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RASMUSSEN: Obama Approval Index: -21 (matches lowest yet) Strongly Approve 22% (matches lowest yet) Strongly Disapprove 43% Total Approval 43% (matches lowest yet)

The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Saturday shows that 25% 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 -17

There is a stealth legislative initiative flying below the media radar that will help enable the feds to drive private health care insurers out of business. On February 24, the House passed an amendment, HR 4626, to a 1945 piece of legislation called the McCarran-Ferguson Act. This amendment seeks to restore federal power over insurance regulation.

President Barack Obama will use a bipartisan summit Thursday to push for sweeping health-care legislation, but if that fails to generate enough support the White House has prepared the outlines of a more modest plan.

I thought you might be interested to see how reconcilliation was used in the past. Twenty-two reconciliation bills were passed between 1980 and 2008, although three (written by Republican majorities in Congress) were vetoed by President Clinton and never became law.

Ths isan amazing collage of Democrats arguing the death of Democracy if reconcilliation is ever to be used. It is very eye-opening. A must watch.

The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Saturday shows that 23% of the nation's voters Strongly Approve of the way that Barack Obama is performing his role as President. That matches the lowest level of strong approval yet recorded for this President. Forty percent (40%) Strongly Disapprove giving Obama a Presidential Approval Index rating of -17

Five individuals were arrested amid a probe into food poisoning at Fort Jackson U.S. military base, Fox News reported on Thursday (EST). Sources told Fox the five men were detained in December over allegations that they attempted to poison the food supply at the South Carolina base. They were all part of the base's Arabic translation training program, referred to in the Army as "Lima 09". "Each of them uses Arabic as his first language," one source told Fox News. In an earlier report, before the arrests emerged, a military source told Fox News the suspects were Muslims. CBN News...

The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Friday shows that 25% of the nation's voters Strongly Approve of the way that Barack Obama is performing his role as President. Forty-three percent (43%) Strongly Disapprove giving Obama a Presidential Approval Index rating of -18

Barack Obama ran for president as a man of the people, standing up to Wall Street as the global economy melted down in that fateful fall of 2008. He pushed a tax plan to soak the rich, ripped NAFTA for hurting the middle class and tore into John McCain for supporting a bankruptcy bill that sided with wealthy bankers "at the expense of hardworking Americans." Obama may not have run to the left of Samuel Gompers or Cesar Chavez, but it's not like you saw him on the campaign trail flanked by bankers from Citigroup and Goldman Sachs. What inspired...

H1N1 vaccine distribution is a farce By Other Voices November 18, 2009, 3:58AM After being denied H1N1 vaccines for my asthmatic children in Cuyahoga County a short time ago, I took them to Summit County. This was an investment of time as we waited in line like cattle. We were herded throughout the building and given misinformation at almost every turn. The worst was about the type of shot my son could receive. I was informed on the phone and at two points in the line that he could get a thimerosal-free shot. Not so when he sat down for...

House ethics investigators have been scrutinizing the activities of more than 30 lawmakers and several aides in inquiries about issues including defense lobbying and corporate influence peddling, according to a confidential House ethics committee report prepared in July. The report appears to have been inadvertently placed on a publicly accessible computer network, and it was provided to The Washington Post by a source not connected to the congressional investigations. The committee said Thursday night that the document was released by a low-level staffer.

"President Obama is working systematically to marginalize the most powerful forces behind the Republican Party, setting loose top White House officials to undermine conservatives in the media, business and lobbying worlds. With a series of private meetings and public taunts, the White House has targeted the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, the biggest-spending pro-business lobbying group in the country; Rush Limbaugh, the country’s most-listened-to conservative commentator; and now, with a new volley of combative rhetoric in recent days, the insurance industry, Wall Street executives and Fox News"

This is a "what is, is?" moment for Jimmy!

Warning , this will make you really mad! The two swdish guys in the beginning are only on for a few seconds. The teacher is right after that.

Must Read!!! This is very scary stuff. Basically it is a power grab to control the internet. Until, now the Internet has been largely self-regulated, and the FCC has taken a hands-off approach. But that could change dramatically soon if the Obama administration has its way. During the weekend, press reports revealed a stunning development: The Obama administration will announce Monday that the FCC would propose new rules to embrace what it calls "Net Neutrality

Olbermann wants to take down Beck. I thought we could all use a little entertainment today. Please read to see what has been dug up so far.

Cleveland politics has become very corrupt. Most of the county government is Democratic. Recently most of them have been prosecuted for corruption. The local Republican organization petitioned the courts to be able to see the books of the democratic county auditor. A judge has called all the petitioners into court to prove that they are residents and really did sign this petition. no kidding. This is happening as we speak. Climaco is his lawyer.Here is an excerpt: Climaco is seeking the signers' calendars and cell phone records for the past year. He is demanding their local, state and federal taxes...

Obviously, you’ll want to split the business community: the problem makers should get nothing but grief; the problem solvers should get plenty of support. Right now the problem makers — the warmongers, the polluters, the clear-cutters, the incarcerators — get all the support they need from the government. The problem solvers — the solar engineers and the people who are growing local and organic produce — get very little support from any level of government. We want to lure the government away from the problem makers and put it back on the side of the problem solvers: give them the...

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