Posted on 08/02/2006 4:44:17 AM PDT by chambley1
Democrats are in a solid position to reclaim control of the House of Representatives this November, and could also take control of the Senate, U.S. Rep. Jim Moran told a crowd gathered in Falls Church last Saturday morning at Stacy’s Coffee Shop.
Moran held three such town meetings in his 8 th Congressional District of Virginia on Saturday, departing Stacy’s after an hour and a half for similar events in Reston and Arlington.
Falls Church Mayor Robin Gardner and Vice Mayor Lindy Hockenberry were among those present at the Falls Church event. Moran reminded the crowd that the City of Falls Church receives more federal money per capita than any other jurisdiction in the area.
Moran said that Democrats are in positions to gain 30 seats in the House in November, but need only 15 to gain a majority. Democrats are ahead in the polls and ahead in fundraising in about 30 races, he noted. He said that taking control of the Senate will be more “problematic” for Democrats, but that it is “doable.”
He said the American public is “fed up” with the fact that the U.S. is losing the war in Iraq, facing a resurgence of the Taliban in Afghanistan, seeing its stock market slip, record gas prices, and a debt ceiling now set at $9 trillion, all of which will be passed on to their children.
In the face of this, he said, the GOP is focused on same-sex marriage, flag burning, the pledge of allegiance and stopping stem cell research, which promises almost miraculous treatments for Alzheimer’s, diabetes, Parkinson’s and cancer, and more tax cuts. “Their priorities are upside down,” he said.
Now, he said, the Bush administration is using the Israeli military as a “proxy” for going after Hezbollah and Hamas and their sponsors in the middle east, but said that a perpetuation of the current situation there cannot be in the best long-term interests of Israel. He assailed efforts by the Bush administration to block any efforts at resolving the crisis through putting an end to the killing.
Global enmity toward the U.S. continues to grow, he said, but the Bush administration “is determined to go through with its current approach to the region.”
“We are hated around the world, and it’s hard to know how that is going to make the world a safer place for us or our children,” he said. By trying to impose its will from the top in the region, the U.S. “is creating radical populations.”
Instead, he said, the U.S. should be “investing at the local level in the engines of civil society and sustainable change.” But, he lamented, “We’ve done just the opposite” in Iraq and other places.
“I don’t blame Israel for needing to defend itself, but the way to achieve that is not as direct as may seem apparent,” he added.
He said the nation “is at a crossroads,” and the next three years will determine what the next 25 or 50 will look like. The U.S. will become a massive military bastion with a massive population living at or below poverty levels, or through investment in education, national health insurance, doubling the minimum wage and an expansion of the middle class, the nation will recover its core health.
Wishful thinking.
Moran has the Ruddy Face of a seasoned Drunk.
Naw. Not the Senate.
I doubt the House. They probably will pick up some seats, but this is cheerleading.
What the GOP needs to do is go for energy independence in a huge way. Marshall plan way.
AND MEAN IT. Not just talk and blab. The mood out here is not for yak. It is for action and it had better be good. The days of merely headbobbing by the electorate are over.
AND MEAN IT. Not just talk and blab.
OpusatFR for US Senate!
You have my vote.
I don't know how you read that communist rag of a paper.
The only part worth reading in it is the crime report.
Ok Congressman Moron, if we stop participating in the world and stop supporting Israel and just basically retreat within our own borders, will that stop the creation and growth of radical populations?
I await your answer.
If you propose that, what you will end up with is a "compromise" where some farmers and other special interests gets the money, but we end up dumping more valuable fossil fuel energy into the mess than we get out in alternative energy.
At least he's given up on global warming. He realizes none of his priveleged children in the audience want to give up their SUVs.
Answer: When she dump your butt.
Need we say more?
yep! i totally agree! :)
(we store ours in the bathroom) ;)
"OpusatFR for US Senate!"
LOL!
Unfortunately, my life has been waaaayyy too interesting, if you get my drift. Those fifteen minutes would be really painful!
"....stop supporting Israel...."
I think his position on supporting Israel is well documented.
We have to encounter them on the roads, in the stores, at schools and churches we share, yet, at any moment, any one of them might well explode in a murderous rage.
If Foley can go, Jim Moran and his drunken, loutish ways can go too.
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