[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 84 (Tuesday, June 28, 1994)]
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[Congressional Record: June 28, 1994]
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                      WHOSE FAULT IS IT THIS TIME?

  (Mr. SMITH of Texas asked and was given permission to address the 
House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. SMITH of Texas. Mr. Speaker, today's Washington Post writes about 
its own latest poll results that ``increasing numbers of Americans said 
Clinton was a mistake-prone leader lacking in decisiveness and losing 
his sense of the real problems facing families.''
  The poll reveals only half the public approves of the President's job 
performance; and when it comes to specifics, the message is even worse.
  On the economy, 42 percent say it is getting worse and only 39 
percent think it is getting better. And on health care, over half the 
population--53 percent--reject the President's plan.
  The question all this bad news raises is: Whose fault is it this 
time? Last week, when confronted with bad news, the President and his 
defenders lashed out at the so-called Religious Right and the news 
media as being responsible for their failures.
  Today, we find that the President is again reshuffling his staff.
  With this White House, like a losing card player staring from behind 
his dwindling stack of chips, it always seems to be the cards that are 
the problem, rather than the problem being who holds the cards.

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