Barbara Boxer: “I think his analysis of where we are in the budget debate is so upside down and inside out, I felt compelled to take to…”

“I think his analysis of where we are in the budget debate is so upside down and inside out, I felt compelled to take to the floor today to respond. Senator McCain said in his radio address: Our President supports excessive spending that most Americans oppose. That is a direct quote. He said the President would: . . . wreck the economic progress we have made during these good years. That is very strong language. I must say respectfully to my friend from Arizona, why have we had "these good years" about which he talks? Clearly, it is because this administration has given us policies that work. We only need to look back to 1992, the Bush-Quayle years. We had the worst recession since the Great Depression. I remember it so well because it is when I ran for the Senate. We had horrific deficits as far as the eye could see, almost $300 billion. We had crime rising; we had hope falling. We had unemployment skyrocketing, and there was malaise in the country.”