White House transcript:
Congress is not getting its work done. We're near the end of the year, and there really isn't much to show for it. The House of Representatives has wasted valuable time on a constant stream of investigations, and the Senate has wasted valuable time on an endless series of failed votes to pull our troops out of Iraq. And yet there's important work to be done on behalf of the American people.
That important work being investigating wrongdoing and getting the troops out of Iraq. See, that's why dems were elected in such huge numbers in '06, Speed.
But that wasn't what got me, this was:
Spending is skyrocketing under their leadership -- at least proposed spending is skyrocketing under their leadership. After all, they're trying to spend an additional $205 billion over the next five years. Some have said, well, that doesn't matter much; it's not that much money. Well, $205 billion over the next five years in the real world amounts to this: $4.7 million per hour, every hour, for every day, for the next five years. That's a lot of money.
Yeah, it's the Democrats who are such spendthrifts. Bush, who's been spending money like a horny drunk at a strip club, thinks he's in a position to lecture others on the virtues of responsible spending. The Iraq war alone is costing half a million per minute, which in the real world amounts to this: $30 million per hour, every hour, for every day, for... well, who the hell knows? If Bush had his way, I'm pretty damned sure it would be decades. That's a lot of money....
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