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	<title>USW Blog &#187; Blue Dogs</title>
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		<title>Blue Dog Democrats Endorse Balanced Budget Amendment That Would Double Unemployment, Gut Social Safety Net</title>
		<link>http://blog.usw.org/2011/11/18/blue-dog-democrats-endorse-balanced-budget-amendment-that-would-double-unemployment-gut-social-safety-net/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Nov 2011 13:10:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anthony Montana</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Balanced Budget Amendment]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Congressional Republicans are still trying to persuade Americans that they are focused on job creation, but each time they propose another piece of legislation, it is exposed as a gimmick that will do little, if anything, to create jobs. Such was the case with their anti-regulatory policies, their attempts to repeal health care reform, and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Progressives Fare Better Than Blue Dogs in Contested Races</title>
		<link>http://blog.usw.org/2010/11/05/progressives-fare-better-than-blue-dogs-in-contested-races/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.usw.org/2010/11/05/progressives-fare-better-than-blue-dogs-in-contested-races/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Nov 2010 19:00:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stack</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[From Campaign for America's Future]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Blue Dogs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[election 2010]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Nancy Pelosi]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Isaiah J. Poole Executive editor of the blog site OurFuture.org The conservative Blue Dog House Democrats, who borrowed heavily from Republican and Tea Party themes in an effort to save their jobs, floundered badly Tuesday. Meanwhile, Progressive Caucus members in contested races had much better success at getting re-elected in spite of some strong [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Democrats Went Downhill after Kennedy</title>
		<link>http://blog.usw.org/2010/06/18/democrats-went-downhill-after-kennedy/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.usw.org/2010/06/18/democrats-went-downhill-after-kennedy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Jun 2010 12:00:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stack</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Free Speech Zone]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Air Traffic Controllers union]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Blue Dogs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[civil rights marches]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.usw.org/?p=3823</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[  I am a retired railroad worker of 32 years. I have been a union worker all my life. I put four years in the U.S. Navy. I can say that life was never easy, and it was always a struggle economically. Now that I am retired a little over two years I am starting [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Democrats Won in Murtha&#8217;s District on Trade Reform</title>
		<link>http://blog.usw.org/2010/05/20/democrats-won-in-murtha%e2%80%99s-district-on-trade-reform/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.usw.org/2010/05/20/democrats-won-in-murtha%e2%80%99s-district-on-trade-reform/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 20 May 2010 12:00:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stack</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[From Campaign for America's Future]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Blue Dogs]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[COBRA]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Heath Shuler]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[John McCain]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Mark Critz]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[outsourcing]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.usw.org/?p=3438</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[ By Mike Elk Of Campaign for America’s Future In 1986, I was born in Rep. John Murtha&#8217;s district in Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania. Two years later, card-carrying ACLU member Michael Dukakis carried the county by an 11-point margin in a year in which he won only nine states nationally. Despite being a rural, basically all-white county, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Health Care: Let the Majority Be Heard</title>
		<link>http://blog.usw.org/2009/08/19/health-care-let-the-majority-be-heard/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.usw.org/2009/08/19/health-care-let-the-majority-be-heard/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Aug 2009 14:30:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>JColeman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[From Campaign for America's Future]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Blue Dogs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[health care reform]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[politics news]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[public option]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.usw.org/?p=898</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[By Robert Borasage Co-Director of the Campaign for America’s Future The editors of the Wall Street Journal say that the public option in health care reform has been &#8220;sent to the death panel.&#8221; Obama &#8220;concedes&#8221; the public option, reports the Financial Times. Even liberals seem to agree. The public option is &#8220;all but gone,&#8221; writes [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Attack of the One-Percenters: Land Rover Liberals, Corrupt Cowboys, &amp; the Millionaire Media</title>
		<link>http://blog.usw.org/2009/07/25/the-attack-of-the-one-percenters-land-rover-liberals-corrupt-cowboys-the-millionaire-media/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.usw.org/2009/07/25/the-attack-of-the-one-percenters-land-rover-liberals-corrupt-cowboys-the-millionaire-media/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 25 Jul 2009 13:44:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stack</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[From David Sirota]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[blue dog Democrats]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Blue Dogs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[health care reform]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.usw.org/?p=825</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[By David Sirota Political journalist, best-selling author and syndicated newspaper columnist The health care debate has reminded us that there really are three separate but coordinated armies that defend the status quo in Washington &#8212; and will defend that status quo, whether on health care or any other economic issue. In my newspaper column today, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Post Partisan Progressives</title>
		<link>http://blog.usw.org/2008/12/10/post-partisan-progressives/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.usw.org/2008/12/10/post-partisan-progressives/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Dec 2008 16:14:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stack</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[From the News]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Main Street Recovery Program]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Richard Nixon]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.usw.org/?p=212</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[  Robert L. Borosage Co-Director Campaign for America’s Future Conservatives hail the Obama appointments; progressives express misgivings. Democratic Senator Claire McCaskill celebrates Obama as &#8220;pragmatic,&#8221; which she says may dismay some &#8220;on the left.&#8221; David Corn says this isn&#8217;t the change progressives voted for. The media wallows in the &#8220;disappointment of the left.&#8221; Welcome to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A new progressive era</title>
		<link>http://blog.usw.org/2008/11/03/a-new-progressive-era/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.usw.org/2008/11/03/a-new-progressive-era/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Nov 2008 15:00:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stack</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Robert L. Borosage Co-Director Campaign for America’s Future Today, in the New York Times, an Institute for America&#8217;s Future op ad calls on us to &#8220;remember who we are,&#8221; comparing the present crisis with that our parents and grandparents faced at dawn of the New Deal. To see the ad, go here. If, as [...]]]></description>
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