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• Partisan split on global warming science

  —WE Blog

  

  Nearly two-thirds of Americans want the federal government to regulate the release of greenhouse gases from sources such as power plants, cars and factories, according to a new Washington Post-ABC News poll. But when it comes to the science behind global warming, those surveyed [...]

  Posted: December 23, 2009, 6:02am EST
  by Phillip Brownlee

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• Drug companies get another payoff

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  The Senate failed this week to approve legislation that would allow consumers to import low-cost prescription drugs from other countries. The Congressional Budget Office estimated that the plan would have saved the federal government $19 billion over the coming decade, and bill sponsor Sen. Byron Dorgan, [...]

  Posted: December 17, 2009, 6:02am EST
  by Phillip Brownlee

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• Politico — Health bill sparks nanny state debate

  —The Kansas Progress

  “The federal government is never going to encourage personal responsibility and never has,” the South Carolina Republican said. “Personal responsibility is a good principle - but not the government doing it.” In a document circulating in the hopes of defeating the measure - and the health care bill in general - [...]

  Posted: December 14, 2009, 4:39pm EST
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• Obama’s 2008 Campaign: A Job Creation Lesson — John Tamny

  —The Kansas Progress

  With the federal government’s measure of unemployment in the double digits, President Obama has unsurprisingly moved job creation to the top of his list of initiatives. And while his priorities could surely be worse, his approach has been contradictory to that which might actually lead to the creation of new [...]

  Posted: December 13, 2009, 12:30am EST
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• Liberal Kansas internet groupies flip-flop faster than John Kerry

  —The KRA Blog

  It’s a set of dance moves that would make John Kerry proud. Government run healthcare supporters gathered in Wichita Saturday to protest the Healthcare Freedom Amendment (HFA). The Amendment, sponsored by Reps. Brenda Landwehr, Peggy Mast and Sen. Mary Pilcher-Cook, would try to prevent the federal government from imposing fines, or [...]

  Posted: December 07, 2009, 11:53am EST
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• Florida’s Cannon: States Should Control Healthcare Spending — Newsmax

  —The Kansas Progress

  Florida House Speaker Dean Cannon, R-Winter Park, says he hopes Florida can garner a waiver on how it spends federal funds if healthcare reform passes. He told Newsmax.TV that he and Republican State Sen. Mike Haridopolos have discussed asking the federal government for such a waiver, giving the state more flexibility [...]

  Posted: December 07, 2009, 8:07am EST
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• The End of Audacity — NINA EASTON

  —The Kansas Progress

  “Audacity” was a catchy campaign theme, but it’s less attractive as a governing principle. The all-important swing voters who decide elections are nervous about dramatic expansions of the Federal Government–even and especially in this time of economic distress. As it turns out, this financial crisis was not the call to [...]

  Posted: December 05, 2009, 5:12am EST
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• Rasmussen — Voters Still Worry Government Will Do Too Much For Economy

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  A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey shows that 53% of voters worry that the federal government will do too much when it comes to reacting to the nation’s financial problems. This marks a five-point increase from last month and is seven points higher than the week after President Obama [...]

  Posted: November 23, 2009, 2:05pm EST
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• Gallup — More in U.S. Say Health Coverage Is Not Gov’t. Responsibility; Marks significant shift from the attitudes of the past decade

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  PRINCETON, NJ — More Americans now say it is not the federal government’s responsibility to make sure all Americans have healthcare coverage (50%) than say it is (47%). This is a first since Gallup began tracking this question, and a significant shift from as recently as three years ago, when [...]

  Posted: November 13, 2009, 9:12am EST
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