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Dean cited the Bush tax cuts as a prime example of the Administration’s divisive rule. As he has before, Dean called for the repeal of the tax cuts, pledging to put the money toward homeland security and domestic policy initiatives like health care. He accused Bush of being fiscally irresponsible in running deficits...
...normal and never will be. It has become easy to wonder whether the President has done too little to protect the country or too much. On the one hand, his Attorney General is making speeches in 16 states to defend the Patriot Act because Congress is trying to repeal it, and more than 150 cities and towns have passed resolutions saying they don't like being spied on. On the other hand, you can read the latest reports about flimsy border security and lethal germs and how easily a man took a 4-in. knife on board a United flight...
...when he posited, "Do we want to vent, or do we want to govern?" Although Dean's record as Vermont Governor defies ideological labels (see following story), it's not that record that matters now, the D.L.C. argues; it's his opposition to the war, his proposal to repeal the Bush tax cut and how he stokes the anger within the party. In a May memo D.L.C. leaders Al From and Bruce Reed planted Dean in what they called the party's "McGovern-Mondale wing, defined principally by weakness abroad and elitist interest-group liberalism at home. That...
...President, Dean would ask Congress to repeal all the tax cuts Bush signed, which would have the effect of raising--in some cases dramatically--Americans' tax bills. Dean opposes the tax cuts because he believes they have produced deficits, but his planned tax "hike" is one of the most damning exhibits Republicans will use in making the case that he is an out-of-touch liberal...
...fatalities, mostly in agriculture. And men drive more rollover-prone SUVs (contributing to last year's 42,850 traffic deaths, the highest since 1990, according to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration) and suffer more motorcycle fatalities (up sharply over the past five years, thanks in part to the repeal of state helmet laws...