Confident Democrats lay out agenda

[Judi Lynn]

Confident Democrats lay out agenda
Party plans probes of Bush administration if it wins back House

By Jonathan Weisman

Updated: 11:56 p.m. ET May 6, 2006
Democratic leaders, increasingly confident they will seize control of the House in November, are laying plans for a legislative blitz during their first week in power that would raise the minimum wage, roll back parts of the Republican prescription drug law, implement homeland security measures and reinstate lapsed budget deficit controls.

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (Calif.) said in an interview last week that a Democratic House would launch a series of investigations of the Bush administration, beginning with the White House's first-term energy task force and probably including the use of intelligence in the run-up to the invasion of Iraq. Pelosi denied Republican allegations that a Democratic House would move quickly to impeach President Bush. But, she said of the planned investigations, "You never know where it leads to."

In recent days, Democratic confidence has been buoyed by a series of polls indicating that not only is Bush growing increasingly unpopular, so are Republicans in Congress. An Associated Press-Ipsos poll released Friday found that 33 percent of the public approves of Bush's job performance, the lowest rating of his presidency. And only 25 percent approves of the job Congress is doing, a figure comparable to congressional approval ratings before the 1994 elections that swept Republicans to power.

The AP-Ipsos poll found that 51 percent of Americans say they want Democrats rather than Republicans to control Congress. Only 34 percent favor Republican control.
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http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/12621517/from/RSS/

[Judi Lynn]

1. Democrats planning for House majority

(This is a UPI story)
Democrats planning for House majority

WASHINGTON, May 6 (UPI) -- Democratic leaders in Congress, optimistic about the coming election, are planning investigations into the Bush administration.

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi told The Washington Post investigations would probably go back as far as Vice President Dick Cheney's energy task force in 2001. Other likely targets include warrantless wiretapping and national security.

"We have to be ready to win," Pelosi said, "and we have to tell (voters) what we will do when we win."

The agenda also includes raising the minimum wage, changing the prescription drug plan and restoring controls on deficit spending.
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http://www.politicalgateway.com/news/read/11662

[Pavulon]

2. Good

now make it public.

Fix energy
Fix minimum wages
Fix war (not batshit crazy pack up and leave the place to Iran)
Be transparent.

Easy. This gets attention and gets people elected.

Finally a relevant post (not picking on OP). To bad it is 0029 here.

[regnaD kciN]

3. Right you are...package and publicize it!

Make it our answer to the "Contract on America." Show the world that Democrats don't "lack ideas," and that we're not just running on Bush-hatred.

The current misadministration has brought people half-way back to voting Democratic this November. It's established why they should want to remove the Republicans from office. But we still need to establish why they should vote in favor of Democrats, not just against Republicans.

It also helps establish us as "the party of the ordinary guy," and not just an assortment of narrow interest groups only concerned about getting their planks in the platform -- which, at the moment, is still the way lots of voters see Democrats.

[maddezmom]

4. duplicate

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=2268052