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Democrats have big plans if they take over in Congress
Lexington Herald Leader ^ | Sept. 2, 2006 | Margaret Talev

Posted on 09/02/2006 5:23:11 PM PDT by FairOpinion

If Democrats win one or both houses of Congress in November's elections, as polls suggest is increasingly likely, President Bush's Washington will change dramatically.

Democrats will press to get out of Iraq. They'll mount investigations into the Bush administration's record that could rival those of Presidents Nixon in Watergate and Clinton in the Monica Lewinsky affair. They'll push a boatload of social-welfare legislation, such as raising the minimum wage, that reflects their pent-up priorities, while blocking the Republican agenda on social issues such as gay marriage, abortion and religion.

Those are some of the top plans that Democrats would pursue if they won power, according to interviews with Democratic lawmakers, strategists, staff aides and lobbyists. The tone and temper of the Democrats were reflected well by Rep. Henry Waxman, D-Calif., the ranking Democrat on the House Government Reform Committee, in a conference call in late August. He'll become the panel's chairman if Democrats take the House.

(Excerpt) Read more at kentucky.com ...


TOPICS: Editorial; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 109th; 2006election; congress; democrats; dncagenda; doom; dumbocrats; election2006; elections; gloom; rats; tinfoil
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To: goldfinch

That is 'how naive can you get'. Opps.


21 posted on 09/02/2006 5:39:16 PM PDT by goldfinch
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To: WorkingClassFilth
The nation, overnight, will become the socialist clone they desire and, eventually, the tyranny we fear.

It's already becoming a socialist state. The only thing we're fighting over now is how religious it will be.

22 posted on 09/02/2006 5:39:36 PM PDT by mc6809e
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To: WorkingClassFilth

If the RATs ever regain power in this country again, they will effectively eliminate all possible threats to the UN, the EU, the OIS, and the ICC.


23 posted on 09/02/2006 5:40:35 PM PDT by sageb1 (This is the Final Crusade. There are only 2 sides. Pick one.)
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To: mc6809e

Oh, I don't know. We're a far sight from Europe - and that's what they want.


24 posted on 09/02/2006 5:41:07 PM PDT by WorkingClassFilth (Yeah, I've got an axe to grind...what else would you use on Leftists?)
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To: BW2221

"If the GOP loses in November it will have no one to blame but itself. The party abandoned the principles laid out in the "Contract with America" long ago."

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I couldn't agree with you more. It may be too late, but we need unwavering, no-excuses, no-compromise leadership to push the right agenda. I'm getting to dislike even using the word "conservative". That term implies something away from the center. The "center" should simply be what is correct - lower taxes, little government, controlled immigration, no-apologies foreign policy, no-nonsense social policy, etc.

People respond to LEADERSHIP and RESULTS. Leadership will implement correct policy. Properly executed policy will produce results.

Compromised policy produces compromised results.


25 posted on 09/02/2006 5:41:11 PM PDT by Eccl 10:2 (Pray for the peace of Jerusalem - Ps 122:6)
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To: WorkingClassFilth
If the RATs ever regain power in this country again, they will effectively eliminate all possible threats to their power through legal means.

And they will have the Patriot Act along with the NAS wiretaps to do so.

26 posted on 09/02/2006 5:41:47 PM PDT by Doctor Stochastic (Vegetabilisch = chaotisch ist der Charakter der Modernen. - Friedrich Schlegel)
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To: Phibes

If they spend all their time trying to impeach President Bush, Congress will never get anything done. Oh. Wait.


27 posted on 09/02/2006 5:42:08 PM PDT by sageb1 (This is the Final Crusade. There are only 2 sides. Pick one.)
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To: NewLand

Not only the American military will pay the price, but a lot of decent people at home as well.


28 posted on 09/02/2006 5:43:11 PM PDT by justiceseeker93
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To: FairOpinion
Democrats have big plans if they take over in Congress

I am so looking forward to the meltdown they will have when they don't. As I recall, Charles Rangel promised us all that he would resign if the Dems didn't take control of the House. But then he is a Dem, so we all know his word doesn't mean a thing.

29 posted on 09/02/2006 5:43:20 PM PDT by Hoodat ( ETERNITY - Smoking, or Non-smoking?)
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To: mc6809e

Sort of like Europe's Christian Democrats vs the Democratic Socialists?


30 posted on 09/02/2006 5:43:23 PM PDT by Doctor Stochastic (Vegetabilisch = chaotisch ist der Charakter der Modernen. - Friedrich Schlegel)
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To: abercrombie_guy_38

No sir, I don't want any of us to deal with these nitwits for two years or two days. They had 40 yrs. (My life so far) to totally f#@k up this country. I don't want these people in power again ever.


31 posted on 09/02/2006 5:43:32 PM PDT by Phibes
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To: Phibes

1. Regaining the Senate.

2. Regaining the House.


32 posted on 09/02/2006 5:44:10 PM PDT by WorkingClassFilth (Yeah, I've got an axe to grind...what else would you use on Leftists?)
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To: abercrombie_guy_38

You are totally naive if your think anyone will be laughing as the democrats run this nation into the septic tank they envision for us. The Islamofascists will be having a hayday and the nation will be so divided that a response will be impossible, gas will hit $4 per gal, and the economy will go on democrat federal life support, to make it impossible for the voters to vote them out and risk losing the 'entitlements'. If that appears to be something funny to you, you need to stay indoors on election day, sit down and shut up. Or better still, go lick Neal Boortz's toes while he laughs like the libertarian idiot he is.


33 posted on 09/02/2006 5:44:10 PM PDT by MHGinTN (If you can read this, you've had life support from someone. Promote life support for others.)
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To: Gritty

Great cartoon!


34 posted on 09/02/2006 5:44:24 PM PDT by sageb1 (This is the Final Crusade. There are only 2 sides. Pick one.)
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To: abercrombie_guy_38
after Americans see the huge mistake they made.

Won't happen. Americans will love the socialism that will be handed to them.....initially. By the time the socialism rots US from the inside out it will be all but impossible to climb out of....socialism is insidious.
35 posted on 09/02/2006 5:44:25 PM PDT by socialismisinsidious ( The socialist income tax system turns US citizens into beggars or quitters!)
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To: Doctor Stochastic
And they will have the Patriot Act along with the NAS wiretaps to do so.

Ooooooo....that was certainly a slap in the face to our broken glass republican friends.

36 posted on 09/02/2006 5:45:05 PM PDT by politicalwit (Freedom doesn't mean a Free Pass.)
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To: FairOpinion

Perfect opportunity to throw the filibuster right back into their faces.


37 posted on 09/02/2006 5:45:12 PM PDT by LibWhacker (There are no such things as moderate muslims, only jihadis in a larval stage.)
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To: italianquaker

And just think of the big tax increases that will be necessary because of Bush's war time spending and his big tax cuts for the rich.


38 posted on 09/02/2006 5:45:38 PM PDT by ANGGAPO (LayteGulfBeachClub)
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To: FairOpinion

If the republicans lose in nov. we deserve it. The republicans do not have their identity set as leaders. They act like they are the red headed step child of the family. Cowering at every chance and apologetic when they have power.


39 posted on 09/02/2006 5:46:31 PM PDT by Walkingfeather (u)
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To: FairOpinion

That should motivate the republican (?) politicians that are acting like spoiled socialists in the house and senate.

If they do not do something now - the fault is 100% theirs.


40 posted on 09/02/2006 5:46:36 PM PDT by TimesDomain (When a judge declares himself "MASTER", you become his "SLAVE")
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