One idea that everybody who has common sense ought to agree on is the last thing we need is higher gas taxes. Higher gas taxes are bad for families. They're bad for workers. ... It's bad for jobs.

[We would like to note, with pleasure, some Congressional common sense - bipartisan common sense - on the misguided draft of a new management policy for the national parks. Last week, six Republican senators told Interior Secretary Gale Norton that they were unhappy with the way the proposed changes de-emphasized the fundamental goal of preserving the parks. And on Tuesday, the Senate's national parks subcommittee heard balanced testimony about the changes the Interior Department is planning. The Bush administration's arguments for revising the management policy left some committee members skeptical.] Frankly, ... we don't understand what the true motivation was.

It is a tragic case of overloading the back porches, ... use common sense.

Looking at these numbers, what do they tell anyone who's got any common sense? Everything you're seeing is just too little, too late.

At least Nebraska is doing that. Nebraska does show some common sense.

[It is] surpassingly strange, ... put their common sense on hold.