We want voters to know that our 2006 Congressional candidates will be better advocates for ordinary people, but Democrats have been quiet while the Right spun this kind of advocacy however they wanted. They've chosen to spin it as an advocacy for big-government giveaways for the poor and a desire to stifle free market.
And while Republican corruption surfaces and poll numbers plummet, I'm still not hearing a message that explains, in simple terms, why Democratic ideals are the cure for the culture of corruption. This is the message I want to hear from Democratic candidates, because it spins all the rhetoric back to the truth.
One of the primary purposes of Congress is to decide what goods and services we-the-people are going to purchase with our tax revenues. For the past decade we've elected Congressmen based on every issue in the world except their ability to be Smart Shoppers.
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