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	<title>USW Blog &#187; Blanche Lincoln</title>
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		<title>Feingold v. Fernholz: Vote For Wall Street Reform</title>
		<link>http://blog.usw.org/2010/07/02/feingold-v-fernholz-vote-for-wall-street-reform/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.usw.org/2010/07/02/feingold-v-fernholz-vote-for-wall-street-reform/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Jul 2010 16:00:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stack</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[From Campaign for America's Future]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[AIG]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[audit the fed]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Zach Carter Zach Carter Economics Editor, AlterNet Sen. Russ Feingold, D-Wis., is defending his decision to vote against the Wall Street reform bill on the grounds that it is simply too weak to prevent future crises, and Tim Fernholz is crying foul. On policy substance, Feingold is undoubtedly correct. From Feingold: At the start of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Bank Lobby Gets Desperate on Derivatives</title>
		<link>http://blog.usw.org/2010/06/24/the-bank-lobby-gets-desperate-on-derivatives/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.usw.org/2010/06/24/the-bank-lobby-gets-desperate-on-derivatives/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Jun 2010 11:00:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stack</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[From Alliance for American Manufacturing]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Zach Carter Zach Carter Economics Editor,  AlterNet Astonishingly, as Wall Street reform enters its final hours a tired, generic corporate refrain against regulation is gaining traction. As bigwig bankers and their lobbyist brethren fight to defeat tough new rules on derivatives—the crazy casino that brought down AIG—all their sloganeers can come up with is the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Last-Minute Wall Street Sell-Out By New Dems?</title>
		<link>http://blog.usw.org/2010/06/23/a-last-minute-wall-street-sell-out-by-new-dems/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.usw.org/2010/06/23/a-last-minute-wall-street-sell-out-by-new-dems/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Jun 2010 21:05:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stack</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Blanche Lincoln]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Crowley]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Volcker Rule]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Zach Carter Economics Editor, AlterNet A coalition of conservative New Democrats, whose leader is being investigated by a Congressional ethics committee over Wall Street fundraising, has officially come out in favor of gutting financial reform. The issue they&#8217;ve targeted: derivatives, the most closely watched effort of the bank overhaul. Good luck in November, guys. New [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Anonymous Administration Official Mocks Unions for Backing Challenger to Sen. Lincoln</title>
		<link>http://blog.usw.org/2010/06/10/anonymous-administration-official-mocks-unions-for-backing-challenger-to-sen-lincoln/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.usw.org/2010/06/10/anonymous-administration-official-mocks-unions-for-backing-challenger-to-sen-lincoln/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:10:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stack</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Free Speech Zone]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Blanche Lincoln]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[blue dog Democrat]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[labor party]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Tony Mazzocchi]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[An anonymous source in the White House was quoted as saying that organized labor &#8220;flushed $10 million of their members’ money down the toilet&#8221; by backing the challenger to Arkansas Sen. Blanche Lincoln. Of course, there was no mention of the millions dropped in Lincoln&#8217;s campaign by her corporate masters. It does not matter, as [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Progressives: Time To Go Off the Reservation</title>
		<link>http://blog.usw.org/2010/06/05/progressives-time-to-go-off-the-reservation/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Jun 2010 19:00:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stack</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[From Campaign for America's Future]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Afghanistan]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Robert L. Borosage Co-Director Campaign for America’s Future    When progressive activists gather next week at the annual America’s Future Now conference, frustration and dismay will be widespread. Action on jobs is stalled among mixed signals from the White House. A Democratic Congress pours billions into the war in Afghanistan even as legislation to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why the Finance Bill Won&#8217;t Save Us</title>
		<link>http://blog.usw.org/2010/05/26/why-the-finance-bill-wont-save-us/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.usw.org/2010/05/26/why-the-finance-bill-wont-save-us/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 26 May 2010 12:00:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stack</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[From Robert Reich]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Blanche Lincoln]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Robert Reich Former U.S. Secretary of Labor, Professor at Berkeley The most important thing to know about the 1,500-page financial reform bill passed by the Senate last week &#8212; now on he way to being reconciled with the House bill &#8212; is that it&#8217;s regulatory. If does nothing to change the structure of Wall [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lincoln to the Rescue</title>
		<link>http://blog.usw.org/2010/05/12/lincoln-to-the-rescue/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.usw.org/2010/05/12/lincoln-to-the-rescue/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 12 May 2010 19:42:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stack</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[From Robert Reich]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Blanche Lincoln]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Robert Reich Former U.S. Secretary of Labor, Professor at Berkeley Right now, the biggest battle in bank reform is over a provision introduced by Senator Blanche Lincoln of Arkansas that would force the giant Wall Street banks to give up their lucrative derivative trading businesses if they want the government (i.e. taxpayers) to continue [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Super Wealthy Deathly Afraid Death Tax Would Reduce Deficit</title>
		<link>http://blog.usw.org/2010/03/10/super-wealthy-deathly-afraid-death-tax-would-reduce-deficit/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.usw.org/2010/03/10/super-wealthy-deathly-afraid-death-tax-would-reduce-deficit/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Mar 2010 14:00:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stack</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Blanche Lincoln]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[death tax]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bill Scher By Bill Scher Executive editor of LiberalOasis.com One of the conservative goals former President George W. Bush was unable to get through the Senate was &#8220;making the tax cuts permanent.&#8221; He only got them passed &#8212; using Senate budget reconciliation rules &#8212; by employing a budget gimmick to mask the 10-year cost. Simply [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Time for Unions to Put &#8220;Democrats&#8221; Like Blanche Lincoln on Notice</title>
		<link>http://blog.usw.org/2010/03/05/time-for-unions-to-put-democrats-like-blanche-lincoln-on-notice/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.usw.org/2010/03/05/time-for-unions-to-put-democrats-like-blanche-lincoln-on-notice/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Mar 2010 17:14:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stack</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Free Speech Zone]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bill Halter]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[  I would like to congratulate you on your entry into Blanche Lincoln&#8217;s Arkansas primary race. I read about it in this morning’s blog on Firedoglake.&#8221; After reading Jane Hamsher’s article entitled, “Bill Halter Crosses the $5 Million Mark,” I emailed the White House to suggest they remain on the sidelines instead of supporting Ms. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Best of Times and the Worst of Times</title>
		<link>http://blog.usw.org/2009/07/01/the-best-of-times-and-the-worst-of-times/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.usw.org/2009/07/01/the-best-of-times-and-the-worst-of-times/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2009 18:26:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>JColeman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Posted: June 26, 2009 08:47 AM from the Huffington Post May you live in interesting times goes the old blessing. Well for all of us the times could hardly be more interesting. As Charles Dickens wrote in a Tale of Two Cities&#8211;&#8221;It was the best of times and the worst of times.&#8221; The nation&#8217;s economy [...]]]></description>
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