Political Quotes

“I thank the gentleman from Georgia, Mr. Gingrey. And in the interim here I thought I would take a look at the lyrics of ``Rainbow Stew,'' which I have here now. And parts of these lyrics echo to me pretty well. And it has--the message is that we will all be drinking free bubble-ubb and eating that rainbow stew. That is when we reach this utopia is the tone of Merle Haggard's country western song from years ago. I'll take us down to this part. The President has promised the American people a whole string of things. He's promised that he won't sign a bill that costs over $900 billion. He's promised that the negotiations--eight times on national television he said negotiations will take place on C-SPAN. There won't be backroom deals. This will be all out in the open, and it's going to lower the cost of the health care. We know it goes the opposite, the whole string of things, that there isn't even a pretense that he is going to keep his word on. And here's Merle Haggard's part of the song ``Rainbow Stew.'' It says: ``When a President goes through the White House door, an' does what he says he'll do, we'll all be drinkin' free bubble-ubb, eatin' that rainbow stew.'' They'd like us to eat the toxic stew, and the American people won't have any part of it. What's going on here in this Congress is a unique thing. What the gentlemen in the Doctors Caucus talked about in the previous hour was about the idea of the Slaughter House rule.…”