"Democratic Party leaders on Saturday lashed out at President Bush and the Republicans and vowed to seize on what they described as a "golden opportunity" to win back one or both houses of the Congress and expand Democratic dominance in Olympia.-from today's Seattle Times story.
State Democratic Chairman Dwight Pelz told about 1,000 delegates gathered for the party's convention that there is a "fresh breeze blowing" in America.
"History will record that America's flirtation with the Republican right-wing agenda ended in 2006," Pelz said.
Pelz, in his first year as party chairman, got things rolling with a scathing attack on Republicans.
"George Bush and his corrupt Congress have attacked the basic foundations of our middle class — our employer-based health-care system, our pension system, Social Security and Medicare," Pelz said.
But the most boisterous cheers came when Pelz proclaimed that, if Democrats succeed in taking back the U.S. House or Senate, "We will have subpoena power and we will investigate ... Bush, Cheney, Donald [Rumsfeld] and [former House Majority Leader Tom] Delay and we will reveal to the American people what these people knew and when they knew it."
Pelz also took shots at the state GOP, describing the party's new immigration plank as part of a "growing xenophobic movement" in the nation."
I have to tell Dwight to quit using those big words when reporters are present: "xen·o·pho·bic--fear of foreigners: an intense fear or dislike of foreign people, their customs and culture, or foreign things."
They also cover the anti-Maria action.
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