(But this video is from three months ago.)
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People still refer to the Gettysburg Address, some things have a way of sticking around long after they occured.
Not that I put would Trey Gowdys’ speech in the history books but I think we can all agree that this country needs someone with real fire in the belly right now.
Jim DeMint wasn't quite that eloquent on the 1st of October, 2008.
We have seen this Government socialize our education system and make our schools among the worst in the world. We have seen this Government take over most of our health care system, making private insurance less and less affordable. We have seen this Government socialize our energy resources and bring our Nation to its knees by cutting the development of our own oil and natural gas supplies. And now we see this Congress yielding its constitutional obligations to a Federal bureaucracy, giving it the power to control virtually our entire financial system. Americans understand this and they are angry. They are our judge and our jury. They are watching what we are doing, and they will render their verdict based on our actions.If we were honest with the American people and explained the failures that have led to this financial crisis, we might have the credibility to ask our citizens to allow us to borrow another $700 billion in their name to try to fix this problem. But we are not being honest. This problem was not created by our free enterprise system. It was created by us, the Congress and the Federal Government.
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We are telling people not to worry because we are going to rescue them with their own money.