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<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/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>GOP watch: Selling an endorsement?</title><link>http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2009/07/17/1999674.aspx</link><description>Politico's Mike Allen reports that the American Conservative Union tried to sell its support to FedEx for $2 million. But after FedEx refused to pay, the group flipped its support to UPS. Allen says "The conservative group’s remarkable demand" is&amp;nbsp;"black-and-white</description><dc:language>en-US</dc:language><generator>CommunityServer 2.0 (Build: 60608.1)</generator><item><title>GOP watch: Selling an endorsement?</title><link>http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2009/07/17/1999674.aspx#1999683</link><pubDate>Fri, 17 Jul 2009 13:23:04 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">8a5d2dbc-a0e4-4c7a-979f-3188051f228e:1999683</guid><dc:creator>Pay To Play</dc:creator><description>Interesting FR mentions this, but ignores the Washington Post selling access to the Obama administration. In a note that the Post sent out, the Post would sell access to the &amp;quot;highest power positions in the Obama White House&amp;quot;. The Post would collect the money from lobbyist tht wanted access, and set up the meetings. What was in it for Obama? Good press coverage.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;</description></item><item><title>GOP watch: Selling an endorsement?</title><link>http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2009/07/17/1999674.aspx#1999688</link><pubDate>Fri, 17 Jul 2009 13:25:58 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">8a5d2dbc-a0e4-4c7a-979f-3188051f228e:1999688</guid><dc:creator>Dave, Tn</dc:creator><description>It's just proof that &amp;quot;unions&amp;quot; corrupt people from the ground up. Look at our government, news media etc. Some pigs are more equal than others is a way of life for them all.</description></item><item><title>GOP watch: Selling an endorsement?</title><link>http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2009/07/17/1999674.aspx#1999690</link><pubDate>Fri, 17 Jul 2009 13:27:00 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">8a5d2dbc-a0e4-4c7a-979f-3188051f228e:1999690</guid><dc:creator>Eric, Salinas, CA</dc:creator><description>Now that the people have abandoned the party of sore losers it's not surprising that they snivel their way to corporate America for help. &amp;nbsp;I salute Fed Ex and won't be doing business with UPS again until they stop supporting the dopes of nope that are ruining our secular democracy. &amp;nbsp;I think Democrats ought to borrow a page from the sore losers and demand a boycott of UPS until they stop supporting the party that wrecked our economy.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Boycott UPS!</description></item><item><title>GOP watch: Selling an endorsement?</title><link>http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2009/07/17/1999674.aspx#1999702</link><pubDate>Fri, 17 Jul 2009 13:31:52 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">8a5d2dbc-a0e4-4c7a-979f-3188051f228e:1999702</guid><dc:creator>Biased Media Stikes Again</dc:creator><description>Where are the reports about Obama being in bed with the UAW? &amp;nbsp;with GE? &amp;nbsp;with the teachers unions? &amp;nbsp;with the SEIU? with FM/FM? with....on and on and on. &amp;nbsp;Not enough space to list them all.</description></item><item><title>GOP watch: Selling an endorsement?</title><link>http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2009/07/17/1999674.aspx#1999722</link><pubDate>Fri, 17 Jul 2009 13:41:02 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">8a5d2dbc-a0e4-4c7a-979f-3188051f228e:1999722</guid><dc:creator>Feisty Redhead Roselle, IL</dc:creator><description>G = Grand&lt;br&gt;O = Old&lt;br&gt;P = Prostitutes&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;</description></item><item><title>GOP watch: Selling an endorsement?</title><link>http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2009/07/17/1999674.aspx#1999730</link><pubDate>Fri, 17 Jul 2009 13:43:18 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">8a5d2dbc-a0e4-4c7a-979f-3188051f228e:1999730</guid><dc:creator>hawk</dc:creator><description>big deal, this all you got</description></item><item><title>GOP watch: Selling an endorsement?</title><link>http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2009/07/17/1999674.aspx#1999736</link><pubDate>Fri, 17 Jul 2009 13:46:29 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">8a5d2dbc-a0e4-4c7a-979f-3188051f228e:1999736</guid><dc:creator>Cathy M, Newport, KY</dc:creator><description>Interesting FR mentions this, but ignores the Washington Post selling access to the Obama administration. In a note that the Post sent out, the Post would sell access to the &amp;quot;highest power positions in the Obama White House&amp;quot;. The Post would collect the money from lobbyist tht wanted access, and set up the meetings. What was in it for Obama? Good press coverage. &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Pay To Play (Sent Friday, July 17, 2009 9:23 AM)&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;It's just proof that &amp;quot;unions&amp;quot; corrupt people from the ground up. Look at our government, news media etc. Some pigs are more equal than others is a way of life for them all. &lt;br&gt;Dave, Tn (Sent Friday, July 17, 2009 9:25 AM)&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Where are the facts, not just inuendo and rhetoric? &amp;nbsp;Show me this&lt;br&gt;</description></item><item><title>GOP watch: Selling an endorsement?</title><link>http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2009/07/17/1999674.aspx#1999752</link><pubDate>Fri, 17 Jul 2009 13:55:36 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">8a5d2dbc-a0e4-4c7a-979f-3188051f228e:1999752</guid><dc:creator>Ivoted</dc:creator><description>Forget all of that some the folks lie that Budget person might as well come clean see retaliation through racism makes it seem like you are not being racist I'm reffering to this Health Care squabble, and it;s against our President see we all have it but the shrewd ones do it in business now how can you'll worry about the cost really see most of you have been in Cogress and just watched no sit and watched as President Bush and cronies borrowed big frp China and who knows who else I mean and just okayed it and said not a word who kids pays for that even the fake war or just the money spent on it and this NASA fluke for it has no benifits to us working class and under folks the Space program alone can pay for health care and will stop breaking holes in our Ozone see when folks who still see see you'll talking you act like sdoem of you are the smartest persons in the world but you are not and need to start taking orders from the President like the rest of us none of us are knew to President Obama agenda's just these folks in denial just don't want to help so either somebodies got your number or the inner racial structure &amp;nbsp;in your being is selfish and confused see telling people abouy a new debt while trying to sound scary it is &amp;nbsp;a sham all that old money some of yoy got and will never spend clouds yoyr outlook/stop don't worry about the smoke on who pay's for the Health Care plan this America her name alone carries weight and these companies you speak of should lose out6 if they won't help ease some of the burdeon but truth be told in D.C their is a place were they can plent plenty of money ant day so stop fooling people if AMERICA NEEDS MONEY SHE WILL PRINT IT NOT CRY ABOUR IT see any benifit's other President Obama take the votes you have plus a resolution bill for if these Dem'sare speaking out don'ty pres them for votes for these are your real porkers or poker player always the agenda for how can they something won't work when it has been tried on the National level</description></item><item><title>GOP watch: Selling an endorsement?</title><link>http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2009/07/17/1999674.aspx#1999790</link><pubDate>Fri, 17 Jul 2009 14:12:46 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">8a5d2dbc-a0e4-4c7a-979f-3188051f228e:1999790</guid><dc:creator>Scott, Auburn, IN</dc:creator><description>Re Dave, TN&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Unions aren't responsible for corrupt lobbyists. &amp;nbsp;ACU was in the business of peddling influence to the highest bidder. &amp;nbsp;What kind of solipsistic logic blames unions for conservative lobbyists' greed?</description></item><item><title>GOP watch: Selling an endorsement?</title><link>http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2009/07/17/1999674.aspx#1999791</link><pubDate>Fri, 17 Jul 2009 14:13:16 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">8a5d2dbc-a0e4-4c7a-979f-3188051f228e:1999791</guid><dc:creator>BrianC, Longmeadow MA</dc:creator><description>GOP=SLEAZY; as usual</description></item><item><title>GOP watch: Selling an endorsement?</title><link>http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2009/07/17/1999674.aspx#1999793</link><pubDate>Fri, 17 Jul 2009 14:13:42 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">8a5d2dbc-a0e4-4c7a-979f-3188051f228e:1999793</guid><dc:creator>eagle1776</dc:creator><description>Some claim the media is biased. Perhaps it is. Those concerned with the media bias should look to Fox and ask why they haven't uncovered the illeged improprieties of unions and the Obama Administration? Fox won't because they would look stupid reporting what doesn't exist. Are they biased toward Democrats? Fox? Not hardly. &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;I have to laugh at the fools who post here and elsewhere like they have facts but it is obvious that they don't. I would like to see some unbiased source for what they claim. Unfortunately such a sourse doesn't exist. Opinion isn't necessarily fact but one person's biased views as opposed to another's. &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;While unions have problems and sometimes ARE problematic if it weren't for unions most of us would be working 10 to 12 hours a day 6 days a week for very little pay. Forget owning a house. Medical insurance would be harder to afford than it is now as no union would have been there to force a company into insuring their employees and those employees would be paying outrageous premiums for little or virtually no coverage as the insurance companies laugh all the way to the bank. Yes, some unions have gone overboard in their demands. Wages are too high for what some of the unionized people do but we have to take the bad with the good. I wonder who the unions corrupt more, the workers or the companies if they corrupt anyone at all. </description></item><item><title>GOP watch: Selling an endorsement?</title><link>http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2009/07/17/1999674.aspx#1999833</link><pubDate>Fri, 17 Jul 2009 14:41:27 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">8a5d2dbc-a0e4-4c7a-979f-3188051f228e:1999833</guid><dc:creator>C.Myles/Oak Hall, VA</dc:creator><description>The GOP grandstanding &amp;amp; sensationalism of tiny issues have already convinced me that I cannot vote Republican for many more years...after having done so most of my adult life. They have become babies, with no real leadership. Palin would be #200 in the DNC thought process, and many of the GOp actually believe she would have a chance....that tells us a LOT.</description></item><item><title>GOP watch: Selling an endorsement?</title><link>http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2009/07/17/1999674.aspx#1999836</link><pubDate>Fri, 17 Jul 2009 14:43:15 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">8a5d2dbc-a0e4-4c7a-979f-3188051f228e:1999836</guid><dc:creator>Tony D</dc:creator><description>My experience with unions, and I'm a blue collar guy is either they are corrupt and run like the mob or by the mob.</description></item></channel></rss>