WASHINGTON (AP) - The head of the Republican Party, launching a broad indictment of the Democratic Party six months before midterm elections, is expected to charge Friday that the opposition can't find an election-year slogan, let alone agree on a broad agenda.
In an address to the Southern Republican Leadership Conference in Tennessee scheduled for Friday afternoon, Ken Mehlman will single out party leaders and two potential 2008 presidential candidates - Sens. Hillary Rodham Clinton and John Kerry - for criticism on a range of issues, from national security to the economy to judicial nominees.
``Not only can they not settle on an agenda, they can't even agree on a slogan,'' Mehlman's remarks prepared for delivery said. He is expected to offer some suggestions, albeit critical ones.
``If they really want the American people to know what they are going to do, then how about, 'Together, Americans can pay more in taxes,' `` the text said. ``Or, 'Together, we can retreat from the central front in the war on terror.
Now I went ahead and checked in the Webster's dictionary, and the word indictment is defined as, "A formal written statement framed by a prosecuting authority and found by a jury (as a grand jury) charging a person with an offense." Now I don't see how a chairman of the Republican Party can issue an indictment against the Democrats--I don't see Mehlman as being a prosecuting authority, nor do I see him as heading a grand jury. I also don't see Mehlman's arguments as being very persuasive, considering that it is the Republicans in both Congress and the White House that have led this country down this disastrous path that we are currently in. The war in Iraq, Katrina, Portgate, the illegal spying was all initiated by the Republican leadership in the Bush White House, while the Republican leadership in Congress follows meekly along. This is your mess Mr. Mehlman--you made it. And yet, you have the gall to deliver indictments against the Democrats for your own incompetence?
If there are any indictments to be handed down, they should be handed down against the Republicans and yourself Mr. Mehlman.
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