‘Tis the Season…

…For rehashed Christmas metaphors.  The national Republican and Democratic parties have sent a winter flurry of press releases recently targeting each other, their candidates and their elected officials.  We’ll let you decide who’s the proper Scrooge or Grinch…

From the DCCC:

Representative Dean Heller & President Bush Play Scrooge with Children’s Health Care

President Bush did his best Ebenezer Scrooge impression yesterday by vetoing a bipartisan children’s health care bill less than two weeks before Christmas.  The President and his Rubber Stamp Republican Dean Heller continue to block health care for 10 million American children.

“The spirit of Ebenezer Scrooge is alive and well in George Bush and Representative Dean Heller as they continue to block health care for 10 million American kids, despite getting their own health care paid for by taxpayers,” said Jennifer Crider, Communications Director for the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee. “Next year, Representative Heller will be haunted by the Ghost of Christmas Past unless he starts listening to the overwhelming majority of Americans who support the children's health insurance plan. Representative Heller will have an opportunity to seek redemption in January by listening to his constituents, instead of President Bush, and finally support children's health insurance for 10 million American kids."

From the RNC:

Scrooge or The Grinch?  No, Just Harry Reid

“Despite his predictions that ‘the war is lost,’ most Americans would expect Harry Reid to put partisan politics aside this Christmas season in order to fund our troops in harm’s way.  Sadly, in Reid’s world, nothing can halt his stubborn refusal to abandon the liberal Moveon.org factions that control the Democrat party.”

-- Paul Lindsay, RNC Spokesperson

TODAY ON THE SENATE FLOOR:REID: “Would I modify my request…to get billions of dollars for the troops in Iraq?  The answer is no.”VIDEO: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IA_XWgv3kZg

This Is Not The First Time Reid Has Injected Partisanship During Christmas:

In 2003, With The Holiday Season Nearing, Reid Delayed Action On A Bill Designed To Expand Charitable Giving. “Senate Democrats are blocking the practice of sending bills to conference in order to protest the exclusion of Democratic conferees from recent negotiations. Reid also objected - as Democrats have previously - to a conference on a bill (HR 7) that would expand tax breaks for charitable donations.” (Mary Clare Jalonick and Niels C. Sorrells, “Senate Democrats Block Conferences For Healthy Forest, Charitable Giving Bills,” Congressional Quarterly Daily Monitor, 11/3/03)