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	<title>Sheila Kennedy &#187; Tea Party</title>
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	<description>Thinking about Liberty</description>
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		<title>Running Against a Tsunami</title>
		<link>http://sheilakennedy.net/2012/03/running-against-a-tsunami/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Mar 2012 03:24:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>shekenne</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Random Blogging]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dick Lugar]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[pandering]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[primary]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Richard Mourdock]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I know it&#8217;s easy to critique a campaign from the sidelines, but it&#8217;s really difficult to understand what Dick Lugar is thinking. I catch his television commercials from time to time, and as a past supporter and contributor, I get email blasts from his campaign daily. It is increasingly painful and off-putting to watch. The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Polite Company</title>
		<link>http://sheilakennedy.net/2011/11/polite-company/</link>
		<comments>http://sheilakennedy.net/2011/11/polite-company/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Nov 2011 14:32:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>shekenne</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[community conversation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[distrust of government]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[libertarians]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[OWS]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://sheilakennedy.net/?p=2116</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Remember the old saying to the effect that one shouldn&#8217;t discuss religion or politics in polite company? Last night, I think I observed a slightly different version, to wit: people with wildly different political orientations can be perfectly pleasant to each other if they avoid discussing specific policies. I realize this isn&#8217;t exactly practical as [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tea and Sympathy</title>
		<link>http://sheilakennedy.net/2011/11/tea-and-sympathy/</link>
		<comments>http://sheilakennedy.net/2011/11/tea-and-sympathy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Nov 2011 14:43:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>shekenne</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Random Blogging]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Occupy Wall Street]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tea Party]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://sheilakennedy.net/?p=2094</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A number of commentators have compared the Occupy movement with the Tea Party. Although there are some similarities&#8211;mainly frustration with the status quo and anger at the political system&#8211;those comparisons ultimately fail. The Tea Party&#8211;to judge by its spokespersons, placards and photos of meetings&#8211;is a profoundly reactionary movement. Its slogan is &#8220;I Want My Country [...]]]></description>
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		<title>But What About the Children?</title>
		<link>http://sheilakennedy.net/2011/09/but-what-about-the-children/</link>
		<comments>http://sheilakennedy.net/2011/09/but-what-about-the-children/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Sep 2011 14:14:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>shekenne</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Education / Youth]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Public Policy and Governance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Alabama immigration law]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[children]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dream Act]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rick Perry]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tea Party]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://sheilakennedy.net/?p=1931</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I see where a federal judge has upheld the part of Alabama&#8217;s harsh new immigration law that requires public schools to check the immigration status of all students. This is one more effort to punish the children of undocumented immigrants. What I find particularly galling about laws like this, and opposition to the Dream Act [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Age and Perspective</title>
		<link>http://sheilakennedy.net/2011/09/age-and-perspective/</link>
		<comments>http://sheilakennedy.net/2011/09/age-and-perspective/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Sep 2011 12:42:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>shekenne</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Random Blogging]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Krugman]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[lack of compassion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[radical]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[social change]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://sheilakennedy.net/?p=1897</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[One of the (very few) benefits of growing old is that you gain perspective. Sometimes, that also leads to a modicum of wisdom, sometimes not&#8211;but it does mean that one&#8217;s frame of reference is larger and longer. To use a very common example, you can&#8217;t truly appreciate how dramatically the internet has changed society if [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sticks and Stones</title>
		<link>http://sheilakennedy.net/2011/09/sticks-and-stones/</link>
		<comments>http://sheilakennedy.net/2011/09/sticks-and-stones/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Sep 2011 19:02:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>shekenne</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Random Blogging]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Andre Caron]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[apologies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Matt Tully]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tea Party]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://sheilakennedy.net/?p=1836</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I largely agree with Matt Tully&#8217;s &#8220;take&#8221; on Andre Carson&#8217;s controversial words in this morning&#8217;s Star. As Tully notes, Carson has been a substantive, hard-working legislator who has steadily gained stature, and the language he employed was unnecessary to and a distraction from the points he was trying to make. &#8220;Why,&#8221; Tully asks, did Carson [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tea and Very Little Sympathy</title>
		<link>http://sheilakennedy.net/2011/08/tea-and-very-little-sympathy/</link>
		<comments>http://sheilakennedy.net/2011/08/tea-and-very-little-sympathy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Aug 2011 15:10:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>shekenne</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Public Policy and Governance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[conservatism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tea Party]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Theda Skocpol]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://sheilakennedy.net/?p=1780</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Ever since the emergence of the Tea Party&#8211;with its intransigence, ideological rigidity and hostility&#8211;there has been a robust debate about who they are, what they want, and whether they are a genuine grass-roots movement or the product of some canny (and wealthy) Republican operatives. Other than poll results, however, there has been very little empirical [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Of Debt and Taxes</title>
		<link>http://sheilakennedy.net/2011/07/of-debt-and-taxes/</link>
		<comments>http://sheilakennedy.net/2011/07/of-debt-and-taxes/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 31 Jul 2011 17:32:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>shekenne</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Public Policy and Governance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[civilization]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[debt ceiling]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[taxes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tea Party]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://sheilakennedy.net/?p=1743</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I haven&#8217;t written about the congressional impasse (polite word for food fight) over the debt ceiling, because really, what could I say that hasn&#8217;t been said many times by many people? But being here in Split, surrounded by evidence that human efforts at civilization have persisted over thousands of years, I&#8217;ve grudgingly recognized that our [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hate to be a Broken Record, but&#8230;.</title>
		<link>http://sheilakennedy.net/2011/05/hate-to-be-a-broken-record-but/</link>
		<comments>http://sheilakennedy.net/2011/05/hate-to-be-a-broken-record-but/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 26 May 2011 11:06:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>shekenne</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Education / Youth]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[civic education]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Constitution Day]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[constitutional propaganda]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tea Party]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://sheilakennedy.net/?p=1557</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[This morning, the American Constitution Society blog referenced a recent report from the Associated Press: &#8220;The Associated Press has provided new details about a push by the nation’s largest Tea Party umbrella group to teach the Constitution in public schools using materials from an organization that promotes the Constitution as a divinely inspired document. As [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Politics as Farce</title>
		<link>http://sheilakennedy.net/2011/04/politics-as-farce/</link>
		<comments>http://sheilakennedy.net/2011/04/politics-as-farce/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 17 Apr 2011 18:09:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>shekenne</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Random Blogging]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bush]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Obama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[racism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tea Party]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Trump]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://sheilakennedy.net/?p=1456</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[That anyone&#8211;anywhere&#8211;is taking &#8220;The Donald&#8221; seriously is a black mark on America. This megalomaniac with really, really bad hair, whose most salient characteristic is a breathtaking lack of self-awareness, is busy pandering to the very worst elements in our political system&#8211;much as he has pandered to our obsession with money and celebrity. As a side [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bring in the Clowns</title>
		<link>http://sheilakennedy.net/2011/04/bring-in-the-clowns/</link>
		<comments>http://sheilakennedy.net/2011/04/bring-in-the-clowns/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Apr 2011 11:10:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>shekenne</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Random Blogging]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[clowns]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Michelle Bachmann]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mike Pence]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tea Party]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://sheilakennedy.net/?p=1412</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Bring in the clowns? As the song goes, &#8220;don&#8217;t bother, they&#8217;re here.&#8221; We&#8217;ve elected them. Rational people of all political stripes know that the last thing the fragile recovery needs is a government shutdown, but every time the Republicans and Democrats seem to be making progress toward an agreement, the GOP&#8217;s Tea Party wing throws [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tea and No Sympathy</title>
		<link>http://sheilakennedy.net/2011/04/tea-and-no-sympathy/</link>
		<comments>http://sheilakennedy.net/2011/04/tea-and-no-sympathy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Apr 2011 11:10:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>shekenne</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Public Policy and Governance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[GOP]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Medicare]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[taxes]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://sheilakennedy.net/?p=1409</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[There is an old joke that begins &#8220;Why tax the rich?&#8221; Answer: because that&#8217;s where the money is. For some reason, the current crop of Tea Party Republicans in Congress continue to look for money in all the wrong places. Their insistence on spending cuts not only ignores basic economics&#8211;the sorts of cuts they are [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Death of Satire</title>
		<link>http://sheilakennedy.net/2011/03/the-death-of-satire/</link>
		<comments>http://sheilakennedy.net/2011/03/the-death-of-satire/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Mar 2011 14:57:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>shekenne</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Public Policy and Governance]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[labor]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[LePage]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://sheilakennedy.net/?p=1367</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I can now officially announce that satire is no longer possible. It was difficult enough with Sarah Palin&#8211;in her famous impersonation, after all, Tina Fey merely recited Palin&#8217;s actual responses to questions posed by Katie Couric. Efforts to satirize other political figures of our times&#8211;Michelle Bachmann, Peter King, Newt Gingrich et al&#8211;are doomed by the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tea Party Originalism</title>
		<link>http://sheilakennedy.net/2011/02/tea-party-originalism/</link>
		<comments>http://sheilakennedy.net/2011/02/tea-party-originalism/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Feb 2011 21:44:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>shekenne</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Random Blogging]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Constitution]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Originalism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tea Party]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://sheilakennedy.net/?p=1231</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[David Schultz is a colleague (and co-author of my recent textbook, American Public Service: Constitutional and Ethical Foundations) who has written a timely article for Salon. It’s the sort of article that should be read by the very folks who won’t read it, because it actually takes one of the Tea Party’s avowed purposes—constitutional originalism—seriously. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>As the World Turns&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://sheilakennedy.net/2011/02/as-the-world-turns/</link>
		<comments>http://sheilakennedy.net/2011/02/as-the-world-turns/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Feb 2011 18:34:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>shekenne</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Random Blogging]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[elitism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lugar]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mourdock]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tea Party]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://sheilakennedy.net/?p=1209</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[My very first “official” political position was as chair of something called “the 71 Committee for Lugar for Mayor.” It was a Jewish community group supporting Dick Lugar for Mayor back in 1971.  I continued to support Lugar over the years, even as he became more and more conservative, and even after I left the [...]]]></description>
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