Parties Set Stage for Another Turbulent Year in Congress

Parties Set Stage for Another Turbulent Year in Congress

By ROBIN TONER and CARL HULSE
Published: December 24, 2005

WASHINGTON, Dec. 23 - With control of Congress hanging in the balance next year, neither party will take much of a holiday break. Even as this session of Congress lurched to a fractious close, both parties were planning for an intense start to the new year, as they try to seize the political agenda for the midterm elections.

If Democrats have their way, the debate will revolve, in large part, around ethics and honesty in government, and what they assert is the Republican majority's failings in those areas. Republicans, for their part, are hoping to focus voters' attention on improvements in the economy - and hoping to link those economic gains to the tax cuts they will be pushing next year.

Democrats are heading into 2006 in a bullish mood, after beating back President Bush's Social Security proposal and several other major Republican initiatives. Senate Democrats plan to introduce a new "investigative unit" in January to highlight Republican scandals and what they assert is a chronic failure by the Republican-controlled Congress to exercise real oversight of the Bush administration.

In the House, Representative Rahm Emanuel of Illinois, chairman of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, said an important message for the midterm campaign was simply: "We will put a check and a balance back into the system. People know the system is out of whack."
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http://www.nytimes.com/2005/12/24/politics/24cong.html

Depending on how fingers Casino Jack is willing to point :popcorn:

Tom Delay's Chairmanship until he is cleared by the courts of wrongdoing (unless there is a corrupt judge, Delay will be convicted and to stop the business of Congress for a month during wartime is an outrage)Someone suggested that the Democrats show up after the recess, call in the media, and if they are locked out the photos will show what Republicans are doing to America, if anyone needs more evidence.

http://www.impeachpac.org/
http://www.conyersblog.us/

TELL CONGRESS TO IMPEACH GEORGE BUSH
http://democrats.com/peoplesemailnetwork/65

http://www.johnconyers.com/ - Conyer's Action Items

Join me, below, in sending the:

Letter Advising the President of Censure

and

Steps to Begin Special Committee Investigation

Dear Mr. President:

We are brave, proud, patriotic citizens of the United States. We love our country and are writing to express our profound disappointment with you and your administration for your conduct surrounding the Iraq War, the collection and use of intelligence, and your disrespect for the laws of this great nation.

i think we need to shake OUR goverment up NEW SLOGAN FOR 2006 ANYONE BUT THE INCUMBENT

Welcome to DU!! :toast: