Jack Kingston: “there is an old saying that when you cannot dazzle people with your brilliance, you baffle them with your bull.…”

“there is an old saying that when you cannot dazzle people with your brilliance, you baffle them with your bull. Certainly that seems to be the theme of the Democrat Party today, . . . one after the other, saying that the Speaker said Medicare should wither on the vine. They know, as do their AFL-CIO comrades, that the statement was that HCFA, the Health Care Financing Administration, would wither on the vine. This thing is so important that even television stations have taken this AFL-CIO-Democrat ad off the air because it is a lie. It is amazing, when they speak with such forked tongue, that they come up here and ask for bipartisanship . . . . The other thing that they are saying is that the Republican plan cuts Medicare. The Republican plan goes from $190 to $304 billion. I wish that my Democrat friends would join me in increasing Medicare from $5,000 to $7,000 per person. It would be great if they would like to join us in increasing and protecting and preserving Medicare. I ask them to . . . join us in true reform.”