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		<title>Republicans Doubt Mitt’s “Electability”</title>
		<link>http://laborlou.com/2012/02/republicans-doubt-mitt%e2%80%99s-%e2%80%9celectability%e2%80%9d/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Feb 2012 23:03:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lou</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Even conservatives desperate to beat Obama may now be concluding that Romney is no more &#8220;electable&#8221; than his primary opponents or a brokered convention nominee. Mitt’s thickheaded comment on the “very poor” appalled right wing pundits like Andrew C. McCarthy: While arming the Left with a luscious sound bite with which to caricature him as [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Gingrich: The Republican Ralph Nader?</title>
		<link>http://laborlou.com/2012/02/gingrich-the-republican-ralph-nader/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Feb 2012 00:49:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lou</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[It’s an imperfect analogy. Ralph Nader’s third party candidacy in 2000 may have cost Al Gore the election.  But it wasn’t a primary fight and Ralph was not pummeling Al everyday. Newt’s relentless assault on Mitt may land Barack Obama a second term.  And history may blame Gingrich for doing the democrats’ dirty work. Though [...]]]></description>
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		<title>OWS and Flag Burning</title>
		<link>http://laborlou.com/2012/01/ows-and-flag-burning/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2012 14:43:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lou</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://laborlou.com/?p=2934</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Occupy Wall Street protests across the country were pivotal in making economic inequality a national issue. But since the sites were cleared out a few months ago, activists who claim to represent OWS in its present form haven’t added very much to the pubic discussion. Though it’s hard to sort through who did what, the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>about laborlou.com [2012]</title>
		<link>http://laborlou.com/2012/01/about-laborlou-com-2012-2/</link>
		<comments>http://laborlou.com/2012/01/about-laborlou-com-2012-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Jan 2012 14:44:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lou</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[You won’t find out everything about me by reading laborlou.com. I almost never mention friends and family by name. Or talk too much about my work. But it’s not hard, for example, to guess my age.  Especially when I write about the roots of my pragmatic progressivism: How the &#8220;new left&#8221; blew it when we deserted Humphrey in ’68 and handed the [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>9</slash:comments>
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		<title>CFPB Now Hiring</title>
		<link>http://laborlou.com/2012/01/cfpb-now-hiring/</link>
		<comments>http://laborlou.com/2012/01/cfpb-now-hiring/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jan 2012 13:34:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lou</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Want a high-paying job fighting mortgage bankers and credit card companies? The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau [CFPB] may just what you’re looking for. The start-up federal agency is up and running with its new director &#8211; Rich Cordray &#8211; firmly in charge. The former Ohio Attorney General recently received a one-year recess appointment from President [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Weekly Standard &#8211; An Open Door to Conservative Thinking</title>
		<link>http://laborlou.com/2012/01/weekly-standard-an-open-door-to-conservative-thinking/</link>
		<comments>http://laborlou.com/2012/01/weekly-standard-an-open-door-to-conservative-thinking/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jan 2012 14:12:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lou</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you want to see how much trouble republicans are in, scan any of these current articles in the conservative Weekly Standard: What Mitt Must Learn from South Carolina Newt Gingrich and the Politics of Frustration Florida Poll: Gingrich 34, Romney 26 Conservative “thought leaders” don’t want to look like they’re panicking, but they already [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The “Job Creation” Farce</title>
		<link>http://laborlou.com/2012/01/the-%e2%80%9cjob-creation%e2%80%9d-farce/</link>
		<comments>http://laborlou.com/2012/01/the-%e2%80%9cjob-creation%e2%80%9d-farce/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Jan 2012 15:01:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lou</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[business]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[financialization]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://laborlou.com/?p=2869</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Republican success in the 2012 election depends on a miserable economy and they must be ticked off that their business allies are beginning to hire. Because a one or two percent drop in unemployment could help the democrats keep the white house and senate. Employers, of course, are just responding to business conditions by adding [...]]]></description>
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		<title>One Big Union for Hollywood Actors</title>
		<link>http://laborlou.com/2012/01/one-big-union-for-hollywood-actors/</link>
		<comments>http://laborlou.com/2012/01/one-big-union-for-hollywood-actors/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Jan 2012 14:57:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lou</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://laborlou.com/?p=2853</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Thousands of actors &#8211; from A-List megastars to those who work for “scale” &#8211; will soon decide whether to merge the nation’s two largest performer unions. Combining the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists with the Screen Actors Guild was narrowly rejected by members in 2003.  But now AFTRA and SAG leaders appear well [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Who Gets Paul’s Vote?</title>
		<link>http://laborlou.com/2012/01/who-gets-paul%e2%80%99s-vote/</link>
		<comments>http://laborlou.com/2012/01/who-gets-paul%e2%80%99s-vote/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Jan 2012 15:59:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lou</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[free enterprise]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Primary supporters of republican outlier Ron Paul could be decisive in the 2012 general election. Will they stay with the party of &#8220;free enterprise&#8221; and low taxes, despite its adherence to christian values and aggressive foreign policy? Or will they shift their allegiance to candidate Obama and his corrupt &#8220;welfare-state&#8221; policies? For now, democrats enjoy [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Unions Cheer Obama Labor Board Appointments</title>
		<link>http://laborlou.com/2012/01/unions-cheer-obama-labor-board-appointments/</link>
		<comments>http://laborlou.com/2012/01/unions-cheer-obama-labor-board-appointments/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Jan 2012 15:57:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lou</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Defying a Senate Republican scheme to disable the National Labor Relations Board, President Obama has re-staffed the agency with three “recess” appointments. The board can now continue its modest reform agenda which includes restraining employers from endlessly delaying certification elections and improving union organizer access to workers. While this will not alone reverse the steady [...]]]></description>
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