GOP Focus on Security Issues to Sideline Other Matters

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Congress will return to Washington this week with the Republican majorities in both chambers at risk and GOP leaders planning to turn the floors of the House and Senate into battlegrounds over which political party can best protect the country from terrorists and other security threats.

But in devoting the few remaining legislative days almost exclusively to security issues, Republicans will leave major domestic tasks undone, including President Bush's prized immigration overhaul and long-promised legislation to toughen the restrictions on lobbying after a wide-ranging corruption scandal. No budget plan for 2007 will be completed. Promised relief for seniors struggling with their Medicare prescription drug plans will have to wait. And as many as eight of the 11 bills needed to fund the government will not be passed before the November elections.


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Democrats will counter with maneuvers to push for a vote of no confidence on Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld and with multiple calls to fully implement the recommendations of the bipartisan commission that investigated the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.

"Our fight is with the Republicans," House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said. "They have weakened our military, hurt our position in the world, spent away our children's future and again not made America safer."
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/09/02/AR2006090200451.html

[Monkeyman]

1. This is the battle we must win GOP will lose in 06 on this issue

[spindrifter]

2. We should rub their

snouts in all the things they have screwed up. It is such a cake walk.

[Monkeyman]

4. Waiting for Rove's talking points theGOP call him the Bobby Fisher

We shall see we stay five moves ahead he will get beat.

[bluestateguy]

3. If they want to talk about security, I'm all for it

JOb security, health care security, environmental security, retirement security, etc.

Go ahead. 6 times more people than we lost on 9/11 died last year because they did not have health insurance.

[Ignacio Upton]

5. Repeat: The GOP hasn't made us safer!

Talk about Tora Bora, Hart-Rudmann, Dubai Ports World, etc.!