RUBBER-STAMPING THE ADMINISTRATION'S POLICY IN IRAQ
(House of Representatives - October 08, 2003)

The SPEAKER pro tempore. Under a previous order of the House, the gentleman from Washington (Mr. McDermott) is recognized for 5 minutes.

Mr. McDERMOTT: Mr. Speaker, I come to the floor tonight because I know that we are going to next week be in a session of the "Rubber Stamp Congress". Tomorrow the Committee on Appropriations will meet for several hours, and they will pass out $87 billion worth of borrowed money. I brought this because in my district one of my constituents started printing up what he calls "fraudulent event notes". This is a $1 billion note in "deception dollars".

Now, 87 of those look something like this. That is what we are going to put out tomorrow, $87 billion of hard-earned money, with very little discussion, and the President wants them to run it through this House next week. We will come in on Wednesday. We will fly in on Wednesday afternoon; on Thursday we will have a little debate; and Thursday it will be gone. Two, three hours of debate, $87 billion.

Now, when you think about that, this Rubber Stamp Congress never says no to this President. It is a failed policy, with the same people in charge today that got us in the mess. Oh, they have rearranged the deck chairs on the Titanic. Ms. Rice is now in charge. She sort of elbowed Colin Powell off to one side, and Mr. Rumsfeld off to the other side, and she is running in and telling Mr. Bremer what to do, the Viceroy we appointed over there to run this place.

What is missing in all of this is a plan to give the control of Iraq to the Iraqis. They say someday. Five years, we are going to be doing this for 5 years. In one year, we have been in here for $79 billion , and now we are back for $87 billion more, all borrowed.

We cannot touch those tax cuts. Oh, no, we gave that money to the rich people, and, I do not know, they are doing something with it somewhere. They are not making jobs. We have got no jobs in this country. But we are printing money. The presses are running like mad printing this money to send over to Iraq.

Now, what are we going to send it there for? You heard from one of my colleagues a little bit of it. We are going to send over a guard system for public property, $15 million. That is just for training and administration.

We are going to send them 80 pickup trucks at $2.6 million. That is $33,000 apiece. That is a pretty good pickup truck. You can get a pickup truck for under $20,000 right now. But, no, we have to send them the $33,000 brand...

11:53:14 PM  |  This is Post #46  |  Permanent URL:   |  

Arrgh!

When are the majority of people going to get a clue about how SCARY this moron is??!!

Never...that's even more scary!!

11:19:48 PM  |  This is Post #45  |  Permanent URL:   |  

I don't see how this could but help Howard Dean!

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