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A little humor here, ladies and gentlemen. I have here in my formerly nicotine-stained fingers the Los Angeles Times today. This, this <\/emphasize>is just special. “Past Voices of Civility Back New House Effort.” You heard about this? The two-member “Center-Aisle Caucus.” There\u2019s a Center-Aisle Caucus in the House like there\u2019s a Congressional Black Caucus and there\u2019s two members out of 435! (Laughing) There\u2019s two members of the Center-Aisle Caucus, and they have as an objective to “limit rancor and to boost bipartisanship,” and they have “reached out.” They have reached out beyond the confines of the House chamber to seek advice and consent and counsel, and they have settled on Thomas Foley and Bob Michel to help \u2019em out with this. If this isn\u2019t pathetic…”They were the leaders when comity last reigned in Congress — and Wednesday, Former House Speaker Tom Foley of Washington and former House Minority Leader Robert Michel of Illinois,” Peoria, to be precise, “returned to their old stomping grounds to endorse a new effort aimed at restoring civility to Capitol Hill. ‘Ours was a different time,\u2019 said Foley who was a speaker from \u201989 through \u201994 when Democrats last controlled the House. ‘It\u2019s more rancorously partisan now and that\u2019s unfortunate.\u2019 Michel, the GOP leader from \u201981 to \u201994, agreed. ‘At one time it was fun, actually enjoyable to be a member of the House.'” <\/line> For crying out loud! You talk about history revisionism? First off, there was never <\/emphasize>more partisanship in Washington than when George Mitchell and Tom Foley were running the show for the Democrats in the Senate and the House representatively. The Democrats were the most partisan group of people in these years. To say that what\u2019s going on today is anything like what it was then is just history revision, and what it boils down to is this, folks: When the Democrats are in power there is no partisanship, and there is no mean-spiritedness because they don\u2019t look at themselves that way because the natural order of things is them in power running the show. For crying out loud, do we forget the investigation of the October Surprise? A guy named Gary Sick from Columbia wrote a book accusing George Bush 41 flying over to Paris in an SR-71 to meet mullahs from Iran to make sure that they held onto the hostages throughout the 1980 campaign. This was an investigation that took place in the early nineties, and they went back all the way to \u201980, and they were trying to prove, based on this silly book, that Bush arranged with the Iranians to keep the hostages there so they wouldn\u2019t be released and help Jimmy Carter in 1980. There was no evidence, none whatsoever, and Foley said, “Precisely because there\u2019s no evidence but because the seriousness of the charge, we are duty-bound to investigate this,” and they had congressional investigations into the so-called October Surprise, and here\u2019s Bob Michel. Bob, how could you? <\/line>To come out and say it was more fun when you had 150 members and they (Democrats) wouldn\u2019t even let you into committee hearing rooms and all you cared about was being invited to the lobbyist steak dinners and maybe playing golf with Foley or Jim Wright? You want to go back to that, when the Republicans had zilch power, weren\u2019t winning anything, and any Republican wants to talk about how little was better? Oh, folks, I\u2019m telling you! This story is a fabulous illustration of just how much things have changed for the better. “‘Ours was a different time,\u2019 said Foley. ‘It\u2019s more rancorously partisan now, and that\u2019s unfortunate.'” Yeah, the House Bank Scandal going on during Foley\u2019s regime, maybe Fort Worthless Jim Wright, I forget when he left. You know how Fort Worthless Jim Wright got rid of? Fort Worthless Jim Wright wrote a book, Reflections of a Public Man. It was 200 and some odd pages, and some pages had two words on it. It was a cut-and-paste job from speeches. Most of the books were purchased by unions and never left the warehouse. Fort Worthless Jim made all kinds of money on the book, and it was in violation of House rules, and so Newt Gingrich called him on it, and Fort Worthless Jim was forced to quit, and that\u2019s a primary reason at the outset, anyway, they all hated Newt. You just didn\u2019t challenge Democrat speakers of the House!<\/line><\/p>\n

You just didn\u2019t do <\/emphasize>this — and to say it was less partisan then, folks? It\u2019s a good thing you have me here to remind you and I have a good memory of how it was. I remember the partisanship which Reagan was president, which is the era these guys are talking about. Tom Foley is no different than Pelosi today, no different than Howard Dean today, no different than Harry Reid, no different than Daschle. You know, Daschle replaced George Mitchell. George Mitchell was the most partisan man in Washington when he was there. He was the Senate leader of the Democrats. He got away with it because he was so soft-spoken. Where do you think Daschle learn that? And of course the press all loved these guys, and of course when you\u2019re in power, you\u2019re running the show, and you\u2019re Democrats of course there\u2019s no partisanship! It\u2019s just normal. It is hunky-dory. It\u2019s heaven. But Bob Michel to be losing with 160 members in a 435 House of Representatives is better? Who are the Center-Aisle Caucus? “They are Timothy Johnson, Republican from Illinois, Steve Israel, a Democrat from New York — and they hope to develop a legislative agenda on issues like veterans affairs that members can embrace across the aisle that separates Republicans from Democrats. ‘That\u2019s not to say there won\u2019t be disagreement but it doesn\u2019t have to be mean-spirited,\u2019 Israel said. They are so far the only two members of their new caucus. Johnson and Israel report considerable interest in their proposal from colleagues which Israel called a ‘real thirst for teamwork.\u2019 For his part, Michel, Bob Michel said he initially opposed C-SPAN\u2019s live broadcast of House floor action and still regrets that the media has spotlighted and politicized debate because that\u2019s just added to the partisanship. But now he\u2019s glad that it is on the air.” So (sighing) just amazing. It\u2019s just, just, just amazing. It\u2019s pathetic. It\u2019s hilarious. Center-Aisle Caucus bringing back civility? Is it any wonder that the Democrat would choose Bob Michel to come back and advice the Republicans here on how to get along. There\u2019s a real simple way to get along with Democrats, and that\u2019s lose. <\/emphasize>Give the Democrats what they want, let \u2019em have power, and they will love you. What good is that?<\/line>END TRANSCRIPT<\/line><\/p>\n

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