Tim Ryan: “The debate coming out of D.C. and the old Potomac two-step is, ``We'll blame the Democrats.'' What are you going to…”

“The debate coming out of D.C. and the old Potomac two-step is, ``We'll blame the Democrats.'' What are you going to blame the Democrats for? We have bills sitting in committee. No one has given them even one hearing in a committee. We have got discharge petitions sitting over here for veterans benefits and all kinds of other things. They never see the light of day. We are the minority party. You can't blame us. You can try, but you can't blame us. Take responsibility for your actions. And if you solve problems, the American people would return you back. But you haven't. Just look. The failure to execute basic governmental programs. Look at homeland security. Look at Katrina. Look at the war. You got Newt Gingrich, the father of the Republican revolution in 1994, basically saying, ``Vote the Republicans out.'' Here is what Speaker Gingrich said in the Wall Street Journal just a couple of days ago. Just consider the following, he says: ``Osama bin Laden is still at large. Afghanistan is still insecure. Iraq is still violent. North Korea and Iran still building nuclear weapons and missiles. Terrorist recruiting still occurring in the U.S., Canada, Great Britain and across the planet.'' This is not a Democrat. This is someone who cares about his country and saying, ``We may even disagree on how to fix the problem, but can we please admit that we have got some serious problems in 2006 in the United States of America?…”