Tim Ryan: “We always enjoy your presence, and I think you have made a good point. And I come from a conservative Democratic…”

“We always enjoy your presence, and I think you have made a good point. And I come from a conservative Democratic district in Ohio. I am probably one of the most conservative Democrats from Ohio in the Congress. Regardless of how you feel about the gay marriage amendment, regardless of how you feel about flag burning, regardless of how you feel about any of these political issues that the Republican Congress is bringing forth, I think we can all agree that gas prices, health care costs, tuition costs, and lack of education funding rank just a little bit higher than these issues that the Republican Congress and Republican President bring out every other year or every election year. Now, the President runs a whole 2004 election campaign, Ms. Jackson- Lee, on the gay marriage amendment and then days after getting reelected says, I do not think we are going to pass it. I do not think I am going to push it. The country is not ready for it. You just ran your whole campaign on it. Now you are not for it? And they, the President and the Republican Congress on the other side, actually think that the American people are going to fall for this again. Well, we have got news for them.”