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Tim Ryan: Well, you are our guy. But back to the reason we are here, the issue of ``trust us.'' And all we have to do, really is…

On the recordMarch 1, 2006
Well, you are our guy. But back to the reason we are here, the issue of ``trust us.'' And all we have to do, really is look at the facts. And I really believe that the Republican majority, they may believe that they are actually doing the right thing. I do not think there is any malice. I do not think they hate people. I do not think they are bad people. Many of them on the other side are our friends. What I do argue, Mr. Speaker, is that the Republican Party is void of any knowledge about how to execute government. And I believe they do not have the ideals necessary to advance this government and this country in the 21st century. They just do not have them. They are just stuck, I think, in an era that no longer exists. Their old phrases no longer apply to how society is today. And so all they have, quite frankly, Mr. Meek, is to say, ``Trust us.'' But when we look at Katrina and the fact that there are 11,000 trailers sitting in Hope, Arkansas, worth $300 million that are now in the mud because they did not know how to deliver them or they did not know where they went, or they did not know where they should go, meanwhile people are still homeless down there. That means you do not know how to administer government. When you start a $700 billion prescription drug program and you do not allow for any kind of negotiation down of the drug prices, that means you do not know how to execute government.…
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