Dean: Bush Republicans Have the Wrong Priorities
October 17, 2007
Washington, DC - Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean responded to President Bush's press conference today, noting that the Republican Congress was so negligent in passing spending bills that the Cincinnati Post wrote that last year Republicans "set a record for sloth and irresponsibility on the spending bills." [Cincinnati Post, 9/27/07]
"When the Republican Congress didn't do their job, President Bush turned a blind eye and signed bill after bill, passing $3 trillion in new spending. Yet he's now hiding behind an insincere claim of fiscal discipline to defend his immoral decision to deny millions of low income children health care here at home while spending billions of dollars on his failed war in Iraq. Democrats are doing their job, passing legislation that helps the American people but Bush keeps standing in the way.
"This is just another example of Bush passing the buck to the next president, who will have to deal with the fiscal mess he and his Republican friends have created. Republicans just don't get it. Only the Democratic candidates have real solutions, and the American people will hire a Democratic president next year to bring the change and smart fiscal policies they want."
