The Donks Have a Plan
The Donks Have A Plan
They can smell the closeness of their power returning! They're so excited by the high gas prices and the upset of both Republicans and Democrats over the inaction of the Bush Administration in securing our borders. They just know they can skate back into power by hammering these issues.
"To varying degrees, Democrats around the country are following a similar script that touches on economic anxiety and populist resentment against oil companies.
"It's a metaphor for an economy that keeps biting people despite overall good numbers," said Senator Charles E. Schumer of New York, chairman of the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee. Mr. Schumer said Democratic candidates in 10 of the 34 Senate races this year had scheduled campaign events this week focusing on gasoline prices.
Officials at the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, which advises House candidates, said they sent a memorandum to candidates on Thursday offering guidance on using the issue to their advantage. The memorandum includes a "sample statement" that recommends telling voters, "Americans are tired of giving billion-dollar tax subsidies to energy companies and foreign countries while paying record prices at the pump."
Can you sense the salivating? Howard Dean has seized on the border control issue as a way to take back the House.
"Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean yesterday called border security his party's top immigration priority for November.
"The first thing we want is tough border control," he said. "We have to do a much better job on our borders than George Bush has done. And then we can go to the policy disagreements about how to get it done."
There's just a few problems with these tactics. First off, much of the reason we have high gas prices is due to their constituencies, i.e., the environmental movements which have prevented America from building any new refineries for at least 30 years. Their most recent soapbox has been against our drilling for oil in Alaska's Anwar territory, siting caribou habitat damage, despite the fact the caribou have flourished around the pipeline they were so dead set against! So where is their credibility?
Then there's Dean stance on border control, which is in direct conflict with the likes of John sKerry, Teddy [hic] Kennedy and Shrillary Rob'em Clinton. What most Donkey Wonks want is immediate citizenship for all illegals, and getting the new "immigrants" registered as Democrats. How Dean intends to make that idea fly with his own party is beyond me!
As they lose more and more of their base, they need to find ways to replenish it. Their preferred method is legalizing illegals, and allowing felons to vote. They can't win voters with new ideas, so those markets are their only recourse. Doesn't Dean realize this? Or does he not realize who his base is comprised of? Doesn't sound like he has a clue about who is running his party. Pssst! Mr. Dean! It's not you!
They can smell the closeness of their power returning! They're so excited by the high gas prices and the upset of both Republicans and Democrats over the inaction of the Bush Administration in securing our borders. They just know they can skate back into power by hammering these issues.
"To varying degrees, Democrats around the country are following a similar script that touches on economic anxiety and populist resentment against oil companies.
"It's a metaphor for an economy that keeps biting people despite overall good numbers," said Senator Charles E. Schumer of New York, chairman of the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee. Mr. Schumer said Democratic candidates in 10 of the 34 Senate races this year had scheduled campaign events this week focusing on gasoline prices.
Officials at the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, which advises House candidates, said they sent a memorandum to candidates on Thursday offering guidance on using the issue to their advantage. The memorandum includes a "sample statement" that recommends telling voters, "Americans are tired of giving billion-dollar tax subsidies to energy companies and foreign countries while paying record prices at the pump."
Can you sense the salivating? Howard Dean has seized on the border control issue as a way to take back the House.
"Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean yesterday called border security his party's top immigration priority for November.
"The first thing we want is tough border control," he said. "We have to do a much better job on our borders than George Bush has done. And then we can go to the policy disagreements about how to get it done."
There's just a few problems with these tactics. First off, much of the reason we have high gas prices is due to their constituencies, i.e., the environmental movements which have prevented America from building any new refineries for at least 30 years. Their most recent soapbox has been against our drilling for oil in Alaska's Anwar territory, siting caribou habitat damage, despite the fact the caribou have flourished around the pipeline they were so dead set against! So where is their credibility?
Then there's Dean stance on border control, which is in direct conflict with the likes of John sKerry, Teddy [hic] Kennedy and Shrillary Rob'em Clinton. What most Donkey Wonks want is immediate citizenship for all illegals, and getting the new "immigrants" registered as Democrats. How Dean intends to make that idea fly with his own party is beyond me!
As they lose more and more of their base, they need to find ways to replenish it. Their preferred method is legalizing illegals, and allowing felons to vote. They can't win voters with new ideas, so those markets are their only recourse. Doesn't Dean realize this? Or does he not realize who his base is comprised of? Doesn't sound like he has a clue about who is running his party. Pssst! Mr. Dean! It's not you!
Wait til he tries to do anything she doesn't agree with! HEHEHE. I wonder if that would cause him to run again? Hmm...
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