Reid Calls B* to Repudiate Attack Mailing "just like they did to Daschle

[Karenca]

Senator Reid Calls on Bush to Repudiate Attack Mailing
RNC Says 'Research Document' Will be Distributed to About a Million People
By Thomas Ferraro, Reuters

WASHINGTON (Feb. 8) - Senate Democratic leader Harry Reid hit back at the Republican Party on Monday for targeting him with an attack reminiscent of one used to help oust his predecessor, Tom Daschle.
Standing in the Republican-led Senate, Reid called on President Bush personally to repudiate and pull "a hit piece" against him by the Republican National Committee.

"What they want to do is just like (what) they did to Daschle," Reid said.

Republicans last year effectively branded Daschle, a South Dakota Democrat, as a "chief obstructionist" to Bush's agenda on Capitol Hill and persuaded his constituents to vote him out of office.
Daschle had served in the Senate for 18 years, his last 10 as Democratic leader.

Reid, of Nevada, noted Bush has called for bipartisanship and said the president telephoned him after last year's election and said he wanted to "get along."

"Is President Bush a man of his word (or) is what he is telling the American people just a charade?" Reid asked.

At the White House, spokesman Trent Duffy said, "The president looks forward to working with Senator Reid on addressing our country's challenges."
An RNC spokeswoman said a "research document" about Reid that the Senate Democrat had denounced would be distributed to about a million people, including donors, party activists and reporters.
Released on late Monday, hours after Reid spoke, the document looked somewhat like a newspaper, emblazoned with the words, "Reid all about it. All the facts you need to know."
"It introduces the public to the real Harry Reid," RNC spokeswoman Tracey Schmitt said in a telephone interview. "He can try to paint himself as a centrist, but his votes to block tax reform and tort reform and his opposition to strengthen Social Security prove otherwise."

"We intend to make clear that Reid is an obstructionist who is out of the mainstream and we will hold him accountable as the Senate leader of the party of 'no,"' Schmitt said.

Reid was elected Senate minority leader by fellow Democrats after Daschle became the first Senate leader in a half century to be voted out of office.
Reid has stood up to Bush on a number of fronts.

Responding to the president's State of the Union address last week, he denounced Bush's bid to revamp the Social Security retirement program as a dangerous gamble and said Bush needed to draft an exit strategy in Iraq.
As Reid spoke on the Senate floor, he held a copy of Roll Call, a Capitol Hill newspaper with the headline, "RNC turns up heat on Reid."

"The Republican National Committee is his (Bush's) committee," Reid said. "He picks the chairman. He picks everyone there."
On Monday night, Reid, described by aides as angry, attended a previously scheduled dinner with a few fellow senators and their wives at the White House with Bush.


02-08-05 07:14 EST

Copyright 2005 Reuters Limited


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[DesEtoiles]

1. Everyone - do THIS now:

Click on the CAMPAIGN link of DU above

Go to the Local Media Blaster

Write a Letter to the Editor and send to ALL media outlets in your state about how outrageous this is.

THEN FAX a copy of your LTTE to your Senators and Reps, and then as many more Republican Senators and Reps as you have time for.

The RNC is bunch of cheating, lying slimeballs. Let's soak the media with THAT bit of "research".

DO THIS NOW. JUST DO IT!!!!!

[Karenca]

3. self kicking, because you, Norma are SO RIGHT!...nt

[pnutchuck]

2. The RNC is just DIRTY!

What ever happened to "he who is without sin, throw the first stone"? These assholes claiming to represent the values of America are completely without merit. I don't know how people of good conscience can compete with them!

[understandinglife]

4. Well, we are making it clear that Bu$h is a WAR CRIMINAL, for starters...

....and he and his fellow neoCONsters can count on our making it stick.

I've just sent the following to Senator Reid and several of his Senate and HR colleagues:

Dear Senator Reid,

I suggest you submit the following to the Congressional record:

Hijacking Catastrophe: 9/11, Fear, and the Selling of American Empire.

"The film examines the Bush Administration’s investment in neo-conservatism, and the early, and already horrific, results. While past performance is no guarantee of future earnings, Hijacking Catastrophe shows exactly why America’s "new conservatism" is a pyramid scheme of inhumane proportions."

Hijacking Catastrophe describes the cost of empire in a way so comprehensive that it becomes clear that neo-conservatism, as a foreign policy guide, comes with a very real moral, political and financial garnishment of every American, and of American children yet unborn. The cost is shown not only as a current financial outlay or in lives unlived on the part of soldiers and marines, but in terms of an alarming debt burden, loss of domestic freedom, the growing and invasive state, a permanent tattering of the Constitution and Bill of Rights.”

Link to a Bit Torrent file is provided at:
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article6895.htm

I think some of your Republican colleagues currently sheltering Mr Bush and his neoconsters will be less willing to do so once they know this information is spreading, quickly, throughout their constituencies.

All the best,
Bob

p.s. and here is a link to the rules of engagement with the Bush theocratic neoCON regime. Perhaps you and your staff will find it useful:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=203x321092


TBO;24/7

[FreepFryer]

5. Once again, simply brilliant. Word being passed. War criminals on notice.

Bravo once more, understandinglife.

[KaliTracy]

6. how close was Daschle's race? Was it really rhetoric that lost it for

him.... or something else?

[Bill Bored]

7. Was Daschle's race hacked or what?

What kind of voting machines do they have in S. Dakota anyway?
If the vote can't be verified there, Harry may not even be the true minority leader! But at least in NV, they have VVPBs, AFAIK. Harry won't be so easy to unseat at the polls.

[Moderator]

8. Karenca

Per DU copyright rules
please post only four
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Thank you.

DU Moderator

[NationalEnquirer]

9. F*ck this, we need to go on the offensive.

I dont know if its the MSM, but we always come across as whiners "B*shy beat me up on the playground, whaaaaa"...
We gotta fight back with a bigger stick!
Who has the backbone?
Dean needs to kick some ass...

[blackspade]

10. Note to Tracey Schmitt .

Go back to whatever hell spawned you.

[Peace Patriot]

11. Bush's approval ratings have been hovering around 50% since the...

...election, and sank to 48% on his Inauguration Day--absolutely unprecedented for a recently "re-elected" president. 60% of the American people oppose the war on Iraq, now, today. 63% oppose torture under any circumstances. These numbers are just devastating.

The BushCons do NOT represent the majority. The Democrats do. I'm glad some of them are starting to act like it!

"Obstructionist"! Damn right. I wish Reid would say that. "Damn right I'm going to obstruct you from looting Social Security! Damn right I'm going to obstruct you from violating the Constitution! Damn right I'm going to obstruct you from imposing a state religion!"

I think people would just love him for it. See, you've got to connect with THE PEOPLE in this situation, not with the news media. Because the People are with you. We ARE the majority!

Reid does have spirit in him. I like that! I'm glad he's fighting back! Lord, do we hunger for inspiration!