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		<title>Without a Public Option, Is It Still Healthcare Reform?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Mar 2010 05:21:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rick Bayan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The clock is ticking as Democrats steel themselves for Sunday&#8217;s healthcare showdown in Congress. Aided by vigorous last-minute boosterism from their man in the White House, they expect nothing less than victory. 
The Democrats stand a more-than-fair chance of birthing this baby after a long and painful gestation. But will it be a viable baby? Will it provide a safety net for the millions of uninsured, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=newmoderate.com&blog=7900458&post=886&subd=newmoderate&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Why Republicans Should Love the Public Healthcare Option</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Mar 2010 06:10:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rick Bayan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I suspect that a fair number of Americans, not all of whom are socialists, believe that nobody in this country should have to go bankrupt because of illness. Let me confess, without shame, that I belong to this marginalized crowd.
Our mission, as believers in an unpopular but righteous cause, is to convince Republicans and other balking conservatives that the public healthcare option represents [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=newmoderate.com&blog=7900458&post=877&subd=newmoderate&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Hang in There, Moderates!</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Mar 2010 22:05:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rick Bayan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been gathering my tax information for my annual (and generally painful) visit to my accountant. Stacks of envelopes to open, and boxes full of partially filed papers to sift through&#8230; because I&#8217;m just moderately organized at best. So please excuse the overlong silence between posts; I promise I&#8217;ll return to this spot as soon as I have something [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=newmoderate.com&blog=7900458&post=875&subd=newmoderate&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Happy 200th, Mr. Chopin!</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Mar 2010 03:38:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rick Bayan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[He was born just two long lifetimes ago, but he seems ages distant now. Polish-French Romantic composer Frédéric Chopin would have been 200 years old today, if only he had lived just 161 years longer than he did. I can&#8217;t imagine the melancholy young gentleman celebrating anything as mundane as a birthday, but I toast him all the same.
Civilized [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=newmoderate.com&blog=7900458&post=861&subd=newmoderate&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Got Slaves, General Washington?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Feb 2010 00:01:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rick Bayan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On the corner of Sixth and Market Streets here in Philadelphia, less than a home run&#8217;s distance from Independence Hall, archaeologists a few summers ago dug through two centuries&#8217; worth of dirt and rubble to uncover the ancient foundations of the President&#8217;s House. On this very spot, between 1790 and 1797, George Washington lived, slept, struggled with his [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=newmoderate.com&blog=7900458&post=836&subd=newmoderate&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Winter of Everyone&#8217;s Discontent</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Feb 2010 04:19:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rick Bayan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ten days have passed since my last post, and I wanted to reassure my readers that I haven&#8217;t been struck down by swine flu or a runaway Mack truck. I&#8217;m alive and well. You haven&#8217;t heard from me for one plain reason: nothing is happening.
Sure, the Winter Olympics are under way in Vancouver and its environs. A [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=newmoderate.com&blog=7900458&post=829&subd=newmoderate&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Welcome to the Mad Tea Party</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Feb 2010 19:27:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rick Bayan</dc:creator>
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H. L. Mencken, that magnificent journalistic scourge of Holy Rollers, Rotarians, mountebanks and democracy, would have relished the spectacle. He would have taken a front-row seat and churned out reams of trenchant, rollicking, suitably irreverent copy. I like to think his merry ghost is hovering over the proceedings even now.

Deep in the heart of the American Bible Belt &#8211; at Nashville&#8217;s sprawling Opryland complex, in [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=newmoderate.com&blog=7900458&post=814&subd=newmoderate&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Obama&#8217;s Address: It&#8217;s All About the Mojo</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Jan 2010 03:22:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rick Bayan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By my rough estimate, 114,278 bloggers have already commented on President Obama&#8217;s State of the Union Address. (That&#8217;s the SOTU by the POTUS, to use the acronyms favored by ostentatiously au courant bloggers.) So what can The New Moderate add to the day-old conversation?
We can observe that our bruised and battered yearling president finally recovered his mojo [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=newmoderate.com&blog=7900458&post=788&subd=newmoderate&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Why Massachusetts Voters Saw Red</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Jan 2010 15:51:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rick Bayan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By now virtually every American journalist, amateur and professional alike, has commented on the stunning (but not totally unexpected) victory of GOP senatorial candidate Scott Brown in the bluest of blue states. I&#8217;ll be no different, but I&#8217;ll try to root around for some less obvious reasons behind the Democrats&#8217; debacle in the land of the Kennedys.
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		<title>Hell in Haiti: a Post-Mortem</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 16 Jan 2010 22:09:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rick Bayan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We Americans can&#8217;t pretend to grasp the terrifying, cataclysmic, hell-on-earth disaster that struck Haiti this past week. We&#8217;ve caught the televised glimpses of ruined buildings and imperfectly shrouded corpses; we&#8217;ve read the stories. But we haven&#8217;t stood upon a street in Port-au-Prince to hear the cries, smell the smells, dig beneath the rubble or look into the despairing eyes [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=newmoderate.com&blog=7900458&post=770&subd=newmoderate&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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