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4/19/2005

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"When a man is in trouble or in a good fight, you want to have your friends around, preferably armed. So I feel really good," Rep. Tom DeLay said.

"His work to preserve our constitutional rights has earned the respect of his colleagues, our 4 million members, and millions of law-abiding gun owners across this nation," Wayne LaPierre Jr., the NRA's executive vice president, said.

"One can only imagine how insulting our elitism is to the average mother in the exurbs of Georgia or Colorado who might be uncomfortable with open talk of threesomes on 'Friends' at 8 p.m. Well, actually, we don't have to imagine too hard, not after John Kerry openly embraced Hollywood and went on to lose married women voters by a margin of 55 percent to 44 percent," Democratic consultant Dan Gerstein writes in the Wall Street Journal.

"I do think the White House needs to remember that people who fight hard for you as a candidate and for your issues as a president ... deserve your support, aggressive support," said Sen. Trent Lott.

"They're just desperate," Karl Rove said of Democrats on CNN. "They're not offering ideas in the debate, they're not being constructive, and so some of their members are taking potshots at Tom DeLay."

"I'm looking forward to working with Tom," President Bush said. "He's been a very effective leader. We've gotten a lot done in the legislature, and I'm convinced we'll get more done in the legislature."

"I'm 1,000-percent convinced of this: The president cares the most about this $10-an-hour person," said Allan B. Hubbard, director of the White House National Economic Council. "And what he gets most irritated by is when it is suggested, 'Oh the $10-an-hour person isn't sophisticated enough to deal with a personal retirement account.' "

"The centralization of state power in the [Russian] presidency at the expense of countervailing institutions like the Duma [parliament’s lower house] or an independent judiciary is clearly very worrying. The absence of an independent media on the electronic side is clearly very worrying," Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said.

"The first rule in winning is to show up - show up, say who you are, say what you stand for," Howard Dean said.

  


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Hard sell

The Washington Post reports on the fact that there are a lot of individuals who worry about having to manage their proposed private Social Security account and that is making selling the concept of private accounts difficult:

"I don't know what's going on with it," she said one night at a tax clinic in Southeast D.C. "I just know I have these three accounts, so I just say, 'Let's hope and pray. Let's hope and pray it's not going into Enron. Let's hope and pray it's not going into Tyco.' It's just hard to absorb all I'm supposed to absorb."

The Post indicates that this attitude exists upon an economic fault line:

According to a Washington Post/ABC News poll conducted last month, support for private accounts rose with income level. Among households reporting income of $35,000 or less, 6 in 10 said they opposed the president's proposal on Social Security. In households with income of $75,000 or more, about half of those polled said they supported the proposal.

Dean’s Florida trip

The St. Petersburg Times State offered an insightful look at Howard Dean’s attacks on Republicans. Dean, referring to the Terri Schiavo, case said:

"It's a character issue and a values issue. The Republicans are willing to reach into our personal lives at any moment," Dean told the St. Petersburg Times , dismissing the notion that the controversy would fade with time.

"There is a deep scar on the American psyche," he said. "This is a great tragedy for the American people and I think the behavior of the governor [Jeb Bush] and the president and the senator [Mel Martinez] is something that will long be remembered."

Howard Dean had previously made a statement that Schiavo would be a political issue in 2006, "This is going to be an issue in 2006, and it's going to be an issue in 2008, because we're going to have an ad, with a picture of Tom Delay, saying, 'Do you want this guy to decide whether you die or not?'"

Referring to Republicans he said:

"We need to kick the money changers out of the temple and restore moral values to America," Dean said, drawing roars from the crowd.

Network news is dead

According to former ABC news anchor Sam Donaldson, network news is dead [LINK]:

"I think it's dead. Sorry," he said during a breakfast panel Tuesday at the National Association of Broadcasters' convention in Las Vegas.  "The monster anchors are through."

Donaldson was joined on the panel by CNN political analyst Jeff Greenfield and CBS Sunday Morning's Charles Osgood, both of whom were less pessimistic about network news' future.

The three also agreed that that Internet bloggers have had a generally positive impact on news because mainstream reporters are forced to better verify their information and pare opinions out of their work or face he wrath of scrutinizing critics.

 

 

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