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		<title>Sanity and Insanity in American Politics (Bachmann, Sessions, Romney, and Chicken)</title>
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			<title>David Heizer says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Except the initial comment is hardly the rantings of a right-winger. (I didn't realize that both comments were the same person! LOL) That is the problem with thumbs-downing everything you happen to disagree with. There is a certain intellectual rigor in formulating an actual critique of what someone wrote; sometimes you wind up changing your opinion before you're done! Sometimes you realize in the process that you misunderstood, or that you don't actually disagree, or that the original writer had a point you didn't appreciate right away. I try to thumbs-up anything I think is intelligent and reasoned (even if I disagree), and only thumbs-down the really hateful mindless spew (even if I happen to agree in principle).]]></description>
			<dc:creator>David Heizer</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Mon, 06 Aug 2012 18:20:12 -0800</pubDate>
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			<title>James Smith says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[our anecdote about voting for Hitler would be hilarious if it were not typical of the blinders-on thinking of the religious reich and the neo-cons.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>James Smith</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Mon, 06 Aug 2012 09:12:30 -0800</pubDate>
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			<title>AndreM5 says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[I know the territory. It was previously prime real estate for the "Impeach Earl Warren" billboards, also courtesy of the Koch family.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>AndreM5</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Mon, 06 Aug 2012 08:05:55 -0800</pubDate>
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			<title>bmiluski says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Watching "mittens" with Sheldon Adelson brings home all my fears regarding "Citizens United". I wonder which country will own us first?]]></description>
			<dc:creator>bmiluski</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Mon, 06 Aug 2012 06:46:39 -0800</pubDate>
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			<title>bmiluski says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[The obvious flamers will not go away. Many of them are paid to post that sort of garbage. They want you to respond to them so that the article looks like a lot of interested folks have read it.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>bmiluski</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Mon, 06 Aug 2012 06:38:31 -0800</pubDate>
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			<title>bmiluski says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[There is a "brain-washed" mentality of the people in the republican party (Probably why its so popular with the religious right.) A friend of my parents a (German concentration camp survivor) was a staunch republican supporter. When asked if he would vote for Hitler if he were a republican candidate for president, my parent's friends answered yes.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>bmiluski</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Mon, 06 Aug 2012 06:34:17 -0800</pubDate>
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			<title>dkonstruction says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Humanmancalvin, to some degree i agree with you but not completely. there are some conservatives that i think we can and in fact need to engage...e.g., there are some in the base of the t-party that in some ways have a similar critique (such that it is) to those on "the left" -- namely, that government doesn't work for us. We would tend to agree though probably for very different reasons or at least reach very different conclusions as to what "the answer" is. I keep remembering back to the pictures from "the battle in seattle" when teamsters were holding signs saying "save the turtles"...so there is hope (sometimes). bottom line though is that we need to figure out how to talk with and engage people who don't already agree with us otherwise we just keep talking to ourselves. but, i hear ya, and you're right that with some folks there is just no talking rationally.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>dkonstruction</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Mon, 06 Aug 2012 05:54:05 -0800</pubDate>
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			<title>dkonstruction says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[ When i posted the comment i only had thumbs down...i don't argue with myself online...only in private...and, i was not throwing a "hissy fit" but i do think it is obnoxious (and lazy) for people to disagree with a thumbs down instead of taking a minute to post the reason such that there can actually be some reasonable and intelligent back and forth on this board...i know, too much to ask for too much to expect....]]></description>
			<dc:creator>dkonstruction</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Mon, 06 Aug 2012 05:49:48 -0800</pubDate>
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			<title>castaway5555 says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Bachmann in Congress is like a voo-doo doctor in a hospital.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>castaway5555</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Sun, 05 Aug 2012 11:47:44 -0800</pubDate>
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			<title>James Smith says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Bachmann shouldn't just be removed from COngress, she should be removed from an open society and placed in an institution for the criminally insane.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>James Smith</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Sun, 05 Aug 2012 06:31:18 -0800</pubDate>
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			<title>James Smith says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[You must be talking about GWB. All of those things started during his administration. Obama's failure is he has not done anything to counter those things.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>James Smith</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Sun, 05 Aug 2012 06:29:33 -0800</pubDate>
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			<title>Lolanne says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[I would also love to see your completely list, GravityWave. Would you consider publishing it somewhere?]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Lolanne</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Sun, 05 Aug 2012 05:27:32 -0800</pubDate>
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			<title>mdhome says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[I wanted to give you 2 thumbs up for the first statement that made sense.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>mdhome</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Sat, 04 Aug 2012 20:59:07 -0800</pubDate>
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			<title>MichaelArchAngel says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[I try never to say that I agree 100% with anybody.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>MichaelArchAngel</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Sat, 04 Aug 2012 19:38:23 -0800</pubDate>
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			<title>MichaelArchAngel says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[I could not understand how Ms. Bachmann earned a l;aw degree. Then learned her degree was from Oral Roberts. Enough said.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>MichaelArchAngel</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Sat, 04 Aug 2012 19:33:33 -0800</pubDate>
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			<title>freeportguy says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Trying to wash your hands of the conservative mess by passing it to Obama, huh? As Colin Powell stated it early on: "You break it, you own it"...]]></description>
			<dc:creator>freeportguy</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Sat, 04 Aug 2012 17:32:34 -0800</pubDate>
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			<title>doneasley says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[GravityWave, don't leave the big lying bloviator, Donald Trump, out of this discussion. He's gone off the deep end with the Birther nonsense. The GOP has besieged Hawaii with requests for Barack Obama birth information, just as they besieged Arkansas records for info about Bill and Hillary Clinton. Hawaiian officials were so exasperated and these fishing expeditions so costly that they began to charge more than the normal fee for copies of the president's birth certificate. When this Birther business was going hot and heavy, Orly Taitz, on 2 separate occasions, created and circulated Kenyan birth certificates, both of which proved to be phonies. And yet, she remains in good stead with her Regressive party. And there sits Rmoney with the Israeli priminister spouting off a script written for him by his money backers at his side - led by Sheldon Adelson. Which brings me to a sore subject. Much of this extreme nonsense is being conjured up by naturalized citizens: 1. Rupert Murdoch - owner of Fox News, originally from Australia; 2. Ayn Rand - Atheist sociopathic writer from Russia, who has influenced the "I've got mine" group among GOP lawmakers (Paul Ryan being the foremost proponent); and... 3. Orly Taitz, a Russian import. These are anti-American Ideas coming from a party which claims to be so religious and so patriotic! Rmoney cozies up to and takes his marching orders from these people. We're in trouble folks if he's elected!]]></description>
			<dc:creator>doneasley</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Sat, 04 Aug 2012 12:54:08 -0800</pubDate>
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			<title>Noni77 says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Yup, just as insane as the laughably ridiculous rumors coming out of Europe in the 1940's that Germans were "gassing" their OWN citizens!!! How insane was that?!]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Noni77</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Sat, 04 Aug 2012 12:33:37 -0800</pubDate>
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			<title>rcossebo says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[I would love to see you complete list! I think it would be informative and entertaining; maybe even a WAKE UP call to all of us on some level!]]></description>
			<dc:creator>rcossebo</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Sat, 04 Aug 2012 12:16:58 -0800</pubDate>
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			<title>robniel says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[This situation provides clear evidence for why Congress is called an institution. Although every time one of the inmates gets TV time, the clowns line up behind him/her to show it's also a circus.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>robniel</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Sat, 04 Aug 2012 11:28:57 -0800</pubDate>
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			<title>JetpackAngel says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[You poor, poor person. Right now I'm thinking of what it would be like to have a bunch of billboards with Bachmann's eyes staring at you every day on the way to work. And I'm shuddering.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>JetpackAngel</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Sat, 04 Aug 2012 10:53:03 -0800</pubDate>
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			<title>GravityWave says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[I just made a list of the ideas and behaviors, of the Republican Party, that are well known to the educated and scientific communities around the world. It was not a complete list and I hit only the most obvious examples. Then I went through and listed by each behavior what could possibly make a sane human being say and do what our current crop of so-called conservatives say and do. 98% of the items listed could definitely be attributed to delusion. That much delusion certainly warrants a pathological way of perceiving and dealing with the world. This is, of course, not scientifically rigorous. But put together with the Bachmanns, Romneys, the Pauls, W. Bush, the banksters, Dickhead Armey, The Tea Partiers, et al, this article presents a serious indictment and a serious step that shd be just a start of what we need to do with some of our Congressmen. My friends, educated in the psych. field, have recognized for years that Wall Street and the banisters are sociopaths. Anyone who believes that humans will physiologically change to be able to live in chemical filth, or who think that with enough money they can escape the destruction of this planet, is delusional in the extreme. That is exactly what an oil CEO said in the last week. When you let irrational fears guide your life decisions and deny the truly dangerous issues we face, you are not just a coward, you are insane.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>GravityWave</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Sat, 04 Aug 2012 10:49:09 -0800</pubDate>
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			<title>David Starr says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Given the conspricy theories that don't even deserve the benefit of the doubt, like Bachman's conjuring of an "evil, dark shadow of mystery" wanting a B/W version of world domination," typical of the others like it among the Right, I seriously wonder if Bachman was once an obedient follower of Lyndon LaRouche, given his own like-minded theories. And given that Sen. Jeff Sessions was offended by Boxer's assertion regarding climate change, I am offended that he's offended by such a facade of "moral indignation."]]></description>
			<dc:creator>David Starr</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Sat, 04 Aug 2012 10:25:45 -0800</pubDate>
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			<title>rcossebo says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Or bring back someone who knew a little something about paranoia, terror and persecution; and I mean could DISH IT OUT! Know who I'm referring to? Mr. Commie fighter himself; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_McCarthy Joseph Raymond "Joe" McCarthy was an American politician who served as a Republican U.S. Senator from the state of Wisconsin from 1947 until his death in 1957.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>rcossebo</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Sat, 04 Aug 2012 10:08:36 -0800</pubDate>
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			<title>Lolanne says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[ Agreed, Majikman -- the comments are my favorite part of RSN. I enjoy knowing what others are thinking, especially when the postings are thoughtful and reasoned or offer info I didn't have (though sometimes the ones that just express anger are very good too!). I do object to the obvious flamers who NEVER have a positive thing to say! We do have a few of those, and often I don't even bother with the red thumb on them -- no point, and I rather think if we all just totally ignored them, they'd eventually go away.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Lolanne</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Sat, 04 Aug 2012 09:58:09 -0800</pubDate>
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			<title>crinvegas says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Too many of you are arguing over semantics. The facts are that persons like Bachmann and Romney are a danger to our Democracy. This is an important article. Pay attention to the facts presented; forget the meanings of 'insane' and 'insanity.']]></description>
			<dc:creator>crinvegas</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Sat, 04 Aug 2012 09:48:17 -0800</pubDate>
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			<title>Majikman says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Moi aussi, Lolanne. Sometimes I agree with a portion of a post, and disagree with another segment. My guide post is those 1 - 5 questions of "strongly disagree, strongly agree" with mid range getting no thumbs at all if I can't comment. I love well meaning but differing opinions from knowledgeable posters, and frequently go to sites they recommend. Being challenged in my own beliefs can be annoying, but I'll gladly consider it (unless it's from one of those fool trolls) I love the comments format for RSN and delight in the debate, so have at it, sez I.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Majikman</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Sat, 04 Aug 2012 09:32:31 -0800</pubDate>
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			<title>pernsey says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[ This aritcle is not about Obama, I think you righties have no defense for your party or candidates so you just keep attacking Obama. This is a distract and deflect strategy. The article is about the insanity of Michelle and Mitt.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>pernsey</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Sat, 04 Aug 2012 07:09:10 -0800</pubDate>
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			<title>Independentgal says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Agree 100%!]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Independentgal</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Sat, 04 Aug 2012 06:55:14 -0800</pubDate>
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			<title>Lolanne says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Another POV on thumbs up/thumbs down... I read a great many of RSN's articles and follow-up comments, but I don't always have time to add comments. When that is the case, I do use the up or down clicks to signify agreement or disagreement. I don't think that's useless or spineless. It helps provide info on how the articles are being received by readers and the prevailing opinions of readers.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Lolanne</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Sat, 04 Aug 2012 06:23:47 -0800</pubDate>
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			<title>jacksmedium says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Thanks for the insight. I'm not in the least surprised.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>jacksmedium</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Sat, 04 Aug 2012 06:16:29 -0800</pubDate>
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			<title>jacksmedium says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Sometimes I find it aggravating to have to explain the obvious and just give it the thumb.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>jacksmedium</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Sat, 04 Aug 2012 06:11:46 -0800</pubDate>
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			<title>jacksmedium says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Here's a thumbs up from me. So there!]]></description>
			<dc:creator>jacksmedium</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Sat, 04 Aug 2012 06:07:59 -0800</pubDate>
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			<title>2lilluc says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[The writer was pointing to the insanity of too much of the goings on in our government, and that is certainly true. The Bachmann's and Romney's and much of the Republican party are far from insane. Yes, Bachmann is certainly dim.. as for the whole, they are dishonest, greedy, rascist, corporate a**-kissers, oligarchic, and self-seeking and I wouldn't trust them as far as I could throw them...and not even that!]]></description>
			<dc:creator>2lilluc</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Sat, 04 Aug 2012 06:05:10 -0800</pubDate>
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			<title>fishmother says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Putting Michelle Bachman and intelligence in the same sentence is an oxymoron.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>fishmother</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Sat, 04 Aug 2012 05:51:08 -0800</pubDate>
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			<title>humanmancalvin says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[dkonstruction asks; "Don't you folks even have confidence enough in your beliefs to at least tell the person you are disagreeing with why?" It all stats & ends with hitting your head against a brick wall repeatedly dk. Through frustrating experience, it is folly to try to debate a right winger. Facts have no place in the conversation; if it is promoted on Fox-News or by the likes of Beck or Limbaugh then like their view of the bible, it is the unassailable gospel. They phoo-phoo facts, hard researched unimpeachable facts as not worthy of consideration if said facts do not meet their version of reality. So in essence dk, it is easier to click a red thumbs down to show dislike, or disdain in some cases rathe to attempt an argument/debate with one that walks with their head in a right wing cloud. I by the way awarded you with a thumbs down but decided to scribble this & await your reply & its version of truth direct from talking points & twisted non-logic.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>humanmancalvin</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Sat, 04 Aug 2012 04:23:10 -0800</pubDate>
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			<title>riverhouse says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Let's give up the psychiatric defining of insanity and just appreciate the contrasts which I believe was the intent of the writer. That we have become so accepting of such nonsense, some of which is seriously damaging to our nation, from our lawmakers and others in power is a serious issue.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>riverhouse</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Sat, 04 Aug 2012 04:15:38 -0800</pubDate>
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			<title>Barbara K says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[It's no wonder that our Congress has become so dysfunctional with these crazies running it. Why do some people think they should be sending crazies to represent them? The nutty utterances of the craziness of these nutjobs should be a warning that they are too far gone to be rational or to even think rationally. Stop putting the crazy ones back in Congress. We need sanity so we can get this country functioning again. And now Romney, the etch-a-sketch empty suit who lies, distorts, cheats on his taxes, erased his Governorship records (wonder what he had to hide there?), can't show his tax records because they would be "scrutinized". That's the best they have? Not Presidential material.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Barbara K</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Sat, 04 Aug 2012 03:28:12 -0800</pubDate>
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			<title>barbaratodish says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Bachmann's photo brings this quote to mind :"Appearances tyrannize over truth and are Lords of happiness"!Inst ead of having her appearance, and her eyelashes, Michelle Bachmann's appearance, and her eyelashes, HAVE her!]]></description>
			<dc:creator>barbaratodish</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Sat, 04 Aug 2012 01:51:15 -0800</pubDate>
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			<title>Majikman says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[dkonstruction.. .WTF???? Are you arguing with yourself? You get a bunch of people agreeing with you and in the very next post throw a hissy fit because they thumbed down? I must be missing something.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Majikman</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Sat, 04 Aug 2012 01:33:47 -0800</pubDate>
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			<title>hi honey says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[I'm a Minnesotan, living near Bachmann's district. It is truly frightening to drive through that district. There are mile upon mile of billboards lining the freeways to Duluth and Fargo that speak to that "insane" extremist right wing propaganda. There is a Cabellas store in Rogers Mn. that is located on David Koch Dr. Seriously??? Yes. Camo clothing is the preferred mode of dress. Politicians who spread the fear & hate spread the fear & hate. There is an epidemic in too many parts of the country, the 6th district in Minnesota included.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>hi honey</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Fri, 03 Aug 2012 23:45:15 -0800</pubDate>
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			<title>Larry says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Rather than debate the mental state of Bachman, Romney, et. al, how about focusing on the mindset of all those voters who, knowing these characters and what they stand for, nevertheless support them! Absent this nation's emerging addiction to right-wing extremism, characters like Sarah Palin and Rush Limbaugh would never garner celebrity and adoration, but only the obloquy and obscurity they so richly deserve. As Pogo so astutely observed, the real enemy is us.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Larry</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Fri, 03 Aug 2012 23:40:32 -0800</pubDate>
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			<title>gzuckier says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[The insanity is treating the vocal behaviorial tics of Bachmann, Palin, Bush et al as though they were some sort of speech with thought and meaning behind it. Some dim mental connection sparks to life and they flap their gums a bit and bits and pieces of things they've heard which seem relevant float to the surface and flow outwards. Muslims! Obama! Socialism! Fear! Squawk! If you want meaning, you'd be better off listening to a well-trained parrot.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>gzuckier</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Fri, 03 Aug 2012 22:56:45 -0800</pubDate>
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			<title>BeaDeeBunker says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[BULLETIN! This just in. Crazy Eddie of cheap electronics fame, has just resurfaced. He has announced that crazy Mitt & crazy Michelle have teamed up for the elections of 2012. In typical Crazy Eddie style, with his hands waving crazily in front of him said, "These elections are just INSANE! Sale ends November 6th."]]></description>
			<dc:creator>BeaDeeBunker</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Fri, 03 Aug 2012 22:21:13 -0800</pubDate>
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			<title>James Marcus says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Bachman's Insanity is fairly irrelevant. Our Commander-in-Ch ief: Enters and maintains Undeclared Wars Without End; Approves of Human Torture; Dismantles Constitutional rights to Privacy, and Due Process; Sends yet more CIA goons to 'Help' other Nations; Has more Secrets, and 'Cover-Ups', than we know; Sends drones anywhere and everywhere, which just happen to Kill Innocents, women and children. Gives away the US Treasury to his Banksta Buddies ( who are too Greedy to Fail); Don't, please, get Distracted by 'Bachman Insanity'. We have Real Trouble; far, far beyond her.....]]></description>
			<dc:creator>James Marcus</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Fri, 03 Aug 2012 21:38:34 -0800</pubDate>
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			<title>unitedwestand says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Bachman is insane, everything else is just giving me too much of a headache to respond to. Bachman should have a job sweeping the floor in Congress' rooms. (No offense to the good people that actually have to do that.)]]></description>
			<dc:creator>unitedwestand</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Fri, 03 Aug 2012 21:11:06 -0800</pubDate>
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			<title>angelfish says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Allowing Michele Bachmann to continue sitting on the Intelligence Committee SEVERELY damages it. Since she hasn't a SCINTILLA of intelligence, it is DANGEROUS and a threat to National Security to have a Moron on that Committee! Just give her some crayons and let her sit in a quiet room somewhere where she won't do any more damage.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>angelfish</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Fri, 03 Aug 2012 20:32:44 -0800</pubDate>
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			<title>gioia says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[I would suspect that ulcers ahd other gut wrenching stomach ailments await those ignorant creatures who consume all that hate filled chicken. It's inevitable.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>gioia</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Fri, 03 Aug 2012 20:26:09 -0800</pubDate>
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			<title>pietheyn says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Just possibly she is a leaker merely voicing what actually transpired at "Intelligence" committee meetings.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>pietheyn</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Fri, 03 Aug 2012 19:46:51 -0800</pubDate>
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			<title>David Heizer says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[ Another commentless thumbs down...Don't you folks even have confidence enough in your beliefs to at least tell the person you are disagreeing with why? I guess not. So, i guess this means either that you do think these folks are "insane" or that you believe that the truly insane should be held accountable for their actions or that you would prefer to have any one of these bums than someone who is truly insane? I think you both are missing his meaning. He is not saying that Bachmann, Romney, et al., are insane; he is calling the fact that they are supported and enabled by half the country "insanity," and he is not using that word in either the clinical or the judicial sense. And yes, most folks on here, it seems to me, give thumbs-downs to say, "that violates my knee-jerk beliefs" rather than, "that is a lousy argument." So I don't usually bother with the thumbs.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>David Heizer</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Fri, 03 Aug 2012 15:42:06 -0800</pubDate>
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			<title>pernsey says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[ I agree with you, Michelle Bachman should be held accountable and should not be on the intelligence comittee. Putting Michelle Bachman and intelligence in the same sentence is about as insane as the stuff she says and does is. In my mind Mitt and the things he says and flips flops on things is acting insane also. I will say Mitt and Michelle act insane trying to appease their party and the rich corporations they serve. I dont think they are actually insane but they do things that would indicate they are.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>pernsey</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Fri, 03 Aug 2012 15:25:19 -0800</pubDate>
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			<title>dkonstruction says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[ Another commentless thumbs down...Don't you folks even have confidence enough in your beliefs to at least tell the person you are disagreeing with why? I guess not. So, i guess this means either that you do think these folks are "insane" or that you believe that the truly insane should be held accountable for their actions or that you would prefer to have any one of these bums than someone who is truly insane?]]></description>
			<dc:creator>dkonstruction</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Fri, 03 Aug 2012 12:37:18 -0800</pubDate>
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			<title>dkonstruction says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Sorry, Juan, but "insane" people are not responsible for their actions. These folks are and they should be held accountable. It's also an insult to the truly insane whom i would much rather see in office than any of these slime buckets.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>dkonstruction</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Fri, 03 Aug 2012 11:58:19 -0800</pubDate>
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