Common Folk Using Common Sense

More Höpenchange, via Rasmussen:

The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Thursday shows that 24% of the nation’s voters Strongly Approve of the way that Barack Obama is performing his role as President. Forty-two percent (42%) Strongly Disapprove giving Obama a Presidential Approval Index rating of -18.
Thirty-seven percent (37%) give the President good or [...]

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From National Review Online:

According to the most recent Fortune 500 rankings, health insurers are not even among the top-30 United States industries in profit-margin. Health insurers rank 35th, with a profit-margin of just 2.2 percent — less than one-fifth the profit-margin of railroads. None of the ten largest American health insurers made profits [...]

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Says the UK Times Online:

For the rest of us, however, it was mainly an opportunity to see how many conciliatory-looking poses Obama could strike while listening to his Republican opponents explain why the entire first year of his administration has been a gigantic waste of time, and why the telephone directory-sized health Bills produced by [...]

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Via FOX News:

President Barack Obama strongly signaled that Democrats will move forward on a health care overhaul with or without Republicans, preparing his party for a fight whose political outcome will rest with voters in November.
Delivering his closing argument at a 7-1/2-hour televised policy marathon Thursday, Obama told Republicans he welcomes their ideas — even [...]

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Via FOX News:

When 4-year-old Eric Stavros Adler choked to death on a piece of hot dog, his anguished mother never dreamed that the popular kids’ food could be so dangerous.
Some food makers including Oscar Mayer have warning labels about choking, but not nearly enough, says Joan Stavros Adler, Eric’s mom.
The American Academy of Pediatrics agrees. [...]

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Here is how Obama/Reid/Pelosi has decided to treat the average American:

Senator Ben Nelson of Nebraska got his state a special Medicaid expansion subsidy will initially cost residents of the other 49 states an estimated $300 million.
Senator Carl Levin of Michigan got an exemption for non-profit insurers in his state from a hefty excise tax. [...]

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Via Real Clear Politics:
Percentage of respondents asked the following questions:
Direction of Country
- Right Direction: 36.2
- Wrong Track: 57.8
- Spread: -21.6
President Obama Job Approval
- Approve: 49.4
- Disapprove: 44.6
- Spread: +4.8
Congressional Job Approval
- Right Direction: 25.7
- Wrong Track: 66.0
- Spread: -40.3
Obama and Democrats’ Health Care Plan
- For/Favor: [...]

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Bloomberg tells us:

The Mayo Clinic, praised by President Barack Obama as a national model for efficient health care, will stop accepting Medicare patients as of tomorrow at one of its primary-care clinics in Arizona, saying the U.S. government pays too little.
More than 3,000 patients eligible for Medicare, the government’s largest health-insurance program, will be forced [...]

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Under Social Security, lower and middle class individuals are forced to pay a significant portion of their gross income, around 12%, for the alleged purpose of securing their retirement. That money is not saved or invested, but transferred directly to the program’s current beneficiaries with the “promise” that when current taxpayers get old, the income [...]

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From The Politico:

Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) concedes that Republican senators won’t be able to stop Democratic health care reform legislation from passing the Senate before Christmas.
“We will fight until the last vote,” McCain told “Fox News Sunday” host Chris Wallace. “We owe that to our constituents, because we must do everything – we must look [...]

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Or so says Reverend Jesse Jackson:

The Rev. Jesse Jackson on Wednesday night criticized Rep. Artur Davis (D-Ala.) for voting against the Democrats’ signature healthcare bill.
“We even have blacks voting against the healthcare bill,” Jackson said at a reception Wednesday night. “You can’t vote against healthcare and call yourself a black man.”
The remark stirred a murmur [...]

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Via FOX News:

More than $98 billion in taxpayer dollars spent by government agencies was wasted, much of it on questionable claims for tax credits and Medicare benefits, representing an increase of $26 billion from the previous year.
In all, about 5 percent of spending in federal programs in fiscal year 2009 was improper, according to new [...]

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New Jersey Governor
Chris Christie (R) – 49%
Jon Corzine (D) – 45%
Virginia Governor
Bob McDonnell (R) – 59%
Creigh Deeds (D) – 41%
N.Y. District 23
Bill Owens (D) – 49%
Doug Hoffman (Conservative) – 41%
Christie and McDonnel, both Republicans in heavily-Democratic states, won. Hoffman, a complete underdog on a 3rd party ticket, almost beat professional politician Owens.
Says Michael Barone:

First, [...]

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From CNN:

For the first time since he took over in the White House, Americans don’t see eye to eye with President Barack Obama on the important issues, according to a new national poll.
According to the poll, which was released Tuesday, 48 percent of people questioned say that they agree with Obama on the issues that [...]

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