IN THE MINORITY:
Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton
Posted on 11/09/2002 3:29:15 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
Saturday, November 9, 2002; Page A04 Rejecting critics' suggestions that Democrats lost the battle for Congress because they had the wrong message -- or no message at all, Senate Democratic Leader Thomas A. Daschle (S.D.) said yesterday it was really just a failure of communication. Democrats were effective in pointing out deficiencies in the Bush administration's economic policies but less successful when it came to selling their own strategies, Daschle said at his first press briefing since Democrats lost the Senate and the GOP solidified its hold on the House in Tuesday's elections. "It isn't for lack of a strategy," he said. "It's for a lack of articulating that strategy effectively." Democrats talked about "the need to extend unemployment benefits and a minimum wage [increase], and tax cuts for small business, and corporate governance, and a recognition that we've got to do something to ensure that pensions are stronger," he said. "But for whatever reason, I don't think that was as clearly articulated and, more importantly, I don't think it was as understood by the American people as I wish it would have been." Daschle proudly held up his home state, where Sen. Tim Johnson (D) eked out a 528-vote victory over Rep. John Thune (R), as a "clear demonstration of a Democratic success story," even though President Bush campaigned so often there for Thune that if he had come one more time, "he would have been eligible for an in-state hunting license." Unlike House Minority Leader Richard A. Gephardt (D-Mo.), who is stepping down, Daschle said he will run for another term as Democratic leader, apparently without opposition. Daschle's upbeat message lost a beat when a reporter asked why he was wearing a black shirt. Because he liked it, Daschle said. What's more, he said, his family was planning a photograph for Christmas cards and his two grandchildren, whom he would be holding, were wearing white. "That really is the story," he said, grinning.
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Rejecting critics' suggestions that Democrats lost the battle for Congress because they had the wrong message -- or no message at all, Senate Democratic Leader Thomas A. Daschle (S.D.) said yesterday it was really just a failure of communication.
Democrats were effective in pointing out deficiencies in the Bush administration's economic policies but less successful when it came to selling their own strategies, Daschle said at his first press briefing since Democrats lost the Senate and the GOP solidified its hold on the House in Tuesday's elections. "It isn't for lack of a strategy," he said. "It's for a lack of articulating that strategy effectively."
Democrats talked about "the need to extend unemployment benefits and a minimum wage [increase], and tax cuts for small business, and corporate governance, and a recognition that we've got to do something to ensure that pensions are stronger," he said.
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Calling the American people morons always helps.
"The problem with America is that it's full of Americans."
8^)
5.56mm
1) When the ethicly challenged toricelli is loosing, clinton broke campain law to run someone from 1972, who really is 72. We got that message.
2) Dems held a press conferance in Bagdad to tell the voters of the United States of America, and the whole world, that Bush can't be trusted.
3) Dems bring a jumbo-tron to the "rally on a dead guy" in MN to show clinton laughing it up with yet another candidate from 72, who really is 72.
4) Clinton and Gore in Florida trying to blame their mistakes and shortcomings on the good people of Florida.
5) Then! Then! As if this wasn't enough, in the closing hours they run attack adds blaming the GOP for sniper shootings while american blood is being spilled in the steets.
Pleeeeease...don't anyone wake this little man up.
As long as the Reservation voter fraud is mentioned in the same sentence I'd agree.
IN THE MINORITY:
Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton
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