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170 Days until Election Day

May 18, 2008

MORNING UPDATE:

HOUSE DEMOCRATS IN CONGRESS…wouldn’t put up the votes to fund our troops overseas. As the majority party in Congress…the Democrats do not have the votes to support our troops. Republicans voted present on this vote to help make the point that the Democrat’s rhetoric once again doesn’t match reality.

OBAMA AND THE DEMS REACT…to President Bush’s speech in Israel which was thought by some to be provocative. Did the President hit a nerve? Some call it “appeasement”. I think Newt gave the best response…see below.

PEGGY NOONAN IN THE WSJ…wrote a powerful editorial Republicans and conservative need to take to heart.

MOTHER RUSSIA…wow what a telling expose.

BOEING…THE TANKER DECISION…MAKE IT AMERICAN MADE…America’s military deserves the best tanker for the mission and America’s taxpayers deserve the most value for their money. It’s crazy for us to give this contract to the Europeans, when America needs the jobs and America needs to defend itself.

STOP TAXING OUR CELL PHONES…States and cities are all too often raising the cost of your monthly wireless service by imposing new discriminatory taxes and fees. The "Cell Tax Fairness Act of 2008" - would place a five-year hiatus on new unfair state and local wireless taxes.

CARD CHECK…Protect the workers' right to a secret ballot. The vast majority (around 81%) of Americans believe that American workers have a right to have a secret ballot election before they are forced to join a union. Last year the House Democrats passed a bill that would strip American workers of the secret ballot. A new bill should be introduced reaffirming that right, and it should be brought up again and again until marginal Democrats are forced to vote with the American people against the union power structure. This, coming from a Teamster.

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THE REST OF THE STORY:

Newt Gingrich: "All Barack Obama had to say was, 'I agree with the president. ... I don't think we should talk with terrorists, I don't think you can negotiate with radicals, and I think that the president made a very good point about 1939, and I don't think you could have talked Adolf Hitler out of being evil.' That's all he had to say. ... What does it tell you about the level of guilt that Senator Obama must feel that he identified a reference to a 1939 isolationist nut cake senator as referring to him? ... What you just saw was a revealing test of the liberal wing of the Democratic Party, all of whom were offended by a description of appeasement, isolationism, self-delusion, which they thought must refer to themselves" ("Hannity & Colmes," FNC, 5/15).
As the WSJ reported: When the party's top four Democrats come roaring out of the blocks in unison, something has hit a nerve.

Forget the complaint that Mr. Bush used a Hitler analogy. It's the here and now that has these Democrats upset. The fuse that set them off is any suggestion inside the context of a live presidential campaign that the Democrats are soft on national security.

This has been a particular Democratic vulnerability since at least the George McGovern campaign in 1972. ...

If Barack Obama has an Achilles' heel, this is it. He first exposed it last July in a Democratic debate when he replied, "I would," to a question of whether he'd meet as President with Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad "without precondition." Even Mrs. Clinton took a shot at that one, calling the Senator's comment "irresponsible and frankly naive." ...

But Barack Obama is the party's presumptive standard-bearer for 2008. Thus, let's try to bring this dispute into sharper focus.

Mr. Obama asserted again yesterday that he will not meet with terrorists. He is, however, willing to meet with Iran or Syria. Virtually no serious person disputes that Iran has shipped weaponry to terrorists in Iraq and that Syria has provided safe haven to these terrorists and let them cross from Syria into Iraq. In turn, these jihadists have killed U.S. soldiers. At a minimum, one might expect that ceasing this lethal activity wou ld be a "precondition" before committing the office of the presidency to meet with either. ...

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Saulius "Saul" Anuzis
Chairman
Michigan Republican Party