Kendrick Meek: “I mean, we are willing to follow the rules. We are ready. We are ready to do what we have to do to be able to put this…”

“I mean, we are willing to follow the rules. We are ready. We are ready to do what we have to do to be able to put this country on the right track. The bottom line is that the Republican majority, time after time, because they are not doing their job by keeping the executive branch in check, Madam Speaker, things like videos that are broadcast throughout the world, commander-in-chief says I did not know anything about Hurricane Katrina, it was a shock to me, I learned 72 hours after the hurricane, blankets and everything is on the way to New Orleans, and we are going to do what we have got to do. Then lo and behold, in this great democracy of ours, a video surfaces where the President was informed of the power of this hurricane and that 12,000 people evacuated or went to some sort of high ground in the Superdome and that we are going to have massive flooding, and that this was bigger than Hurricane Andrew that hit my community almost 12 years ago, Madam Speaker. The President's in Crawford, Texas, on video phone, and he says we are ready and we are prepared to respond. Then he shows up a couple of days later, goes back to the White House acting like he is shocked. That is what I am talking about, leveling with the people, but it is easy to say that you do not know because you have said it before. Well, I did not know anything about the intelligence, no one told me, no one told me about a special port deal dealing with the questionable, quote, unquote, new ally.…”