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</html><description>No matter how bad things seem to be, there are always ways for them to become worse. While the campaign against Medicare and Social Security is being couched in the sort of faux inevitability that has become familiar via European austerity measures, other pernicious lame duck session measures are moving forward in the hope no one will notice.   Dave Dayen wrote up a remarkably ugly one last Friday.</description></oembed>

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