Debbie Wasserman Schultz: “to piggyback on what the gentleman from Florida said about tax cuts, I mean it is just mind- boggling that yet again…”

“to piggyback on what the gentleman from Florida said about tax cuts, I mean it is just mind- boggling that yet again, their answer, their solution for everything is more tax cuts. I mean, I would not believe it unless I had it in print in front of me, but Treasury Secretary Snow said just the other day, today is September 7, he said yesterday at a press statement, this is in response to what we should do about Hurricane Katrina and the aftermath. He said, ``Making the tax cuts permanent would be a real plus in a situation like this, because people would know they had going forward the advantage of lower tax rates,'' Snow said. ``And when people know they have lower tax rates locked in going forward, it affects their behaviors. It makes them more confident of the future.'' Now, let us talk more about FEMA's failure, because that is really what it boils down to at the end of the day, because we need FEMA to be there, we need FEMA to generate confidence in Americans. Mr. Speaker, the Republicans, and I am going to use the word ``Republican,'' but the Republicans ran last year on being the party that would be the best choice to protect people. They were the security party. That is supposedly the thing that tipped the scales. Well, it is not just an issue of security in a terrorist crisis, which all of this resulting from Hurricane Katrina calls into question now, about whether they really are the party. They are clearly not the party of crisis.”