" So by essentially lying, in order to make it look like Dean and Gephardt were for "raising taxes on the middle class," he's given Bush that issue too."

I don't call this a lie.   That's the kind of vituperative rhetoric that will hand this election to Bush. Why is it that Democrats are always shooting themselves in the feet. His point is as a senator, you have to decide which part of the bill is valid and that which is not.   He didn't make it look like Dean and Gephardt were for "raising taxes" on the middle class. He merely pointed out that there are two sides to the issue.

Frank