Dems talking points target Santorum

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http://www.nytimes.com/2006/02/07/politics/07assess.html?_r=1&th=&oref=slogin&emc=th&pagewanted=print

February 7, 2006
News Analysis
Holding Fast to a Policy of Tax Cutting
By ROBIN TONER

WASHINGTON, Feb. 6 — George W. Bush ran for office as a "compassionate conservative," arguing that Americans did not have to choose between huge tax cuts and a government that would do its part to address social needs like education and health care.

Now into his sixth year in the White House, Mr. Bush offered a budget on Monday that showed more clearly than ever the inexorable limits of that political promise.

Mr. Bush is asking Congress, first and foremost, to make his tax cuts permanent and to increase spending on national security, while looking for savings in popular domestic programs like Medicare and vocational education. The tradeoffs, to his critics, are achingly clear, and unfair.

Mr. Bush's budget began an ideologically charged debate in a midterm election year, with his party's control of Congress at stake. Democrats said Mr. Bush was proposing spending reductions that went well beyond fat to preserve his tax cuts for the affluent.

"This is cutting lean, muscular programs," said Representative John M. Spratt Jr. of South Carolina, the ranking Democrat on the House Budget Committee.

The Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee quickly dispatched talking points tailored to hot Senate races. "White House budget forces Santorum to choose between Pennsylvania and Bush," said one set of talking points focused on Senator Rick Santorum of Pennsylvania, a Republican facing a difficult re-election fight. "Pennsylvania could lose millions in law enforcement, education, health care dollars.".......

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1. Dems need to start talking about this now!!!

They need to let the American people know that Bush's tax cuts are going to the rich, not the middle or poorer classes. They need to let them know that student loan programs are being cut, health programs are getting the ax, and prescription drug companies are writing policy.

They need to let them know that these are core Republican principles.

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2. Don't hold your breath. We know it, but it seems like our

elected dem reps want to keep this hidden.

What creeps.