Political Quotes

“Last month Japan announced its machinery sales were the best since 2008. The rest of the world is moving on. If we are doing this much damage to the economy, why are we here? We are here mainly because tea party Republicans in the House see this misery as a bargaining chip. They couldn't get their way any other way. They couldn't win the legislative argument on the health care bill, a bill that passed the House and the Senate and was signed by the President. They couldn't win the judicial argument. It came before the Supreme Court, and the Supreme Court upheld the health care law. It couldn't win the electoral argument. The health care bill was on the ballot in 2012. The President who ran on it and signed it was reelected by a wide margin. Every single Senator in this Chamber who supported it was returned to their seat. Tea party Republicans have lost the argument on health care in all three of the traditional forums by which one would get their way in the legislative process--the legislative forum, judicial forum, and the electoral forum.…”