Political Quotes

“Reclaiming my time just to pose a question to the gentleman from Texas, if you are suggesting that the people who are in the majority in this Congress know that there will be a punishment that will hurt businesses, and that would be why some of them would want to extend these Bush tax cuts or make them permanent, as I do and as you do, is that really it? Is it their conscience, or is it the political pressure that is coming to bear now before the election, and what will be the results and the aftermath? Is it in their heads and their hearts to keep the taxes up because they think government can spend the money better? And is it in their political survival instincts to try to posture themselves in straddling the fence until such time as there is an election so that they can continue to allow the tax cuts to expire at the end of the year?”