Democrats are presenting their national message for the fall elections this week, according to Marc Sandalow, confident of the opoportunity to pick up seats, “yet divided over how much an agenda will matter.”
The Democratic program will consist of bread-and-butter priorities: increasing the minimum wage, cutting costs of prescription drugs, reducing interest rates on student loans, rolling back subsidies for oil companies, and pay-as-you-go budgeting, according to party officials.
Hmm. I wonder what “pay-as-you-go budgeting” means. It sounds like giving first priority to government spending as second priority to family budgets to me.
Party strategists hope the timing will contrast favorably with the Republicans' recent push on social legislation such as constitutional bans on gay marriage and flag burning.
With President Bush and Republicans in political free fall, others in the party believe what Democrats do and say is of far less consequence than the price of gasoline and the daily casualties from Iraq.
That raises an interesting question. If gas prices came down by the fall, would it make a difference?
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