Tim Ryan: “I think it is not only the corruption, and I think all of us here choose that word very carefully. I do not think that…”

“I think it is not only the corruption, and I think all of us here choose that word very carefully. I do not think that is the kind of word you just throw around here, because that is not right. But time after time after time, the White House, the White House, the procurement office, the FBI leaks, what we have here going on in the House, the Senate, we have a whole Martha Stewart scandal going on in the Senate. All of these things add up. At some point you have to use the ``C'' word because it keeps coming and coming and coming. But the problem for the American people is that the corruption leads to incompetence and an inability to govern. This side has proven time and time again that they do not know how to govern in the United States of America. You look at Hurricane Katrina, the economy, education, health care, gas prices, energy, pick a topic. It is incompetence, and they cannot handle the levers of government. Madam Speaker, I welcome the gentlewoman from Florida (Ms. Wasserman Schultz).”