TOMPAINE.com - James Carville's Rx For Democrats: "'Look at the fiscal health of the U.S.,' he began. 'They inherited a $5.6 trillion surplus and plunged the nation into debt.' Average Americans will be paying for the Bush tax cut for decades with higher taxes, he said. 'That is taxation without representation. That is the antithesis of everything that is most American.'
On foreign policy, he said America used to be respected abroad 'for strength, values and the ability to work with others.' But the 'arrogant, go-it-alone' administration policies have reversed all that, he said. 'Never has there been a time when America is less able to lead.'
On the looming right-wing takeover of the federal judiciary and current Supreme Court, he said, 'You got Pat Robertson praying for people to die right now. That's the level they're going to.'
'If you look at every policy, pension reform, guess who gets the shaft? Tort reform, guess who gets the shaft? Environmental reform, you know the level of hypocrisy,' he said. 'If it comes to who is going to get a break, people who make $1 million today or young kids who will make the country tomorrow, you don't even have to look.'"
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