<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0" xmlns:activity="http://activitystrea.ms/spec/1.0/" xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/"><channel><title>Newsvine - bob-corker</title><link>http://www.newsvine.com/bob-corker</link><description>Newsvine - bob-corker</description><language>en-us</language><copyright>Copyright 2013</copyright><lastBuildDate>Fri, 28 Dec 2012 23:47:25 +0000</lastBuildDate><pubDate>Mon, 20 May 2013 17:14:29 +0000</pubDate><generator>http://www.newsvine.com</generator><docs>http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss</docs><item><title>GOP Senators Want To Take Debt Ceiling Hostage In Order To Raise Retirement Age | ThinkProgress</title>
<description><![CDATA[Two Republican senators want to use the threat of an economic meltdown to raise the retirement age and cut Medicare.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[T-800]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[T-800]]></source><link>http://t-800.newsvine.com/_news/2012/12/28/16219976-gop-senators-want-to-take-debt-ceiling-hostage-in-order-to-raise-retirement-age-thinkprogress</link><guid>http://t-800.newsvine.com/_news/2012/12/28/16219976-gop-senators-want-to-take-debt-ceiling-hostage-in-order-to-raise-retirement-age-thinkprogress</guid><category>politics</category><category>house-republicans</category><category>two-republican</category><category>bob-corker</category><category>lamar-alexander</category><category>policy-research</category><category>privacy-policies</category><category>thinkprogress-privacy-policy</category><category>thinkprogress-terms</category><category>like-thinkprogress</category><category>facebook-just</category><pubDate>Fri, 28 Dec 2012 23:47:15 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=T-800FDAA734D-C703-7FCF-E0CF-E2095B91C3D2.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="225" width="225" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=T-800FDAA734D-C703-7FCF-E0CF-E2095B91C3D2.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="120" /><media:description type="plain"></media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content></item><item><title>White House: No 'Deal' Will Take Shape Until GOP Agrees To Higher Tax Rates</title>
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Major progressive activists organizations, along with liberal members of Congress, are concerned that the White House will cut a bad year-end budget deal with House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH), including, perhaps, agreeing to raise the eligibility age for Medicare, and are pres&nbsp;&hellip;]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[euterpe-1641499]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[euterpe-1641499]]></source><link>http://euterpe-1641499.newsvine.com/_news/2012/12/11/15839249-white-house-no-deal-will-take-shape-until-gop-agrees-to-higher-tax-rates</link><guid>http://euterpe-1641499.newsvine.com/_news/2012/12/11/15839249-white-house-no-deal-will-take-shape-until-gop-agrees-to-higher-tax-rates</guid><category>wall-street</category><category>white-house</category><category>medicare</category><category>politics</category><category>social-security</category><category>nancy-pelosi</category><category>tom-cole</category><category>bob-corker</category><category>republican-led-house</category><category>president-obama</category><category>bush-era-tax-cuts</category><category>house-speaker-john-boehner</category><category>clinton-era-tax-rates</category><category>fiscal-cliff</category><category>tax-rates-for-wealthy</category><pubDate>Tue, 11 Dec 2012 12:07:03 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=euterpe-16414990D03233E-663A-7FD1-0207-0C30FBB6DA1E.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="150" width="150" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=euterpe-16414990D03233E-663A-7FD1-0207-0C30FBB6DA1E.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="120" /><media:description type="plain"></media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content></item><item><title>Norquist: GOP lawmakers who publicly mull tax hikes on wealthy guilty of 'impure thoughts,' but no reason to throw them out of office - yet</title>
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"Thinking something out loud is not treason," Norquist, the president of Americans for Tax Reform, told Reuters in an interview.
Senators Bob Corker of Tennessee and Saxby Chambliss of Georgia, and Representative Tom Cole of Oklahoma are among a handful of Republicans openly w&nbsp;&hellip;]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Carloz]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Carloz]]></source><link>http://carloz.newsvine.com/_news/2012/12/11/15835195-norquist-gop-lawmakers-who-publicly-mull-tax-hikes-on-wealthy-guilty-of-impure-thoughts-but-no-reason-to-throw-them-out-of-office-yet</link><guid>http://carloz.newsvine.com/_news/2012/12/11/15835195-norquist-gop-lawmakers-who-publicly-mull-tax-hikes-on-wealthy-guilty-of-impure-thoughts-but-no-reason-to-throw-them-out-of-office-yet</guid><category>us</category><category>congress</category><category>senate</category><category>taxes</category><category>usa</category><category>democrats</category><category>politics</category><category>gop</category><category>republicans</category><category>united-states</category><category>obama</category><category>barack-obama</category><category>republican</category><category>dems</category><category>democrat</category><category>house-of-representatives</category><category>john-boehner</category><category>grover-norquist</category><category>bob-corker</category><category>saxby-chambliss</category><category>tea-party</category><category>atr</category><category>americans-for-tax-reform</category><category>bush-tax-cut</category><category>taxpayer-protection-pledge</category><category>fiscal-cliff</category><category>tea-party-types</category><pubDate>Tue, 11 Dec 2012 08:15:32 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=carloz0D760265-9CDD-3481-9AA6-12C4F8FA0BF8.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="287" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=carloz0D760265-9CDD-3481-9AA6-12C4F8FA0BF8.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="86" /><media:description type="plain"></media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content></item><item><title>'Dr. No' of Senate says 'yes' to tax increase on upper-income Americans</title>
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The Oklahoma senator and obstetrician known as &ldquo;Dr. No&rdquo; has taken on the most unlikely of roles: getting Republicans to say &ldquo;yes&rdquo; to tax hikes.
Tom Coburn, who has blocked dozens of bills, infuriated Democratic leaders and been on the lopsided end of so&nbsp;&hellip;]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Carloz]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Carloz]]></source><link>http://carloz.newsvine.com/_news/2012/12/11/15834887-dr-no-of-senate-says-yes-to-tax-increase-on-upper-income-americans</link><guid>http://carloz.newsvine.com/_news/2012/12/11/15834887-dr-no-of-senate-says-yes-to-tax-increase-on-upper-income-americans</guid><category>us</category><category>oklahoma</category><category>congress</category><category>senate</category><category>taxes</category><category>tennessee</category><category>usa</category><category>democrats</category><category>politics</category><category>nebraska</category><category>gop</category><category>republicans</category><category>united-states</category><category>obama</category><category>barack-obama</category><category>republican</category><category>tom-coburn</category><category>dems</category><category>democrat</category><category>mike-johanns</category><category>house-of-representatives</category><category>john-boehner</category><category>boehner</category><category>bob-corker</category><category>bush-tax-cut</category><category>fiscal-cliff</category><pubDate>Tue, 11 Dec 2012 07:58:00 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=carloz1DE5A8A4-C7A2-0E4A-3344-9DEDB5061731.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="217" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=carloz1DE5A8A4-C7A2-0E4A-3344-9DEDB5061731.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="66" /><media:description type="plain"></media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content></item><item><title>Senator Bob Corker: GOP Should Hold Debt Ceiling Hostage As Leverage For Medicare Cuts</title>
<description><![CDATA[During an appearance on Fox News Sunday, [Sen. Bob] Corker [R-TN]&nbsp; explained that if Republicans &ldquo;give Obama a 2 percent increase,&rdquo; the party can then hold the debt ceiling hostage in order to secure real cuts in spending:
CORKER: The Republicans know they have &nbsp;&hellip;]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Carloz]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Carloz]]></source><link>http://carloz.newsvine.com/_news/2012/12/10/15825419-senator-bob-corker-gop-should-hold-debt-ceiling-hostage-as-leverage-for-medicare-cuts</link><guid>http://carloz.newsvine.com/_news/2012/12/10/15825419-senator-bob-corker-gop-should-hold-debt-ceiling-hostage-as-leverage-for-medicare-cuts</guid><category>us</category><category>congress</category><category>senate</category><category>medicare</category><category>tennessee</category><category>usa</category><category>democrats</category><category>gop</category><category>republicans</category><category>united-states</category><category>obama</category><category>barack-obama</category><category>fox-news</category><category>republican</category><category>dems</category><category>democrat</category><category>senior-citizens</category><category>house-of-representatives</category><category>bob-corker</category><category>fox-news-sunday</category><category>fiscal-cliff</category><pubDate>Mon, 10 Dec 2012 22:33:35 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=carlozD6A91BFA-5C59-35AC-AB90-40F241AA75EB.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="217" width="300" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=carlozD6A91BFA-5C59-35AC-AB90-40F241AA75EB.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="87" /><media:description type="plain"></media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content></item><item><title>Hopes rise for a deal on tax rates  --  More in GOP foresee increase for the rich</title>
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There were faint signs on Sunday that Washington could cut a deal before reaching the so-called fiscal cliff, despite House Speaker John Boehner&rsquo;s declaration last week that no progress was being made in negotiations.
More Republicans are imagining what an agreement that&nbsp;&hellip;]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[euterpe-1641499]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[euterpe-1641499]]></source><link>http://euterpe-1641499.newsvine.com/_news/2012/12/10/15816012-hopes-rise-for-a-deal-on-tax-rates-more-in-gop-foresee-increase-for-the-rich</link><guid>http://euterpe-1641499.newsvine.com/_news/2012/12/10/15816012-hopes-rise-for-a-deal-on-tax-rates-more-in-gop-foresee-increase-for-the-rich</guid><category>economy</category><category>politics</category><category>house-republicans</category><category>charles-schumer</category><category>dick-durbin</category><category>john-boehner</category><category>bipartisanship</category><category>bob-corker</category><category>republican-senators</category><category>president-obama</category><category>cliff-divers</category><category>fiscal-cliff</category><category>democrats-advantage</category><pubDate>Mon, 10 Dec 2012 12:16:29 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=euterpe-1641499E64C81C1-07DA-5B88-BBFD-478CC2F6721A.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="247" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=euterpe-1641499E64C81C1-07DA-5B88-BBFD-478CC2F6721A.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="74" /><media:description type="plain"></media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content></item><item><title>  Sen. Corker: Debt ceiling is Republican &amp;#8216;leverage&amp;#8217; to cut &amp;#8216;entitlements&amp;#8217</title>
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Sen.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Don Overton]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Don Overton]]></source><link>http://don-overton.newsvine.com/_news/2012/12/09/15797975-sen-corker-debt-ceiling-is-republican-leverage-to-cut-entitlements8217</link><guid>http://don-overton.newsvine.com/_news/2012/12/09/15797975-sen-corker-debt-ceiling-is-republican-leverage-to-cut-entitlements8217</guid><category>2</category><category>conservatives</category><category>politics</category><category>gop</category><category>republicans</category><category>right-wing</category><category>leverage</category><category>bob-corker</category><category>tea-party</category><pubDate>Sun, 9 Dec 2012 20:08:37 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=don-overton0C5D5D1C-6DC6-6679-6352-6EE11FCDB6EC.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="225" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=don-overton0C5D5D1C-6DC6-6679-6352-6EE11FCDB6EC.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="68" /><media:description type="plain"></media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content></item><item><title>Why Susan Rice? &amp;raquo</title>
<description><![CDATA[No doubt about it: Republicans have it in for Susan  Rice, the US ambassador to the United Nations and, by most accounts,  President Obama&rsquo;s likely choice to replace Hillary Clinton as Secretary  of State.&nbsp; Rice is an Obama confidante and advisor.
Let&rsquo;s be clear&nbsp;&hellip;]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Don Overton]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Don Overton]]></source><link>http://don-overton.newsvine.com/_news/2012/12/03/15651918-why-susan-rice-raquo</link><guid>http://don-overton.newsvine.com/_news/2012/12/03/15651918-why-susan-rice-raquo</guid><category>politics</category><category>republicans</category><category>john-mccain</category><category>john-kerry</category><category>george-bush</category><category>senate-armed-services-committee</category><category>kelly-ayotte</category><category>hypocrisy</category><category>lindsey-graham</category><category>proxy-war</category><category>benghazi</category><category>bob-corker</category><category>tea-party</category><category>general-petraeus</category><category>van-jones</category><category>spinmeisters</category><category>susan-rice</category><category>american-supremacy</category><category>scott-brown</category><category>keystone-pipeline</category><category>susan-collians</category><category>republican-vitriol</category><category>sexual-dalliance</category><category>cia-shenanigans</category><pubDate>Mon, 3 Dec 2012 23:23:35 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type></item><item><title>      The Growing Revolt Against Grover Norquist - Steven J. Gulitti - Open Salon     </title>
<description><![CDATA[What may turn out to be the great irony in the demise of Grover Norquist is the fact that his unwillingness, and that of his likeminded followers, to compromise may lead to an even bigger setback for his cause then would have been obtained had he been willing to compromise two ye&nbsp;&hellip;]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[sjgulitti]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[sjgulitti]]></source><link>http://sjgulitti.newsvine.com/_news/2012/12/01/15602788-the-growing-revolt-against-grover-norquist-steven-j-gulitti-open-salon</link><guid>http://sjgulitti.newsvine.com/_news/2012/12/01/15602788-the-growing-revolt-against-grover-norquist-steven-j-gulitti-open-salon</guid><category>politics</category><category>federal-deficit</category><category>john-mccain</category><category>republican-party</category><category>senate-republicans</category><category>house-republicans</category><category>barack-obama</category><category>tom-coburn</category><category>john-boehner</category><category>jeff-flake</category><category>lindsey-graham</category><category>grover-norquist</category><category>tax-policy</category><category>peter-king</category><category>tom-cole</category><category>bob-corker</category><category>saxby-chambliss</category><category>tea-party</category><category>lamar-alexander</category><category>entitlement-spending</category><category>grand-bargain</category><category>eric-cantor</category><category>sheldon-adelson</category><category>koch-brothers</category><category>conservative-ideas</category><category>anti-government-ideas</category><category>diane-white</category><pubDate>Sat, 1 Dec 2012 22:21:55 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=sjgulittiA200C514-74DF-C395-F8CB-6FD6BB432C4B.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="50" width="50" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=sjgulittiA200C514-74DF-C395-F8CB-6FD6BB432C4B.jpg&amp;width=120" width="50" height="50" /><media:description type="plain"></media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content></item><item><title>The Growing Revolt Against Grover Norquist</title>
<description><![CDATA[
Two weeks ago I penned a short piece titled &ldquo;Grover Norquist Collateral Casualty of 2012?&rdquo; where I broached the question of whether or not Norquist would become a casualty as a result of the coming fiscal cliff negotiations and where I said, &ldquo;&hellip;look for G&nbsp;&hellip;]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[sjgulitti]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[sjgulitti]]></source><link>http://sjgulitti.newsvine.com/_news/2012/12/01/15602743-the-growing-revolt-against-grover-norquist</link><guid>http://sjgulitti.newsvine.com/_news/2012/12/01/15602743-the-growing-revolt-against-grover-norquist</guid><category>politics</category><category>federal-deficit</category><category>john-mccain</category><category>republican-party</category><category>senate-republicans</category><category>house-republicans</category><category>barack-obama</category><category>tom-coburn</category><category>john-boehner</category><category>jeff-flake</category><category>lindsey-graham</category><category>grover-norquist</category><category>tax-policy</category><category>peter-king</category><category>tom-cole</category><category>bob-corker</category><category>saxby-chambliss</category><category>tea-party</category><category>lamar-alexander</category><category>entitlement-spending</category><category>grand-bargain</category><category>eric-cantor</category><category>sheldon-adelson</category><category>koch-brothers</category><category>conservative-ideas</category><category>anti-government-ideas</category><category>diane-white</category><pubDate>Sat, 1 Dec 2012 22:19:58 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Grover Norquist is now considered &amp;#8220;an impediment to good governing&amp;#8221; | Under the Mountain Bunker</title>
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Instead of reducing government to a size "we can drown in a bathtub", it appears that Grover's tax pledge&nbsp;might be circling the drain.
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<dc:creator><![CDATA[AmericanMOM-598098]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[AmericanMOM-598098]]></source><link>http://tribalgirl64.newsvine.com/_news/2012/11/27/15469009-grover-norquist-is-now-considered-an-impediment-to-good-governing-under-the-mountain-bunker</link><guid>http://tribalgirl64.newsvine.com/_news/2012/11/27/15469009-grover-norquist-is-now-considered-an-impediment-to-good-governing-under-the-mountain-bunker</guid><category>politics</category><category>warren-buffett</category><category>grover-norquist</category><category>tax-reform</category><category>bob-corker</category><category>saxby-chambliss</category><category>grover-norquist-s</category><pubDate>Tue, 27 Nov 2012 04:28:37 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=tribalgirl647353EA06-8A3C-74B9-B866-62379CAADE16.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="400" width="303" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=tribalgirl647353EA06-8A3C-74B9-B866-62379CAADE16.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="158" /><media:description type="plain"></media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content></item><item><title>Tennessee Dems Nominate Anti-Gay Conspiracy Theorist for Senate</title>
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Mark Clayton believes the federal government is building a massive, four-football-field wide superhighway from Mexico City to Toronto as part of a secret plot to establish a new North American Union that will bring an end to America as we know it. On Thursday, he became the Ten&nbsp;&hellip;]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Carloz]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Carloz]]></source><link>http://carloz.newsvine.com/_news/2012/08/03/13106681-tennessee-dems-nominate-anti-gay-conspiracy-theorist-for-senate</link><guid>http://carloz.newsvine.com/_news/2012/08/03/13106681-tennessee-dems-nominate-anti-gay-conspiracy-theorist-for-senate</guid><category>us</category><category>tennessee</category><category>usa</category><category>democrats</category><category>politics</category><category>gop</category><category>republicans</category><category>united-states</category><category>republican</category><category>dems</category><category>democrat</category><category>senate-elections</category><category>bob-corker</category><category>blue-dog-democrats</category><category>mark-clayton</category><category>2012-election</category><category>2012-elections</category><pubDate>Fri, 3 Aug 2012 18:14:18 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=carloz4E7F1CF6-7BC3-04DC-C713-AF1B42A14F9A.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="302" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=carloz4E7F1CF6-7BC3-04DC-C713-AF1B42A14F9A.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="91" /><media:description type="plain"></media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content></item><item><title>Taking care of Jamie</title>
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Boy, Jamie Dimon must feel bruised and battered all over after the pounding he got in the Senate this morning:]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[greenpagan]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[greenpagan]]></source><link>http://greenpagan.newsvine.com/_news/2012/06/14/12224591-taking-care-of-jamie</link><guid>http://greenpagan.newsvine.com/_news/2012/06/14/12224591-taking-care-of-jamie</guid><category>washington</category><category>congress</category><category>wall-street</category><category>politics</category><category>united-states</category><category>capitol-hill</category><category>us-senate</category><category>charles-schumer</category><category>jpmorgan</category><category>jim-demint</category><category>bob-corker</category><category>jerry-moran</category><category>larry-sabato</category><category>roger-wicker</category><category>michael-bennet</category><category>jamie-dimon</category><pubDate>Thu, 14 Jun 2012 19:01:45 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Senate GOP Calls Fed Proposal To Reduce Mortgage Payments 'Completely Egregious' | ThinkProgress</title>
<description><![CDATA[The Federal Reserve last week released a set of proposals for aiding the battered American housing market, including a series of ways to help homeowners who are buried under the weight of unsustainable mortgage payments or  who now find themselves significantly underwater on thei&nbsp;&hellip;]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[easyjjgrand3]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[easyjjgrand3]]></source><link>http://easyjjgrand3.newsvine.com/_news/2012/01/12/10126865-senate-gop-calls-fed-proposal-to-reduce-mortgage-payments-completely-egregious-thinkprogress</link><guid>http://easyjjgrand3.newsvine.com/_news/2012/01/12/10126865-senate-gop-calls-fed-proposal-to-reduce-mortgage-payments-completely-egregious-thinkprogress</guid><category>housing</category><category>politics</category><category>orrin-hatch</category><category>bob-corker</category><category>housing-foreclosure</category><pubDate>Thu, 12 Jan 2012 04:19:55 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=easyjjgrand37F4DB513-5386-0D03-28E3-6E44FF6547E2.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="219" width="228" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=easyjjgrand37F4DB513-5386-0D03-28E3-6E44FF6547E2.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="116" /><media:description type="plain"></media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content></item><item><title>White House redefines 'winning' in Afghanistan ahead of review. By John T. Bennett. 06/08/11 08:21 PM ET </title>
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Obama administration officials and lawmakers are lowering the bar for  success in Afghanistan ahead of the first strategic review of war  policy in the post-Osama bin Laden era.
Washington has largely  shed words like &ldquo;winning&rdquo; and &ldquo;success&rdquo; as public fat&nbsp;&hellip;]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Larry H-189743]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Larry H-189743]]></source><link>http://larryh.newsvine.com/_news/2011/06/09/6818533-white-house-redefines-winning-in-afghanistan-ahead-of-review-by-john-t-bennett-060811-0821-pm-et</link><guid>http://larryh.newsvine.com/_news/2011/06/09/6818533-white-house-redefines-winning-in-afghanistan-ahead-of-review-by-john-t-bennett-060811-0821-pm-et</guid><category>afghanistan</category><category>winning</category><category>white-house</category><category>taliban</category><category>politics</category><category>kabul</category><category>success</category><category>senate-foreign-relations-committee</category><category>ryan-crocker</category><category>al-qaeda</category><category>nation-building</category><category>u-s-foreign-policy</category><category>jim-webb</category><category>bob-corker</category><category>ben-cardin</category><category>robert-gates</category><category>war-policy</category><category>haqqani-network</category><category>post-osama-bin-laden-era</category><category>fill-a-vacuum</category><category>foreign-relations-report</category><category>sustainable-stability</category><pubDate>Thu, 9 Jun 2011 09:15:43 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Has Elizabeth Warren Won Over the Banks? | Mother Jones</title>
<description><![CDATA[On her first day running the new Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), Elizabeth Warren met with a group of bankers from her home state, Oklahoma.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Stephen-one shot-one kill]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Stephen-one shot-one kill]]></source><link>http://stephen3100047.newsvine.com/_news/2011/05/06/6595873-has-elizabeth-warren-won-over-the-banks-mother-jones</link><guid>http://stephen3100047.newsvine.com/_news/2011/05/06/6595873-has-elizabeth-warren-won-over-the-banks-mother-jones</guid><category>white-house</category><category>politics</category><category>john-mccain</category><category>house-republicans</category><category>bob-corker</category><category>mother-jones</category><category>chuck-grassley</category><category>american-bankers-association</category><category>bloomberg-businessweek</category><category>motherjonescom-while-warrens</category><category>senate-gopers</category><pubDate>Fri, 6 May 2011 11:19:14 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Who's Afraid of Elizabeth Warren</title>
<description><![CDATA[The attacks on Elizabeth Warren and the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) just keep coming, fast and furious, facts be damned.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[onevoiceamongmany]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[onevoiceamongmany]]></source><link>http://onevoiceamongmany.newsvine.com/_news/2011/03/15/6273833-whos-afraid-of-elizabeth-warren</link><guid>http://onevoiceamongmany.newsvine.com/_news/2011/03/15/6273833-whos-afraid-of-elizabeth-warren</guid><category>wall-street</category><category>democrats</category><category>politics</category><category>mortgage</category><category>wall-street-journal</category><category>republicans</category><category>federal-reserve</category><category>regulation</category><category>government-accountability-office</category><category>bob-corker</category><category>elizabeth-warren</category><category>financial-industry</category><category>consumer-financial-protection-bureau</category><category>cfpb</category><category>dodd-frank-act</category><pubDate>Tue, 15 Mar 2011 15:39:05 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type></item><item><title>If it's Wednesday, it must be an unprecedented power grab </title>
<description><![CDATA[The Republican alarm bells are ringing once again. The very idea of closing debate on a Senate rules change by majority vote, as Republicans themselves proposed doing just a few years ago, is now being treated to the "unprecedented power grab" routine.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[EdisonEllis]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[EdisonEllis]]></source><link>http://edisonellis.newsvine.com/_news/2010/12/29/5733301-if-its-wednesday-it-must-be-an-unprecedented-power-grab</link><guid>http://edisonellis.newsvine.com/_news/2010/12/29/5733301-if-its-wednesday-it-must-be-an-unprecedented-power-grab</guid><category>politics</category><category>republicans</category><category>hatch</category><category>bill-frist</category><category>filibuster</category><category>newt-gingrich</category><category>power-grab</category><category>corker</category><category>demint</category><category>bob-corker</category><category>lisa-murkowski</category><category>inhofe</category><category>washington-times</category><category>cloture</category><category>jim-inhofe</category><category>filibuster-reform</category><category>senate-rules-reform</category><pubDate>Wed, 29 Dec 2010 18:46:34 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Republicans Taking Other Hostages, Threaten to Shoot START if DADT Repealed</title>
<description><![CDATA[Don't Ask Don't Tell repeal is on a glide path to passage. With Olympia Snowe joining Scott Brown and Lisa Murkowski as fully supportive of the standalone bill, at least 61 votes are in hand, and Harry Reid filled the amendment tree to minimize any possibility of amendments.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Carloz]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Carloz]]></source><link>http://carloz.newsvine.com/_news/2010/12/17/5670570-republicans-taking-other-hostages-threaten-to-shoot-start-if-dadt-repealed</link><guid>http://carloz.newsvine.com/_news/2010/12/17/5670570-republicans-taking-other-hostages-threaten-to-shoot-start-if-dadt-repealed</guid><category>us</category><category>usa</category><category>gay</category><category>democrats</category><category>gop</category><category>republicans</category><category>lesbian</category><category>john-mccain</category><category>gay-rights</category><category>republican</category><category>homosexual</category><category>us-politics</category><category>queer</category><category>dadt</category><category>dont-ask-dont-tell</category><category>gays-in-the-military</category><category>obstruction</category><category>bob-corker</category><category>republican-senators</category><category>strategic-arms-reduction-treaty</category><category>start-treaty</category><category>political-blackmail</category><pubDate>Fri, 17 Dec 2010 21:53:09 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Growing Number Of Republicans Join Call To End Federal Reserve's Full Employment Mandate ~~~ VIDEO</title>
<description><![CDATA[... criticizing the Fed's recent policy actions, even though they represent the last option for boosting job-creation (because the GOP won't move forward with further fiscal stimulus).]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[jade-log]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[jade-log]]></source><link>http://jade-log.newsvine.com/_news/2010/11/23/5515775-growing-number-of-republicans-join-call-to-end-federal-reserves-full-employment-mandate-video</link><guid>http://jade-log.newsvine.com/_news/2010/11/23/5515775-growing-number-of-republicans-join-call-to-end-federal-reserves-full-employment-mandate-video</guid><category>politics</category><category>federal-reserve</category><category>cnbc</category><category>richard-burr</category><category>bob-corker</category><category>mark-thoma</category><category>house-budget-chairman-paul-ryan</category><category>employment-mandate</category><pubDate>Tue, 23 Nov 2010 16:45:21 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Bob Corker's chickens come home to roost</title>
<description><![CDATA[So how about making fun of the Republican politicians who voted against the auto-bailout and yet still had the gall to attend a ceremony celebrating the reopening of an idled GM plant?

Yes, Bob Corker, R-Tenn., I'm looking at you.
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<dc:creator><![CDATA[jade-log]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[jade-log]]></source><link>http://jade-log.newsvine.com/_news/2010/09/20/5146315-bob-corkers-chickens-come-home-to-roost</link><guid>http://jade-log.newsvine.com/_news/2010/09/20/5146315-bob-corkers-chickens-come-home-to-roost</guid><category>politics</category><category>uaw</category><category>tenn</category><category>bob-corker</category><category>lamar-alexander</category><category>tennessee-right</category><category>gm-spring-hill</category><category>socialism-fascism-obama</category><pubDate>Tue, 21 Sep 2010 01:06:28 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Bush's Nuclear Administrator Calls Out Corker On Nuclear Pork </title>
<description><![CDATA[Ambassador Linton Brooks who served as the head of the National Nuclear Security Administration [under Bush] — the agency responsible for maintaining the US nuclear arsenal — called out Corker in his home state last week.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[jade-log]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[jade-log]]></source><link>http://jade-log.newsvine.com/_news/2010/09/13/5103447-bushs-nuclear-administrator-calls-out-corker-on-nuclear-pork</link><guid>http://jade-log.newsvine.com/_news/2010/09/13/5103447-bushs-nuclear-administrator-calls-out-corker-on-nuclear-pork</guid><category>politics</category><category>nuclear-facilities</category><category>bob-corker</category><category>senate-foreign-relations</category><category>ambassador-linton-brooks</category><category>no-basis-in-reality</category><category>so-called-conservative</category><pubDate>Mon, 13 Sep 2010 23:44:00 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Clinton Calls Out GOP Obstruction For Putting 'Our National Security At Risk' ----- VIDEO Clip &quot;Countdown To Zero&quot;</title>
<description><![CDATA[This is a critical point. Opposing ratification means opposing the inspections that provide us a vital window into Russia's arsenal… when the Senate returns, they must act, because our national security is at risk.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[jade-log]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[jade-log]]></source><link>http://jade-log.newsvine.com/_news/2010/08/12/4877224-clinton-calls-out-gop-obstruction-for-putting-our-national-security-at-risk-video-clip-countdown-to-zero</link><guid>http://jade-log.newsvine.com/_news/2010/08/12/4877224-clinton-calls-out-gop-obstruction-for-putting-our-national-security-at-risk-video-clip-countdown-to-zero</guid><category>russia</category><category>politics</category><category>start</category><category>senate-republicans</category><category>jon-kyl</category><category>mitch-mcconnell</category><category>downward-spiral</category><category>bob-corker</category><category>arms-control-association</category><category>costly-modernization</category><category>collapsed-reset</category><category>count-down-to-zero</category><category>nuclear-pork</category><pubDate>Fri, 13 Aug 2010 00:18:00 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Rand Paul flips, seeks money from bailout senators</title>
<description><![CDATA[During the primary, Paul pledged not to accept contributions from any senator who had voted for the financial bailout. That promise was included on his campaign website at the time but has since been removed.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[BAD1V]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[BAD1V]]></source><link>http://bad1v.newsvine.com/_news/2010/06/23/4549338-rand-paul-flips-seeks-money-from-bailout-senators</link><guid>http://bad1v.newsvine.com/_news/2010/06/23/4549338-rand-paul-flips-seeks-money-from-bailout-senators</guid><category>republican-party</category><category>senate-republican</category><category>john-cornyn</category><category>mitch-mcconnell</category><category>rachel-maddow</category><category>bob-corker</category><category>lamar-alexander</category><category>rand-paul</category><pubDate>Wed, 23 Jun 2010 13:19:51 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Obama gets an earful in clash with GOP senators</title>
<description><![CDATA[If President Barack Obama thought having a private lunch with Republican senators would ease partisan tensions in Congress, he grabbed the wrong recipe.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[msnbc.com politics]]></source><link>http://politics.newsvine.com/_news/2010/05/25/4356871-obama-gets-an-earful-in-clash-with-gop-senators</link><guid>http://politics.newsvine.com/_news/2010/05/25/4356871-obama-gets-an-earful-in-clash-with-gop-senators</guid><category>elections</category><category>immigration</category><category>social-issues</category><category>politics</category><category>john-mccain</category><category>legislation</category><category>barack-obama</category><category>david-vitter</category><category>legislature</category><category>political-parties</category><category>barbara-boxer</category><category>social-affairs</category><category>jeff-sessions</category><category>christopher-dodd</category><category>general-elections</category><category>government-policy</category><category>lyndon-johnson</category><category>bob-corker</category><category>pat-roberts</category><category>lamar-alexander</category><category>john-thune</category><category>john-barrasso</category><category>government-and-politics</category><category>political-issues</category><category>bill-burton</category><category>political-organizations</category><category>government-business-and-finance</category><pubDate>Tue, 25 May 2010 21:33:11 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type></item></channel></rss>