Tim Ryan: “Inexcusable incompetence, my friend. Inexcusable. If you look, and I do not want to dwell on this, but if you look at…”

“Inexcusable incompetence, my friend. Inexcusable. If you look, and I do not want to dwell on this, but if you look at Katrina, if you look at the lack of preparedness in FEMA, if you see a storm coming 5 days in advance, and you have the complete lack of competency to deal with the problem, that is an issue that this Congress needs to look at and needs to fix. If you look at all the promises before the war, day in and day out, we are going to use the money for reconstruction, we are going to be greeted as liberators, this is going to reduce the costs of oil. All of these things that were promised never came to be. The Medicare prescription drug bill, the costs never came to be. It ended up being almost half a trillion dollars more than what the Republican Congress told us it was going to be. Time and time and time again, the tax cuts were going to create all these jobs. None of this has happened. And now when you look at what is going on here with the gas prices, if you take what has happened since 2001, and you see that there has been no comprehensive energy policy in this country, and you see the end result 4, 5 or 6 years later, that is higher gas prices, reduced supply, which increases the cost for the average American consumer, when you add all this together, you see that the Republican Congress, as stated by former Speaker Newt Gingrich, is incapable of governing the United States of America. They are too ideological, they are too tied to the special interests.…”