http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/10889047/
Sen. Clinton slams Bush administration
N.Y. lawmaker compares GOP-run House to a ‘plantation’
The Associated Press
Updated: 7:28 a.m. ET Jan. 17, 2006
NEW YORK - Sen. Hillary Clinton on Monday blasted the Bush
administration as “one of the worst” in U.S. history and compared the
Republican-controlled House of Representatives to a plantation where
dissenting voices are squelched.
Speaking during a Martin Luther King Jr. Day event, Clinton also offered
an apology to a group of Hurricane Katrina survivors “on behalf of a
government that left you behind, that turned its back on you.”
Her remarks were met with thunderous applause by a mostly black audience
at the Canaan Baptist Church of Christ in Harlem.
The House “has been run like a plantation, and you know what I’m talking
about,” said Clinton, D-N.Y. “It has been run in a way so that nobody
with a contrary view has had a chance to present legislation, to make an
argument, to be heard.”
“We have a culture of corruption, we have cronyism, we have
incompetence,” she said. “I predict to you that this administration will
go down in history as one of the worst that has ever governed our
country.”
A spokeswoman for the White House declined to comment and referred
questions to the Republican National Committee.
RNC spokeswoman Tracey Schmitt said: “On a day when Americans are
focused on the legacy of Martin Luther King, Hillary Clinton is focused
on the legacy of Hillary Clinton.”
© 2006 The Associated Press
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