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		<title>By: Mark V.</title>
		<link>http://hotair.com/archives/2006/08/29/secret-hold-73-down-27-to-go/comment-page-1/#comment-44133</link>
		<dc:creator>Mark V.</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Aug 2006 21:40:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I think Kid has touched on what I would like to know, which is whether anybody is keeping track of those who have expressly refused to comment.

None of these guys is going to outright lie, as that would raise a well-nigh insurmountable credibility obstacle in the next election.  And nobody will want to hold out on giving an answer forever, not with this kind of pressure, as that would make them look unresponsive and insulated.  So some form of &quot;no comment&quot; or outright obfuscation or awkward sidestepping would be deadly suspicious.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I think Kid has touched on what I would like to know, which is whether anybody is keeping track of those who have expressly refused to comment.</p>
<p>None of these guys is going to outright lie, as that would raise a well-nigh insurmountable credibility obstacle in the next election.  And nobody will want to hold out on giving an answer forever, not with this kind of pressure, as that would make them look unresponsive and insulated.  So some form of &#8220;no comment&#8221; or outright obfuscation or awkward sidestepping would be deadly suspicious.</p>
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		<title>By: bdfaith</title>
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		<dc:creator>bdfaith</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Aug 2006 18:43:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>JasonG: ‘I would have gotten away with it too. If it weren’t for these bloggers and their meddlesome puppy&lt;strong&gt;[blender]!&lt;/strong&gt;’</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>JasonG: ‘I would have gotten away with it too. If it weren’t for these bloggers and their meddlesome puppy<strong>[blender]!</strong>’</p>
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		<title>By: Old War Dogs</title>
		<link>http://hotair.com/archives/2006/08/29/secret-hold-73-down-27-to-go/comment-page-1/#comment-44022</link>
		<dc:creator>Old War Dogs</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Aug 2006 18:41:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;strong&gt;Is it Tuesday already?...&lt;/strong&gt;

Feels like another Monday. Some days there just ain&#039;t enough coffee. I put a lot of time, and a lot of me, into those last two posts last night. Sitting here with Still in Saigon doing an endless loop in...</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong>Is it Tuesday already?&#8230;</strong></p>
<p>Feels like another Monday. Some days there just ain&#8217;t enough coffee. I put a lot of time, and a lot of me, into those last two posts last night. Sitting here with Still in Saigon doing an endless loop in&#8230;</p>
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		<title>By: Mary Katharine Ham</title>
		<link>http://hotair.com/archives/2006/08/29/secret-hold-73-down-27-to-go/comment-page-1/#comment-44006</link>
		<dc:creator>Mary Katharine Ham</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Aug 2006 18:23:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;strong&gt;Secret Holdin&#039; On For One More Day...&lt;/strong&gt;


Wilson Phillips: Because really bad senators deserve nothing but really bad pop.
We&#039;re up to 73 denials on the secret hold. 
Things are moving so fast, the updating is behind over at Porkbusters, but TPM Muckrakers has a list, too, as this is a......</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong>Secret Holdin&#8217; On For One More Day&#8230;</strong></p>
<p>Wilson Phillips: Because really bad senators deserve nothing but really bad pop.<br />
We&#8217;re up to 73 denials on the secret hold.<br />
Things are moving so fast, the updating is behind over at Porkbusters, but TPM Muckrakers has a list, too, as this is a&#8230;&#8230;</p>
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		<title>By: xardoz</title>
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		<dc:creator>xardoz</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Aug 2006 18:16:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I&#039;ve got emails in to Kit Bond and Jim Talent - both R-MO.  Better not be one of my boys.

I&#039;m just sayin&#039;, is all.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I&#8217;ve got emails in to Kit Bond and Jim Talent &#8211; both R-MO.  Better not be one of my boys.</p>
<p>I&#8217;m just sayin&#8217;, is all.</p>
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		<title>By: Romeo13</title>
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		<dc:creator>Romeo13</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Aug 2006 18:15:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I think your efforts are misdirected... the problem is not the one senator who did this... but the process by which this can happen.

We need to get the blogosphere, and MSM, to bring daylight to this silly practice.  

This can only flourish IF the voters don&#039;t know about it... as I did not until a couple of days ago...</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I think your efforts are misdirected&#8230; the problem is not the one senator who did this&#8230; but the process by which this can happen.</p>
<p>We need to get the blogosphere, and MSM, to bring daylight to this silly practice.  </p>
<p>This can only flourish IF the voters don&#8217;t know about it&#8230; as I did not until a couple of days ago&#8230;</p>
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		<title>By: IrishEi</title>
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		<dc:creator>IrishEi</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Aug 2006 17:59:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Five bucks says it&#039;s Kennedy.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Five bucks says it&#8217;s Kennedy.</p>
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		<title>By: Can't See the Center</title>
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		<dc:creator>Can't See the Center</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Aug 2006 17:16:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;strong&gt;What would Democrats do?...&lt;/strong&gt;

Time magazine and former Wall Street Journal token liberal Al Hunt have declared that the Democrats have won next November&#039;s election. So I suppose the question we should be asking ourselves is, What would the Democrats do with the victory?...</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong>What would Democrats do?&#8230;</strong></p>
<p>Time magazine and former Wall Street Journal token liberal Al Hunt have declared that the Democrats have won next November&#8217;s election. So I suppose the question we should be asking ourselves is, What would the Democrats do with the victory?&#8230;</p>
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		<title>By: webproze</title>
		<link>http://hotair.com/archives/2006/08/29/secret-hold-73-down-27-to-go/comment-page-1/#comment-43929</link>
		<dc:creator>webproze</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Aug 2006 16:35:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>That&#039;d be available here:  http://tpmmuckraker.com/secret_hold.php</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>That&#8217;d be available here:  <a href="http://tpmmuckraker.com/secret_hold.php" rel="nofollow">http://tpmmuckraker.com/secret_hold.php</a></p>
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		<title>By: Kid from Brooklyn</title>
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		<dc:creator>Kid from Brooklyn</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Aug 2006 16:28:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Current holdouts, from TPM Muckraker.  Of note, Chambliss from GA has allegedly refused to answer.  A little help here, labwrs?  


Baucus, Max- (D - MT) 
Bayh, Evan- (D - IN)*
Bond, Christopher S.- (R - MO) 
Bunning, Jim- (R - KY) 
Byrd, Robert C.- (D - WV) 
Carper, Thomas R.- (D - DE)*
&lt;strong&gt;Chambliss, Saxby- (R - GA)*&lt;/strong&gt;
Conrad, Kent- (D - ND) 
Crapo, Mike- (R - ID) 
Domenici, Pete V.- (R - NM) 
Dorgan, Byron L.- (D - ND) 
Gregg, Judd- (R - NH) 
Harkin, Tom- (D - IA) 
Hatch, Orrin G.- (R - UT)
Johnson, Tim- (D - SD) 
Kennedy, Edward M.- (D - MA) 
Leahy, Patrick J.- (D - VT) 
Levin, Carl- (D - MI) 
Murkowski, Lisa- (R - AK)
Reid, Harry- (D - NV)*
Rockefeller, John D., IV- (D - WV) 
Sarbanes, Paul S.- (D - MD) 
Stabenow, Debbie- (D - MI) 
Stevens, Ted- (R - AK) 
Talent, James M.- (R - MO)</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Current holdouts, from TPM Muckraker.  Of note, Chambliss from GA has allegedly refused to answer.  A little help here, labwrs?  </p>
<p>Baucus, Max- (D &#8211; MT)<br />
Bayh, Evan- (D &#8211; IN)*<br />
Bond, Christopher S.- (R &#8211; MO)<br />
Bunning, Jim- (R &#8211; KY)<br />
Byrd, Robert C.- (D &#8211; WV)<br />
Carper, Thomas R.- (D &#8211; DE)*<br />
<strong>Chambliss, Saxby- (R &#8211; GA)*</strong><br />
Conrad, Kent- (D &#8211; ND)<br />
Crapo, Mike- (R &#8211; ID)<br />
Domenici, Pete V.- (R &#8211; NM)<br />
Dorgan, Byron L.- (D &#8211; ND)<br />
Gregg, Judd- (R &#8211; NH)<br />
Harkin, Tom- (D &#8211; IA)<br />
Hatch, Orrin G.- (R &#8211; UT)<br />
Johnson, Tim- (D &#8211; SD)<br />
Kennedy, Edward M.- (D &#8211; MA)<br />
Leahy, Patrick J.- (D &#8211; VT)<br />
Levin, Carl- (D &#8211; MI)<br />
Murkowski, Lisa- (R &#8211; AK)<br />
Reid, Harry- (D &#8211; NV)*<br />
Rockefeller, John D., IV- (D &#8211; WV)<br />
Sarbanes, Paul S.- (D &#8211; MD)<br />
Stabenow, Debbie- (D &#8211; MI)<br />
Stevens, Ted- (R &#8211; AK)<br />
Talent, James M.- (R &#8211; MO)</p>
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		<title>By: V5</title>
		<link>http://hotair.com/archives/2006/08/29/secret-hold-73-down-27-to-go/comment-page-1/#comment-43913</link>
		<dc:creator>V5</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Aug 2006 16:05:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;blockquote&gt;How about a list of the remaining 27 so we can harrass them for an answer.&lt;/blockquote&gt;

Ditto for me.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<blockquote><p>How about a list of the remaining 27 so we can harrass them for an answer.</p></blockquote>
<p>Ditto for me.</p>
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		<title>By: EEprom</title>
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		<dc:creator>EEprom</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Aug 2006 16:04:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Whats with this &#039;secret hold&#039; crapola? Is this like &#039;double secret probation&#039;?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Whats with this &#8217;secret hold&#8217; crapola? Is this like &#8216;double secret probation&#8217;?</p>
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		<title>By: docdave</title>
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		<dc:creator>docdave</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Aug 2006 15:51:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>How about a list of the remaining 27 so we can harrass them for an answer.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>How about a list of the remaining 27 so we can harrass them for an answer.</p>
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		<title>By: Clark1</title>
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		<dc:creator>Clark1</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Aug 2006 15:48:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>A lot of the &quot;off the list&quot; members are based on very very weak data.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>A lot of the &#8220;off the list&#8221; members are based on very very weak data.</p>
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		<title>By: Ace of Spades HQ</title>
		<link>http://hotair.com/archives/2006/08/29/secret-hold-73-down-27-to-go/comment-page-1/#comment-43886</link>
		<dc:creator>Ace of Spades HQ</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Aug 2006 15:31:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;strong&gt;Secret Hold Senator: Byrd?...&lt;/strong&gt;

Just speculation from Immodest Proposals, but Byrd is the most likely offender. Actually, he names both Byrd and Stevens, but I&#039;ll ignore the Stevens thing. Not because it couldn&#039;t be Stevens, but because Byrd demolishes Stevens in every relevant cri...</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong>Secret Hold Senator: Byrd?&#8230;</strong></p>
<p>Just speculation from Immodest Proposals, but Byrd is the most likely offender. Actually, he names both Byrd and Stevens, but I&#8217;ll ignore the Stevens thing. Not because it couldn&#8217;t be Stevens, but because Byrd demolishes Stevens in every relevant cri&#8230;</p>
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		<title>By: Kid from Brooklyn</title>
		<link>http://hotair.com/archives/2006/08/29/secret-hold-73-down-27-to-go/comment-page-1/#comment-43883</link>
		<dc:creator>Kid from Brooklyn</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Aug 2006 15:27:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>74 no&#039;s.  Specter&#039;s out.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>74 no&#8217;s.  Specter&#8217;s out.</p>
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		<title>By: JasonG</title>
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		<dc:creator>JasonG</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Aug 2006 15:25:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>What&#039;s to keep these guys from lying?  These are politicians after all...

&#039;I would have gotten away with it too.  If it weren&#039;t for these bloggers and their meddlesome puppy!&#039;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>What&#8217;s to keep these guys from lying?  These are politicians after all&#8230;</p>
<p>&#8216;I would have gotten away with it too.  If it weren&#8217;t for these bloggers and their meddlesome puppy!&#8217;</p>
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