Political Quotes

“And so this 112th Congress convulses to an ugly end of its time before the national elections. All of us must be sad, and the American people are angry and sad that this Congress has been so inattentive to the needs of the American people. Mr. Speaker, today House Republicans are leaving town and will not return until after the November elections. Two very respected political scientists--not Democrats or Republicans; one a representative of the more conservative think tank and another a more liberal think tank--have written a book about the dysfunction they have seen in this Congress. Mr. Mann and Mr. Orenstein--quoted by many reporters from many journals, from all different perspectives--they said this: We have been studying Washington politics in Congress for more than 40 years, and never, never have we seen them as dysfunctional. In our past writings, we have criticized both parties when we believed it was warranted. Today, however, said these two respected political scientists and observers of Washington, today, however, we have no choice but to acknowledge that the core of the problem lies with the Republican Party. They went on to say that the GOP has become an insurgent outlier in American politics. It is ideologically extreme; scornful of compromise; unmoved by conventional understanding of facts, evidence, and science; and dismissive of the legitimacy of its political opposition. That is the nub of the problem.…”