Democrats need to re-learn how to be the opposition Party... [View All]

[kentuck]

to the Republicans.

There is little doubt that John McCain, Mitt Romney, Huckabee, or whomever the Republicans might choose to be their nominee, will support making the Bush taxcuts permanent. They will argue that we cannot get out of Iraq. If the Democrats cannot oppose those two issues of the Republicans, what could they oppose? They need to point out the mess we are in can be directly tied to the huge taxcuts for the wealthy. Even moreso than the blunder of a war in Iraq, these taxcuts have helped put us into $9 trillion dollars of debt, much of it to countries like China. We are spending $12 billion per week in Iraq on George W Bush's fiasco in Iraq - not to mention almost 4 thousand dead and tens of thousands tragically wounded for life. We cannot afford it any longer. Is that so hard to say?