations will not exist.&#8221;</em></p>
<p>***</p>
<p>i guess things aren&#8217;t so bad</p>
<p>for progressives after all.</p>
<p>:)</p>
<p>h/t huffpo</p>
<p>:)   :)<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=5700413', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: evangenital</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2009/06/24/boehner-30000-golf/comment-page-2/#comment-5700408</link>
		<dc:creator>evangenital</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Jun 2009 18:07:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>The United States of America has the best government that money can buy.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The United States of America has the best government that money can buy.<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=5700408', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: krystalview</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2009/06/24/boehner-30000-golf/comment-page-2/#comment-5700404</link>
		<dc:creator>krystalview</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Jun 2009 18:06:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Does this mean there&#039;ll be an investigation, indictment, trial and imprisonment for Boehner? Isn&#039;t this fraud?

if this is not illegal, IT SHOULD BE!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Does this mean there&#8217;ll be an investigation, indictment, trial and imprisonment for Boehner? Isn&#8217;t this fraud?</p>
<p>if this is not illegal, IT SHOULD BE!<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=5700404', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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