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Shorter VersionTM of some Hill news that's fit to blog is over the fold...

A perspective on voter dissatisfaction.

Suggestions that a party has to build the farm team.

A pox on both their houses.

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Village Bizarroworld.

Nation of dodos.

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What if they listened . . .

Not on the schedule.

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State lawmakers take on SCOTUS ruling.

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Read or not here comes California, Sen. Webb.

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David Letterman must be proud.

Sen. Demint might just need the help.

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Some are in Haiti, some are going home.

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Another Republican support the real census.

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Jobs, Jobs, Jobs,

The Next Real Fight.

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Yet another reason to think about the marriage as a civil right.

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