Kendrick Meek: “A track record, a pattern of those who have made youthful indiscretions in their lives, need it be on credit, need it be…”

“A track record, a pattern of those who have made youthful indiscretions in their lives, need it be on credit, need it be some sort of criminal activity, you can no longer have access. You used to have the capital, if you do not have a good credit record. Am I right? Let me just tell you something right now as it relates to the United States. I am looking at Japan. You can put Japan in the State of Florida, and the State of Florida will swallow geographically Japan. But, better yet, look what they are holding of the U.S. apple pie. The bottom line is this is about, Mr. Speaker, the incompetence, cronyism and, in some cases, corruption of these individuals being able to get access into this institution and into the executive branch to be able to get what they want. I want to drive the point on here. I want to make sure this is crystal clear. It has to be crystal. The bottom line is the only way that we will be able to have a paradigm shift not only in thinking but in policy and action on behalf of the American people and unless the American people like you say, the majority, they do not have to be the majority. The American people can make that change. They can say that we are willing to allow the Democrats to lead so that we can hopefully start taking care of some of these issues that we have to take care of here at home, with our troops in Iraq and Afghanistan and throughout the world so that we can get the respect of not only the world but our country, our own country.…”