Tim Ryan: “The point I want to make is one that we have made many, many times here, is that this outfit, on the other side of the…”

“The point I want to make is one that we have made many, many times here, is that this outfit, on the other side of the aisle, has for the last 14 or 16 years run down government. The only problem in society is government. And so, when it comes to Katrina or comes to a war and you actually need government or education, you actually need government to work on behalf of the American people, all of a sudden it doesn't work. And it doesn't work because you have disrespected it for the last 14 or 16 years. You have appointed people to positions that are not qualified to actually run it. And I think what we see here, with the Defense Department and Secretary Rumsfeld and the Pentagon and the way they have executed the war has been atrocious. Katrina, you have people who are not qualified to run the emergency management system in the country. And you get the kind of results that you have talked about. You get what you think about it. If you have a good attitude about things, good things will happen. Run it down, you get crap. And that is basically what has happened. I yield to my friend.”