[Deb]

I've started to feel real sorry for Dick Gephardt. Imagine how it must feel EVERY SINGLE ELECTION YEAR to open up your DNC talking points, and there, again , it says...

"#1. The Republicans are proposing tax breaks for the richest 1% of Americans." Rinse. Repeat.

It's not easy being a stinking Democrat. Straight-faced lying and selling out your country everyday is hard work. At first.

[Sabretooth]

Just watch though, the dim-dems will keep trying the same old tired worn out tactics that didnt work before.

Hopefully they will never learn.

[Nick Danger]

I guess it's back to race-baiting, then.

[henderson field]

Yeah. After they discovered that "rich," according to Tom Daschle, is $20,000, they changed their minds.

[Torie]

Class does matter less and less in the US, and frankly, in most of the Western democracies as well. Part of the reason is that who has it, and who doesn't, is very fluid. Beyond that, loyalties and beliefs are so cross hatched that any simplistic model simply doesn't get one very far. The divisions themselves are fluid as experiences and fashion change, and these days they change rapidly. That is why I am so humble in predicting the political future. I know too much to know.

[MJY1288]

The Democrats are failing at everything. the days of them having the complete support of the media without any opposition to their accusations are over.

The democrats have been using these tactics for over 40 years and the end result is that they have created a segment of our society that is dependent upon the government (i.e. The democrats) for their survival. Now with the advent of the internet and cable news sources like FOX News we are seeing a change in the overall view of the Democrats and more and more Americans are beginning to see what happens when success is blamed for failure.

[Michael.SF.]

no longer fear Democratic assertions that across-the-board tax cuts mostly benefit the wealthy

THE WEALTHY?

I am so sick of that phrase and it not being adequately defined.

My wife and I are both college grads. she works for the local school district with handicaped kids, I am a mid level manager and Engineer (yes, we are poor spellers). We both came from working class roots (her father: a tool & die maker, my father: civil service).

Yet today we are "rich" (upper 10%). ............By Democrat standards, at least (or so it seems).

I do not feel rich, I pay a mortgage, a college tuition fee, I save 12.5% annually for retirement, I pay +/- 30% in taxes ( state, federal property).

Yet, I do not vacation to my "island estate" (or =) each summer, as the kennedys,gebhardts (txs. babs), Pelosi's, Daschles etc. etc., do.

Am I now rich? and therefore...... the enemy of the Democrats?

This above all is why the Democrats are failing....... they have simply lost touch.

[Cindy]

[marsh2]

Take a look at the "red/blue" (Bush/Gore) map for California. The Dems. are representing the suburban/urban rich. The Repubs. the rural poor.

How on earth the Dems. can keep perpetuating the myth that they represent the working poor is a mystery to me. They represent the wealthy elite with a guilty conscience, unions and socialists.

[Adder]

The Republicans must continue to hammer away at the "tax cut for the rich" charge at every chance they get and not simply hope the people get it. Sometimes, I think the Republican response is weak in that they not only have to fight the Dem "logic" but also have to fight to get their response in a Dem slanting press which is only too willing to parrot anything dasshole and geppy have to say. So the response must be stronger just to be heard. Thank goodness for the likes of Sean Hannity and Rush who have a forum to respond to the lies of the left.
The Dems may have made a long term error by exempting so many of their base from paying taxes: those people in large measure don't vote consistently. Lets hope that strategy continues!

[visagoth]

Have any democrats defined who the 'rich' yet... I mean with REAL numbers?

[Libloather]

"Never in the field of economics have so few been given so much at the expense of so many," Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton...

She can analyze the history of economics yet took years to locate a box of billing records?

[Polybius]

....pitting lower- to middle-income groups against the rich, do not work and have not worked for several election cycles.

That's because the income necessary to be define by the Democrats as "rich" is the income generated by a two income family with solid middle class jobs.

The Democrats are urging Americans to wage class warfare on the dreams they have for their own children.

[Young Werther]

Since the richest 1% are the enemy maybe the Demoncraps would be happier if all "rich" people were made to wear some identifying insignia. Let's see...The Star of David's been used. Maybe the sign of Ayn Rands rebels would be appropriate.

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