Lamar Smith: “you have all heard of credibility gap. Well, this administration's credibility gap has widened into a credibility gulch.…”

“you have all heard of credibility gap. Well, this administration's credibility gap has widened into a credibility gulch. No, you will not find it on a map, so you will need to follow the Clinton administration's directions to get there. First, you say you will take a right by promising a tax cut. But, instead, you go left by delivering income taxes, Social Security taxes, gas taxes, business taxes, and inheritance taxes. Then, you say you will take another right by promising to end welfare as we know it. But again you go left by delivering a new welfare program that is going to cost more than the old. You keep driving until you come to crime. There you signal a hard right, but you take a hard left, by sending up a budget that cuts funds for Federal prosecutors and prisons. When you come to the economic signs for spending cuts, you signal you are for them, but you keep right on driving by opposing a real vote to cut the Federal budget just 1 cent on the dollar. If you get cited for ignoring family values and self-responsibility, just try and talk your way out of it. Finally, when you get to health care you turn a sharp left into a U-turn by backing a government-run health care program and claiming it will deliver more services, more efficiently, at less cost. Like I said, you will not find credibility gap on a map, but you will find President Clinton at credibility gulch.”