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		<title>Pelosi &amp; Obama praise George W. Bush. For real.</title>
		<link>http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/2013/04/25/pelosi-obama-praise-george-w-bush-for-real/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Apr 2013 20:44:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Josh Richman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mark the date: It might be the one day you hear some Democrats saying nice things about former President George W. Bush. The George W. Bush Presidential Library and Museum was dedicated today in Dallas. From House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-San Francisco: “Today, we take the opportunity to honor our 43rd President, George W. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Activists again urge disbarment for Yoo, Haynes</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov 2009 18:58:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Josh Richman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Two Bay Area lawyers who played roles in the Bush Administration’s legal justifications for torture should be disbarred, according to papers filed Friday in Washington, D.C. Disbar Torture Lawyers, a group of non-governmental organizations with more than a million members, filed complaints with the District of Columbia Bar&#8217;s Board on Professional Responsibility against John Yoo, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Karl Rove in SF: Back into the lions&#8217; den?</title>
		<link>http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/2009/09/18/karl-rove-in-sf-back-into-the-lions-den/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Sep 2009 20:43:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Josh Richman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Former White House insider Karl Rove will speak about President Barack Obama’s “growing political challenges and the nation’s longing for conservative principles” in addressing the inaugural event of the San Francisco Bay Committee for Heritage next Thursday, Sept. 24 at the Ritz-Carlton hotel in San Francisco. The press release that went out today says the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Miller will probe pension agency&#8217;s ex-chief</title>
		<link>http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/2009/05/14/miller-will-probe-pension-agencys-ex-chief/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 May 2009 18:13:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Josh Richman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[House Education and Labor Committee Chairman George Miller, D-Martinez, is opening a committee investigation into “very serious questions” of whether a Bush Administration pension agency chief got too cozy with the Wall Street contractors from which he was taking bids on lucrative contracts. Pension Benefit Guaranty Corp. – a federal corporation created by the Employee [...]]]></description>
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		<title>DiFi skips Judiciary&#8217;s &#8216;truth commission&#8217; hearing</title>
		<link>http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/2009/03/04/difi-skips-judiciarys-truth-commission-hearing/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Mar 2009 23:55:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Josh Richman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee held a hearing this morning on “Getting to the Truth Through a Nonpartisan Commission of Inquiry,” taking testimony from constitutional experts and legal scholars on what the focus and scope would be for a proposed &#8220;truth commission&#8221; to probe the Bush Administration&#8217;s national security and executive power policies. (View the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bush commutes sentences for Ramos, Compean</title>
		<link>http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/2009/01/19/bush-commutes-sentences-for-ramos-compean/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Jan 2009 18:07:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Josh Richman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This just in&#8230; In his final day in office, President George W. Bush today issued commutations to a pair of former Border Patrol agents serving prison sentences for the shooting of an unarmed drug dealer on the border in early 2005. This case had become a rallying point for conservatives and those who favor a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>CodePINK&#8217;s solidarity with the shoe-thrower</title>
		<link>http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/2008/12/16/codepinks-solidarity-with-the-shoe-thrower/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Dec 2008 19:11:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Josh Richman</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/?p=3396</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s never a wrong time for street theater against the war, as far as CodePINK is concerned, and so the activists who blockaded and protested downtown Berkeley&#8217;s U.S. Marine Corps recruiting station for all that time will be back outside the station at 8 a.m. tomorrow, Wednesday, Dec. 17, in a show of ow solidarity [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Today&#8217;s Congressional odds and ends</title>
		<link>http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/2008/12/12/todays-congressional-odds-and-ends-17/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Dec 2008 22:00:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Josh Richman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Pelosi urges Bush to be tough on automakers: House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-San Francisco, wrote to President Bush today amid reports that the White House will act by itself to bail out the automobile industry now that a group of Republican Senators have stonewalled the legislation hammered out by the House and the Bush Administration. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Who’s the lame duck here?</title>
		<link>http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/2008/12/09/who%e2%80%99s-the-lame-duck-here/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/2008/12/09/who%e2%80%99s-the-lame-duck-here/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Dec 2008 21:30:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Josh Richman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Congressional Democrats seem to want the the Big Three automakers, as a condition of getting government loans, to drop their legal opposition to efforts by California and 15 other states to enforce tougher tailpipe-emissions standards than those set by the federal government – something for which state officials as well as health, environmental and public [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Will local House members oppose Bush pardons?</title>
		<link>http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/2008/11/24/will-local-house-members-oppose-bush-pardons/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Nov 2008 01:26:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Josh Richman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Rep. Jerrold Nadler, D-N.Y., late last week introduced H.Res. 1531, urging President Bush not to pardon senior administration officials for whatever crimes the President might have authorized. The legislation resolves that: (1) it is the sense of the House of Representatives that the granting of preemptive pardons by the President to senior officials of his [...]]]></description>
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