Bill Delahunt: “it was the Founders that created representative government. The Founders believed in government. The Constitution…”

“it was the Founders that created representative government. The Founders believed in government. The Constitution created the government. We should be proud of our government, because this government has served well the American people for better than two centuries. But they do not like to govern. They do not care about governance. They do not need government. They do not need student loans. They do not need Medicare. They certainly do not need Medicaid. They do not need the kind of services that government can provide, because they believe that America could be best served by a society where individuals go their own separate ways. Well, there has to be a balance if we are going to have a strong country and a strong America. Yes, we can be critical, we can be very critical of the administration, but let us understand too that Congress has earned its share of blame for the mistakes of this administration, for the incompetence of this administration. Every student of American Government knows that it is the responsibility of Congress to oversee the executive, to take a look at what government agencies are doing. But this Congress, and maybe this is a by-product of having a single party control all aspects of government, and we can understand that. It is difficult to criticize a President of your own party. You are reluctant to do that. That is natural.…”