Here's a pool report from Vice President Dick Cheney's visit today to Topeka to stump for Rep. Jim Ryun:
Pool Report #1
Vice President Cheney
Topeka, KS
October 12, 2006
VPOTUS campaigns for Rep. Jim Ryun (R) of 2nd congressional district, Kansas
Today’s word: consequence.
Cheney arrived at Andrews Air Force Base 9:10 a.m. aboard Marine 2, walked across tarmac and onto Air Force 2. Wheels up 9:25.TVs set to Fox. Flight time to Topeka 2 ½ hours. Arrival at Forbes Field, 11 a.m. CDT. Motorcade uneventful to hotel event site.
This is Cheney’s 113th campaign event of this election cycle (dating back to March 2005), with combined take of $40 million, per his press office and RNC. He will deliver a luncheon speech at 12:30 CDT at the Capitol Plaza Hotel in Topeka.
(More from Cheney’s press office on VP’s campaign activity to date: 57 House candidate events, 20 Senate, 4 governor, 32 national party committees and state committees. Total: 113 events, benefiting 138 different state/national parties and committees.)
On board AF2, Lea Anne McBride briefed on speech, which she said would focus on the economy and security, with an emphasis on “consequence” (read: what to expect if Dems take Congress). No mention of North Korea. VP was putting finishing touches on remarks, embargoed copy later handed to pool
Some excerpts:
“These are times of incredible consequence for our country – with difficult issues, with big debates, and with decisions that require not just toughness but wisdom. One of the most important issues on November 7th is taxes – and when Americans go to the polls, they’re going to have the clearest possible choice.”
“I notice that now, with only weeks to go before Election Day, the leader of the House Democrats, Nancy Pelosi, claims Democrats ‘loves tax cuts.’ That only invites another look at her party’s record on taxes.”
“Recently, the ranking Democrat on the House Ways and Means Committee, Charlie Rangel, said that he ‘cannot think of one’ of our first term tax cuts that he would extend. If the Democrats take control of the House, Charlie Rangel will be chairman of the Ways and Means Committee.”
“If the Democrats take control, American families would face an immense tax increase, and the economy would sustain a major hit.”
“In this election season, national security is at the top of the agenda, where it belongs. The President and I welcome the discussion, because every voter in the United States needs to know where we stand, as well as how the leaders of the Democratic Party view the global war on terror.”
He went thru 3 issues of difference w/Dems: Patriot Act, Terrorist Surveillance Program and CIA detention program for terror suspects and military commissions.
He then devoted three long paragraphs to Lieberman (more than he spent on Ryun), beginning with: “Perhaps it should come as no surprise that such a party would turn its back on a man like Senator Joe Lieberman.”
And later: “The case of Joe Lieberman is a perfect illustration of the basic philosophical difference between the two parties in the year 2006. And it’s a reminder that the elections on November 7th will have enormous consequences for this nation, one way or the other.”
Final thought before doubling back to Ryun: “And I don’t need to tell you what kind of legislation would come to us by way of committee chairmen like Joe Biden, Ted Kennedy, John Conyers, Henry Waxman, Barney Frank, or Jay Rockefeller.”
On the menu for breakfast:
Western omelettes w/salsa, hash browns, ketchup, bacon, plain bagels and cream cheese, and yogurt-fruit-granola parfaits w/strawberries and blueberries.
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