EFFin’ Unsound

– posted by thehim

As I’m sure everyone here knows, the President made his way to Bellevue on Monday to campaign for Congressman Dave Reichert.  Most Republicans today are smart enough to keep their distance from a lame duck President whose approval ratings have been hovering around 30% for almost a year, but Congressman Reichert is not one of them.  In fact, “smart enough” is not a phrase commonly associated with either the Congressman or his distinguished guest. 

Earlier this evening, as we were celebrating the success of raising $120,000 for Reichert’s opponent, Darcy Burner, in just this weekend as a response to Bush’s trip, Daniel Kirkdorffer challenged me to do a line-by-line breakdown of the President’s speech from yesterday.  Here it goes (get comfy, this shit’s long):

Thanks for coming. How’s your elbow, Dave?

He didn’t realize Dave forgot the secret handshake. 

First of all, I thank you all for supporting an honest, decent, hardworking, fine American in Dave Reichert.

And shelling out $1,000 a pop ($10,000 for a photo with the Prez). 

You call him the Sheriff. I look at him as a sheriff. 

It’s rumored that he may have once been a sheriff. 

He’s tough when he has to be, he’s compassionate when he needs to be, and he’s an independent thinker.

He’s actually neither independent nor a thinker. 

He’s the kind of person who has done a fabulous in the United States House of Representatives, and he deserves to be reelected.

He’s actually done nothing, and is 14 months away from having his ass handed to him by Darcy Burner. 

And I thank you for supporting him. I particularly want to thank Julie for standing with Dave, and the family.

He hasn’t seen the First Lady in months.

I know something about families and politics.

The more he’s involved with either one, the more damage he does. 

Like Dave, I married above my head.

He literally passed out drunk during the ceremony. 

And Laura sends her very best to the Reichert family.  She’s — I left her on the ranch this morning.

Likely excuse. 

We’re working our way back to Washington, D.C. I’m going to Australia to represent the United States of America at what they call APEC.

Someone will explain what that is before he gets there. 

By the way, there’s no greater honor than to represent the United States of America overseas.

He had no idea there was an overseas until 2001. 

It is a fantastic experience. We’re such a fabulous country of decent, honorable people.

Who mostly hate him now. 

I want to thank my friend, the former senator of the state, Slade Gordon, and Sally, for joining us today. 

Hey Slade, he’ll nominate you for Attorney General if you promise not to uphold the law. 

Senator, thank you for being here. Luke, I want to thank you for being here.

Although he’s not sure why Luke got on his knees and reached for his crotch. 

Thanks for being the chairman. Use this — yes. You need to put this money to good use, and turn out the vote. Get people to the polls.

There has to be something else completely unethical they haven’t tried yet.

We run for reasons.

Power, money, and power. 

We’ve got a philosophy that works.

They just choose to do what makes them wealthier instead. 

We believe in strong defense.

Except that recently, they’ve looked more like special teams. 

We need to protect this country.

By making everyone in the worst despise us.  How can that fail?

We believe in human rights and human dignity. 

When it’s convenient. 

And we believe in keeping your taxes low. 

Remember he’s talking mostly to millionaires. 

That’s what we believe.

Along with creationism, forced labor, imperialism, and that global warming is a hoax.

I want to thank Matt Hasselbeck and Mack Strong. These are champs.

Compared to Michael Vick, they’re not so bad.

These men are champs on the field and they’re champs off the field. 

The whole Hasselbeck clan is quite wingnutty, with sister-in-law Elizabeth dubbed the “dumbest person on TV” by the Trumpster after she strongly defended the Iraq War. 

And they set such a fine example for people who look at the Seattle Seahawks and they look at these players and say, gosh, I’d like to be like them.

Except for their utter cluelessness about what’s actually happening in the political world. 

And I thank you for being such good family men, setting such a good example for the kids here. And I’m honored to have the jersey.

The next time he chokes on a pretzel, he’ll be wearing it.

I want to talk about a couple of issues with you. We’re a nation at war.

On drugs.  On terror.  On liberals. 

I wish I didn’t have to say that.

No he doesn’t. 

No President should ever want to come to any community in our country and say, we’re at war, but we are.

That’s true.  No President should.  Especially since we’re not really at war - we’re an occupying force in two Middle Eastern countries. 

And the fundamental question facing this nation is how do we face this conflict. What do we do?

Stop making Al Qaeda stronger.

The most important priority of government — it’s one of the reasons I’m such a strong believer in Dave — is to protect the homeland.

And our secret strategy is to make everyone in the world hate us while also blowing all our money on tax cuts instead of homeland security. 

That’s our most important job. 

And we’re completely fucking it up. 

And Dave Reichert understands that.

Dave Reichert couldn’t understand the latest Pixar movie. 

He understands that it’s possible for government to balance the need to understand the enemy and civil liberties.

Yeah, he thinks we can just get rid of our civil liberties and we’ll be fine.

And we’re doing just that.

I know. 

He knows what I know, that we’ve got to use all assets of our power to protect you.

Well George, we’re also using all the assets of our power to protect ourselves from you.

You know, I was deeply affected on September the 11th, 2001.

He wet himself in that classroom and didn’t move for almost 10 minutes. 

I vowed that day that I would use all of our assets to keep the enemy from harming us again.

And then quickly forgot about all that and attacked Iraq. 

And I’m proud to have an ally in Dave Reichert who understands that, as well. That’s why you’ve got to send him back.

To Kent.

The stakes are high. I recognize there are some who hear we’re at war and dismiss that as empty political talk.

I actually dismiss it as a highly inaccurate description of what we’re doing in Iraq. 

That’s either disingenuous or naive — either case it is dangerous, because we face an enemy that is ideologically bent, determined to achieve their objectives, and murder the innocent.

And is being helped tremendously by our occupation of Iraq. 

They are not religious people.

They just play ones in the videos they send us. 

They may have hijacked religion, but they’re not religious.

I’m not sure the President is entirely clear on what that word means. 

I don’t believe you murder innocent people to achieve political objectives and be a religious person.

So then you’re not a religious person? 

I just don’t believe that.

I guess if you remember this, Bush really didn’t think innocent people were going to die in Iraq, so I guess he can still consider himself religious. 

As a matter of fact, I believe that’s the definition of evil.

So, murdering innocent people for political objectives is the definition of evil?  Sounds about right.  Actually, that sounds like what war is.

And I think the United States must do everything we can to prevent them from harming us and others again.

By imitating them and adopting their mentality.

And the stakes are high in this war. Our strategy is to stay on the offense.

Because the best way to protect the homeland is to attack other countries.  The best defense is a good offense.  Matt Hasselbeck can tell you that. 

I would rather defeat them overseas than to face them here at home. 

If you keep it up, we won’t have a choice any more. 

And so every day you’ve got really fine, decent people working hour after hour to find these killers and to bring them to justice.

Not really.  What we have is an army of 160,000 American troops stuck in a country that’s falling into complete ruin. 

You can’t negotiate with these kind of people, you can’t talk sense to them.

Kind of like someone else we know. 

The only thing — way to protect us in the short-term is to find them before they hurt us again. And that’s what’s happening, every single day.

For some reason, there are so many of them now.

Dave Reichert understands it.

He caught a killer once.  Took him 22 years, even though for most of that time, everyone already knew who the killer was. 

He is a strong supporter of law enforcement, of the intelligence community, and of the United States military. And I appreciate that, Dave.

He sounds like a great citizen.  Why he’s been elected to Congress twice?  We still have no idea.

In the long run, the best way to protect you is to win this ideological struggle by defeating what they believe with something that has worked throughout history, and that’s liberty.

Evidently, the fact that the President stopped making sense didn’t seem to bother anyone in the room. 

I make my decisions based on just some fundamental principles — principles, by the way, I’m not going to change; principles that — you know, I think the thing that matters most in life is when you finish the task at hand, whatever that may be, that you can look in the mirror and say you stayed true to your principles, you stayed true to that which you believe.

In other words, he’s a stubborn simpleton who won’t listen to anyone or learn from his mistakes. 

I’d rather be dealing with people who make decisions based upon what’s right, not based upon the latest focus group or opinion poll.

I want someone who makes decisions based upon facts, data, and common sense.  Is that too much to ask? 

And that’s exactly what we need to do to protect this country.

Hopefully, we’ll have a chance to start doing that before January 2009.

I believe there’s an Almighty, and I believe a great gift of the Almighty to each man, woman and child on the face of the Earth is freedom.

Unfortunately, September 11 meant that the gift needed to be returned. 

And I believe it’s in the interest of the United States to help people be free.

And I guess the way to do that is to limit our own freedom? 

Freedom yields the peace we want.

That’s why he wants to start more wars - because having foreign occupiers in your country is freedom.  And as we’ve seen in Iraq, that leads to peace.  

Freedom yields the — lays that foundation for peace so our children can grow up in a peaceful world.

The only war being fought right now is happening between this imbecile’s ears. 

And that’s what you’re seeing happening right now.

Where?

Iraq is the central front of this war.

Does it not concern the President that the only people who believe this are him, his AEI flunkies, and Bin Laden?

This war is being fought on a variety of fronts, and Iraq, obviously, is the central front.

It’s one of the few fronts the President can easily find on a map. 

It’s the front that’s dominating the news. It’s the front that appears on your TV screens. 

He’s not sure why. 

It’s the front in which there’s a lot of debate in a free society — and there should be debate.

Except for when we need to send someone to represent us at the U.N.  

I happen to believe it’s essential that we win this war in Iraq, that we do the job on this front.

We won the war 4 years ago.  It’s an occupation now.  What we need to do is get out before our military is completely broken and every country in the world hates us.

We’ve done some remarkable things there.

Not in the good way. 

First of all, we removed a brutal dictator. Getting rid of Saddam Hussein made the world safer. It was the right decision.

Yeah, we killed our old ally.  Woo-hoo! 

The Iraqis went to the polls and wrote a constitution.

That’s great, except that the government has collapsed, no one follows the constitution, and many of the Iraqis who voted have fled the country. 

I wasn’t surprised they went to the polls.

Me neither.  When they voted, they were promised by the people who won the elections that they’d end the occupation. 

If you believe in the universality of freedom, it shouldn’t surprise you that people, if given a chance, will express their desire to be free.

Exactly, and their desire to be free meant knowing that there was an end point to having America dictate to them how their government should work. 

I wasn’t surprised, I was pleased that 12 million people defied the car bombers and killers and murderers to vote.

The fact that many, if not most, of them now feel that it was a wasted effort doesn’t seem to matter.

And then the thinking enemy, recognizing that a free society in the Middle East would be a major blow to their ambitions to spread their caliphate throughout the Middle East, tried to create sectarian violence.

As was predicted by all those people warning about why invading and occupying Iraq would be such a bad idea. 

They murdered the innocent in order to cause people to doubt government and doubt the coalition. 

Well, the fact that we couldn’t get the power grid running, and we completely disbanded the Army, and we put a bunch of inexperienced, well-connected yahoos in charge of very important aspects of the interim government also caused some folks to doubt the coalition.

These are cold-blooded killers. These, by the way, have sworn allegiance to — many of them have sworn allegiance to Osama bin Laden, the same person that ordered the attacks that killed nearly 3,000 of our citizens.

Who’s sitting safely in Pakistan laughing at how stupid Americans were for re-electing this buffoon. 

They can’t stand the thought of a free society in their midst. An Iraq that can govern itself and sustain itself and be an ally against these radicals and extremists would be a major defeat in this ideological struggle.

If an Iraq that governs and sustains itself is their enemy, then isn’t occupying Iraq for a long time playing into their hands?

And so they struck. And I was confronted with a decision: You either leave, pull back, or send more troops in to try to bring enough security so that a society can emerge and evolve. And I chose the latter. 

Brother, please.  You added barely enough troops to secure Baghdad, three years after the situation got out of control to the point where extra troops would have mattered.     

I chose the latter because the consequences of failure in Iraq are enormous for the security of the United States of America.

You should have been thinking about that in 2003, jackass.

I gave a speech to the VFW the other day and talked about the different theaters of war in the past, whether it be Japan or Korea and Vietnam.

I’m outsourcing this one to Christopher Albritton. 

I reminded the listeners, Vietnam was much different from Iraq in that you could leave Vietnam and, yeah, there was a human toll, huge human catastrophe as a result of us leaving. But the enemy wasn’t going to follow us here.

That’s not what they were saying back then.

In the beginning of the 21st century, failure in Iraq would cause the enemy not to retreat, but to follow us to America.

What enemy?  We’re fighting like 10 ten different groups over there?  If he’s talking about Al Qaeda, they’re based in Pakistan and what we’re doing in Iraq is doing nothing to stop them from coming to America. 

The stakes of success for your security are enormous.

That’s why half the country wants you impeached. 

And that is why I listened to our commanders and the experts and military folks about how to provide enough security for democracy to have a chance to succeed.

Starting in 2006.

I sent a new commander there on the ground, a fellow named General David Petraeus.

He will be the next person Bush will be blaming everything on. 

We’ve been there fully staffed and engaged for about two months, with a full complement of manpower, and we’re making a difference. It’s changing on the ground.

Well, no.  We’ve gotten somewhat better at not doing things that inflame the Iraqis so much, but have done nothing about the underlying political stalemates. 

The people are beginning to see that grassroots reconciliation is possible.  Neighbors — listen, people want to live in peace. People don’t like violence.

That’s why they only start wars in far off places when they know they’ll never have to sacrifice for them. 

They want their children to grow up in a peaceful world.

So they’ll send other people’s children to die rather than face up to the tough challenges involved in making that happen.

If given a chance, I believe people will cling to liberty and freedom.

That’s why we want our goddamn constitution back. 

And I know it’s in our interest for us to deny al Qaeda a safe haven, or the extremists an opportunity to become more emboldened throughout the Middle East.

Then stop giving them that opportunity. 

What happens in Iraq matters in America.

No shit, Einstein.  You made it that way.

And that’s why I’ve asked Congress to wait until these commanders come
back — the Ambassador and commander come back — and tell people exactly what’s happening.

Don’t read their report, though, because it was written by the White House.  Instead, listen to their oral testimony, which is still happening despite the White House’s attempts to stop it. 

You know, when they open up a new school in Iraq it doesn’t make
headline news.

For the same reason opening a new school in America doesn’t.  It should be a fairly routine occurrence in a civil society. 

When al Qaeda kills a bunch of people, it does.

That’s true of every country in the world, you nitwit.  There’s no place on earth where opening a school is bigger news than a terrorist bombing.  Why should Iraq be different? 

And these folks are trying to shake our will. I’m giving a speech to the American Legion tomorrow, and a line in there is, “We will not be intimidated by thugs and murderers. The United States of America will stand strong.”

Al Qaeda is not trying to “shake our will.”  They’re trying to convince us that they’re more powerful than they really are so that we’ll get our Army trapped in their back yard.  And it’s working perfectly on you, because you’re a buffoon.

I’m confident we can succeed. I really am.

As long as you’re in charge, I’m not. 

I could not look at a mother whose child was in combat if I didn’t believe, one, it was necessary, and two, we can succeed.

You could believe a park bench was a carrot cake if it was necessary to keep you from admitting you were wrong. 

I couldn’t do that in good conscience. One of the reasons I’m confident we can succeed is because we have done this kind of work before.

No we haven’t.  We’ve never done anything this stupid in the history of our country.

I like to remind people about the story of my dad and my presidency. I find it incredibly ironic that George H. W. Bush went straight out of high school, became a Navy fighter pilot and fought the Japanese, and some 60 years later, his son sits down at the table with the Prime Minister of Japan, the former enemy, working to keep the peace. Isn’t that interesting? 

Um, Japan was our friend even when your dad went over there and barfed on the Prime Minister. 

I think it is. And you know what happens? Liberty has got the capacity to change an enemy into an ally. Liberty and freedom have — are
transformative.

It wasn’t really “liberty and freedom” so much as a realization among the Japanese that their imperialistic goals made a large part of the world fight back. 

They’ve got the ability to transform an entire region, one of hopelessness, where 19 kids are willing to get on an airplane to kill, to one of hope, where people realize a better future and a peaceful future.

Then why are we doing nothing about Saudi Arabia, the country where 15 of those 19 kids came from?

This is a long, ideological struggle we’re involved in. And the fundamental question is will the United States of America take the lead. 

Our first step will be to elect someone who doesn’t have his head up his ass next year. 

Will we be confident in the values that have made us a great nation?

Values like protecting civil liberties, having a President who must obey laws, and not waging pre-emptive wars. 

And I answered that question loud and clear: We’re in the lead; we’ll stay in the lead, and we’ll work for the peace that we all want.

What does that have to do with values?

You know, every time you run, at least every time I’ve run, the economy has always been an issue.

It’s strange how people who didn’t grow up in an extremely wealthy family and weren’t drunk until middle age worry about money.

And I’m glad it is this time around. 

You’re not running this time, jackass. 

We have — I can remember campaigning in Washington State, and campaigning with Dave before, and reminding people of another principle that I believe in, and that is, you can spend your money better than government can.

That’s certainly true when you’re running it. 

There is kind of a philosophical divide in Washington. There are people that, one, don’t — believe we don’t have enough money in Washington; I happen to believe we do – and secondly, that they would rather figure out how to spend your money than you should.

Then how come you’ve expanded the size of the Federal Government more than any other President in modern times.

You know — and so our argument, however, wins when you look at the facts.

Actually, your argument is hypocritical when you look at the facts. 

We had to deal with a recession, an attack on the country, corporate scandals.

An imbecile in the White House. 

This economy was not very good in the beginning of my administration. 

That’s not quite how I remember it.  Compared to now, it was doing just fine.

So I went to Congress and said I’ve got an idea for us to get out this recession: Why don’t we let the people have more of their own money?

No one really explained to him that if you want to do that, you can’t have the government spend more at the same time. 

Rather than taking money away from the spenders and savers and investors, why don’t we try something different? Why don’t we say, here, you can have your own money in your own pocket so you can spend it yourself?

Because in the long run, it’s better for the country if that money is spent on schools, infrastructure, and homeland security, rather than for Paris Hilton’s vacation home.

And it worked. Since August of 2003 — by the way, we didn’t cut taxes on a few people, we cut taxes on everybody that paid taxes. It wasn’t one of these special deals where you paid some, and you paid some, but you get the tax break, you don’t. If you have a family with children, you got a tax break. I happen to think it was a mistake to penalize marriage. We had a marriage penalty in the tax code. It seems like to me we ought to be encouraging marriage rather than penalizing marriage.

Unless you’re gay, then he wants to discourage it.

We cut taxes on dividends and capital gains to encourage investment. We cut taxes on small businesses and we reduced all the income tax rates. And by the way, most small businesses pay tax at the individual income tax rate. See, if you’re a Subchapter S or a limited partnership you pay income tax based upon individual rates.

Obviously, this crowd didn’t have to worry about that. 

And so when you say you’re cutting individual rates, you’re actually cutting taxes as well on small businesses. Seventy percent of new jobs are created by small businesses, and so when a small business has more money in its treasury it tends to expand and invest.

And still get squashed by Wal-Mart. 

When a consumer has more money in his or her pocket they either save or invest or spend.

A brilliant observation.

And our planned worked. Cutting taxes works. Cutting taxes has created a strong economy. We’ve created 8.3 million new jobs since August of 2003. Unemployment rates are down. People are working, inflation is low, interest rates are low, people are owning homes.

Foreclosures and bankruptcies are happening at alarming rates.  The prices of most basic commodities have been going up for years.  Consumer confidence is down.  The stock market is on shaky ground.  Jim Cramer had three heart attacks last week.  And we’re in debt to China up to our eyeballs. 

This economy is strong. And the best way to keep it strong is to put people in Congress that won’t raise your taxes.

Can we finally come together as a nation and stop being so fooled by this overly simplistic way of viewing economics?  It’s like still falling for the Nigerian email scam.

And make no mistake about it, the Democrats are going to raise your taxes. Pure and simple.

Those responsible bastards! 

They may say they’re not going to in the campaign, but they’re going to raise your taxes. How do I know? Well, they submitted a budget recently. Their budget calls for $205 billion of extra discretionary spending over the next five years.

That’s how much the President is asking for Iraq and Afghanistan for just next year alone. 

That’s their blueprint for what they’re going to do with your money — $205 billion additional dollars. That averages out to $112 million a day, $4.7 million per hour, $78,000 per minute, $1,300 in higher discretionary spending every second of every minute of every hour of every day of every year for the next five years. And you’re going to pay for it.

Which is no different than the increases that have been happening under the Republican Congress. 

That’s why we need to reelect Dave Reichert. 

He’s dumb enough to believe whatever bullshit he’s told. 

And that’s why they give the President the power of veto. I’m going to veto any tax threats.

And make sure that kids don’t have health care.

What’s interesting is that we were able to cut taxes and grow the economy and, at the same time, reduce our deficit. That’s what we told the people we would do. We said, give us a chance, you’re going to have more money in your own pocket to spend, save and invest, and we’re going to manage this fiscal house in such a way that the deficit comes down. Today the projected deficit is about $205 billion — that’s a nice number; that’s what the Democrats are going to take out of your pocket, that’s the size of the deficit — which, by the way, as a percentage of GDP is low.

I’m outsourcing this one to this guy.

And I’ve submitted a budget that will actually balance the budget by 2012 — so long as we have fiscally responsible people in Washington.

That’d be a change of pace. 

And that means we need to elect people who understand what it means to set priorities. And the number one priority as far as I’m concerned is protecting the American people.

Setting priorities is wonderful, but knowing to accomplish things is much better. 

The number one priority is to make sure our troops have the support they need, and to make sure our veterans get the care they need.

Maybe we’ll have a President in 2009 who will do that.

And Dave is right there; you can count on him. You can count on him to be a watchdog for your money in Washington, D.C.

He says to a room of millionaires.

I want to talk about one other issue, and that is — it’s a national security issue, it’s an economic security issue, and it is an environmental issue, and that is our dependency on oil.

President Bush and Vice President Cheney were the last two people in America to figure out that this was a problem. 

That probably comes as a shock to you to hear a Texan say that, but I understand what it means to be dependent on a product from parts of the world where some people don’t like us.

He used to do a lot of cocaine. 

I know what that means for our national security.

It means that we have to have smart people running the government or else we’re in trouble.

I also understand, in this world we live in, when demand for crude oil goes up in a developing country like China, and the corresponding supply doesn’t keep up with the demand, the price of gasoline goes up at the pump here in Seattle, Washington.

He’s brilliant.  He could teach a 10th grade economics class. 

So it’s an economic security issue, as well. If the terrorists and these radicals that would like to create economic havoc on the United States were ever able to significantly disrupt the oil supply, you’d feel it.

It’s bad enough that you’re helping them recruit - do you have to give them ideas too? 

So it’s an economic security issue. And obviously, burning fossil fuels creates an environmental issue.

I think he’s most concerned about the environment where regulators are empowered to act.

And so I look forward to working with Dave to come up with a practical plan that enables us, one, to grow the economy, and at the same time, to become less dependent on oil and better stewards of the environment.

What’s been stopping you from doing it for the last 3 years? 

And our strategy makes sense. It’s a common-sense strategy. First, I believe that we can grow enough fuel to become less dependent on oil. I’d rather our farmers be producing fuel than buying fuel from overseas. I think that’s a practical application of technology.

Unless they want to grow hemp.  That just appeases the terrorists.

We’re using a little more than 7 billion gallons of ethanol now, made mainly from Midwestern corn. In other words, there’s a whole industry growing. And we’re encouraging it. As a matter of fact, we believe that technology is going to advance to the point where we can reduce our gasoline usage by 20 percent over the next 10 years, and replace it with alternative fuels. I believe that.

This is getting out of my area of expertise so I’ll outsource to these guys.

Your government is spending a fair amount of your money — if billions is fair — a lot of your money on technologies, because the truth of the matter is the only way to be able to grow our economy and, at the same time, be better stewards of the environment is to come up with new technologies.

Except that if the Democrats try to spend money on it, he’ll veto it. 

It’s conceivable that relatively quickly there are going to be automobiles where you can drive your first 40 miles on a battery, and the thing you’re in doesn’t look like a golf cart. It will actually be a car, something that you’d like to be in.

Um, I think we already have cars like that. 

I’m a big believer in clean coal technologies. We’re spending up to about $2 billion to be able to use this plentiful supply of energy in an environmentally friendly way. And I think there’s going to be some breakthroughs coming down the road.

He has a great track record for his predictions. 

I believe in nuclear power. I believe if you’re really, truly interested in greenhouse gases, then you ought to be supporting nuclear power.

Shouldn’t they be writing it how he pronounces it? 

If you’re really that concerned about the environment, you ought to be saying, this great economy of ours can grow and, at the same time, not pollute. Nuclear power doesn’t put one emission into the atmosphere.

It’s perfectly safe.

And so we’re spending money to come up with technologies that will enable us to be less dependent on oil. And I think it makes sense.

Every time he talks to his buddies in Riyadh, though, he’s not so sure again. 

And I’m proud to have Dave’s support. He’s an environmentally conscious guy. He cares about the environment, like a lot of people around the country do.

And like many politicians in this area pretend to do so they can get elected. 

But I want to tell you something that’s interesting, and something you probably haven’t spent much time reading about — do you realize that the United States is the only major industrialized nation that cut greenhouse gases last year? We grew our economy by 3.4 percent in the second quarter and we cut greenhouse gases.

Growing our economy by trading on debt and relocating all our factories overseas is likely to do that.

Our strategy is working.

For the people sitting in that room. 

Our philosophy makes sense.

To the people who believe humans rode dinosaurs 5000 years ago. 

It is a common-sense philosophy that’s making a difference in the lives of the average citizens.

It’s certainly making a difference. 

David Reichert understands that. And that’s why you need to send him back to the United States Congress. And I’m proud to be here for him.

And dooming his re-election prospects.

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