Political Quotes

“The emaciated bill filled with poison pills that the Senator from Wisconsin talks about was never intended to pass. In fact, the Republican majority leader waited 5 months before doing anything while people were suffering. The bill does not contain close to what is needed. Basically, his analogy is incorrect. The analogy would be saying: You have a series of serious illnesses; let's treat one because we don't want to pay for the others--even though we were willing to increase the deficit by close to $2 trillion by giving a tax break to the wealthy. So this cry about deficit, when it comes to helping middle-class people, hurting people, unemployed people, people who can't feed their kids, no, it is the deficit. When it comes to giving a big tax break to wealthy corporations and wealthy people, that is fine. As much as I respect my colleague from Wisconsin, I don't really take his words very seriously. Our Republican friends put this emaciated bill on the floor at the last minute because they got such pressure for doing nothing. They know it can't pass the House. They know it is totally inadequate. This is the greatest economic crisis since the Great Depression, the greatest healthcare crisis for 100 years since the Spanish pandemic flu, and our colleagues do next to nothing in terms of the crisis. This is loaded with poison pills so they know it can't pass. They know it can't pass the House, and they waited 5 months. The American people know it.…”