Political Quotes

“Madam Speaker, watching House Republicans is like watching a football team whose best plays are the punt and the block. Now, I have tried to throw a few Hail Marys along the way, and I am glad that we blocked the bad Lankford amnesty bill, but we punted on needed FISA reforms. We blocked the McConnell supplemental for now, but we punt, yet again, on needed spending cuts. We blocked additional aid and additional U.S. involvement in the war in Ukraine; and, indeed, we punted Kevin McCarthy who authorized $115 billion to Ukraine. Be that as it may, here we gather to punt, yet again. The last I checked, the Republicans actually have a majority in the House of Representatives, but you wouldn't know it, Madam Speaker, if you looked at our checkbook. We are all too willing to continue the policy choices of Joe Biden and the spending levels of Nancy Pelosi instead of showing the will and the courage to say that this woke and weaponized government has to be defanged, it has to be attacked, and it has to see reductions in spending. Many Americans have lived most of their lives not actually paying a price for the national debt. However, because we are $34 trillion in debt and because we are on our way to $50 trillion in debt, the Americans who work hard all over this country are seeing higher gas prices, higher grocery prices, and higher interest rates, but all we seem to offer is low energy and low-T in the face of those mounting challenges.…”