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bigtree Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-11-06 02:57 PM
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republicans, ooh, scary . . .
Republicans Fret at GOP's Political Ills

(03-11) 11:23 PST Memphis, Tenn. (AP) --
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2006/03/11/politics/p112346S59.DTL

"I am sorry for letting you down when it comes to spending your money," Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina told several hundred delegates Saturday. "We're going to turn it around and if we don't, we're going to be in trouble" in November.

He apologized for the lobbyist scandal that has tarnished the Republican majorities in Congress.


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BlueManDude Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-11-06 03:05 PM
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1. The notion that the GOP is fiscally responsible is utter horseshit
GOP administrations intentionally create huge defecits - every time.
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redphish Donating Member (296 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-11-06 03:13 PM
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2. The RW hauls out the "tax and spend democrat" mantra...
every time they discuss spending issues. This is much more preferable to their own "borrow and spend" philosophy on the budget. Especially when the borrowing is caused by their need to reduce taxes on the richest people that bought their offices for them.
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NanceGreggs Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-11-06 03:32 PM
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3. "I am sorry for letting you down ..."
Is there a photo available? I'm just wondering if Mrs. Alito was providing the background drama, crying like Nancy Kerrigan and all ...
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Jane Austin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-11-06 03:46 PM
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4. No Democrat should let any Republican off the hook for their complicity
in everything bushco has done to this country.

We should say over and over again that (before this ports deal) Senator Pub backed every hair-brained, reckless and destructive scheme this incompetent president ever proposed.
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aden_nak Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-11-06 03:50 PM
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5. We need to link the GOP economy with credit card debt.
Because most Americans can understand how easy it is to fall into that hole, and how desperately hard it is to climb back out of it. That's a message that many middle and lower income families can immediately relate to (especially since so many of them have had to put basic necessities on their credit cards in the past few years). And while yes, the mechanics of a nation going into debt are different than an individual going into debt, the concept and the lack of fiscal resonsibility is still there. So even though its not a perfect mirror, it does get people to think about what they are doing in a digestible fashion.

"Republicans are trying to put the war on their Visa card."
"The GOP thinks it can just charge the bill for Iraq."
"You don't put tax cuts on plastic - and that's what Bush is doing."

This needs to be our new mantra, our new way of talking and describing the Bush economy.
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