i'm sorry but if Democrats cannot win this election based alone on this paragraph in the Washington Post about Bush's disastrous budget, we do not deserve to be in office. This should put "electability" to pass. ALL these guys, even freakin Lieberman, could beat Bush at this point. No more whining from Dean folks (i'm one) about Kerry getting slaughtered by Bush. We should be able to beat this guy easily:
Even as the economy fails to generate significant job growth, Bush would slice federal vocational and adult education funding by 35 percent, from $2.1 billion to $1.4 billion. Assistance for workers dislocated by the North American Free Trade Agreement would be eliminated. Rural development assistance would be cut, as would housing aid for Native Americans and the elderly. The foreign aid budget would dramatically boost funding to combat the spread of AIDS, but it would also slice $404 million from child-survival and child-disease programs.
wow, cutting vocational training and NAFTA dislocation job training programs??? christ. South Carolina should turn blue on that alone (i know they won't). Michigan and Ohio should be blue in Nov. if Democrats can pound on this. Even if you are an ardent free trader, you should always support job retraining. BUsh has shown his utter contempt for the American worker with this.
i'm sorry, but Bush has made it pretty damn easy for Democrats to win this year. it's up to us to not drop the ball, which given the state of the Dem party, i would not put it past us to do.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A6881-2004Feb2.html