Common Folk Using Common Sense

Found at the Washington Post:

Bluntly put, this is the political reality:
First, the battle for public opinion has been lost. Comprehensive health care has been lost. If it fails, as appears possible, Democrats will face the brunt of the electorate’s reaction. If it passes, however, Democrats will face a far greater calamitous reaction at the polls. [...]

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Atlanta Center for Disease Control
February 8, 2010
Reuters, CNN Wire Services
New Disease Discovered and Classified: ‘Gonorrhea Lectim’
The Center for Disease Control has issued a warning about a new virulent strain of this old disease. The disease is called Gonorrhea Lectim (pronounced “Gonna re-elect ‘em”).
The disease is contracted through dangerous and high risk behavior involving putting [...]

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From those great folks at Cato:

Additional federal spending transfers resources from the more productive private sector to the less productive public sector of the economy.
As federal spending rises, it creates pressure to raise taxes now and in the future.
Much federal spending is wasteful and many federal programs are mismanaged.
Federal programs often benefit special interest groups [...]

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From CNN:

A majority of Americans think the federal government poses a threat to rights of Americans, according to a new national poll.
Fifty-six percent of people questioned in a CNN/Opinion Research Corporation survey released Friday say they think the federal government’s become so large and powerful that it poses an immediate threat to the rights and [...]

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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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Says Nile Gardiner, foreign affairs analyst and political commentator at the UK Telegraph:

What a difference a year makes. A year ago, the liberal media in America (i.e. about 90% of the print press) had written off conservatism as dead and buried. An avowedly left-wing president worshipped with almost messianic zeal across much of the world, [...]

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Via Rush Limbaugh and others:

RUSH: Here’s Lech Walesa. This is last Friday in Chicago at a campaign event for Republican gubernatorial candidate Adam Andrzejewski, and this is what he said, a portion of his remarks.
WALESA (via translator): The United States is only one superpower. Today they lead the world. Nobody has doubts about it. [...]

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“The rights of conscience, of bearing arms, of changing the government, are declared to be inherent in the people.” – Fisher Ames, US Representative, 1st Congressional District of Massachusetts, 1758-1808

Not only are the pre-existing rights of bearing arms and changing the government inherent in We The People, but they are also our job and our [...]

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From the Boston Herald:

Upstart Republican Scott Brown rocketed to victory in the race to the U.S. Senate yesterday, steamrolling Attorney General Martha Coakley’s layabout campaign in an against-all-odds triumph that sent shock waves from the Heartland to the White House.
“I thought it was going to be me against the machine. I was wrong. It’s all [...]

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Via FOX News:

Congress does not draw to its halls those who love liberty. It draws those who love power.

Know this: Congress, at least the one in power today, is not a friend of our Constitutional Republic. Congress is not a friend of either liberty or freedom. Congress has much more akin to [...]

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Says FOX News:

Republican Party Chairman Michael Steele offers a simple explanation for why the GOP may have lost touch with some Americans since the Ronald Reagan era: “We screwed up,” he claims in a new book offering a blueprint for the party’s resurgence.
That “we” includes the last two Republican presidents and the most recent Republican [...]

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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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From Rasmussen:

Running under the Tea Party brand may be better in congressional races than being a Republican.
In a three-way Generic Ballot test, the latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds Democrats attracting 36% of the vote. The Tea Party candidate picks up 23%, and Republicans finish third at 18%. Another 22% are undecided.
Among voters not [...]

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Says Jonah Goldberg:

Hence, the quest for the middle ground usually rewards the worst kinds of politicians — those devoid of any core convictions and only concerned with feathering their own nests — and yields the worst kinds of policies. Blending the two visions is like trying to marry two different recipes. You don’t get the [...]

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