Posted on 11/04/2004 6:02:20 AM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
WASHINGTON - Republicans will be much stronger on Capitol Hill next year, almost in a position to give President Bush whatever he wants on taxes, limits on legal damages, drilling in the Arctic and nominations to the U.S. Supreme Court.
With minimum clout in the House and reduced numbers in the Senate, Democrats will have to be much more careful in deciding what battles to fight against a more powerful Republican majority.
Politically, House Democrats have just about hit rock bottom, Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-San Francisco, conceded Wednesday. "We have lost just about everything we can lose," she said.
Rep. Robert Matsui of Sacramento, who as chairman of the House Democrats' campaign committee saw the GOP advantage grow from 24 to at least 29 seats, threw out a challenge to Bush that effectively conceded that voters on Tuesday handed the president and Republicans a mandate. Matsui urged them to introduce legislation on their plans for changing Social Security and substituting a national sales tax for the federal income tax.
House Majority Leader Tom DeLay, R-Texas, whose political influence may have grown since he engineered the defeat of four Texas Democrats through a redistricting plan, suggested that the GOP plans an ambitious agenda.
"Time to start thinking beyond just growing the economy, and about fundamentally strengthening it by ridding our economy of the overtaxation, overregulation and overlitigation that has hamstrung it for decades," DeLay said.
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bumpomai
Concerned? Write the White House.
Er, that was supposed to be to myself, as a bookmark
Anabumpomai
Please God give us the ANWR drilling. The caribou will love it and this thirsty superpower can have some much neeeded oil. Imagine how much we could find in Alaska if New England senators didn't block it for reasons that don't go beyond an environmental fantasy?
Aw..I feel so bad for the democraps.
Now is the time to ram our agenda.
The dems cant stand the thought of replacing the Income tax for a National sales tax. Seems they want an advantage with loop holes. Making everything even on taxes for everyone makes them mad.
Now we just need to make a national public Colledge system. where you get grades from 13-16 paid by the sales tax and remove property taxes. Why should those that have bigger homes have to pay more?
There should be only 2 things the sales tax should cover:
1) National defense.
2) Public Education.
Lets the states figure out the rest.
President Bush is a good person. That is why he went to washington believing that if he was respecful and nice to others he would receive the same in return. The trouble is the democrats are not good people.
I hope this term that all the "reaching out" and "working with the democrats" stuff gets put on a shelf. Neither the democrats nor their agenda deserves to be "reached out" to.
Actually, I want nuclear power plants too.
We need to educate America about the plants and debunks the myths around them.
Nuclear energy is the greatest invention ever in the history of time and we aren't using it. It's also more environmentally safe than alot of the other methods we are currently using.
And despite the popular belief, nuclear power plants are tremendously safe and secure.
Not by a long shot, sister. Not as long as vermin like Ted Kennedy, Chuck Schumer, and Hillary Clinton still ooze through the halls of the Capitol. Our work is far from complete.
I wonder what's going through that turncoat's mind now that he's part of the permanent minority.
I might agree but nobody is building them. I think all the big companies and insurers pulled out and I don't think the politicians are even proposing them. You're undoubtedly right that safe N power could alleviate our energy crisis/ costs.
He's at home.
Pete Domenici out of New Mexico was the only senator who ever talked about it.
If I ever run for office, educating people about nuclear energy would be at the top of my list.
Nuclear energy would revolutionize the world, especially in 3rd world countries.
He just wrote a book about it.
A Brighter Tomorrow : Fulfilling the Promise of Nuclear Energy
Bump!
...so that he and his fellow Clinton-locksteppers can oppose, demonize, and lie about it.
Matsui is a disgrace; shame he inhabits an invulnerable position in a safe district.
Dan
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