Seeing an opening to reach voters while Republicans are beset by turmoil, House Democrats are privately planning to accelerate the timing of the release of their platform and the major policies they will promote on the campaign trail next year...Iraq benchmarks, energy independence, universal college, affordable health care, minimum wage, fiscal sanity -- we're starting to get somewhere. And these are ideas that apply equally well with the party's left as with its right. And none of that agenda offends the American people...Those ideas will still need to be framed properly to build the party's broader narrative, but we don't have to use smoke and mirrors to sell our agenda to the American people. |
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