serendipti's Diaryland Diary 9:22 p.m. - Thursday, May. 20, 2004 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- eloquence against Hastert, the bastard i was just procrastinating and surfing the net after reading that John McCain was coming under fire by the nalayak idiot speaker of the Hourse, Dennis Hastert, for speaking out against more tax cuts during war time. Anyway, I came upon this speech,which apparently was said before the House, to Dennis Hastert...anyway, it gave me chills...this is the kind of politician I want to become: CONFERENCE REPORT ON H. CON. RES. 95, CONCURRENT RESOLUTION ON THE BUDGET FOR FISCAL YEAR 2004 House of Representatives – April 10, 2003 The Congressional Record, Pages H3289 Mr. TAYLOR of Mississippi. Mr. Speaker, since you are on the floor, do you think it is a coincidence that no one is in the press gallery when you bring this bill up? Because I do not. Those of you of my Republican friends, and I do consider you my friends, who ran on the basis of a balanced budget, if you vote for this budget, you lied. Two years ago you came to the floor and said there was a surplus. We owed the Social Security trust fund over $1 trillion at that time. We owed our own Federal Government employees' retirement system over $500 billion at that time. We owed the Medicare trust fund over $200 billion at that time. And with a perfectly straight face you looked the American people in the eye and you talked about surpluses as far as the eye could see, and it was all a lie. I regret that I did not say it sooner. So tonight I am going to give you one last chance to do the right thing. The guy sitting over there, the gentleman from Illinois (Mr. Hastert), when he was just a Member he used to come to the floor and wax eloquently on the need for a balanced budget amendment. You have been Speaker now for 1,550 days, plus or minus; and yet you have never scheduled a vote on a balanced budget amendment, because you know it gets in the way of your tax cuts. We are voting tonight to add another $800 billion, that is a thousand times a thousand times a thousand times a thousand times 800, in new debt in just 1 year, because you know your budget plan does not work. So for just once, be honest with the American people. Quit lying to them, because you are lying to my kids; and I cannot tell you how mad that makes me. It is okay to lie to me, but do not lie to my kids. Do not lie to those kids in Bethesda tonight at Walter Reed; do not bring them cookies tomorrow and tell them how much you love them and you respect what they have done for our country, and then stick them with $800 billion worth of new debt in 1 year. Because you begged for the privilege of running this country, but you do not want to pay the bills of running this country. You ought to be ashamed. I want to tell you, I am ashamed of you. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
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