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The Dems speak.(Politics)
The Dems Speak Tom Vilsack et al., Stronger at Home, Respected in The World: The Democratic Platform for America, July 2004 (democrats.org)
The Democratic Party's 2004 platform, issued shortly before the party's Boston convention, speaks of "immeasurably high" stakes going into the 2004 election. It paints a grim picture of America, in which "our great middle class is hard pressed," and "our alliances are frayed, our credibility in doubt." The platform, however, tempers this with a declaration that Democrats will "affirm our faith in the greatness of America."
Among the platform's key provisions are pledges to add 40,000 active-duty soldiers to the military, to create a cabinet-evel Director of National Intelligence, and to achieve energy independence through tax ...
- Dems speak up.(Democrats)
- Magazine article from: The Progressive Conniff, Ruth January 1, 2006 700+ words
So much is going wrong for the Republicans--sinking poll numbers, the mess in Iraq, torture, scandal, and a bruising budget battle--that it is beginning to look like political change is coming. Democrats are raising their voices, criticizing the Bush Administration in terms Bush's opponents have
- 3 DEMS SPEAK OUT AGAINST TRADE DEALS.(Democrats, Michael Michaud, Phil Hare,...
- Magazine article from: WWD Ellis, Kristi September 25, 2007 700+ words
Byline: Kristi Ellis WASHINGTON - Three House Democrats took a defiant stance against their own leadership Monday over advancing a free trade deal with Peru and three other pending trade accords. Reps. Michael Michaud (D., Maine), Phil Hare (D., Ill.) and Betty Sutton (D., Ohio), members of the
- Lib Dems speak up for rural 'cinderellas'.(News)
- Newspaper article from: Coventry Evening Telegraph (England) June 3, 2004 700+ words
RURAL "Cinderellas" who feel they get a raw deal when they pay council tax are a major campaigning point for Rugby Liberal Democrats. Husband and wife team Cllr Ron Ravenhall (Lib Dem, Dunchurch and Knightlow) and his wife Sally, who is standing for election in the same ward, are hoping the council
- Clark to Dems: Speak out on Iraq: Retired general speaks in Phoenix at rally.
- Newspaper article from: Tribune (Mesa, AZ) September 28, 2006 700+ words
Byline: Paul Giblin Sep. 28--Wesley Clark, speaking very much like a presidential candidate, challenged Democrats to engage Republicans on the war in Iraq. The Bush administration no longer has the high ground on the issue, the retired Army general told 230 people at a town hall meeting sponsored
- Cap loss could burn Bush: override of 35% veto would be fodder for Democratic...
- Magazine article from: Broadcasting & Cable McConnell, Bill August 11, 2003 700+ words
...contributors by vetoing this bill, or he can do his job and protect the best interests of ordinary people by signing it." DEMS SPEAK OUT Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.) is co-sponsor of a separate "legislative veto" that will come to the Senate floor...
- Posturing Plaid in the wrong; RED MIST BLINDS THE NATIONALISTS TO...
- Newspaper article from: The Mirror (London, England) Starling, Paul February 7, 2000 700+ words
...the Assembly? If so, not one of them will be safe in the future. And for whom do the Tories, nationalists, and Lib-Dems speak? Taken together they have never spoken for the majority in Wales. Labour had a landslide at the General Election. And the...
- Just why do we need the Lib Dems?(Column)
- Newspaper article from: The Daily Mail (London, England) September 22, 2004 700+ words
...by both the Tories and Labour. But what they understood by Liberalism was never clear. This is not surprising as the Lib Dems speak with different tongues in different parts of the country - as a party can afford to do when it has no prospect of power and...
- The broken electoral system.(Letters to the Editor)(Letter to the editor)
- Magazine article from: The Progressive Turnoy, David March 1, 2006 700+ words
In her January article "Dems Speak Up," Ruth Conniff sees the political pendulum swinging back toward the left to favor the Democrats in the upcoming 2006 elections...