Posted on 07/24/2006 6:18:51 PM PDT by bitt
Testing lines for 2008, Democrats with presidential ambitions accused President Bush and the Republicans of making a mess of the economy and Iraq while arguing that Democrats offer the best hope for a rising middle class that's preferred the GOP.
"They're not taking care of America. They're bankrupting our country and failing to address the problems," Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-N.Y., said Monday, citing skyrocketing gas, college and health care costs.
Speaking to the Democratic Leadership Council, a centrist think tank, she and three other yet-declared presidential candidates argued that Republicans have ignored the very people who make up much of the country. Democrats won't, they promised.
"It's the American dream, stupid," said the former first lady in a riff on her husband's successful 1992 campaign mantra "It's the economy, stupid." It worked Democrat Bill Clinton served two terms in the White House.
In that vein, the organization unveiled the "American Dream Initiative," a package of proposals aimed at strengthening the middle class and helping the poor work their way out of poverty. The group considers the 20-page document an agenda Democrats can unite behind as they seek to win control of the House and Senate this fall and the White House in 2008.
A recent Associated Press-Ipsos poll showed that voters who make $50,000 to $75,000 annually were slightly more likely to back a Democratic candidate in House races, a reflection that Republicans haven't locked up the upper-middle income group they carried in 2004.
Exit polls from the 2004 presidential election showed that those with family incomes between $30,000 and $50,000 split their votes evenly between President Bush and Democratic Sen. John Kerry.
One step up the economic ladder, however, those with family incomes between $50,000 and $75,000 supported Bush 56 percent to 43 percent.
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"What the hell happened to the country with the limited government where what people wanted most was for the government to stay the hell out of their lives? Did that ever exist?"
Yes, from 1981-1989 under President Ronald Reagan, the greatest President of the 20th Century.
If the dims seize power and flood the country with 50 million or so illegals who are made legal, that will bankrupt the country.
2008 - Presidential debates featuring Rudy vs. Hillary.
Rudy: (looking into the camera while the PIAPS does a slow burn) "America, this woman is a socialist, through and through. Look at the things she has said. Look at her voting record. And she has the gall to say 'It's the American dream stupid.' Well, Hillary, Socialism is not the American Dream. It never has been, and it never will be."
< /sarcasm >
Coming soon - THE PLAN! Not to be confused with any aforementioned PLAN, this is the new, improved PLAN that 9 out of 10 doctors prefer when used with a conscientiously applied program of oral hygiene and regular professional care. Any resemblance to any previous PLAN is purely coincidental and cannot be construed to imply any success or return on investment.
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