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<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="http://www.slate.com/blogs/utility/FeedStylesheets/rss.xsl" media="screen"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:slash="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/slash/" xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/"><channel><title>Convictions : congressional ethics</title><link>http://www.slate.com/blogs/blogs/convictions/archive/tags/congressional+ethics/default.aspx</link><description>Tags: congressional ethics</description><dc:language>en</dc:language><generator>CommunityServer 2.1 SP2 (Build: 61129.2)</generator><item><title>John McCain's Democracy in America - The few, the wealthy, the well-connected</title><link>http://www.slate.com/blogs/blogs/convictions/archive/2008/04/22/john-mccain-s-democracy-in-america-the-few-the-wealthy-the-well-connected.aspx</link><pubDate>Tue, 22 Apr 2008 18:45:00 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">b38b617e-fbf1-4816-b2a6-f11ec83af8cb:2614</guid><dc:creator>Doug Kmiec</dc:creator><slash:comments>0</slash:comments><comments>http://www.slate.com/blogs/blogs/convictions/comments/2614.aspx</comments><wfw:commentRss>http://www.slate.com/blogs/blogs/convictions/commentrss.aspx?PostID=2614</wfw:commentRss><description>John McCain has some well-heeled friends -- and donors, and they have some strange ideas about what they're entitled to in the way of congressional attention.  Well come to think of it, the idea of helping large campaign donors profit from public programs is neither strange, and apart from bribery and the like, nor illegal -- and that's what is really strange and disheartening....(&lt;a href="http://www.slate.com/blogs/blogs/convictions/archive/2008/04/22/john-mccain-s-democracy-in-america-the-few-the-wealthy-the-well-connected.aspx"&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;img src="http://www.slate.com/blogs/aggbug.aspx?PostID=2614" width="1" height="1"&gt;</description><category domain="http://www.slate.com/blogs/blogs/convictions/archive/tags/Douglas+W.+Kmiec/default.aspx">Douglas W. Kmiec</category><category domain="http://www.slate.com/blogs/blogs/convictions/archive/tags/Obama/default.aspx">Obama</category><category domain="http://www.slate.com/blogs/blogs/convictions/archive/tags/mccain/default.aspx">mccain</category><category domain="http://www.slate.com/blogs/blogs/convictions/archive/tags/nyt/default.aspx">nyt</category><category domain="http://www.slate.com/blogs/blogs/convictions/archive/tags/New+York+Times/default.aspx">New York Times</category><category domain="http://www.slate.com/blogs/blogs/convictions/archive/tags/pennsylvania+primary/default.aspx">pennsylvania primary</category><category domain="http://www.slate.com/blogs/blogs/convictions/archive/tags/campaign+finance+reform/default.aspx">campaign finance reform</category><category domain="http://www.slate.com/blogs/blogs/convictions/archive/tags/congressional+ethics/default.aspx">congressional ethics</category></item></channel></rss>