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		<title>May 1, 2012</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 May 2012 20:30:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the desk of Bob Keefe Washington, D.C. May 1, 2012 Political Update &#160; &#160;                 Now what?  Mitt Romney has accepted the Republican nomination, though there are a few technicalities that remain.  President Barak Obama has not been challenged but still has to go through the regimen of the convention.  And it is just the beginning of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>April 15, 2012</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Apr 2012 20:29:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bob Keefe</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the desk of Bob Keefe Washington, D.C. April 15, 2012 Political Update             All of a sudden, it is here.  The general election campaign has begun.  There was no shotgun start&#8230; no siren&#8230; no warning&#8230; just a press conference in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania announcing the resignation from the Republican primary campaign by Rick Santorum.   And with Newt [...]]]></description>
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		<title>April 2, 2012</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Apr 2012 22:16:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bob Keefe</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the desk of Bob Keefe Washington, D.C. April 2, 2012 Political Update &#160;                 It is getting to the “mopping up” stage for Mitt Romney.  True, as Newt Gingrich says, there is a long way to go to get to Tampa (and the Republican Convention), but the chances of derailing the Romney Express are getting fewer and fewer.  The race now is as much a matter of psychology as arithmetic.  That is seen in the endorsements of the “hard to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>March 15, 2012</title>
		<link>http://bobkeefedc.com/bkblog/2012/march-15-2012/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Mar 2012 22:16:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bob Keefe</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://bobkeefedc.com/bkblog/?p=641</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[From the desk of Bob Keefe Washington, D.C. March 15, 2012 Political Update             The Republican nominating process has bogged down into a long range slugging match.  The plans of Mitt Romney to quickly blitz the process with money and manpower has failed.  He proved this week that he is weak in the South - the heart of the Republicanism.  He added a few more delegates to his basket, moving him closer to his goal of winning the nomination.  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>February 17, 2012</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Feb 2012 22:15:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bob Keefe</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://bobkeefedc.com/bkblog/?p=639</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[From the desk of Bob Keefe Washington, D.C. February 17, 2012 Political Update             The roller coaster ride that is the 2012 Republican Presidential Nominating Process continues.  Rick Santorum caught fire last week and defeated the front running Mitt Romney in contests in Colorado, Minnesota and Missouri.  Romney was declared the winner of the Maine caucuses, but locals have challenged that proclamation&#8230; about a third of the caucus results were not reported.  Last [...]]]></description>
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		<title>January 17, 2012</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jan 2012 22:14:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bob Keefe</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the desk of Bob Keefe Washington, D.C. January 17, 2012 Political Update             The battle for the White House has begun.  When the clock struck seven o’clock last Tuesday night in caucus centers across Iowa, the balloting began.  Mitt Romney squeezed out a close victory over Rick Santorum and Ron Paul in the Republican voting.  Each of these candidates will get 8 delegates to the Republican National Convention in Tampa next August from their efforts [...]]]></description>
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		<title>November 1, 2011</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Nov 2011 22:13:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bob Keefe</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the desk of Bob Keefe Washington, D.C. November 1, 2011 Political Update             We are on another countdown to catastrophe.  The Super Committee responsible for developing a bi-partisan solution to our debt-budget problem has just 23 days until it turns to dust.  The consequences of non action are real.  The funding for very important and highly favored government programsfrom Medicare to Military will automatically receive draconian cuts. The Joint [...]]]></description>
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		<title>October 7, 2011</title>
		<link>http://bobkeefedc.com/bkblog/2011/october-7-2011/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Oct 2011 22:12:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bob Keefe</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://bobkeefedc.com/bkblog/?p=633</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[From the desk of Bob Keefe Washington, D.C. October 7, 2011 Political Update             All of a sudden, the Republican candidate line-up seems to be complete&#8230; With the entry of Texas Governor Rick Perry and theannouncements of New Jersey Governor Chris Christie and former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin not to run, the gang of eight appears to be ready to contest for the nomination.  It has been a peculiar preliminary period.  New candidates were suggested on a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>September 4, 2011</title>
		<link>http://bobkeefedc.com/bkblog/2011/september-4-2011/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Sep 2011 22:11:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bob Keefe</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the desk of Bob Keefe Washington, D.C. September 4, 2011 Political Update                 I am glad that summer is over… at least that August has ended.  It is a toss-up as to what was worse, the weather, the economy, the stock markets, thepolitical gridlock or what. &#160; The weather in Washington this summer set records: Average temperature from June 1 through August 31 was 81.1 degrees, topped only once in the 130 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>August 1+ 2, 2011</title>
		<link>http://bobkeefedc.com/bkblog/2011/august-1-2-2011/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Aug 2011 22:10:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bob Keefe</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the desk of Bob Keefe Washington, D.C. August 1+ 2, 2011 Political Update &#160; As I was writing this Update, I was watching the United States House of Representatives consideration of the Budget Control Act of 2011 on C-Span.  President Barack Obama and the leaders of the Congress agreed on a plan to raise the debt ceiling yesterday, but because of the belligerence ofthe debate that preceded it and the contentious nature of the compromises in the agreement, I wanted to see the votes in both Houses of Congress before I could [...]]]></description>
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