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An awesome, quick response to Gephardt's economic agenda as proposed in his speech yesterday. Worth a look. http://www.cse.org/informed/issues_template.php/1141.htm

Tax Cuts and the Economy Monty Rainey October 15, 2002 The past eighteen months have seen the Bush tax cuts take the blame for a domino effect of economic problems. Democratic leaders have told us how the tax cuts were responsible for the declining economy. The tax cuts supposedly greatly contributed to rising unemployment and the falling stock market. The $40 billion Bush tax cut has even been blamed for the $400 billion swing from a surplus to a deficit. Basically, the Democrats have claimed the Bush tax cut to be an absolute disaster for America. Well, Tuesday morning saw...

<p>WASHINGTON (CNN) -- House Minority Leader Richard Gephardt blasted the Bush administration's handling of the economy Tuesday, calling for $75 billion in tax rebates to counter "the vacuum of Republican inaction."</p> <p>"America faces a clear and present danger to the economic life of working families," Gephardt, D-Missouri, told a Washington think tank. "But all this president and the Republican House have offered is an extremist ideology of trickle-down economics and ineffective gimmicks."</p>

<p>WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Bush's approach to the economy has been "an abdication of leadership," House Democratic leader Dick Gephardt said Tuesday while outlining his own proposals for a $200 billion package of tax cuts and federal spending to trigger economic growth.</p>

<p>WASHINGTON (AP) -- Coast to coast, Dick Gephardt has traveled to more than 30 other lawmakers' districts this year, campaigning to win back the House for the Democrats -- and maybe the White House for himself.</p> <p>If the Democrats prevail on Nov. 5, the minority leader from Missouri would be in line to become House speaker, a position he has sought for years. He also would have to decide whether to plunge into that job or mount an all-out second run for the presidency in 2004.</p>

With a firm nod from Minority Leader Richard Gephardt (D-Mo.), a group of Iraq hawks led by Rep. Howard Berman (D-Calif.) has broken away from intraparty discussions over compromise language for a war resolution and is working directly with the White House to "make the case" for immediate action against Saddam Hussein. Participants in a meeting of the Berman group Wednesday said tentative plans have been set for Democratic hawks to appear with President Bush at the White House today in a statement of solidarity on Iraq. The move amounts to a split in what might be called the "pro-war"...

THE DESPERATE DUO REVEAL THEIR TRUE IDENTITIES: ALL POLITICS, NO LEADERSHIP Gephardt Admits That No Tactic Is Too Outrageous When It Comes To Pushing The Democrats’ Domestic Agenda, While Daschle Admits The Only Thing Standing Between The Democrat Senate And A Roll Back Of The Bush Tax Cut Is The President’s Veto! And That’s Not All . . . __________________________________________________________________ GEPHARDT (D-MO) APPROVES OF EXTREME ATTACKS ON DOMESTIC ISSUES, SUCH AS THE DNC’S “WHEELCHAIR” SOCIAL SECURITY AD. ABC’s George Stephanopoulos: “Well, if it’s wrong to play politics with national security, why not call off the scare tactics with Social Security?”...

House Minority Leader Dick Gephardt, D-Mo, gave his blessing on Sunday to a Democratic National Committee e-mail ad on Social Security that shows President Bush killing an elderly wheelchair-bound woman by pushing her down several flights of stairs. Gephardt was asked about the "Bush-Kills-Grandma" attack ad by ABC "This Week" host George Stephanopoulos: STEPHANOPOULOS: If it's wrong for Republicans to play politics with national security, why not call off the scare tactics with Social Security? GEPHARDT: Well, as you know, Social Security is a very real issue. The Republicans want to privatize it and they've been very clear about that....

<p>Washington -- Rep. Nancy Pelosi, the House's second-ranking Democrat, said Thursday she would oppose a resolution authorizing war with Iraq that President Bush negotiated with her leader, Rep. Dick Gephardt, putting House Democrats in the middle of an uncomfortable leadership split.</p>

<p>WASHINGTON (CNN) -- House Democratic leader Richard Gephardt Thursday defended his decision to back a compromise congressional resolution authorizing the president to use military force against Iraq and denied accusations he was motivated by politics.</p> <p>"I get frustrated when everyone on all of this is trying to infuse political motives into these decision," Gephardt, D-Missouri, said at a news conference. "I mean, lets get serious. We're not playing games here. This is life and death."</p>

Last week House Minority Leader Dick Gephardt, a Democrat from Missouri, delivered what appeared to be a 30 minute campaign speech on the floor of the House: "We now have an economy that is in some real difficulty" he said "Since January 2001, our economy has deteriorated dramatically." Using charts in his speech, and on his website, he says: "From January 2001 when we had 5.9 million people unemployed, we now have, as of last month, 8.1 million people unemployed – a 2.2 million increase in unemployment. This is as a result in large part of the Bush economic plan...

Democrat Leadership Should Control Rank-And-File Saddam Apologists WASHINGTON, Sep. 30— House Republican Conference Chairman J.C. Watts, Jr. (R-Okla.) issued the following statement on the mission to Baghdad by Congressmen David Bonior (D-Mich.), Jim McDermott (D-Wash.) and Mike Thompson (D-Calif.): “It’s one thing to have a civil discourse on the merits of a preemptive strike or war. It’s another to fly to Iraq and take the word of a tyrant over the American president and the American people. “At a time when America is fighting a war on terror, talk like this only helps enemies of freedom. “Instead of lobbying...

<p>Adding to growing Democratic questions about administration policy on Iraq, House Minority Leader Dick Gephardt criticized President Bush, Vice President Dick Cheney and other Republicans for injecting politics into the debate.</p> <p>In an op-ed piece in Friday's New York Times, Gephardt said that earlier this week the president ``went so far as to say that the Democrat-led Senate is 'not interested in the security of the American people.'''</p>

CONFIDENTIAL MEMO DATE. September 25, 2002 TO: Congressman Dick Gebhardt FROM Barbra Streisand/Margery Tabankin RE. Take the Offense As you know, Barbra Streisand is busy in rehearsals for the performance she's giving on Sunday for the DCCC, so she asked me convey to you her feeling that it is time for the Democrats to get off the defensive and go on the offensive. Naturally, Barbra's not surprised to see the Bush administration evoke strong rhetoric about Democrats caring more about their own 'special interests' than protecting the security of the country. Of course, the Republicans will say anything they need...

Pardon my putting this comment here, but I couldn't think of exactly where it should go.Think about Gephardt getting advice from Streisand. Then check out the Jessica Lange comments.Now think about the recent unfathomable speeches from Gore, Daschle and Kennedy.Some have opined that the purpose of these speeches was to arouse the far left base of the Democrat party so that they would vote.Would a possible theory be that the Hollywood lefties demanded that these obscene 60s type comments be put into the public discourse before they would give the rats any more money?

<p>Who is politicizing the possibility of war with Iraq? Democrats,Republicans, or Neither.</p>

As top congressional and White House officials negotiate the wording of a war resolution on Iraq, some Democrats are preparing to challenge President Bush with their own narrower measure. With a congressional vote likely by next week, the top four leaders in Congress are urging their rank-and-file members to give bipartisan talks time to yield a compromise before proposing alternatives to the resolution Bush has offered. But a rising number of Democrats say that their side is giving in too easily, because some in the party fear the political consequences of defying Bush on a national security issue. Yesterday, Bush...

<p>House Minority Leader Richard Gephardt had harsh words Friday for President George W. Bush's approach to foreign policy, his strongest public criticism to date on the subject.</p> <p>"A lot of his verbiage is loose, unhelpful and not appropriate," Gephardt said in an hourlong session with Post-Dispatch editorial writers and reporters.</p>

September 23, 2002 Gephardt Pushes Consensus Action Against Iraq Threat At President Bush's meeting with Congressional leaders Sept. 10, Speaker Dennis Hastert (R-Ill.) arrived late. House Minority Leader Richard Gephardt (D-Mo.) got a laugh with the crack, "I'll be happy to take his place." When Hastert finally arrived, Bush - who hates tardiness - told him, "Gephardt tried to pull a coup in your absence." Actually, Gephardt wants to pull a coup on both Hastert and Bush, becoming Speaker after this year's elections and president in 2004. But for the moment, Gephardt is emerging as Bush's most powerful Democratic ally...