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The much-ballyhooed “health care summit” between President Obama and congressional Democrats and Republicans was held last Thursday. Few if any thought the meeting would result in agreement on a bipartisan bill that would breeze through the halls of Congress. The Republicans wanted any legislation to start from scratch and be built in a true bipartisan [...]

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That’s what the Rasmussen Approval Index for President Obama is this morning, as his Strong Approvals are just 23 percent while Strong Disapprovals are at 43 percent.
As Rasmussen compiles numbers based on a three-day rolling average, one-third of the sample includes respondents polled last night after yesterday’s health-care summit. It’s clear the President hasn’t had [...]

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“You know, when I was — when I was young, just got out of college, I had to buy auto insurance. I had a beat-up old car. And I won’t name the name of the insurance company, but there was a company, let’s call it Acme Insurance in — in Illinois. And I was paying [...]

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On Thursday, February 18, Representative Henry Waxman (D-Calif.), Chairman of the powerful House Energy and Commerce Committee, and Representative Edward Markey (D-Mass.) continued their relentless attack on the domestic natural gas industry. The top of their agenda was to make the case for the regulation of hydraulic fracturing under the US Environmental Protection Agency [...]

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Election Scoreboard  as of 2/26/2010

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If you don’t agree, check out this harangue delivered by UK Independence Party MEP Nigal Farage in the face of new EU president Herman van Rompuy at the European Union parliament yesterday:

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After having endured four of the 6 1/2 hours of the Health Care Summit (also known as the Blair House Project) today, I offer the following observations:
First, if the Obama administration intended for this event to promote its health care plan in the public eye, it was a major mistake. Not only was the president [...]

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…and you can see for yourself why:

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