[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 157 (2011), Part 6]
[House]
[Page 8437]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                   REPUBLICANS HAVE VIVID IMAGINATION

  (Mr. YARMUTH asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute.)
  Mr. YARMUTH. Mr. Speaker, we have heard a lot in the media about the 
political tea party. You know, there is another kind of tea party; 
that's where children play with their imaginary friends.
  We saw an example of that kind of imagination last night in this 
Chamber. We saw Republicans bring a bill to the floor and then vote to 
defeat it, not to raise the debt ceiling in spite of the fact that they 
passed a budget that will raise the national debt by $8 trillion over 
the next 10 years. They imagine that that $8 trillion will magically 
disappear.
  Another example of their vivid imagination is believing that the 
American people will sit back while they end Medicare, turn over 
seniors' health care to insurance companies and ask them to pay up to 
70 percent of the cost of their health care.
  This is not an imaginary world. These are real people with real 
problems, and the American people are not going to sit back while the 
Republican Party plays with their imaginary friends.

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