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	<title>The Japan Times &#187; Karen Tumulty</title>
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		<title>Shutdown quandary shows Washington&#8217;s breakdown</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Sep 2013 14:05:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Karen Tumulty</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Washington once again stands at a moment of crisis &#8212; only this time, Democrats and Republicans are not negotiating a way to avoid it. They are not even speaking to one another. The cumulative effect of almost three years of governing by near-death experience is becoming clear. Instead of bringing a resolution, each close call [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Weiner wife emerges as husband&#8217;s chief defender despite repeat of sex scandal</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Jul 2013 14:00:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Karen Tumulty  and Jason Horowitz</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It was his news conference, but it was hard to take your eyes off her. With Huma Abedin&#8217;s emergence as her husband&#8217;s chief defender and protector in a second sex scandal, she made a public transformation from being the victim of Anthony Weiner&#8217;s transgressions to a full partner in his ambition. Although those who know [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Is Rand Paul going mainstream, or is mainstream going Rand Paul?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 23 Jun 2013 15:04:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Karen Tumulty</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Rand Paul seems to be crossing over to the mainstream &#8212; or maybe it&#8217;s the other way around. When Kentucky&#8217;s junior senator arrived in Washington just over two years ago, he seemed destined to inhabit the role of perpetual outlier. But now, he&#8217;s in the mix on just about everything that is happening, and talked [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Monitoring scandals unite left, right</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Jun 2013 15:03:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Karen Tumulty</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[privacy]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A late spring storm of Washington controversies has created a rare event in these partisan, polarized times: a shared I-told-you-so moment for the left and the right. For anyone worried about the potential for government overreach, the past few weeks brought more cause for concern: the Internal Revenue Service targeting conservative groups for special scrutiny; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Have U.S. political parties lost their purpose?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 31 Mar 2013 15:02:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Karen Tumulty</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Democrats and Republicans may be worlds apart on most things, but at their headquarters just two blocks away from each other on Capitol Hill, each is confronting the same question: Have political parties lost their purpose? In the wake of two presidential defeats, the Republican National Committee on March 18 unveiled what it is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>After steep fall from grace, ex-Gov. Mark Sanford now hiking comeback trail</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 24 Feb 2013 15:00:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Karen Tumulty</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[In the annals of political redemption stories, it is hard to top the one that Republican Former Gov. Mark Sanford is attempting to write in South Carolina, the state he once headed. After a spectacular 2009 scandal that destroyed his marriage, spawned impeachment proceedings and saddled him with the biggest ethics fine in state history, [...]]]></description>
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