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Tim Ryan: I think that we are starting to see, every single day in the news, and we don't need to bring up all the different…

On the recordApril 6, 2006
I think that we are starting to see, every single day in the news, and we don't need to bring up all the different topics, but every single day over the course of the last couple of years, we have seen the dismantling of the credibility of the Republican majority. The party that came in saying they were going to balance the budget, gone. The party that came in and said they were in charge of real security in the United States, gone. Smuggling in nuclear material. The party that said that they were going to get the economy up and moving hasn't happened. All of the promises pre-war, none have happened. None. The party that said America first, well, Mr. Meek, you have the beautiful poster, beautiful in the sense that it illustrates the point of where this Republican Congress is borrowing their money from. That is not America first. That is not taking care of home. I mean, we have got to get back to the basics. And so every single day this Republican majority and this President are getting dismantled day by day by day in news accounts from people who work, underlings who have diminished the credibility of this administration. They have Republican generals coming out talking about how this has been such a foolhardy effort, and how the execution of the war has been an atrocity, how Katrina just fell apart right before the country's eyes on all of the cable news channels and on the network news channels. And now, my friend, we have the father of the Republican revolution.…
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