pain for absolutely no gain for the country. and unfortunately, it apparently took this kind of episode to hopefully let republicans know, especially these tea party caucus republicans, that you don t win partisan victories by shutting down the government and threatening to shut down our full faith and credit. i don t know if that lesson has been learned. we ll only know going forward. but the country should not have had to go through the pain in order for people to learn that lesson. sir, do you not think, therefore, it would be in order for those congressmen, like louie gohmert, tim humans camp, and others on the lunatic fringe to go now and apologize to those millions of new mothers who have been denied nutritional assistance, or those 50,000 elderly people denied meals on wheels? shouldn t they go now and apologize to those parents who
always. for the last seven months, your colleague, patty murray, has tried to begin negotiations on no less than 20 separate occasions. each time, republicans refused and blocked. at the same time, republicans went on this pointless campaign of opposition to the affordable care act. again, a complete and utter waste of time and energy. i ask you, sir. what has speaker boehner and the republican party achieved, aside from humiliating and hurting the nation? nothing. is the simple answer. this has been a totally unnecessary episode in american history, in congressional history. it s a sad time for congress. it s been a shameful episode, because, as you say, all that was done was to impose pain on ordinary americans throughout the country.
defiled by your practice of every vice. ye are a factious crew. ye are a pack of wretches and sell your country for a mess of pottage and betray your god for a few pieces of money. is there a single virtue remaining amongst you? is there one vice you do not possess? you have no more religion than my horse. gold is your god. is there a man amongst you that has the least care for the good of the commonwealth? ye sordid prostitutes. have you not defiled this sacred place and turned the lord s temple into a den of thieves by your immoral principles and wicked practices? ye have grown intotalbly odious to the whole nation. depart, i say, and let us have done with you. in the name of god, go.
to the american people. but unfortunately, the united states senate has refused to do likewise. the united states senate has stayed with the traditional approach of the washington establishment of maintaining the status quo. finally and briefly, sir, has this man learned absolutely nothing? yeah, you know, the american people are not your twitter followers, right? the american people are something broader. and we have this crazy thing called elections in which the american people get to actually tell washington what they want, and they sent back to washington a president who said he was going to implement the health care bill, and they sent back every single senator who voted for it and campaigned on it. i don t know that ted cru has arned his leon. agenda is vy different thanhe rest of ours, running for president, running for a republican presidentials the st forur country. he has been running for wes. senator chrismurphy. thank you, sir. comin up, we ll dissect that john boeh
have been told that their terminally ill children cannot receive the experimental treatment they were promised by the nih? isn t it time that these compassionless cowards went and saw the effects of their disgraceful behavior? well, martin, i think a lot of these members of congress have a whole lot of explaining to do. and i hope the country will look at this episode and hold people accountable. because, you know, people are elected to make decisions on behalf of their constituents. and nobody has a good explanation for why they would have imposed this kind of pain and this kind of uncertainty on the country and so many people. so, again, i hope, number one, that voters will do what they should do any time, which is hold their members of congress accountable. and then also watch to see whether or not anything has been learned. whether or not there is another effort to run this terrible play, where you, again, threaten