Railroad
Routinely Derailed
From the GOP.com Blog:
October 3, 2006: The Wall Street Journal editorializes today “Democrats are campaigning on ‘a new direction for <?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com
ffice:smarttags" /><st1lace w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on">America</st1:country-region></st1lace>,’ but they've been deliberately abstemious with any details of what that means. New York Senator Chuck Schumer told the Journal last week that silence is their strategy because laying out an agenda ‘gives Republicans a target.’ So much for the courage of one's convictions. Apparently, however, Mr. Schumer hasn't connected with Charlie Rangel, the 36-year House veteran from <st1lace w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">New York City</st1:City></st1lace> who will chair the Ways and Means Committee if Democrats win a majority. Mr. Rangel has been happy to explain his own agenda on taxes and the war in <st1lace w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on">Iraq</st1:country-region></st1lace>. … last week, Mr. Rangel was asked by Congress Daily whether he'd consider tax increases across the income spectrum. ‘No question about it,’ he said. ‘Everything has to be on the table.’ ‘Everything’ would mean repealing the 10% low-income tax bracket, the child tax credit and marriage penalty relief, all of which passed in 2001 and expire in 2010. According to the Treasury Department, repealing those provisions would raise taxes on the average middle income family by about $2,000 a year. Most Democrats say they only want to raise taxes on the rich, so give the would-be-chairman points for honesty. … Voters won't be able to say they weren't warned.”<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-comfficeffice" /><o></o>
October 3, 2006: The Wall Street Journal editorializes today “Democrats are campaigning on ‘a new direction for <?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com
ffice:smarttags" /><st1lace w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on">America</st1:country-region></st1lace>,’ but they've been deliberately abstemious with any details of what that means. New York Senator Chuck Schumer told the Journal last week that silence is their strategy because laying out an agenda ‘gives Republicans a target.’ So much for the courage of one's convictions. Apparently, however, Mr. Schumer hasn't connected with Charlie Rangel, the 36-year House veteran from <st1lace w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">New York City</st1:City></st1lace> who will chair the Ways and Means Committee if Democrats win a majority. Mr. Rangel has been happy to explain his own agenda on taxes and the war in <st1lace w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on">Iraq</st1:country-region></st1lace>. … last week, Mr. Rangel was asked by Congress Daily whether he'd consider tax increases across the income spectrum. ‘No question about it,’ he said. ‘Everything has to be on the table.’ ‘Everything’ would mean repealing the 10% low-income tax bracket, the child tax credit and marriage penalty relief, all of which passed in 2001 and expire in 2010. According to the Treasury Department, repealing those provisions would raise taxes on the average middle income family by about $2,000 a year. Most Democrats say they only want to raise taxes on the rich, so give the would-be-chairman points for honesty. … Voters won't be able to say they weren't warned.”<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-comfficeffice" /><o></o>