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The SLK Effect
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Username: Scrotisloknows
Post Number: 1100
Registered: 10-2005
| | Posted on Wednesday, March 15, 2006 - 1:04 pm: | 
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The Dems finally unite...for Broadband!!! (my emphasis in bold)
How pathetic....
Pelosi Hints at Democrats' 'Unified' Agenda
By Susan Jones
CNSNews.com Senior Editor
March 15, 2006
(CNSNews.com) - The Republican Party has wondered what's taking Democrats so long to unveil their election-year agenda. Amid press reports that it will happen any day now, House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi on Tuesday offered what amounts to a draft version.
Americans who find it hard to make ends meet may like the promises they hear from the Democrats. But the companies that employ such Americans may not like the plan.
In any case, the Republican Party says the Democrats' real agenda involves the censure and possible impeachment of President George W. Bush.
In a speech to the Communications Workers of America on Tuesday, Pelosi mentioned Democrats' opposition to outsourcing. She said Democrats will end tax subsidies for companies that send jobs overseas.
She also said Democrats support the "right of all Americans to organize," a sentiment that goes over well with labor unions such as the CWA.
To protect workers who want to join unions, Pelosi said Democrats are "fighting" to pass the Employee Free Choice Act, sponsored by Rep. George Miller (D-Calif.) in the House and Sen. Ted Kennedy (D-Mass.) in the Senate. "The bill will guarantee that when a majority of workers in a company want a union, they will get a union," Pelosi said.
Democrats also support an increase in the minimum wage. Pelosi, describing the income of corporate American CEOs as "immoral," used Wal-Mart to make her point:
"I was told that an entry level person at Wal-Mart, who works his or her entire career at Wal-Mart, would make as much as the CEO makes in two weeks. A lifetime of work versus two weeks in the executive suite -- this is not America, this is not fairness, this is not the basis of a strong middle class that is essential for our democracy. We must change that in our country," she said.
Pelosi also mentioned the Democrats' "Innovation Agenda" to maintain America's leadership role in the global economy.
America lags behind other countries that have universal broadband deployment, Pelosi said; but the Democrats' agenda "guarantees" that every American will have affordable access to broadband within five years.
"We also believe that the nationwide deployment of high speed, always-on broadband and Internet and mobile communications will fuel the development of millions of new jobs in the United States," Pelosi said.
Democrats support "energy independence" within ten years; health care for all American within five years; and "dignified retirement" (no privatization of Social Security) through an "AmeriSave" plan.
Have to win first
"In order to make any of these victories, we must have one important victory first -- we have to win in November," Pelosi told the CWA.
"And win we will, because the American people want change," she added. (Pelosi then mentioned the Republican "culture of corruption, cronyism, and incompetence" in Washington.)
Pelosi attacked Republicans for writing a prescription drug bill that has seniors "paying higher prices on drugs at the pharmacy"; she mentioned an energy bill "that gives obscene subsidies to oil companies" that raise prices for consumers; and she mentioned "tax cuts for the wealthiest people in America" who "certainly don't need them." Pelosi also mentioned the high cost of college tuition and the cost of the Iraq war.
"America's working families simply cannot afford George Bush and this Rubber Stamp Congress," Pelosi said.
"Democrats stand for "real security," Pelosi said, including port security. "We must have 100 percent screening of our containers that come into our ports," she said.
She also said real security means giving troops the equipment they need to keep them safe in a war zone.
Impeachment agenda
Democrats have the issues and the strategy, Pelosi told the CWA -- and "we're going to have this unified message that we put out there, making a stance on the issues because there are so many of them." She did not say exactly when that will happen.
According to Pelosi, Democrats are "about the future" and making it "better for the next generation."
But the Republican Party says Democrats are about censure and impeachment.
As Democrats keep promising to introduce their 2006 policy agenda and the date keeps slipping, look what's been happening, the Republican National Committee said on its website:
On Monday, Sen. Russ Feingold, a Wisconsin Democrat, introduced a resolution to censure a sitting president in a time of war - "over a program that is successfully stopping terrorists," the RNC said.
And Rep. John Conyers (D-Mich.), the ranking Democrat on the House Judiciary Committee, has introduced a resolution that would create a select committee "to make recommendations regarding grounds for possible impeachment" of President Bush.
The Conyers resolution, introduced in December, now has 29 Democratic co-sponsors, the RNC said.
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Innisowen
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Username: Innisowen
Post Number: 1680
Registered: 3-2004
| | Posted on Wednesday, March 15, 2006 - 1:47 pm: |
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So what's your point?
Do you think Americans should be encouraged to be on street corners selling "Indian mangoes" out of fruit and vegetable carts?
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Robert Livingston
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Username: Rob_livingston
Post Number: 1752
Registered: 7-2004
| | Posted on Wednesday, March 15, 2006 - 1:49 pm: |
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Scrotis is really reaching. Talk about "pathetic"...
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Innisowen
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Username: Innisowen
Post Number: 1681
Registered: 3-2004
| | Posted on Wednesday, March 15, 2006 - 2:01 pm: |
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Easy, RL, you don't want to cause the discharge of the thundering BLUNDERBUSS known as Scrotey to those who joust with him most effectively. |
cjc
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Username: Cjc
Post Number: 5346
Registered: 8-2003
| | Posted on Wednesday, March 15, 2006 - 2:06 pm: |
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RL opining on 'pathetic' posts. |
Robert Livingston
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Username: Rob_livingston
Post Number: 1753
Registered: 7-2004
| | Posted on Wednesday, March 15, 2006 - 2:17 pm: |
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cjc: I thought you were above unprovoked digs. Guess you're just a bottom-feeder, too. |
Hoops
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Username: Hoops
Post Number: 924
Registered: 10-2004
| | Posted on Wednesday, March 15, 2006 - 2:26 pm: |
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I agree with Innis. What the point of SLK post? The democratic position is growing clearer daily and the points that Pelosi talks about are real concerns to the majority of Americans.
The republican party doesnt agree with the censure of the president? Well what a surprise. The democrats are pro union, pro minimum wage increase, pro keeping jobs in America, pro checks and balances on presidential powers, anti corruption of this administration...
Oh yeah and pro broadband.
Whats not to like in that list?
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Albatross
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Username: Albatross
Post Number: 811
Registered: 9-2004
| | Posted on Thursday, March 16, 2006 - 1:36 am: |
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SLK added emphasis in bold for a reason; as I understood it, that's the part of the article he's commenting on. I'd guess his point was that our representatives have bigger things to worry about than who will have broadband in five years. And I'd agree. |
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