Lamar Smith: “last week Congress was home for Memorial Day. Besides the usual holiday picnic games, like sack races and softball, the…”

“last week Congress was home for Memorial Day. Besides the usual holiday picnic games, like sack races and softball, the Democrats added a new one: the blame game. Amazingly they decided to tag the Republicans for President Clinton's failures. Now there certainly is a lot of blame that needs spreading around for this administration's failures. And I guess there just are not enough people in the White House to take all of it, and one person who will not take any of it. The problem is that the Democrats cannot include Republicans in the blame game when they have excluded us from all the others. The fact is we have a Democrat House, we have a Democrat Senate, we have a Democrat President, and we now have Democrat gridlock. However, President Clinton wants a Republican excuse. It is pretty disconcerting to hear the captain blaming the passengers for the ship, S.S. Democrat, floundering. I suppose come November, it will be the water's fault when it sinks.”