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    <title>Slate Magazine - Fixing It</title>
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    <description>Repairing some of the worst Bush administration screw-ups.</description>
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  <title>Slate's series on how to repair some of the worst Bush administration screw-ups.</title>
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  <description><![CDATA[  With President Bush's approval rating hovering in the 30s, just about everyone has an opinion on what he has done wrong in the past seven years. But not everyone can explain what the next president must do to fix it. So we've called in some experts to tell us. Fixing It is a 10-part series that was published over the course of the week by some of our favorite writers, offering detailed policy prescriptions for the next president, whoever that may be, on how to quickly undo some of the damage that's been wrought. One of our contributors wryly describes the series as "News You Can Use. If You Happen To Be President."<br /><br />[<a href="http://www.slate.com/id/2188296/?from=rss">more ...</a>]  ]]></description>
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  <pubDate>Fri, 4 Apr 2008 17:17:23 EST</pubDate>
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  <title>Rethink taxes, revisit the home-mortgage deduction, regulate the investment banks and hedge funds.</title>
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  <description><![CDATA[  Discussion of how to reform the financial system is the topic du jour. And just as the technology bust and corporate scandals begat Sarbanes-Oxley (a highly detailed set of new rules that has helped reduce accounting disasters but has done little to improve financial management), the credit/housing meltdown of 2007-2008 will likely bring with it a new set of rules that will alter certain practices but do little to change the culture that spawned the mess.<br /><br />[<a href="http://www.slate.com/id/2188152/?from=rss">more ...</a>]  ]]></description>
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  <author>Daniel Gross</author>
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  <pubDate>Fri, 4 Apr 2008 13:59:08 EST</pubDate>
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  <title>Fully account for the budget, stick to the budget, and work with the other party.</title>
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  <description><![CDATA[  The fiscal damage to the United States over the last seven years is calculable. It is precisely $3,889,136,064,463, according to the Bush administration's Office of Management and Budget, which totaled up the budgetary cost to date of all the tax cuts and spending increases enacted over the past seven years. Of that nearly $4 trillion total, the administration estimates that 46 percent is tax cuts, 31 percent is defense and homeland-security spending, and 23 percent is everything else, including the prescription-drug benefit.<br /><br />[<a href="http://www.slate.com/id/2188153/?from=rss">more ...</a>]  ]]></description>
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  <author>Jason Furman</author>
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  <pubDate>Fri, 4 Apr 2008 07:35:25 EST</pubDate>
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  <title>Do it first, don't write a bill, and let someone else take the credit.</title>
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  <description><![CDATA[  Much of the next president's job will involve cleaning up George W. Bush's messes: Iraq. Guantanamo. A government starved for revenue. Cheetos under the desk in the Oval Office. But in the case of health care, it's more about cleaning up a mess the president mostly ignored and only occasionally exacerbated.<br /><br />[<a href="http://www.slate.com/id/2188016/?from=rss">more ...</a>]<!--AD BEGIN--><br clear="all" /><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/slate.rss/politics;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=6252" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/slate.rss/politics;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=6252" border="0" vspace="5" /></a><!--AD END-->  ]]></description>
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  <author>Ezra Klein</author>
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  <pubDate>Thu, 3 Apr 2008 06:58:43 EST</pubDate>
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  <title>Refocusing on the environmental crisis.</title>
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  <description><![CDATA[  President Bush's environmental policies may be alarming, but they are nevertheless worthy of study. This administration has used every last hammer, wrench, and saw in the executive toolbox to pursue its ideas about how we should use energy, land, water, and other elements of nature. And so when the next president comes into office, he or she will similarly need to deftly deploy every trick of agency rule-making, executive order, enforcement of existing laws, and cooperation with Congress to reverse the damage done by the Bush administration and to usher in a new order.<br /><br />[<a href="http://www.slate.com/id/2187940/?from=rss">more ...</a>]  ]]></description>
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  <author>Emily Bazelon</author>
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  <pubDate>Thu, 3 Apr 2008 06:58:04 EST</pubDate>
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