Bob Schaffer: “these unfortunate strategies that the gentleman has described that we typically see coming out of the White House are…”

“these unfortunate strategies that the gentleman has described that we typically see coming out of the White House are really emblematic of, I think, what the White House realizes the American people want to see, what they want to hear, and what they intuitively know and believe, and that is the belief that a large Federal Government is inherently bad for the American society. So they do go through all of these machinations and smoke and mirror strategies to try to mask and conceal what it is they really are pushing for and pushing toward. The bottom line is their vision for America is a larger Federal Government that defines a society. Our vision as a Republican majority is for a smaller Federal Government and a greater American people. And I say a greater American people in the context of what the budget debate in this Congress is generally all about. Thomas Jefferson said that there will always be two prevailing parties in a political system, the side that believes that we organize ourselves around a central government structure and there is the other side that believes that we organize ourselves around the strength of individuals. Those two parties are alive and well today. The Democrat party that the gentleman described is one that is using remarkable linguistic gymnastics to double count imaginary money to suggest we should feel safe and secure that the government is not growing, when, in fact, it is growing by leaps and bounds.”