Pelosi, Daschle coordinate attacks on GOP ‘failures’

Swiping a page from Ronald Reagan’s playbook, House and Senate Democrats are planning to ask voters if they are better off than they were four years ago as part of a series of thematic broadsides aimed at discrediting the Bush administration and congressional Republicans.


The calibrated floor strategy between House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and Senate Minority Leader Tom Daschle (D-S.D.) is designed ensure that voters have a clear idea of the congressional Democrats’ long-term agenda and short-term concerns about current events.

“Reagan first posed the question in 1980. It was a fair then and is more so now,” said Todd Webster, Daschle’s spokesman.

The Democrats political sallies — fired by a cross-section of senators and congressmen — will charge that “the Bush administration has demonstrated a complete failure to plan for our operations in Iraq, and a complete failure to plan here at home,” according to an advanced copy of talking points distributed by Pelosi’s office.

In keeping with Pelosi’s vow that Democrats will not head into November without a clear message, this week’s floor action will attempt to give voters a clear choice between the two parties.

With one-minutes and special orders in the House and morning business speeches in the Senate today, tomorrow and Thursday, Democrats hope to draw blood on what they perceive to be a wounded and war-weary White House and on the vulnerability of some congressional Republicans.

“This week will highlight President Bush’s and congressional Republicans’ dismal record,” said Pelosi spokeswoman Jennifer Crider.

http://www.hillnews.com/news/051804/pelosi.aspx

“It seems that the Democrats have complete amnesia on Sept. 11. The fact of the matter is the world is better off with Saddam Hussein out of power, with the Taliban out of power,” Feehery continued.

To that, I say, the world is not better off when the United States is trapped in quagmire in an unstable region of the world.

Like there is a connection.

How about:

"Republicans have complete amnesia about the African Ebola epidemic. The fact of the matter is the world would be better off with George Bush out of power"

If we say stuff like this, then maybe people will connect Bush with a hideous deadly disease...

Sept. 11th? Saddam Hussein? What's the connection?
Do these fucking morons actually BELIEVE this shit or are they just pushing it on the people they know will believe it?

I've never heard of them?

Rep. Nancy Pelosi, from San Fransisco, was elected Minority Leader last year. She's the first woman to hold a leadership position in Congress and replaced Dick Gephardt. She's liberal and is running a much tighter ship than her predecessor, and is hoping to reclaim the House or at least narrow the margin.

Sen. Tom Daschle, from South Dakota (or North?), is the Senate Minority Leader and has been the Democratic leader for I don't know how long. Not sure how effective he is, he has a bad rap on DU for not standing up to the Bush administration, although his tenure as Majority Leader from 2001-2002 was during a period when Bush's popularity was at its peak, so I'm not sure there was much to be done.

Also, welcome to DU!

I know. What took her so long? But at least she is openly criticising Bush for lying and leading us into this war, for blowing the surplus and many other things we have been talking about at DU for the last three years.

With Admin. officials warning about another Terrorist Attack
within the USA how safe do any of you feel?

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1139163/posts

Feeble minded clowns, we're going to win big in November.