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chroma
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Username: Chroma
Post Number: 28
Registered: 3-2005
| | Posted on Friday, April 14, 2006 - 12:00 pm: | 
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http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2006/4/14/105814/143
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tom
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Username: Tom
Post Number: 4732
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Friday, April 14, 2006 - 2:50 pm: |
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Good. Everybody likes competence, and disdains incompetence. It doesn't overstate the issue, it's calm and rational. And it has the advantage of being largely true (there are incompetent Dems, of course, presumably we're not going to run one of them).
From earlier this month, how the dems can play the "wedge issue" game:
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Quote:The Senate Democratic leadership says it has found a wedge issue to strengthen the party's position on abortion rights, which top strategists think has become a liability in recent years.
The wedge is legislation expanding access to contraceptives and sex education, which polls show a majority of Americans support but which Democrats are betting will be difficult for social conservatives in the Republican base to accept.
Democratic strategists say the time is right for action because women who support abortion rights but are not politically engaged are alarmed by the confirmation of Samuel Alito as Sandra Day O'Connor's replacement on the Supreme Court and by the passage of legislation strictly curbing the availability of abortion there.
The "The Prevention First Act" requires health plans to cover "contraceptive drugs, devices and outpatient services" if they cover the cost of other prescription drugs and outpatient services. More on the bill:
Quote:It would also require the secretary of health and human services to disseminate information on emergency contraception to healthcare providers and require hospitals receiving federal money to provide emergency contraception to victims of sexual assault.
The bill would also mandate that federally funded programs provide information about contraceptives that is medically accurate and includes data on health benefits and failure rates.
An overwhelming majority of Americans support access to contraceptives and sex education. This bill will force Republicans to go on record: do they really want to prevent abortions, or is all their anti-abortion talk the empty rhetoric of pandering politicos?
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Southerner
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Username: Southerner
Post Number: 910
Registered: 2-2004
| | Posted on Friday, April 14, 2006 - 3:08 pm: |
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tom,
Competence has nothing to do with political office. It's all about raising money and electability. If competence mattered we'd have a completely different set of 535 members of Congress. Of course the White House would be exactly like it is (wink, wink). Now let's move back into reality and leave competence where it belongs. In sports (with the Knick exception).
Will Hillary be the Democratic nominee because she is the most competent, or because she can raise money better than any Dem since her husband? |
Innisowen
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Username: Innisowen
Post Number: 1947
Registered: 3-2004
| | Posted on Friday, April 14, 2006 - 3:31 pm: |
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Competence has everything to do with HOLDING EXECUTIVE OFFICE, whether elected or appointed, and with leading a country or a major organization.
In a corporate entity, the White House incumbent and his team would have been removed months ago for failing to perform on the key initiative that they brought to the "board."
Competence apparently has nothing to do with being ELECTED to that office, as the incumbent proves, and as Hillary also might demonstrate if given the chance.
How about that funded European history course, Southerner? It might give you a perspective on the history of competence as well. |
tom
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Username: Tom
Post Number: 4735
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Friday, April 14, 2006 - 3:33 pm: |
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Don't underestimate it, because it's big on the local level. It got Daley re-elected in Chicago countless times, for example. He may have been a crook and a thug, but he got stuff done. Voters tend to like a guy who can make the trains run on time. Bush not only can't make the trains come on time, he's ripping up the tracks. |
Foj
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Username: Foger
Post Number: 1154
Registered: 9-2004
| | Posted on Friday, April 14, 2006 - 8:44 pm: |
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Tom. .. Ripping up the tracks and selling them to China. For, below market value. & Maybe we can get the abortion rate down, since its been going up over the last 5 years. SO much to fix after the last 5 years of Conservatives who can win elections, but cant govern for beans. Thats what they get for concentrating on controlling the voting machine companies, but not taking Poly sci in college- or Governmental affairs- or some such thing.
After Impeaching & removing the entire Bush Regime from office, there will be so much work to do. SO much to clean up. >sigh< |
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