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	<title><![CDATA[In Praise of New Republican Leadership]]></title>
	<url>http://www.huffingtonpost.com/paul-jenkins/in-praise-of-new-republic_b_167299.html</url>
	<abstract><![CDATA[<p>There is John McCain, the Republicans' failed presidential candidate, as <a href="http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2009/02/15/stimulus-bill-was-a-bad-beginning-for-obama-says-mccain/">incapable</a> since the election as he was before. There is John Boehner, the party's leader in the House and Ohio's own George Hamilton (the tan, not the <a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-1078445/I-affair-stepmother-I-12-reveals-George-Hamilton.html">affair</a> with his stepmother when he was 12). We now also have Michael <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xhvRQyRdVEI">"Drill Baby Drill"</a> Steele, the party's inspiration-challenged chairman, who is supposed to lead the GOP back to victory despite his own electoral <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/story/2009/02/06/ST2009020604202.html">incompetence</a>. And Eric Cantor,...</p>]]></abstract>
	<taxonomy><![CDATA[Politics]]></taxonomy>
	<date_published>2009-02-16T13:04:00-05:00</date_published>
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