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Mark Souder: In science, we gave him a D. He misimplies census statistics. Clearly he does not know how to count and what the…

On the recordOctober 11, 1998
In science, we gave him a D. He misimplies census statistics. Clearly he does not know how to count and what the Constitution means regarding counting and what math means there. Sampling is one thing, but when we come down to actually getting a count, sampling does not really work. Furthermore, he fails on missile defense. Clearly, Moscow is 80 percent protected. We do not have anything protected. He does not understand some basic science there. We could also throw in environmental science in here where he has no real understanding of the fundamentals of the environmental science. In government, he would get a D. He lacks knowledge of the role of Congress. He was elected, he keeps reminding people he was elected President. We were elected to control the House and the Senate. At some point here, somebody has got to make a deal. We are all adults. We get upset that we cannot see pro basketball right now. We say, why cannot adults, knowing they have the differences, sit down. It is not like there are any surprises. It is not like they have not been talking and warning each other for two years. Unless one side has a posturing point here, we ought to be able to sit down and do that. Economics, we give him a C minus. He does not understand tax incentive very well. He does understand what a balanced budget is but, then he wants to spend the surplus. He signed the agreement. Gave him a C minus there.
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Mark Souder
Indiana

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Critiquing the President's understanding of various issues including science, government, and economics.

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