Posted on 11/08/2006 10:02:57 PM PST by MinorityRepublican
Some priorities set by Democrats in Congress:
Military: Force an immediate drawdown of troops in Iraq and conduct oversight hearings on missteps on the war.
Intelligence: Increase attention given to emerging terrorist threats in Africa and Southeast Asia and devote more resources to North Korea and Iran. More oversight of terrorism and government surveillance.
Homeland security: Boost security for rail and mass transit systems. Tougher oversight of the Department of Homeland Security, potential restructuring of the Federal Emergency Management Agency.
Judiciary: Conduct oversight hearings on treatment of terrorism detainees, domestic surveillance programs and President Bush's use of "signing statements" affecting some requirements in the laws he signs.
Minimum wage: Pass legislation to raise the minimum wage from the current $5.15 an hour to $7.25.
Veterans affairs: Increase oversight with detailed budget accountings. More funding for veterans' health care, including additional mental health counseling for vets returning from Iraq and Afghanistan.
Health: Allow the Medicare program to negotiate directly with drug companies for lower prices. Pass a vetoed embryonic stem cell research bill again. Require insurance companies to provide benefits for treating mental illnesses equal to other medical and surgical benefits.
Transportation: Consolidate air traffic control facilities. Allow more foreign control of airlines. Limit the number of Transportation Security Administration airport screeners to 45,000. More oversight hearings on the Federal Aviation Administration.
Taxes: Increase education-based tax breaks. Close the so-called $345 billion tax gap, the estimated amount that people and companies owe but avoid paying each year.
Trade: Let a law expire that forbids Congress from amending trade agreements negotiated by the president. Create a chief enforcement officer in the office of the U.S. trade representative.
Energy and environment: Increase incentives for biodiesel, ethanol and other alternative fuels as well as wind, solar, geothermal and other sources of alternative energy. Renegotiate oil and gas leases that waived royalty payments to the government. Impose a national cap on industrial carbon dioxide emissions. Resist Bush's efforts to open more public lands to oil exploration.
Agriculture: Increase conservation programs and require more corn-based ethanol in motor fuel blends.
Who's going to pay for all this wild, out of control spending?
Talk to the hand. You wanted the GOP to get this lesson. Take a bow.
Now the voters will actually find out what it was they were voting FOR. No one ever told them. Boy, are they in for a shock.
The rich of course..... Just like Wal*Mart, the Rats, who will create inflationary pressure and destroy marginal small businesses with their minimum wage increase, the Rats will "roll back" the Bush tax cut on the "rich" aka people who dare to make $250,000 or more and tax them more.
A pretty good receipe for sucess. The Rats could care less if our unemployment rate is as high as France so long as the folks on the plantation (aka the poor) get their minimum wage increase.
This is a great, great Rat scheme, let me tell you. /sarcasm
The Republicans warned the voters. The Republicans were right.
#1... Military: Force an immediate drawdown of troops in Iraq and conduct oversight hearings on missteps on the war.
#4... Judiciary: Conduct oversight hearings on treatment of terrorism detainees, domestic surveillance programs and President Bush's use of "signing statements" affecting some requirements in the laws he signs.
I said it before, I'll say it again: Democratic win in 06 = Republican WH in 08.
The idiots in the Pub party now have an opportunity to frame the political battlefield of 08. Expose the left for the fake "moderates" they claim to be.
Who knows....spending might actually DECREASE with the Democrats in charge....the GOP has been spending like your alcoholic father on payday.
Nothing compared to the next 2 years. When the Country is ruled by the mentally ill, or better still, the insane we have created our destruction more deadly than the terrorist. Include the MSM, they are the modern version of the communist party.
How much socialist crap do you think W is going to need to swallow to get tWoT funded properly?
LOL. They've already outspent the Republicans, and they haven't even moved in yet!
The democrat base feeds off free handouts. Either the democrats hand over the government cheese, or their base will turn to cannibalism. Their base is demanding Universal health care $$$$$$$$.
"We will direct every resource at our command -- every means of diplomacy, every tool of intelligence,
every instrument of law enforcement, every financial influence, and every necessary weapon of war
--to the disruption and to the defeat of the global terror network.
This war will not be like the war against Iraq a decade ago, with a decisive liberation of territory and a swift conclusion.
It will not look like the air war above Kosovo two years ago, where no ground troops were used
and not a single American was lost in combat.
Our response involves far more than instant retaliation and isolated strikes.
Americans should not expect one battle, but a lengthy campaign, unlike any other we have ever seen.
It may include dramatic strikes, visible on TV, and covert operations, secret even in success.
We will starve terrorists of funding, turn them one against another, drive them from place to place,
until there is no refuge or no rest. And we will pursue nations that provide aid or safe haven to terrorism.
Every nation, in every region, now has a decision to make.....
.... Either you are with us, or you are with the terrorists.....
From this day forward, any nation that continues to harbor or support terrorism will be regarded
by the United States as a hostile regime. "
—George W. Bush
Our country has spoken.....we are with the terrorists.
Yes it did.
More oversight of terrorism and government surveillance.
Bad enough the enemy knows what some of our sources and methods are. Now they will know more. Yesterday was very bad. They will probably overreach, especially now they have both Houses.
America's 2nd CUT AND RUN
That was Beruit under Ronald Reagan
America's 3rd CUT AND RUN
That was gulf war one under Bush 41
America's 4th CUT AND RUN
That was Somolia under bill clinton
America's 5th CUT AND RUN
That will be Iraq #2 under Nancy pelosi AKA bush 43
Who the hell will ever fight with us again.
OBL was right.
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