You Wanna Plan?

Here's your stinkin' Plan:

"The Iraq war has provided a policy debacle at least on par with the health-care issue, Armey said. But Democrats cannot offer policy alternatives because, he said, Americans remain leery of their prescriptions for an activist government and higher taxes.

To counter that perception, House Democrats have formulated a plan of action for their first week in control. Their leaders said a Democratic House would vote quickly to raise the minimum wage for the first time since 1997. It would roll back a provision in the Republicans' Medicare prescription-drug benefit that prohibits the Department of Health and Human Services from negotiating prices for drugs offered under the program.

It would vote to fully implement the recommendations of the bipartisan panel convened to shore up homeland security in the aftermath of the Sept. 11 attacks.

And it would reinstate lapsed rules that say any tax cuts or spending increases have to be offset by spending cuts or tax increases to prevent the deficit from growing."-Washington Post via the Seattle Times.