Imagine...
WASHINGTON — Imagine you're Austin Democratic Rep. Lloyd Doggett back in 1994: eager, ambitious and, as history would have it, elected in a Republican groundswell year that would ensure you spent your first dozen years in Congress as a political underdog.
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In his 12 years in office, Doggett has earned a reputation as one of the most liberal Democrats in the House and a loyal supporter of House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif. In the 109th Congress, he voted with the party on almost every major issue, except for flag burning and federal jurisdiction over Terri Schiavo. He registered a "not voting" on both.
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From a Ms. Einhorn of Berkeley??? Wonder if it is biased, LOL.
One might think the record of the Bush administration and Republican Congress -- from domestic spying to Terri Schiavo to a long and expensive war -- would explode the idea that the difference between liberals and conservatives has something to do with the power of government to intervene in our lives. Yet the stereotype of strong-government liberals and weak-government conservatives continues to shape American political debate, especially when the subject is taxes. The Republicans who substitute debt for tax revenue may actually be feeding rather than starving "the beast," but the idea that Americans have always distrusted this "beast" allows them to paint antigovernment rhetoric as an apple-pie invocation of the national tradition.
The Myth that Low Taxes and Liberty Go Hand in Hand
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