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	<title><![CDATA[Brain Dead Bureaucrat Watch: VA Blocks Voter Registration at Vets' Hospitals]]></title>
	<url>http://www.huffingtonpost.com/paul-rieckhoff/brain-dead-bureaucrat-wat_b_119120.html</url>
	<abstract><![CDATA[<p>When it comes to making profoundly stupid bureaucratic decisions, the Department of Veterans Affairs is often in a class by itself. When VA bureaucrats <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/06/29/AR2006062900352.html">aren't losing laptops with millions of veterans' personal data </a>or <a href="http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/285889_murray20ww.html">forgetting to include Iraq and Afghanistan veterans in their budget calculations</a>, they are <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/paul-rieckhoff/huge-bonuses-for-va-burea_b_47581.html">giving themselves obscene raises</a>. For all the hard working doctors and nurses in VA hospitals and clinics across the country, it's a real shame that some top level VA officials...</p>]]></abstract>
	<taxonomy><![CDATA[Politics]]></taxonomy>
	<date_published>2008-09-15T05:12:00-04:00</date_published>
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