Reid: President Bush's Lectures On Fiscal Responsibility Lack Credibility

October 17, 2007
Reid: President Bush's Lectures On Fiscal Responsibility Lack Credibility

Washington, DC—Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid made the following statement today in response to President Bush’s comments this morning:

“It is quite disingenuous for President Bush to lecture Congress on our work while he vetoes critical legislation like children’s health insurance and threatens to veto legislation that funds such critical priorities as education, medical research and housing. And it is equally disingenuous for his loyal Republican supporters in Congress to echo this baseless claim as they stand in the way of progress by sustaining his ill-conceived vetoes and obstructing legislation at a record rate.

“After six years of watching his Administration and Republican controlled Congresses ignore middle-class Americans and spend money like drunken sailors on the Iraq war and congressional earmarks, Congressional Democrats are putting forth fiscally responsible proposals to invest in America’s priorities. Whether it be the President’s heartless veto of CHIP or the President’s flawed Iraq strategy that has now cost taxpayers nearly half a trillion dollars, it is clear that Republican priorities are not America’s priorities.”

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Reminding the President Why Key Legislation Has Not Become Law

“And if it doesn't get done, I'm looking forward to reminding people as to why it's not getting done. – President Bush, 10/17/07

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http://democrats.senate.gov/newsroom/record.cfm?id=285536&

on pretty much anything.

DRUNKEN SAILORS spend their own damned money. If bush and the republican congress spent like drunken sailors, THEY would be broke but WE would not have a godawful deficit to contend with for the next eight generations.