On the recordMarch 2, 2006
I am friends with him. But the point that he made, Mr. Meek, talking about their saying, trust us; and Republicans say that the American people should trust them. But we have a history here that says we have trusted you and you have misled us. You misled us with the facts of the war, you misled us on the economy, you misled us on the results of what the tax cuts would be, you misled us when you said government was going to be smaller under your reign, you misled us when you said government would be more responsible under your reign. It has failed time and time again. I have two images in my head, Mr. Meek, about the real incompetence of the Republican majority to be able to run government. I have a picture of 11,000 trailers that are sitting in Hope, Arkansas, in the mud right now that cost the taxpayers $300 million that are sitting in the mud, and we still have people that are not in their homes in the gulf coast. That is a government that does not work. And what the Democrats are saying is that we have solutions to this. We are not going to participate in cronyism and the lack of responsibility and responsiveness on the Republican side for not providing any oversight to all this. Then we have the administration come out and say they didn't know anything about it, but memos leak out, and we find out they knew about it.…
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