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USA Today reports, "Rep. Richard Gephardt has put a price on the centerpiece of his Democratic presidential campaign, a proposal that he says will revive the economy, put money in the hands of businesses and workers and address 'the moral issue of our time': 41 million Americans without health insurance. Cost for the plan's first three years: nearly $700 billion. "Gephardt presented the plan as an economic stimulus. He says it will generate deficits, but 'if the economy is working well, the budget will be in balance' eventually." Not so fast my friend. "Attempts to mandate that business shoulder the...

GepCare Will "Destroy" Economy Six Times Over April 24, 2003 Congressman Dick Gephardt's health care plan proposes to take money from workers, and lavish it on corporations who do the congressman's bidding. This isn't a healthcare plan; it's a win-the- Democratic-presidential-nomination plan. This is a classic example of how the left totally distorts the free market and tax cuts, and gets away with proposing programs that are far more damaging to the budget and the overall health of the economy than any press person will dare point out. According to Gephardt himself, the first three years of his stupid universal...

RNC Research DR. DEAN DIAGNOSES DICK GEPHARDT’S BIG GOVERNMENT RUN HEALTH CARE PLAN Gephardt Plan: “Pie-In-The-Sky Radical Revamping” ___________________________________________________________________________ “‘What has Congressman Gephardt in his 25 years in office - along with the other candidates running for president - ever successfully accomplished in all their time in Washington toward solving this problem?’ Dr. Dean asked.” (Adam Nagourney, “Gephardt Issues Proposal On Health Insurance,” The New York Times, 4/24/03) DR. DEAN MAKES HOUSE CALL TO GEPHARDT CAMPAIGN Dean Called Gephardt’s Health Care Plan “Pie-In-The-Sky Radical Revamping.” “Former Vermont governor Howard Dean, a doctor who is expected to make health care a...

AMONG THE NINE candidates running for the Democratic nomination for the Presidency, Dick Gephardt of Missouri can be counted as a moderate. At least, he could until yesterday. That’s when he unveiled a proposal designed to siphon liberal support from the two leading candidates, John Kerry and Howard Dean. Gephardt announced on Wednesday he wants to do more than kill the remaining portions of President Bush’s tax cut plan. He wants to repeal the Bush tax cuts Congress has already passed. With that money, Gephardt would fund a near-universal health insurance plan, estimated to cost the federal government about $200...

RNC Research TRIED, TESTED, REJECTED CANDIDATE PROMOTES TRIED, TESTED, REJECTED IDEA: Dick Gephardt Proposes Universal Big Government Run Health Care ________________________________________________________ Gephardt Is “Not Afraid To Call [His Universal Health Care Proposal] What It Is: A Big, Expensive Government Program.”  (John DiStaso, “Gephardt: Health Care Top Priority,” The Union Leader [Manchester, NH], 4/15/03) GEPHARDT PROMOTES BIG GOVERNMENT RUN HEALTH CARE The Realities Of The Gephardt Health Care Plan:  *      The Gephardt Plan Will Completely Eliminate The Bush Tax Cut For Working Americans, Even Those Who Already Have Health Care.  (NBC’s “Today Show,” 4/23/03) *      The Gephardt Plan Will Force Large...

WASHINGTON -Rep. Richard Gephardt of Missouri is betting that American voters want more money for health care and fewer tax cuts. To that end, Gephardt is hitching his Democratic presidential campaign to an ambitious universal medical coverage plan that would be paid for by eliminating most of President Bush's proposed income-tax reductions. The centerpiece of the plan, which Gephardt will unveil in a speech to union workers today in New York, would be a federal requirement that employers purchase health insurance for their workers. The federal government would give employers a tax credit to cover 60 percent of the costs;...

<p>By Nedra Pickler, Associated Press, 4/23/2003 09:59 NEW YORK (AP) Democratic presidential candidate Dick Gephardt on Wednesday detailed his plan to give all Americans access to health insurance, the centerpiece of his presidential campaign and what he called the ''moral issue of our time.''</p>

<p>LONG BEFORE he was a presidential candidate, Dick Gephardt began telegraphing the punch he is throwing this week in speeches. On the premise that a challenge to a sitting president starts with dissatisfaction with the status quo, Gephardt thought it would make sense to specify what big changes might look like as they affect the economy, the health care disaster, taxes, and national priorities. The Missouri Democrat's big idea is about health care, but it is really about the economy. As he put it recently, health care is far more than a mess that leaves more than 40 million people without insurance. It is also an enormous drain on business cash, leading to dropped coverage, ruinously higher premiums and copayments, depressed wages, and slower growth.</p>

SEE WHAT THE DEMO-NAZIS HAVE IN STORE FOR AMERICA By Edgar B. Anderson The "Progressive" Plan To Save Our Lives FrontPageMagazine.com | June 29, 2001 LAST SUNDAY, June 24, I went behind enemy lines and sat through ten hours of speeches at the "Wake Up Democrats! Take Back the Country" conference in Los Angeles, sponsored by the Southern California chapter of the Americans for Democratic Action. As one Democratic Party luminary after another preached to an audience of several hundred left-wing activists, I learned a great deal about the Left's frightening "progressive agenda." Make no mistake about it. If the ...

NewsMax.com's religion editor Fr. Mike Reilly notes that, with the Iraq war winding down, Democratic presidential hopeful Dick Gephardt isn't wasting any time getting ready for his next political attack. Campaigning in a town ironically named Waterloo in Iowa, Dick Gephardt has declared that the war is over as far as he's concerned and it's time to start attacking the President on the domestic agenda. "The country is moving forward. People are going to work every day. Regular life is going on," he said, according to the Des Moines Register. "We're going to continue this campaign." In other words, back...

Campaigning in a town ironically named Waterloo in Iowa, Dick Gephardt has declared that the war is over as far as he's concerned and it's time to start attacking the President on the domestic agenda. "The country is moving forward. People are going to work every day. Regular life is going on," he said according to the Des Moine Register. "We're going to continue this campaign." In other words, back to the endless attacks on the domestic agenda which took down Bush 41. While Bush 41 soared in the polls following the first Gulf War, it was ultimately "the economy,...

Here's a different poll.  Instead of generating an approval rate for Dubya's handling of the Iraq situation, it asks if any of a list of likely Democrat Presidential candidates in 2004 could do any better.http://www.ActionAmerica.org/feature/This should help to prove that even among those few who are not satisfied with Dubya's handling of the Iraq situation, many have no better option. 

March 18, 2003 DEMOCRATS BACK ON HOMELAND ATTACK Americans Rejected Democrats' Partisan Attacks On President's Efforts To Secure Homeland In 2002. So Why Are They Back On The Attack? __________________________________________________________________ "The Conventional Wisdom Among The Democratic Presidential Campaign Strategists Is, No Matter How The War Comes Out, Hitting Bush On Homeland Security ... Is Going To Be A Winning Issue In 2004." (ABCNews.com's "The Note," 3/18/03) __________________________________________________________________ DEMOCRATS' ATTACKS ON PRESIDENT'S FIRST RESPONDER FUNDING Senator John Kerry (D-MA) Claims The President Has Done "Little More Than" Create "A Huge New Bureaucracy." "[W]hat has been offered is little more than...

[From S. J. RES 45] To authorize the use of United States Armed Forces against Iraq. Whereas Congress in 1998 concluded that Iraq was then in material and unacceptable breach of its international obligations and thereby threatened the vital interests of the United States and international peace and security, stated the reasons for that conclusion, and urged the President to take appropriate action to bring Iraq into compliance with its international obligations (Public Law 105-235); Read Senate Joint Resolution 45[from CNN.com] In a major victory for the White House, the Senate early Friday voted 77-23 to authorize President Bush to...

BOSTON, MA – Massachusetts Senator John Kerry holds a commanding lead in the 2004 New Hampshire Democratic Presidential Primary, according to an exclusive 7NEWS-Suffolk University poll released today. In a just completed survey of 496 likely Democratic voters – the largest sample taken this year – Kerry polled 32% of respondents, followed by Connecticut Senator Joe Lieberman (17%), former Governor of Vermont Howard Dean (10%), Missouri Congressman Richard Gephardt (6%) and North Carolina Senator John Edwards (2%). There were three other candidates who each received 1%. “New Hampshire is Kerry Country,” said Suffolk University adjunct professor David Paleologos, a veteran...

HANNIBAL, Mo. (AP) - Democratic presidential candidate Dick Gephardt, who declared in South Carolina that the Confederate battle flag shouldn't fly ``anytime, anywhere,'' says he doesn't like flag displays on private property but can't stop them.``My position is clear: I think it's inappropriate to fly the Confederate flag in public places,'' the Missouri congressman said Saturday.``It's a hurtful, divisive symbol in our country, and it just shouldn't be in public places. They're free to do whatever they want in private property,'' Gephardt said in an interview with The Associated Press.Gephardt spokesman Erik Smith said Sunday that in making the distinction...

<p>JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) -- Democratic state Rep. Russ Carnahan said Thursday he is likely to run for the St. Louis congressional seat now held by Rep. Dick Gephardt.</p> <p>Carnahan is the son of former U.S. Sen. Jean Carnahan and the late Gov. Mel Carnahan, who was killed in an October 2000 plane crash while campaigning for Senate.</p>

For those who would like a short break from all the war news...

<p>HOLLYWOOD, Fla. (AP) -- Rep. Dick Gephardt of Missouri is labor's guy, a longtime, crucial ally on trade and about everything else. But whether he is labor's guy for president is less certain.</p> <p>Gephardt is one of five Democratic presidential candidates who trekked to Florida this week to woo labor leaders attending an AFL-CIO executive council meeting. The others have come and gone, but Gephardt cleared his calendar for three days and has become part of the scenery here at the Diplomat Hotel and Resort.</p>

<p>Connecticut Sen. Joe Lieberman led the pack with 16 percent followed by Missouri Rep. Dick Gephardt at 13 percent in a CNN-Time national poll of Democrats and those who lean Democratic.</p> <p>All other candidates were in single digits: Massachusetts Sen. John Kerry at 8 percent; North Carolina Sen. John Edwards, 7 percent; the Rev. Al Sharpton, 7 percent; former Illinois Sen. Carole Moseley-Braun, 4 percent; Vermont Gov. Howard Dean, 3 percent; Florida Sen. Bob Graham, 3 percent; and Ohio Rep. Dennis Kucinich, 2 percent. The remainder were for others or were not sure.</p>