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...against President Bush, raising tens of millions of dollars and mobilizing battalions of pollsters and political consultants. But when it comes to what matters most in politics, the contest didn't start until last Wednesday morning. In a crowded union hall in midtown Manhattan, former House Minority Leader Dick Gephardt produced the one thing that no other contender has: a really big idea...
...Gephardt's idea is not just one of the most ambitious proposals that any presidential candidate has made in years, but one of the riskiest - treading into the political minefield that is health care with a proposal to spend more than $240 billion a year to cover nearly all the nation's 41 million uninsured. To pay for it, he would scrap President Bush's tax cut. "I realize this is dangerous territory," Gephardt told TIME, but added, "People deserve clear, distinct, meaningful alternatives...
...small irony that George W. Bush has liberated both the Iraqis and the Democrats. His ridiculous federal budget has removed a significant, Clintonian restraint on the party: it no longer has to be fiscally responsible. Candidates can promise the moon. Dick Gephardt can say his universal health coverage plan will "only" cost $100 billion a year. Kerry can point out that the Administration is planning new roads, schools, hospitals and schoolbooks in Iraq. "And it is time that they do the same thing here ..." But it is easier for Republicans, who are inaccurately assumed to be adults, to be fiscally...
...small irony that George W. Bush has liberated both the Iraqis and the Democrats. His ridiculous federal budget has removed a significant, Clintonian restraint on the party: it no longer has to be fiscally responsible. Candidates can promise the moon. Dick Gephardt can say his universal health coverage plan will "only" cost $100 billion a year. Kerry can point out that the Administration is planning new roads, schools, hospitals and schoolbooks in Iraq. "And it is time that they do the same thing here ..." But it is easier for Republicans, who are inaccurately assumed to be adults, to be fiscally...
...DICK GEPHARDT $3.6 mil. The former House leader should have a broad donor network. But he's in third place, so who's he missing...