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	<title><![CDATA[Of Filibusters and "Stunts," Then and Now]]></title>
	<url>http://www.huffingtonpost.com/eric-alterman/of-filibusters-and-stunts_b_58019.html</url>
	<abstract><![CDATA[<p>Remember the Gang of 14? The "obstructionist" Senate leader Tom Daschle? The demand for "up or down votes" by every right-thinker in Washington? Those were the days, huh, back when the Democratic minority refused to allow the machinery of our democracy to operate according to plan. Republicans and their allies in the media were so angry they came "this close" to eliminating the institution of the filibuster entirely.</p>

<p>Well, that was then. Today the tables are turned, and it's the Republicans...</p>]]></abstract>
	<taxonomy><![CDATA[Politics]]></taxonomy>
	<date_published>2008-03-28T02:47:00-04:00</date_published>
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