[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 150 (2004), Part 13]
[House]
[Pages 17638-17639]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                  BEING LESS CRITICAL OF THE PRESIDENT

  (Mr. INSLEE asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. INSLEE. Mr. Speaker, sometimes I think Democrats are a little too 
critical of President Bush. Now, it is true that he took a huge surplus 
and turned it into the largest fiscal deficit in American history; that 
is true. It is true that he promised Americans that he would protect 
seniors, and the next day gave Americans the largest Medicare premium 
increase, essentially a tax increase, in American history, of 17 
percent. It is true that he has the largest loss of jobs, over 2.5 
million jobs, since Herbert Hoover.
  But now some Democrats have even criticized the President for 
refusing to take his physical and thereby squandering $1 million of 
flight training when he served in the National Guard. I think we need 
to put that in context. If he continued to fly, he may have crashed the 
plane.
  We need to be a little less critical of this President.

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