In a speech to the Heritage Foundation on Thursday, Tom DeLay (indicted alleged money launderer), gave a rousing spiel about how the Republicans in DC are moving ahead with their “Reform, Restrain, and Redesign” plan to fix out of control spending. He then went on to blame the Democrats for congress’s unwillingness – that’s the Republican-controlled congress – to straighten out the mess they’ve made.
He also blamed Democrats, complaining that they haven’t offered any suggestions on how to cut spending. He said they created a congressional budget process that makes it difficult to cut spending.
“We’ve been operating off a Congress designed by Democrats,” he said.
The Republicans took control of Congress in 1995.
Would you like some cheese with that whine, Tom?
Perhaps Mr Indicted should help out his Republican buddies by giving them some handy tips on how to move money around without anybody noticing.
With a plan that’s more rightly called “Resist, Refuse and Recuse”, the Republicans have once again shown where their loyalties lie and it’s not with what’s best for the American people.
They resist calls to cut pork. They refuse to raise taxes during wartime. They recuse themselves from any responsibility for their gross mismanagement of the people’s money and their bloated government while they happily slash entitlement programs to punish the poor and middle class.
Yet, DeLay spouts:
But what about the so-called new Democrats who were supposed to moderate their party? What happened to all the talk after the 2004 elections that Democrats would be more solution-oriented and less partisan? Where are the moderate, accountable New Democrats who could help us restrain spending, reform antiquated federal programs, and offset the costs of the looming Katrina recovery? Have the so-called “Blue Dogs” now become the “Red-Ink Dogs”? Have these responsible moderates really thrown in their lot with the Michael Moore, Howard Dean extreme?
Which part of YOUR REPUBLICANS ARE THE ONES IN POWER don’t you get, Tom?
Now that you’ve resigned as majority leader, maybe you should see if you can get a stint in Vegas. I hear there’s a market there for has beens.