John Doolittle: “I have been absolutely fascinated with some of the claims I see being made by our liberal Democrat brethren, and one of…”

“I have been absolutely fascinated with some of the claims I see being made by our liberal Democrat brethren, and one of them is that the big thing now is to attack our tax cut plan, because we are giving a tax cut to the wealthiest 1 percent of Americans. Of course, they never point out those are the Americans who paid a lot of the taxes, and, in fact, I believe the figures are that the top 5 percent of taxpayers paid a majority of the income taxes in this country. So it is really Marxist class warfare, is what it is. In fact, I do not like to use the term ``middle class,'' and I hear Vice President Gore use that term over and over and over again. It is a Marxist term. You will never find in the U.S. Constitution any reference to ``class.'' In fact, it says all men are created equal. It is the very opposite of this idea of classes that are to be pitted against each other, somehow using government to redistribute benefits from one to go to the other. I was absolutely fascinated to hear the attack levied recently by the Vice President on Republicans, and specifically Governor Bush, over this 1 percent, over giving the tax cut to all Americans, including the 1 percent of the wealthiest, and yet he then turns around and attacks the Republicans for not giving free prescription drugs to the top 1 percent of wealthiest Americans. Figure that one out. If that is not the height of hypocrisy and nonsense, I do not know what is.”