On the recordJune 27, 2002
I find it interesting that if they knew last year prior to September 11 that we were going to have all of those problems associated with the tragedy around the 11th and the consequent commitment by this President to carry the war to the terrorists and they were prescient enough to know that the country was going to face that situation, gee, I wish they would have let us know that was going to happen. We could have taken some procedures and some steps that would have certainly been far more humane than what occurred. I find that people who are more than willing to use hindsight as the reason for taking a position rather interesting when shortly they will also urge their colleagues to vote ``no'' on the Medicare package. Only this time their argument is going to be that we do not spend enough. We are only going to spend $350 billion. The beauty of the Democrats' ability to debate is they are masters at compartmentalizing.
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