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Tuesday, May 09, 2006

This is the difference:

This past weekend, Democrats announced their plan for what they will do when they win back the House in November. Here’s the to-do list for their first week in office:

--Raise the minimum wage (for the first time since 1997)
--Allow the government to negotiate better prices with drug companies
--Vote to fully implement recommendations of the 9/11 Commission
--Reinstate Congressional rules to try to bring the budget back into balance. In other words, if Congress wants to increase spending or cut taxes, they’ll have to show how they’re going to pay for these things (and, no, raising the debt ceiling is not a way around ‘showing your work’).

In response, Tom DeLay said on This Week With George Stephanopoulos that Republican priorities – the things they’re running on to try to maintain control of the House – are as follows:



--An amendment banning gay marriage
--Putting a stop to stem cell research
--“Judicial activism” (translation: making sure there are more right wing judges)
--Banning abortion
--An anti flag-burning amendment

Folks, this is all you need to know when you go to the polls in November.

Posted by KAY


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3 Comments:

Blogger Arielle commented at 11:54 PM~  

Is that list about the Republican "to do list"an exaggeration or is that legit?

These days I often hear things come out of Republican's mouths that are so outlandish that I have gotten to the point where I cannot separate sarcasm (by democrats/non republicans of republicans) from the truth..sad really.

Blogger Frank Partisan commented at 9:05 PM~  

When I first became political, it was during the Vietnam war. That was a Democratic Party in charge war, started with Kennedy sending "advisors."

I hate to burst your bubble again. The most important issue this country, maybe the world is facing, the Iraq war, is not mentioned. I'm not sure if I'd want the 9/11 commission's recommendations, in light of the wide spread telephone mining. What about immigration? Health insurance?

Blogger Frank Partisan commented at 8:55 PM~  

A political program is very important. It is for the party, like a compass; sometimes for decades.

What kind of party has no position on the most important issue facing all of humanity?

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