Howard Dean's op ed in USA today is filled with hope and sensible solutions to the nation's problems.
http://blogs.usatoday.com/oped/2006/11/post_14.html"The American people deserve political leaders who will ask the tough questions and make smart decisions about our foreign policy and homeland security, not just tough talk around election time. Sixteen intelligence agencies agree that the Bush administration's failed Iraq policy is increasing terrorism around the world. Our brave troops have become occupiers caught in a civil war. Democrats are united behind a strategy of phased redeployment and benchmarks that make it clear to the Iraqis that they must take responsibility for the future of their country."
"We will end Republicans' deficit spending and restore pay-as-you-go discipline. We will restore the Republican cuts to Pell grants and other programs that make it easier for our kids to afford to go to college. We will protect, not privatize, Social Security.
Democrats respect hard-working families and the work it takes to make ends meet. We believe that strengthening the middle class is essential for a thriving economy that rewards work, opens the door of opportunity to all, and makes it easier for parents to devote time to their families. We will ease the burdens on middle-class Americans with middle-class tax fairness, increase the minimum wage and reverse Republican health care cuts. We want to make a down payment in ensuring affordable health care for every American, and fix the Medicare prescription drug program. We will protect Social Security so that every senior is ensured a retirement in dignity.
We will enact real ethics reform in Congress."
Mehlman must follow wherever Dean goes, his little shadow. He spreads fear and terror as he travels.
http://blogs.usatoday.com/oped/2006/11/post_17.html
From the narrowly averted plot to blow up airliners bound for the USA to North Korea's nuclear detonation to last week's missile test by Iran, we are constantly reminded of the threat against free nations by terrorists and despotic leaders who support them. The war we fight today is not a new war. For a generation, terrorists have attacked free nations, from the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich, to the U.S. hostages in Iran, to Beirut, to the World Trade Center in 1993, Riyadh in 1995, Khobar Towers in 1996, the U.S. Embassy attacks in 1998, and the USS Cole in 2000. Too often, free nations responded weakly or not at all, so the enemy grew emboldened, leading to 9/11.
Today, the Republican Party has learned the lessons of Sept. 11, and understands the importance of using every single tool at our disposal to win this war — but some Democrat leaders would take those tools away. Democrats in the House and Senate voted against re-authorization of the USA Patriot Act. The overwhelming majority of House Democrats voted against legislation to make it easier to intercept terrorist communications. Democrats voted against tribunals that will help us get the information we need, and have time and again voted against missile defense.
That man Mehlman drives me crazy with his talking points, with his lack of caring.
In fact he is in trouble over Abramoff and the NH phone jamming, and it never sticks. He just keeps yakking his talking points.
Mehlman, phone jamming, and Abramoff, never covered by media