Tim Ryan: “can I make a comment? We have the poster here from Newsweek that has our esteemed leader in a bubble and it is called…”

“can I make a comment? We have the poster here from Newsweek that has our esteemed leader in a bubble and it is called the ``Isolated President.'' And I think this goes to exactly what the gentleman was just saying and what Ms. Wasserman Schultz was just saying and what Mr. Meek of Florida was just saying. The comments that Secretary Wolfowitz made and Secretary Rumsfeld just were not true. The comments about the tax cuts and what they would do for average people just did not turn out to be true. And about the war and how we would progress just did not come to be true. And the bubble here symbolizes all these people like Mr. Lindsey who are saying, no, it is going to cost us $200 billion and they fire him. And the general who said we are going to need a couple hundred thousand troops in order to do this properly, and they dismissed him too. It turns out that we needed all these troops there. It just seems that this administration does not want to hear from other outside viewpoints in order for us to fix this problem. Now, Mr. Meek was talking about what I found very interesting. I have the President's speech here that he was talking about earlier, and the President talks about the first milestone we had was the transfer of sovereignty at the end of June. And the second milestone was the Iraqi election, and the third milestone, if we had these milestones as Mr.…”