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Bad polling news for President Obama just keeps rolling in, this time falling public approval ratings on his handling of foreign policy issues in the wake of his nationally televised address on the Libyan situation last week.
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Leave it to a couple of Tea Party guys in Flyover America to show Washington's professional politicians how to come up with a reasonable budget at a time of economic crisis.
Chris Littleon and Dan Lilback are, according to The Hill which published their budget oped, "Tea Party leaders in Ohio and work with the Ohio Liberty Council, a statewide coalition of more than 65 liberty-minded organizations."
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President Obama's public support continues to head downward, according to the latest monthly compilation of Rasmussen Reports daily tracking survey.
"The number of voters who Strongly Disapprove of the president’s performance inched up a point in March - for the second month in a row - to 40%. This figure has stayed in a narrow range of 37% to 44% since July 2009.
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Sen. Jim Inhofe, the Oklahoma Repubican who is the ranking minority member of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, has released a video report in which he claims "bipartisan support" for his bill to stop EPA from implementing via regulation the cap-and-trade program Congress refused to adopt.
"We have an overwhelming bipartisan majority in the United States Senate opposed to the Obama-EPA cap-and-trade agenda...
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One thing became clear early on in the Battle of Wisconsin between entrenched, powerful public employee unions and Republican Gov. Scott Walker - the crucial issue was not whether the labor bosses would accept cuts in pension and health care benefits sought by the state's chief executive and a newly elected GOP majority in the state legislature.
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Have men’s incomes fallen during the last 40 years? That’s a meme you hear often in political discourse and a conclusion that some economists have reached as well. I argued the contrary in my February 26 Examiner column. Excerpt:
“My own assumption is that economic statistics have been painting an unduly bleak picture of modest-income America.
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How's this for a conversation opener at your next Capitol Hill fund raiser?
"A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that just 16% of Likely U.S. Voters feel that, generally speaking, it would be better for the country if most incumbents in Congress were reelected. That’s a seven-point drop from 23% last August and down from 19% in February 2010.
"Fifty-six percent (56%) say it would be better if most incumbents were defeated and 28% are not sure.
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How's this for a conversation opener at your next Capitol Hill fund raiser?
"A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that just 16% of Likely U.S. Voters feel that, generally speaking, it would be better for the country if most incumbents in Congress were reelected. That’s a seven-point drop from 23% last August and down from 19% in February 2010.
"Fifty-six percent (56%) say it would be better if most incumbents were defeated and 28% are not sure.
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National Journal reports that former Democratic presidential aspirant and Democratic National Committee chairman Howard Dean says he "would be quietly rooting" for a government shutdown in the current budget showdown with House Speaker John Boehner and Republicans on Capitol Hill.
“If I was head of DNC, I would be quietly rooting for it,” said Dean while speaking on a National Journal Insider’s Conference panel earlier today.
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