Former Bush Aide Shames Congress: More Worried About Airport Delays Than Dead Kids
President George W. Bush’s former chief strategist Matthew Dowd on Sunday lashed out at Congress for moving so quickly to fund air traffic controllers because lawmakers were personally “about to get delayed at the airports,” while they couldn’t pass background checks to protect children from mass shootings.
During a panel discussion on ABC’s This Week, Democratic political strategist Donna Brazile noted that Congress had rushed through a bill to avert air traffic controller furloughs caused by automatic budget cuts in the so-called sequester, but ignored the pain the cuts were causing less-wealthy Americans.
“This sequester will have real impact on real people in real time, not just members of Congress, but people that work for the park service, medical research as the NIH begin to make those cuts, it’s impacting Meals on Wheels, kids who are in kindergarten,” Brazile explained. “So I really do think that Congress needs to take a second look at this.”
Former Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich, however, called the air traffic controller bill “a real victory for fiscal conservatism” because Congress moved funds around, instead of undoing any budget cuts.
“Doesn’t that mean the politically weakest are going to bear the biggest burden?” ABC host George Stephanopolous wondered.
“Not necessarily,” Gingrich insisted. “It may mean the most corrupt are going to bear the biggest burden. It may mean the dumbest are going to bear the biggest burden. When you look at a $4 trillion government, you can find lots of really stupid things to quit paying for.”
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