[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 139 (Thursday, September 29, 1994)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
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[Congressional Record: September 29, 1994]
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 THE TRUTH ABOUT REPUBLICAN RECKLESSNESS IS THE DEMOCRATS' BEST WEAPON

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                          HON. MAJOR R. OWENS

                              of new york

                    in the house of representatives

                     Wednesday, September 28, 1994

  Mr. OWENS. Mr. Speaker, under the new administration this 103d 
Congress has accomplished a great deal to improve the lives of the 
American people. So much more would have been achieved if the 
Republicans had not adopted a posture of irresponsibility and 
recklessness. Beginning with the stimulus program and ending with 
health care the Republicans have used the filibuster to wreck the 
wheels of progress. Now, these mad elephants are boasting that this is 
a strategy that will win them control of the Congress. Only if 
Democrats are stupid enough to refuse to play the blame game will the 
Republicans continue to confuse the American people. The only game in 
town is the blame game and the burden of blame rests squarely on the 
shoulders of the Republicans. Democrats must shove the truth about 
their outrageous performance squarely into the faces of the 
Republicans. Republicans are the murderers of the jobs that would have 
been created by the Clinton stimulus package. Republicans are the 
killers of health care. With the filibuster the Republicans have made a 
joke of the concept of a one-person, one-vote democracy. On the floor 
of the House Republicans have taken mean spiritedness to new depths in 
their cesspool. Democrats have a duty to fervently tell the American 
people the truth about the current Republican madness.

                             Mad Elephants

     Gridlock guerrillas,
     Health care killers,
     Mad elephants are coming,
     GOP stampede running.
     Hide all grandmothers,
     Protect the old,
     Chiefs from Kansas,
     Are merciless and cold.
     Sound the survival alarm,
     Mad elephants marching,
     Do murderous and heavy harm.
     Health care killers,
     Gridlock guerrillas,
     Circus Master Ollie North,
     Assassin signed to train,
     Beasts blindly pushing,
     Great tons of public pain.
     Mad elephants are coming,
     Let the ghost of Paul Revere,
     Ride real hard and show no fear.
     The air is filled with lies,
     Americans arise,
     Before plain decency dies.
     Mad elephants are stomping,
     To kill all conscience,
     And harden hearts,
     They play their parts.
     They know their role,
     Kansas chiefs on elephants,
     Are merciless and cold.
     Gridlock guerrillas,
     Health care killers,
     The elephants stampede on,
     Patriotism and pity,
     Are now long gone.

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