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	<title><![CDATA[Tea Parties: GOP Once Again Manipulating the Average Joe]]></title>
	<url>http://www.huffingtonpost.com/andy-ostroy/tea-parties-gop-once-agai_b_187750.html</url>
	<abstract><![CDATA[<p><img alt="2009-04-16-Teaparties2.jpg" src="http://images.huffingtonpost.com/2009-04-16-Teaparties2.jpg" width="550" height="400" /></p>

<p>During the eight miserable, ineffective and wasteful years of the Bush administration, Karl "Turd Blossom" Rove, the president's chief political advisor, deftly crafted a successful strategy of turning the "little guy" on himself. That being, to divert and distract these Average Joes away from the <em>real</em> issues that effect them--unemployment, wages, health care, education--and instead drive them to the polls through hot-button issues including abortion, gay-marriage and life-support (Terri Schiavo). For a long while, it...</p>]]></abstract>
	<taxonomy><![CDATA[Politics]]></taxonomy>
	<date_published>2009-05-17T05:12:00-04:00</date_published>
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