DEMOCRATS SURRENDER ON IRAQ WAR
Posted on 12/02/2007 5:11:55 PM PST by mdittmar
House Democrats will host an economic forum on Friday, signaling their intent to refocus the political debate on President Bush’s handling of the economy and away from the situation in Iraq.
House Democratic Caucus Chairman Rahm Emanuel (D-Ill.) floated the proposal last week, in a story first reported by The Hill.
Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), Financial Services Committee Chairman Barney Frank (D-Mass.) and Emanuel announced the details of the forum on Sunday.
“Restoring the American dream for millions of our nation’s working families has been a central priority for House Democrats,” Pelosi said in a statement.
Participants in the forum include, Jane D’Arista, the Financial Markets Center; Laurence D. Fink, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of BlackRock; William Hambrecht, a San Francisco investor; Warren Hellman of Hellman & Friedman, a private equity firm; and Eugene A. Ludwig, the founder and CEO of Promontory Group, a financial services company.
Participants better known in Washington will include Lawrence Mishel, the president of the Economic Policy Institute (EPI); Bill Spriggs, an economist at Howard University; former Treasury Secretary Larry Summers; John Sweeney, president of the AFL-CIO; Felix G. Rohatyn, a former ambassador to France, longtime Democratic Party wiseman and Wall Street maven, and Laura Tyson, former director of the National Economic Council during the Clinton Administration.
“Restoring the American dream for millions of our nation’s working families has been a central priority for House Democrats,” Pelosi said in a statement.
Cite one example, Nanny.
That's not rocket science, lower taxes, relax regulation on business, especially refinerys, and open up ANWAR for drilling.
Treason should be a word mentioned more often.
Having failed to lose the war in Iraq, they will now focus on trying to destroy the economy. They already laid some of the groundwork, passing the minimum wage hike that has already put downward pressure on low-wage jobs.
Democrats....Economy=SNAFU!
Everyone should see this,and think about it.
What you see is a political party, so desperate for power,that they will abandon those who serve to keep us free.
Gee, I wonder why.
Bump!
why can’t they focus on what Bush is doing wrong????
because they’re no better on illegals.
Democratic Plan: “Let’s raise taxes, that will fix the economy”.
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