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When you have people like conservative republican senators like tom coburn, kay granger, tom cole, speaking up and saying, this is the right thing to do, for goodness sakes, let's get it done. >> congressman? >> i'd ask the senator, just do the math. if you go to a small family-owned business in bakersfield, california, that hires my friends, hires my neighbors, with the new tax rate they pay 37%, 39%. california, add another 13.8%. is it fair that any american pays more than half of their income into taxes? and that's before sales tax. that's more than paying for the cable tax. should we make...

Survey by allstate insurance which says drivers there go only 4.7 years between accidents. meanwhile, the safest drivers are in sioux falls, south dakota, where the average driver has a crash only once every 13.8 years. and glad this didn't happen to us. it happened in canada. there was a bat that made a guest appearance flying through a studio during a tv newscast in ottawa. a young woman who works in the newsroom helped escort the bat out the side door. here's your first look at this morning's dish of scrambled politics. on facebook, sarah palin, the republican vice presidential nominee ...

$16.5 -- 16.5% african-american 2.6% are asian american and to give you an idea of the household income, the median under $47,000. 13.8% live below the poverty line. president obama won florida by three percentage points in 2008, even though he lost the 65 and older vote by 8 percentage points. this year, it's one of the big three tossup states likely to hold the keys to the white house and may lie in its high senior citiz citizen population. how will the seniors vote there this fall? john yang live in tampa, florida, with more on this morning. good morning. >> good morning. a lot of focus on ...

He has his entire life he has been a servant of a community that has had different issues that they are dealing with. you've had poverty, divorce, you've had things that he has had to deal with as a bishop in the church, as a state president in the church which is a lay minister in the church. i think he could speak to those things because what the media is doing or what this campaign, the obama campaign is trying to do is say he's out of touch with everyday americans and he's not. he's probably more in touch than most americans because of the experiences he has had in all of his church respon...

>> that's not true, chrysler paid back all of the money. the government is out of the chrysler business. and here's one of the ironies, chrysler is controlled by fiat. fiat's ceo is italian. you have this consequent essentially american ad being done by what is now essentially an italian company. >> and again, the company gains no favors with the federal government by running this ad. >> no, remember the company last year did the great eminem ad, right? >> which by the way, can i just say, i also liked that ad. >> they were great ads. >> come on, man. we're for detroit. there's nothing wrong w...