Lloyd Bentsen: “Of course, today is not February 29. Today is March 7, and the fact is that the Republican leadership has once again…”

“Of course, today is not February 29. Today is March 7, and the fact is that the Republican leadership has once again failed to stand up to the test of leadership and address what needs to be addressed. What we are talking about here is the creditworthiness of the United States, the greatest creditworthiness of any nation in the history of the world, and yet they continue to want to play with it with a failed policy that they do not even know was what it is now. One day we hear we are going to attach some welfare reform. We do not know what that is going to be. Then we hear we are not going to attach it. Now we hear let us extend it another 2 weeks; maybe we can figure something out in the interim.”