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		<title>Jeff Hartline Has a Chance Unseating Jim Cooper</title>
		<link>http://hillbillypolitics.com/2010/05/21/jeff-hartline-has-a-chance-unseating-jim-cooper/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 May 2010 13:54:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>StephC</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Rep. Jim Cooper sold his vote while playing coy with district TN-05&#8217;s voters when after the fact facts tell a different story.
TN-05 and other districts nearby recently experienced a historic natural disaster. Cooper&#8217;s answer is to find a scapegoat and publicize it.
I had started a series to highlight five candidates for this district Out of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Attack of the Coopers; Time for a Regime Change</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Apr 2010 01:07:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Updated and bumped: I&#8217;ve been informed that there is another candidate for TN-05 whose name is David Hall. Please follow the link made from his name and check him out.
In spite of its passage over the protests of the majority of Americans, the health care debate rages on in the states. The number of states [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Earth to Microsoft, We Already Pay Taxes.</title>
		<link>http://hillbillypolitics.com/2010/03/04/earth-to-microsoft-we-already-pay-taxes/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Mar 2010 15:03:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>StephC</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I believe what you mean is we should raise taxes, rather than add a new one.
Speaking at a security conference in San Francisco, Microsoft Vice President for Trustworthy Computing Scott Charney pitched the Web usage fee as one way to subsidize efforts to combat emerging cyber threats &#8212; a costly venture, he said, but one [...]]]></description>
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		<title>More I Don&#8217;t Want To, But I&#8217;m Gonna From Obama</title>
		<link>http://hillbillypolitics.com/2010/02/12/more-i-dont-want-to-but-im-gonna-from-obama/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Feb 2010 18:21:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>StephC</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This time it&#8217;s taxes. On the middle class.
“The whole point of it is to make sure that all ideas are on the table,” the president said in the interview with Bloomberg BusinessWeek, which will appear on newsstands Friday. “So what I want to do is to be completely agnostic, in terms of solutions.”
Isn&#8217;t that what [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Obama&#8217;s Own Support the Troops, Not the Mission Moment?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Feb 2010 18:43:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>StephC</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The European Union is no longer charmed, it seems.
&#8220;We want to see a strong and united Europe, speaking with one voice. In the best of all possible worlds, that one voice will be saying what we want to hear,&#8221; Mr. Gordon said, according to the Web site of Britain&#8217;s Economist magazine. &#8220;If it is not [...]]]></description>
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		<title>No Guilt, Only Gall</title>
		<link>http://hillbillypolitics.com/2009/11/22/no-guilt-only-gall/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Nov 2009 14:22:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>StephC</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The author of the article likens it to a Tennesee Williams play. Mary Landrieu sold out the country for $300 million, not $100 million as previously reported. Dana Milbank is right. It is a play but nothing really like those from Williams. 
The script has become old and worn from overuse and the lines have [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Jim Cooper, Conservative Democrat?</title>
		<link>http://hillbillypolitics.com/2009/11/09/jim-cooper-conservative-democrat/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Nov 2009 17:13:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>StephC</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[



Image via Wikipedia



Eh, not so much. This is Cooper.
On November 7, 2009:
Nevertheless, the Nashville Democrat planned to vote in favor of the $1.1 trillion package.
&#8220;My vote is not an endorsement of all the provisions of the bill because I find much of the bill to be deeply flawed,&#8221; Cooper said in a written statement issued [...]]]></description>
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		<title>If you believe in a magnanimous government this won&#8217;t matter to you.</title>
		<link>http://hillbillypolitics.com/2009/11/03/if-you-believe-in-a-magnanimous-government-this-wont-matter-to-you/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2009 12:27:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>StephC</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Individual freedom is being assaulted from so many different directions the sheer weight of the assaults can cause the hardiest of us to buckle. Yet, there are still some who believe the government has only our best interests at heart. I find that sentiment mind-blowing in the face of what the government is doing.
Accessing records [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Elections Have Consequences&#8230;.or My Smackdown of Michelle Bernard.   [Update--Bernard Admits to voting for Obama--Case Closed!!]</title>
		<link>http://hillbillypolitics.com/2009/09/01/elections-have-consequences-or-my-smackdown-of-michelle-bernard/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Sep 2009 02:59:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Susannah</dc:creator>
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Last night, Michelle Bernard, who is the CEO of the Independent Women’s Forum, a conservative women’s group founded in 1992, decided to write a diary for Redstate.com endorsing the DC voucher program. Well, Ms. Bernard’s diary was actually quite good—she made a rational and eloquent argument for school choice. However, my problem is with Ms. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Some Firsts You Don&#8217;t Want to Experience</title>
		<link>http://hillbillypolitics.com/2009/08/30/some-firsts-you-dont-want-to-experience/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 30 Aug 2009 15:39:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Next Sunday is my 51st birthday. I won&#8217;t be here on that day so I&#8217;m &#8220;celebrating&#8221; a bit early. For the first time in my life I&#8217;m scared of my government. That&#8217;s a first I never wanted to experience.
In every life there is always some uncertainty and insecurities. We can get angry at some of [...]]]></description>
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