[Vision2020] Fw: And so it begins!!

Sunil Ramalingam sunilramalingam at hotmail.com
Wed Jan 3 11:46:28 PST 2007


Pat,

Is Bush a liar?

Sunil


>From: "Pat Kraut" <pkraut at moscow.com>
>To: "vision2020" <vision2020 at moscow.com>
>Subject: [Vision2020] Fw:  And so it begins!!
>Date: Wed, 3 Jan 2007 10:05:13 -0800
>
>I am sorry this should read nonpartisonship.
>
>Ah! But there was all that talk after the election of integrity,
>partisonship, working with each other, honesty etc etc. So now we know for
>sure...Pelosi is a liar!
>
>
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "J Ford" <privatejf32 at hotmail.com>
>To: <vision2020 at moscow.com>
>Sent: Tuesday, January 02, 2007 10:18 AM
>Subject: Re: [Vision2020] And so it begins!!
>
>
>Yeah, right!  Like the Republicans haven't and wouldn't do this!
>
>Get real...anytime one party or the other can get things done without the
>other - they do it.  Simple fact of politics.
>
>
>
>J  :]
>
>
>
>
>
> >From: "Pat Kraut" <pkraut at moscow.com>
> >To: "vision2020" <vision2020 at moscow.com>
> >Subject: [Vision2020] And so it begins!!
> >Date: Tue, 2 Jan 2007 10:19:13 -0800
> >
> >Democrats To Start Without GOP Input - washingtonpost.com
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> >By Lyndsey Layton and Juliet Eilperin
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> >Tuesday, January 2, 2007; Page A01
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> >As they prepare to take control of Congress this week and face up to
> >campaign pledges to restore bipartisanship and openness, Democrats are
> >planning to largely sideline Republicans from the first burst of 
>lawmaking.
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> >House Democrats intend to pass a raft of popular measures as part of 
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> >But instead of allowing Republicans to fully participate in 
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> >as promised after the Democratic victory in the Nov. 7 midterm elections,
> >Democrats now say they will use House rules to prevent the opposition 
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> >offering alternative measures, assuring speedy passage of the bills and
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> >Nancy Pelosi, the Californian who will become House speaker, and Steny H.
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> >over the holiday recess in a flurry of conference calls and meetings with
> >other party leaders. A few Democrats, worried that the party would be
> >criticized for reneging on an important pledge, argued unsuccessfully 
>that
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> >convenes on Thursday.
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> >The episode illustrates the dilemma facing the new party in power. The
> >Democrats must demonstrate that they can break legislative gridlock and
> >govern after 12 years in the minority, while honoring their pledge to 
>make
> >the 110th Congress a civil era in which Democrats and Republicans work
> >together to solve the nation's problems. Yet in attempting to pass laws 
>key
> >to their prospects for winning reelection and expanding their majority, 
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> >Democrats may have to resort to some of the same tough tactics 
>Republicans
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> >Democratic leaders say they are torn between giving Republicans a say in
> >legislation and shutting them out to prevent them from derailing 
>Democratic
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> >"There is a going to be a tension there," said Rep. Chris Van Hollen 
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> >House Republicans have begun to complain that Democrats are backing away
> >from their promise to work cooperatively. They are working on their own
> >strategy for the first 100 hours, and part of it is built on the idea 
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> >bills have already been debated and dissected, including the proposal to
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> >the 109th Congress, said Brendan Daly, a spokesman for Pelosi.
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> >"We've talked about these things for more than a year," he said. "The
> >members and the public know what we're voting on. So in the first 100
> >hours, we're going to pass these bills."
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> >But because the details of the Democratic proposals have not been 
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> >some language could be new. Daly said Democrats are still committed to
> >sharing power with the minority down the line. "The test is not the first
> >100 hours," he said. "The test is the first six months or the first year.
> >We will do what we promised to do."
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