The Tea Party Minority

Floor Speech

Ms. NORTON. Mr. Speaker, the TEA Party minority didn't succeed this summer as they thought they had, so they have come to the floor this afternoon. And they are not going to succeed any more on the floor than they succeeded with the noise of the summer. And how do we know it? The public option has come roaring back.

The people got through the noise, and they understand now to a fare-thee-well. In fact, my greatest fear is that now more people want the public option than will qualify for the public option in the bill, once they came to understand the relationship between what they're paying for insurance, that health insurance has been going up at a rate three times their wages, and that is why the wages of the residents of our country have been flat for decades. Once they understood that, they put two and two together.

The American people are smart. They are smarter than the TEA Party crowd that has taken to the floor this afternoon

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