Democrats must remember to keep their eye on the ball...

[kentuck]

The ball is that they need to "nationalize" this upcoming election. Every Republican running should not be permitted to run away from George W Bush. They have chosen their own medicine. When they met with Bush and Rove and they all decided they would run on the "war in Iraq" and they would paint all the Democrats as "cut and runners". Well, if that is what they want?

The war has not been the only failure of this Administration. They have damn near broke our Treasury. They have us stuck in a quagmire in Iraq. The best solution is to declare victory now and get the hell out. They have exhibited gross incompetence with their handling or lack of handling the Katrina hurricane. Not to mention how they have sullied our good name all around the world with their secret prisons, their torture, Abu Graib, their scheme to rob the Social Security system from the people, when all it needs is a minor adjustment. Their NSA spying and the bank records spying and the lies. Oh, the lies!

No, we should not let them make their election about themselves and the Democrat running against them. It is about their incompetence and their lack of oversight. They have surpassed the "Do-Nothing" Congress of 1948 in their lack of progress report. They have rubberstamped everything that George Bush has requested. Their record is what they are running on. And it is a pitiful record indeed. That is waht the Democrats are running against. We need to clean House. America cannot afford any more of this brand of Republican politics.

[snowbear]

1. Way to go Kentuck!

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[kentuck]

3. And here is the issue that will make this a referendum on the Repubs...

link from www.talkingpointsmemo.com

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As you know by now, New Jersey senate candidate Tom Kean, Jr. refuses to say whether he's for the Bush plan to phase out Social Security and replace it with private accounts. We're now on Day 8 trying to get a straight answer out of him.

And now we've found a second reporter whom Kean told back in 2000 that he supported the Bush plan. That was when Kean was running for a House seat in 2000. (The first was a reporter for the Westfield Leader, noted here.)

According to a May 15th 2000 Associated Press article by Laurence Arnold, Kean said that he, like the other four candidates for the GOP nomination supported "the idea of letting people invest part of their Social Security payroll taxes into a private investment account they would manage."

[Pierogi_Pincher]

2. What you said!

:applause: :yourock:

P_P

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