"It's a fallacious approach to the stimulus bill to accelerate the tax cuts that were passed last year, " Daschle argued Sunday.

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But the remarks also fed an antiwar Democratic mythology evident in the fallacious premise of Senator Levin's question.

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"This fallacious assertion of inappropriate U.S. action leads us to conclude that, unfortunately, the current Venezuelan government is not interested an improved relationship, " he said.

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