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		<title>Egyptian Dreamin’</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Obama gave another one of his historic speeches last week in Cairo to tens of thousands of Muslims.  Conservatives largely blasted the speech, some even questioning if Obama was really on America’s side since some of the speech more or less admitted America’s previous foreign policy errors in the region.
Shoot, Obama even hinted at [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://progressivemovement.net/2009/06/12/egyptian-dreamin%e2%80%99/</link>
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		<title>The Inevitable Will Not be Denied</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday New Hampshire became the sixth state in the U.S. to legalize gay marriage.  New York is likely next in line.  Now while I do expect Iowa voters to pass a state amendment banning same sex marriage after the State Supreme Court rules a law banning it was unconstitutional, other states, particularly in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://progressivemovement.net/2009/06/05/the-inevitable-will-not-be-denied/</link>
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		<title>Waste Deep in the Big Muddy</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As I mentioned in my previous post, the conservatives have their frame for talking about how to understand judges’ judicial philosophy – and it is the dominant frame in the public conversation. 
Key progressives talking about the nomination of Justice Sonia Sotomayor this weekend, at least the ones that I caught, still refuse to do [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://progressivemovement.net/2009/06/02/waste-deep-in-the-big-muddy/</link>
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		<title>Judicial Dodgeball</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So Obama has picked a highly competent, politically savvy person to serve on the Supreme Court, Sonia Sotomayor.  The Senate will confirm her, despite all the Republican histrionics.  I am no legal scholar, so I will not pontificate on her virtues and failings.  Suffice it to say, she was not an inspired [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://progressivemovement.net/2009/05/29/judicial-dodgeball/</link>
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		<title>Weak on Defense Fear Strikes Again</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Sometimes a week is all you need to show key difference between the two parties.
Granted, the Republicans are still trying to figure out their course of direction, but even though moderates Powell and Ridge have criticized right wing evangelical hardliners Limbaugh and Cheney for taking the party too far to the right, the hardliners are [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://progressivemovement.net/2009/05/27/324/</link>
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		<title>Obstructing to Prominence?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The fight among the Republicans for dominance following their brutal demolition in the last two elections is in full force.  One of the key fights has been between Rush Limbaugh and the Republican establishment in Washington.  Rush constantly blasts them for being too soft.  In Rush’s eyes, Republicans should never work with [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://progressivemovement.net/2009/05/18/obstructing-to-prominence/</link>
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		<title>104 Days:  Dwindling Deniers and Ascendant Aspirants</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It has been quite a week in politics, swine flu aside.  Media outlets and pundits fell over themselves trying to judge Obama’s first 100 days, whilst protesting the artifice of such a benchmark.
One thing became obvious during the week though, something that started taking shape when the whole fight between Rush Limbaugh and the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://progressivemovement.net/2009/05/04/104-days-dwindling-deniers-and-ascendant-aspirants/</link>
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		<title>Disintegration of the Demagogues</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Sen. Specter (R-PA), is now a (D-PA).  I am sure you have heard the news and much of the analysis.  Whether this move is ultimately good for the Democrats depends upon whether Specter moves his politics to the left.  If he does, and he is able to win re-election as a Dem., [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://progressivemovement.net/2009/04/29/disintegration-of-the-demagogues/</link>
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		<title>Stimulate This</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I could not have said this better myself.  Thanks to FireDogLake for this great post.  If Obama continues to see post-partisanship as the goal, the end result will never be good.  It is easy for Republicans to stop Obama if his goal is bi-partisanship or post-partisanship.  And then Obama looks like [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://progressivemovement.net/2009/02/09/stimulate-this/</link>
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		<title>Obama&#8217;s Two Week Report Card:  We messed up</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Two weeks into the new administration and how has Obama done both with his political strategy and messaging?  So far, not so dandy, although the executive decisions and announced policy changes have been quite solid.
Messaging
I will give Obama credit for one thing on the messaging front; he admitted his Administration made a mistake for [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://progressivemovement.net/2009/02/04/obamas-two-week-report-card-we-messed-up/</link>
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