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	<title><![CDATA[Stimulus, Yes; Bank Bailout II, No]]></title>
	<url>http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-kuttner/stimulus-yes-bank-bailout_b_165058.html</url>
	<abstract><![CDATA[<p>You can say one thing for Sen. Susan Collins of Maine. She is performing the service of giving bipartisanship a bad name. </p>

<p>Maine's current $6.1 billion budget has a revenue shortfall of $830 million, and Maine is facing the same kinds of layoffs and program cuts as other states. But Collins thinks it's clever to cut from the recovery package by some $40 billion in desperately needed to aid the states, in order to....what? In order to show that "moderates"...</p>]]></abstract>
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	<date_published>2009-02-08T20:47:00-05:00</date_published>
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