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	<title><![CDATA[The Financial Crisis Bailout Leadership Failure]]></title>
	<url>http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-schlesinger/the-financial-crisis-bail_b_130539.html</url>
	<abstract><![CDATA[<p>Don't believe the <a href="http://www.usnews.com/blogs/robert-schlesinger/2008/9/30/gop-lawmakers-who-voted-against-the-financial-crisis-bailout-because-of-pelosi-sounds-like-a-myth.html">urban myth</a> that Nancy Pelosi was somehow responsible for the failure of the financial bailout. But also don't believe believe that the blame for this falls squarely with the House GOP leadership.</p>

<p>Monday's vote was a failure of presidential leadership.</p>

<p>I'm not talking about cracking skulls and gathering votes. I'm talking about public education.</p>

<p>Here's a bottom-line problem with the bailout bill and the financial crisis writ large: Lots of people don't understand either. For all the talk of...</p>]]></abstract>
	<taxonomy><![CDATA[Politics]]></taxonomy>
	<date_published>2008-10-31T05:12:00-04:00</date_published>
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