[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 159 (2013), Part 11]
[House]
[Page 16090]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                   POLITICAL DOUBLE STANDARD AT WORK

  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The Chair recognizes the gentleman from 
North Carolina (Mr. Coble) for 5 minutes.
  Mr. COBLE. Mr. Speaker, if you missed this past Sunday morning TV 
talking heads shows, you missed the political double standard at work. 
Time and again, the hosts of the aforesaid programs referred to the 
recent ``Republican government shutdown.''
  Wait a minute. Republican government shutdown?
  There were two advocacy groups to this affair: one, President Obama 
and the Democratic administration and, two, the Republicans.
  So it appears to me, Mr. Speaker, that a more accurate description 
would be the Republicans, President Obama and the Democrat 
administration and the government shutdown.
  The Republicans, in spite of the President's adamant refusal to 
negotiate, requested a 1-year delay for the controversial health care 
proposal. The President rejected that proposal but, considering the 
reviews surrounding his health care proposal, which are, at best, 
dismal, it was an offer the President should have embraced.
  All of us, in and out of the political arena, should dismiss the 
application of the double standard that oftentimes is used in this 
town, and we should encourage objectivity to prevail over subjectivity; 
and, in so doing, our country will become the beneficiary of good 
government, of fair government. Good government finally will be 
promoted in the end, and we will all benefit therefrom.

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