Pundit Pap - Dec. 7, 2003

[realFedUp]

http://www.americanpolitics.com/20031207punditpap.html

Senator Clinton Sounds Off
... and shuts down the attacks of the Sunday Morning Media Whores
by JJ Balzer

Dec. 7, 2003 -- NEW YORK (apj.us) -- Welcome to "silly season" -- with an attitude.

Usually, the Sunday morning political chat shows are dominated by monumentally superficial "issues" in that period between Thanksgiving and the first Sunday of January. Thankfully, this is that "every fourth year" when a presidential campaign is looming -- one that is looking increasingly close and contentious, and one in which there had been no clear leader among Democrats seeking to unseat former Texas governor George W. Bush, who has spent nearly three years squatting at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.

And a new issue seems to be emerging, thanks in part to the phony-baloney Medicare "reform" foisted on America by Dim Son, Bill Frist, Tom DeLay and Newt Gingrich: a systematic attack on the New Deal social safety net instituted over half a century ago during the years of President Franklin Roosevelt.

Right-wingers simply hate these compassionate programs -- a system of looking after Americans in need that has in fact enhanced the strength and stability of our nation. Democrats are now poised to seize on the former Texas governor's assertion that he's a "compassionate conservative" and unspin it into a simple truth: he has compassion only for large corporations (especially the de facto energy cartel), special interests that buy access to the GOP, and conservative social engineers out to destroy to cultural fabric of America with a stealth libertarian-cum-theocratic agenda.

Sen. Sen. Clinton (D-NY, as if we have to remind you), who was a guest on two of the prominent Sunday shows, did not merely touch on this issue -- she made it abundantly clear that this will be a prominent plank in the 2004 race which will elect (that is, if you can actually trust out election system any more) a president, a third of the Senate,m and the entire House of Representatives.

Here's a little of the Sunday action for your perusal...

[MoonAndSun]

1. Great one, RealFedup... but change your thread title to read December

not November.

I love to read PunditPap!

[realFedUp]

2. oops...thanks M&S

:-)