Off The Newswires: Reid To Frist--Focus On America
Yes, Senator Reid is calling on Senator Frist to get serious about the legislative agenda. Of course, this will come after their all important Memorial Day break, but Senator Reid is serious as this news release shows (or maybe not).
Senate Democratic Leader Harry Reid today called on Bush Republicans in the Senate to put aside their partisan agenda and tackle the issues that matter most to Americans. Unfortunately, Senate Majority Leader Frist has announced the Senate will spend June focusing on gay marriage and the politics of division and distortion.
"Today, Bush Republicans kicked off their campaign of dividing the country instead of addressing the real priorities of American families. Our country faces great challenges: record high gas prices, skyrocketing health care costs and an intractable war in Iraq. Yet instead of addressing these issues, Senator Frist has chosen to put the politics of division ahead of real progress by pushing for a debate on a divisive amendment that will write discrimination into the constitution.
"This is exactly why the American people are looking for a new direction that puts their priorities ahead of partisan politics. Democrats stand ready with real solutions for the country. This Memorial Day, Democrats will be focused on the high cost of gasoline that is squeezing millions of American families who are filling their tanks and hitting the road this weekend. Unfortunately, Bush Republicans would rather focus on purely divisive maneuvers than real solutions that address the growing energy crisis."
And Congress is working on that. The president pushed for more nuclear power plants yesterday, which are far safer and cleaner now than what they were back in the 1970s and 1980s. We are looing for solutions to the rising cost ogf health care and prescription drugs (and no, it is not Hillarycare). He states that the Democrats "stand ready" with their solutions for the nation, yet they have not unveiled any sort of platform for 2006. I see and hear the constant attacks on the president, the consistent calls for a withdrawal from Iraq, and the mantras of Democrat candidates who have called for the impeachment of President Bush.
I ask, is this their plan? Is this the plan America has been waiting for? Because if it is, maybe I should come out of my Taliban cave more often. As yet the Democrats have no plans to deal with the energy problems in this country (unless you count Hillary demanding that we reduce speed limits to 55 mph). They have no solution to the War on Terror, and how it can be one (but John Kerry wants to hold multinational talks about it with nations like Syria and Iran). They have no solutions at all in regard to Iran (who just finished testing a medium range missile easily capable of hitting Jerusalem). And to top it all off, their only answer to this sort of inquiry is to fall back on the "culture of corruption" charge that has become a whole new mantra for them (nevermind the fact that Rep. Jefferson is in serious trouble, and we're still digging up the dirt on Sen. Reid and his Abramoff money).
The Democrats fell behind this year when they failed to reveal their platform. They could not reach a concensus on it at all. It took the conservative base less than a couple of minths before we had our platform, and it is one that our candidates are sticking to. Come on, we know the platform well enough:
Win The War
Confirm The Judges
Cut The Taxes
Control The Spending
Secure The Border
(And yes, after Thomas put the order in today, we will proudly be wearing those wonderful shirts while camapigning for the GOP this year.)
Before Senator Reid decides to come over to our glass house and swing his baseball bat, he might want to try repairing the broken windows in his own home; a home clearly wrecked by the unsupervised "children" of the Left. Fix your own house, senator before you start picking on mine. Unlike those on the Left, we do hold ours accountable when they make mistakes or break the law.
The Bunny ;)
Yes, Senator Reid is calling on Senator Frist to get serious about the legislative agenda. Of course, this will come after their all important Memorial Day break, but Senator Reid is serious as this news release shows (or maybe not).
Senate Democratic Leader Harry Reid today called on Bush Republicans in the Senate to put aside their partisan agenda and tackle the issues that matter most to Americans. Unfortunately, Senate Majority Leader Frist has announced the Senate will spend June focusing on gay marriage and the politics of division and distortion.
"Today, Bush Republicans kicked off their campaign of dividing the country instead of addressing the real priorities of American families. Our country faces great challenges: record high gas prices, skyrocketing health care costs and an intractable war in Iraq. Yet instead of addressing these issues, Senator Frist has chosen to put the politics of division ahead of real progress by pushing for a debate on a divisive amendment that will write discrimination into the constitution.
"This is exactly why the American people are looking for a new direction that puts their priorities ahead of partisan politics. Democrats stand ready with real solutions for the country. This Memorial Day, Democrats will be focused on the high cost of gasoline that is squeezing millions of American families who are filling their tanks and hitting the road this weekend. Unfortunately, Bush Republicans would rather focus on purely divisive maneuvers than real solutions that address the growing energy crisis."
And Congress is working on that. The president pushed for more nuclear power plants yesterday, which are far safer and cleaner now than what they were back in the 1970s and 1980s. We are looing for solutions to the rising cost ogf health care and prescription drugs (and no, it is not Hillarycare). He states that the Democrats "stand ready" with their solutions for the nation, yet they have not unveiled any sort of platform for 2006. I see and hear the constant attacks on the president, the consistent calls for a withdrawal from Iraq, and the mantras of Democrat candidates who have called for the impeachment of President Bush.
I ask, is this their plan? Is this the plan America has been waiting for? Because if it is, maybe I should come out of my Taliban cave more often. As yet the Democrats have no plans to deal with the energy problems in this country (unless you count Hillary demanding that we reduce speed limits to 55 mph). They have no solution to the War on Terror, and how it can be one (but John Kerry wants to hold multinational talks about it with nations like Syria and Iran). They have no solutions at all in regard to Iran (who just finished testing a medium range missile easily capable of hitting Jerusalem). And to top it all off, their only answer to this sort of inquiry is to fall back on the "culture of corruption" charge that has become a whole new mantra for them (nevermind the fact that Rep. Jefferson is in serious trouble, and we're still digging up the dirt on Sen. Reid and his Abramoff money).
The Democrats fell behind this year when they failed to reveal their platform. They could not reach a concensus on it at all. It took the conservative base less than a couple of minths before we had our platform, and it is one that our candidates are sticking to. Come on, we know the platform well enough:
Win The War
Confirm The Judges
Cut The Taxes
Control The Spending
Secure The Border
(And yes, after Thomas put the order in today, we will proudly be wearing those wonderful shirts while camapigning for the GOP this year.)
Before Senator Reid decides to come over to our glass house and swing his baseball bat, he might want to try repairing the broken windows in his own home; a home clearly wrecked by the unsupervised "children" of the Left. Fix your own house, senator before you start picking on mine. Unlike those on the Left, we do hold ours accountable when they make mistakes or break the law.
The Bunny ;)
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