So this is what the lobbyists and other wealthy individuals got for their money. They get their overly generous share of the tax bill. |
strongly supporting everything that's being done in this contest by the Gore-Lieberman ticket. |
suffers badly by being only about increased penalties and not enough about both increased penalties and worrying about how to prevent crimes before they happen. |
that can never be taken away. |
The Democratic Party is the only party in the country that's talking about their concerns, and trying to do something about them, ... I think Republicans will pay a dear price in November because they have not dealt with peoples' everyday kitchen-table problems, but rather have been interested in investigating everybody and everyone in an endless fashion. |
the only responsible course of action. |
the president's budget is a good budget. The president's budget would get a majority of Democrats in the House and in the Senate. |
The real tragedy here is that over the last two years because of the intransigence of the Republicans we didn't really have a budget, we didn't do anything with Medicare, so those numbers are not as good as they could have been. |
the Republicans control the Congress. The Republicans have an obligation, their responsibility in that position of controlling the majority to bring out and produce a budget. They haven't done it. They are woefully late. |
the Republicans had tremendous amounts of special interest money. The pharmaceutical companies spent probably $50 million or $60 million supporting all Republican candidates and that blurred a lot of the issue on prescription drugs. |
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno. |
These numbers are bouncing around. This is a volatile race, |
They choose the tax cuts over extending the solvency of Social Security and Medicare, |
They have been following a budget that is faulty, and instead of sitting down with the president and with us and coming up with a consensus budget, they've been following this faulty budget, |
They realize they can't hold the majority unless they spend millions in soft money, |