The president led us into the Iraq war on the basis of unproven assertions without evidence; he embraced a radical doctrine of pre-emptive war unprecedented in our history; and he failed to build a true international coalition. |
The president's budget continues to reflect the Republican agenda of cutting guaranteed Social Security benefits that workers have earned. |
The president's policies do not reflect that. He has pursued a go-it-alone foreign policy that leaves us isolated abroad and that steals the resources we need for education and health care here at home. |
The race in Ohio and the outcome was really a bellwether for the races to come [next year], |
The Republican budget was about increasing the deficit, cutting taxes for the wealthiest Americans at the expense of the middle class and hurting those who need our help most -- hurricane survivors, seniors, students, and rural Americans. Democrats were united and made those issues too hot to handle for Republicans. |
The Republican Medicare drug plan is complicated and confusing because Republicans wrote it to meet the needs of drug companies and private insurers, not the needs of Medicare beneficiaries. |
The Republicans are crumbling, |
The Republicans on the Hill are clueless in the Capitol when it comes to job creation, ... The Republicans are now dithering over a feeble bill which will not meet the needs of the American people and ignores the opportunity for job creation. |
The Republicans' lack of transparency and willingness to abuse their power is undermining democracy, ... It should be of grave concern to all Americans that their privacy could be invaded by such an outrageous provision. |
The Republicans' so-called lobbying reform proposal sticks a Band-Aid on a gaping wound. The Republican proposal fails to address the serious ethical abuses resulting from violations of existing rules and laws designed to curb corruption. |
The sad truth is all of this is to pay for tax cuts to for the wealthiest people in our country. |
The Speaker is not listening to the American people; they have unequivocally said they want an independent commission to find out the truth. They do not want a partisan whitewash of what went wrong in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, |
The speech the president made [Tuesday night] could have been made one year ago, two years ago, ... It really wasn't anything new. What we were looking for last night was for the president to take initiative for a strategy for success, with specific plans on what the milestones were so our troops can come home safely. |
The Terminator meets the Exterminator, |
the threat assessment, military plan, political option, cost of occupation, and what cost it is to our war on terrorism. |