Democrats On Hill Aim To Aid Middle Class; Health Ins. for children, college loan help...

Washington - While the main event on Capitol Hill this week is US policy in Iraq, Democrats are stepping up a quieter, sustained campaign on other fronts to win over more middle-class voters.

Even if Democrats can't decisively shift the course of US involvement in Iraq, they aim to build a record of solving problems that make a difference to average families.

The issues range from cutting college costs and increasing insurance coverage for children to curbing a runaway Alternative Minimum Tax, now on track to hit some 23 million taxpayers next year. Also in the pipeline: an energy bill, a farm bill, and the reauthorization of a big education funding bill.

But gridlock in the Senate and a fierce fight over the fiscal year 2008 spending bills this fall are making it difficult for any of this to make points with voters, who are giving the Democrat-controlled Congress near-record low approval ratings.

"Democrats have a good approach: The issues are terrific ones, because they resonate with people hungry for something that helps them in their daily lives," says Norman Ornstein, a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute.

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http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/0911/p02s01-uspo.html

and the war in Iraq. The corruption and the lies. The spying and torture.

So they're gonna throw us a few peanuts while everything goes to hell in a handbasket. BFD.

They need to fix the biggest problems first. Find a backbone. DO SOMETHING THEY WERE ELECTED TO DO. Then get this shit done. Because with this administration bleeding us dry and about to start WWIII, nothing else matters.

well be dominate versus the Iraq issue by mid-2008.

(btw, I'm not calling you 'stupid'...just hauling out that old phrase)

:)

to be 'fixed' on these piss ant issues they're dredging up to make themselves look good (if that's possible). WE CANNOT CONTINUE TO GO INTO HOCK ON THE PENTAGON'S GRASPING BUDGETS AND PAYING FOR TWO ENDLESS WARS THAT WE ARE LOSING. No damn matter what anyone does, if we don't reign in those military/corporporate blood-sucking scam artists NOTHING, BUT NOTHING will save our damn asses.