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Excellent.  This is another area where democrats are vulnerable, 
including from their union supporters.  

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http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=694&u=/ap/20040803/ap_on_el_pr
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Cheney Blames Democrats for Gas Prices 

By JAMES JEFFERSON, Associated Press Writer 

HOT SPRINGS, Ark. - Vice President Dick Cheney (news - web sites) said 
Tuesday that rising consumption and decreasing domestic production have 
led to high gasoline prices but also blamed his Democratic opponents and 
their opposition to the Bush administration's energy policies. 


The Bush-Cheney campaign accuses Senate Democrats of blocking a Bush 
energy plan that would increase petroleum drilling and energy 
conservation and provide new tax breaks and other incentives to spur 
exploration and production. 


"John Kerry (news - web sites) and John Edwards (news - web sites) voted 
no," Cheney said. "It's another area where I think there is a 
significant difference." 


Cheney advocated increasing domestic oil production in wildlife areas in 
Alaska and other regions that are off-limits to development. 


"We have put ourselves into a box. The only thing I can think of to do 
is to keep pushing for a comprehensive energy policy," he said. "We are 
at the mercy of those international oil prices." 


Cheney, making his third trip to Arkansas this year, also criticized 
Democratic filibusters that have blocked consideration of Bush 
appointees to the bench. 


"Anybody that might disagree with their liberal philosophy doesn't get 
to come to the floor of the Senate for a vote, and that's just wrong," 
he told a hand-picked audience of supporters in response to audience 
questions. One questioner accused federal judges of legislating from the 
bench. 


"The vast majority of Americans believe this is one nation under God, 
and we believe we ought to be able to say that when we pledge allegiance 
to the flag," Cheney said. 


Cheney said Bush's re-election is crucial to making America safer. 


"This campaign is about what kind of strategy (voters) want. Do they 
think the president and the rest of us who serve him are on the right 
track?" he asked. "Sometimes the other team is stuck in the pre-9/11 
mentality. They haven't made the transition." 


Cheney said the heart of the strategy for the war in Iraq (news - web 
sites) is to do what the coalition is doing in Afghanistan (news - web 
sites) and Iraq — training, supporting and equipping locals to take over 
the political and security responsibilities for their own country. 


"We don't want to leave too soon and leave a mess there," he said. "The 
bottom line is ... to leave behind the kind of government that will 
never again be a safe haven for terrorists." 


Cheney spoke from a podium that was in sight of a handful of protesters 
who marched outside the Convention Center, some carrying signs that 
included a reference to Bush, Cheney and Attorney General John Ashcroft 
(news - web sites) as "the axis of evil."

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