House-Passed Budget Shows Parties’ Divergence
By JONATHAN WEISMAN, NYT
APRIL 10, 2014
WASHINGTON — Representative Rodney Davis won his House seat in 2012 by barely a thousand votes, making him a leading candidate as Target No. 1 for Democrats who are eager to make his support for the latest House Republican budget a centerpiece of the fall campaign.
And as the budget vote approached on Thursday, the voters in his Southern Illinois district faced a deluge of attack ads. Mr. Davis, a freshman lawmaker, replied by inviting the plan’s architect, Representative Paul D. Ryan of Wisconsin, to join a town hall-style telephone conference call for constituents on Wednesday afternoon to detail his sweeping small-government vision.
The move underscored the different universes the two parties occupy as election season heats up. Democrats see the budget, which passed on Thursday in a 219-to-205 vote, as a political millstone, with brutal cuts to popular government programs, sweeping and controversial changes to Medicare, and tax cuts for the rich. Republicans consider it a modest step.
“Paul is going to be demagogued on this issue, as am I, as is every single target, and we need to get the facts out,” Mr. Davis said.
(More here.)
APRIL 10, 2014
WASHINGTON — Representative Rodney Davis won his House seat in 2012 by barely a thousand votes, making him a leading candidate as Target No. 1 for Democrats who are eager to make his support for the latest House Republican budget a centerpiece of the fall campaign.
And as the budget vote approached on Thursday, the voters in his Southern Illinois district faced a deluge of attack ads. Mr. Davis, a freshman lawmaker, replied by inviting the plan’s architect, Representative Paul D. Ryan of Wisconsin, to join a town hall-style telephone conference call for constituents on Wednesday afternoon to detail his sweeping small-government vision.
The move underscored the different universes the two parties occupy as election season heats up. Democrats see the budget, which passed on Thursday in a 219-to-205 vote, as a political millstone, with brutal cuts to popular government programs, sweeping and controversial changes to Medicare, and tax cuts for the rich. Republicans consider it a modest step.
“Paul is going to be demagogued on this issue, as am I, as is every single target, and we need to get the facts out,” Mr. Davis said.
(More here.)
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