#1 – The House of Representatives passed a budget seven months ago. There has been no Senate action on that budget other than the defense bill.
#2 – The House of Representatives passed homeland security three months ago. The Senate, under the leadership of Tom Daschle, has taken no action, and, in fact, has killed it.
#3 – President Bush has gotten 44% of his judges to the floor for a vote. Clinton had 93%, Reagan had 99%, and Bush 41 had 90% of his judges brought to the floor for a vote.
#4 – The House of Representatives has been dealing for five months on welfare reform. In fact, they passed it five months ago. There has been no action in the Senate on continuing welfare reform from 1996, which is a demonstrable success.
#5 – The House of Representatives passed a prescription drug bill five months ago. There has been no action on prescription drugs from the Senate. It’s Tom Daschle who is holding this up.
So in light of this, in light of these statistics, do I think we’re going to have trouble, economically and domestically, if the Democrats hold the Senate? There’s no question. That’s the plan. If the Democrats hold the Senate, the attitude there will be that the Bush presidency is over as far as Tom Daschle, Pat Leahy, Ted Kennedy, and all these guys are concerned.