[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 145 (1999), Part 9]
[House]
[Page 12128]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]



                          OLD HABITS DIE HARD

  (Mr. PITTS asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. PITTS. Madam Speaker, as we just heard, the House Democrat leader 
said something the other day that might give American taxpayers cause 
for concern. A lot of people have been fooled by the talk about ``new 
Democrats'' and the ``third way'' and other such deceptions that 
liberals must use to remain politically viable.
  But every once in a while a Democrat leader slips and reveals what 
their party actually stands for, the same thing they have always stood 
for since the 1960s.
  Listen again to this comment by the minority leader: ``You've got to 
have a combination of taking it out of the defense budget and raising 
revenue. We can argue about how to do that, closing loopholes or even 
raising taxes to do it.''
  So there we have it. Cut defense and raise taxes. No wonder all those 
flag burners and left-wing activists from the 1960s found a home in the 
Democratic Party. It is a party whose leaders, after all these years it 
seems, do not support a strong military and simply cannot wait to get 
back in power so they can pass another tax hike.
  Old habits die hard.

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