Democrats new strategy; SSDD
Steve Hirsch in the Washington Times tells us that a coalition of Republican and Democrat Congressmen are trying to reward Communists in Cuba;
Legislation to chip away at the Bush administration’s hard-line Cuba policy is in the works in the House, where Republicans and Democrats are planning a variety of measures aimed at easing the U.S. policy on Cuba.
    The first bill, which would lift the ban on Americans traveling to Cuba, was introduced yesterday by Rep. Jeff Flake, Arizona Republican.
And of course Charlie Rangle couldn’t help but take a potshot at the President on the war in Iraq;
 Mr. Rangel criticized Mr. Bush as being “locked into punishing Castro,” but suggested that Mr. Bush would not veto bills that have Republican support.
    “He’s in enough trouble for the war that the best he can look for is trying to be able to accomplish something among Republican members. He owes them big time,” Mr. Rangel said.
One-note Charlie.
And Charles Hurt reports from the Washington Times this morning that the Senate Democrats blocked an amendment to the minimum wage bill that would have imposed stiffer fines on employers who hire illegal workers;
Senate Democrats quashed a proposal yesterday that would have dramatically increased civil fines on employers who hire illegal aliens.
    Sen. Jeff Sessions, Alabama Republican, offered the amendment to the bill now being debated that would increase the federal minimum wage.
    Ridding the economy of illegal aliens, he argued, would do far more to help low-income wage earners than simply raising the minimum wage. Not only do aliens displace U.S. citizens in the work force, he said, they also artificially suppress wages.
And old fat-ass, drunken Teddy Kennedy chalks it up to Republicans not caring about American workers;
Republicans are “not for those millions of Americans who are heading home tonight, who’ve worked long and hard, facing their children hoping that at last … the United States isn’t going to fail us,” he said. “What do we tell them after five days?”
And then takes a shot at the President about the war in Iraq;
After accusing Republicans of stalling, Mr. Kennedy then proceeded to read aloud for five minutes a story in the New York Times about soldiers fighting in Iraq.
I’m beginning to see a pattern here. Is this the new Democrat strategy? Everything is related to the War Against Terror? Whether it is or not? They found an issue that pleases their base and attracts a few bleeding heart independents so they hang on to it like grim death.
Category: Politics
