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		<title>Open Thread</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Gov. Chris Bag O&#8217; Donuts on Warren Buffett and the &#8220;Buffett Rule&#8221;: &#8220;He should just write a check and shut up.&#160;I&#8217;m tired of hearing about it. If he wants to give the government more money, he&#8217;s got the ability to write a check&#8212;go ahead and write it.&#8221; Because nothing enshrines the concept of meticulous policy [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.balloon-juice.com/2012/02/22/open-thread-1229/</link>
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		<title>Watergate Manufacturing, Inc.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As Steve Benen notes, pretty much everything is &#8220;Obama&#8217;s Watergate&#8221; to Republicans:&#160; going on vacation, eating a hamburger, brushing his teeth, and he possibly may have farted once HISTORY&#8217;S GREATEST MONSTER ahem sorry.&#160; This week&#8217;s Watergate, according to the American Spectator, is&#8230;Media Matters. No, really. They&#8217;re comparing the paranoid President Nixon&#8217;s private investigators hired to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.balloon-juice.com/2012/02/22/watergate-manufacturing-inc/</link>
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		<title>The President Is Singing Again! (open thread)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[He&#8217;s actually pretty good too: [H/T: BuzzFeed]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.balloon-juice.com/2012/02/22/the-president-is-singing-again-open-thread/</link>
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		<title>Proof of Life- Tunch Edition</title>
		<description><![CDATA[From the comments: Late to the thread, but after all the Tunch shenanigans, that Cole has a big piece of meat in the crockpot seems like too big of a coincidence. He better post a pic of that cat with tomorrow&#8217;s newspaper or I&#8217;m calling the law. He is fine. I honestly don&#8217;t understand how [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.balloon-juice.com/2012/02/22/proof-of-life-tunch-edition/</link>
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		<title>A Fun Game For You All</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Find the dog: Having trouble? Here you go: I love this dog more than anything I have ever loved in my entire life, and after almost crushing her 100 times, I know simply refuse to sit on the bed without lifting the comforter. Don&#8217;t you just love the &#8220;WTF, OVER&#8221; look from Lily?]]></description>
		<link>http://www.balloon-juice.com/2012/02/22/a-fun-game-for-you-all/</link>
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		<title>Late Night Open Thread</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I know none of you actually gives a shit, but I figured I would babble anyway. I currently am in hour 2 of boiling a massive piece of corned beef with a shit load of garlic. I intend to cook it down for a couple more hours, then throw it in the crock pot tomorrow. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.balloon-juice.com/2012/02/21/late-night-open-thread-66/</link>
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		<title>Georgia Democratic Rep. Yasmin Neal Seeks State Ban on Vasectomies</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Tit for tat &#160;As the War on Women marches inexorably onward, Democrats are starting to fight back&#8212;&#160;cheekily. In Virginia, state Senator Janet Howell attached a &#8220;rectal probe&#8221; amendment&#160;to the Virginia State-Sanctioned Rape bill. &#160;The&#160;amendment would have required men to have a rectal exam&#160;and a cardiac stress test before obtaining a prescription for erectile dysfunction medication. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.balloon-juice.com/2012/02/21/georgia-democratic-rep-yasmin-neal-seeks-state-ban-on-vasectomies/</link>
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		<title>SNL Tackles the Birth Control Shenanigans with &#8220;Really!?&#8221; and Dana Loesch Stupidly Responds</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In case you missed it. Outstanding: Ridiculous: Dana Loesch over at &#8220;Big Journalism&#8221; had her merry band of idiots fact-check Amy Poehler&#8217;s comment that &#8220;there are too many people&#8221; and attempts to disprove the statement by linking to studies demonstrating that birth and fertility rates have declined (as if Amy Poehler was making some sort [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.balloon-juice.com/2012/02/21/snl-tackles-the-birth-control-shenanigans-with-really-and-dana-loesch-stupidly-responds/</link>
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		<title>Dehydrated</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Not sure why I am bringing this up now, but one of the things I noticed a while back is that I have a tendency to not drink enough water in the winter. In the summer, I&#8217;m always really careful to keep hydrated, but it just sort of lapses in the winter. At any rate, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.balloon-juice.com/2012/02/21/dehydrated/</link>
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		<title>Tuesday Evening Open Thread: Seekers</title>
		<description><![CDATA[(Jeff Danziger&#8217;s website) When EventheNewRepublic says &#8220;Mitt Romney&#8217;s Presidential Prospects May Not Be Salvageable&#8220;, and yet in terms of scaring off swing voters &#8220;Senator Santonarola Can&#8217;t Help Himself&#8220;, what&#8217;s the GOP to do? Fortunately (for horserace political reporters and satirists in all media), Charlie Pierce at Esquire perceives hints from a certain D-list celebrity: Princess [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.balloon-juice.com/2012/02/21/tuesday-evening-open-thread-seekers/</link>
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		<title>Gas, Past Tense, Made Facially</title>
		<description><![CDATA[What the price of gas has done over the last 12 months (top green line there): What FOX News makes out of the green line: &#8220;Man, Mr. Murdoch&#8217;s third period math class is effin&#8217; hard.&#160; But just leave out the uninteresting data points AND BLAME PRESIDENT MELANIN MCDARKGUY LOL HOMEWORK&#8217;S DONE.&#160; I bet I get [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.balloon-juice.com/2012/02/21/gas-past-tense-made-facially/</link>
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		<title>Not too messianic or a trifle too satanic</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The new Washington Monthly guy notes that the wingerati is attacking Rick Santorum as too far right. Good luck making that charge work in a Republican primary: It&#8217;s been an implicit part of the rules of engagement in the GOP presidential race that no candidate can be criticized for being too conservative, particularly by Mitt [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.balloon-juice.com/2012/02/21/not-too-messianic-or-a-trifle-too-satanic/</link>
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		<title>Why Run?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Via Buzzfeed, here are 25 pictures of Mitt Romney looking &#8220;perfectly normal.&#8221; And he does. But what struck me is how happy he looks in most of the pictures. He doesn&#8217;t look stiff and wooden and like the Mitt we all know and loathe. And I guess I just don&#8217;t get it. Look how happy [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.balloon-juice.com/2012/02/21/why-run/</link>
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		<title>Civility sells, but who&#8217;s buying</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Fuck this: Peter Gleick violated a principle rule of the global-warming debate: Climate scientists must be better than their opponents.[...]Taking the high road is not easy or fun. But Gleick and the rest of us who favor decarbonizing the world economy have to be, and should want to be, the adults in the debate. Gleick&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.balloon-juice.com/2012/02/21/civility-sells-but-whos-buying/</link>
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		<title>Can PolitiFact Be Salvaged?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Rachel Maddow is fed up with PolitiFact. She&#8217;s not alone. PolitiFact&#8217;s galloping case of Broderitis seems to have worsened recently. Perhaps its most infamous foray into useful idiocy was its 2011 &#8220;Lie of the Year&#8221; award for Democrats who correctly characterized Paul Ryan&#8217;s &#8220;Coupons4Codgers&#8221; plan as the end of Medicare as we know it. But [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.balloon-juice.com/2012/02/21/can-politifact-be-salvaged/</link>
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