Rep. Luis Gutierrez (D-Ill.) Schools Rethugs On Their Lies On House Floor

[babylonsister]

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http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/archives/individual/2009_12/021409.php

LUIS GUTIERREZ SETS THE RECORD STRAIGHT.... As part of regulatory reform for the financial industry, Republicans believe Democrats have created a "bailout fund." Rep. Luis Gutierrez (D-Ill.) yesterday decided this is a lie worth debunking in detail.

Gutierrez, who is bilingual, told his colleagues, "I've had the bill thoroughly examined by those who do speak the English language and have only spoken the English language all their life, and they cannot find the 'bailout fund' in the bill."

Ryan Grim added, "What the bill does do, {Gutierrez} explained, is create a fund that major firms must pay into. If banks get into trouble, the fund is used to take them over, break them up and sell off the parts. If such a fund was socialist, Gutierrez said, then so is Geico. But unlike Geico, he said, drivers who crash the economy don't get their bank repaired and returned to them under the Democratic plan."

In the hopes of making this easy enough for his GOP colleagues to understand, Gutierrez explained, "What they won't tell you is unlike everybody in this room who has to go and take out an insurance policy to drive a car, they want Wall Street and Goldman Sachs to be able to drive our economy into the ground without paying a cent of insurance in case they act recklessly. And all we're saying as Democrats is: 'It's simple. If you want to do business in America and you threaten the economic stability of our country, then you've got to pay into an insurance fund.'

"But let me tell you: it's not the kind of insurance fund where you get into an accident and they take your car and they fix it and they kind of give it back to you new. No no. In our insurance fund, you know what happens? We chop up your car into pieces and sell it and then we pay back the fund with the pieces. That's our fund. Read the bill. It's a funeral fund. You guys love to talk about the death and death and death when it came to health care. Why don't you talk about our death panels now?"

Now that Gutierrez has explained reality, I'm sure House Republican will stop telling people there's a "bailout fund" in the bill, right?

—Steve Benen

[Plucketeer]

1. Another inductee for the Grayson coalition!

Luis is SMOKIN' in this clip. Where is this kind of resolve and inspiration on the health care issue???

[babylonsister]

2. My first thought, too. Shades of Grayson; more reps like this please! nt

[pscot]

22. Not to take anything away from Luis Gutierrez

It was a great rant.

[madrchsod]

3. rudy is quite a character

he`s very thing that rahm is`t...rudy is a real democrat!

[OffWithTheirHeads]

4. Only 2 recs? This guy is awsome!

[husky92]

5. Well Said!

Great job by Congressman Gutierrez. That clip should be required listening for all those right-wingers claiming everything the Democrats propose is socialism and the Democrats are screwing up the country. I am tired of the right making Democrats out as the bad guys and so many morons in this country believing it. It seems every time the Democrats try to do something to reel in big business or help this country, the Republicans are there to start spreading the lies and using their usual scare tactics. Sadly, many, many people believe them.

[mopinko]

6. that's my chewy (sp?)

great guy, but wish he did more of this. brave, tho. although people think of big money as new york, chicago has it's share. and believe me it talks at the ballot box. just ask rahm.
(to big to fail started right here- continental bank.)

[rhett o rick]

7. rec 10. kick nt

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

8. Tha's my rep. nt

[mucifer]

12. We must be neighbors. I voted for him.

:)

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

23. Logan Square. nt

[mucifer]

25. wicker park, I know, but i've been here for 13 years

:)

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

26. Hey it's a cool neighborhood. But it's a little more affordable were I am. I've only been here for 3

years.

[fl_dem]

13. Good vote!!!

you are lucky to have him representing you!! What a man.

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

24. Well having come from Ohio where I had Pat "Fucking" Tiberi. This is a

welcome change.

[Sherman A1]

9. Thanks for posting

I will have to watch this later...

[The Wizard]

10. The time is now

for Congressional members to be incarcerated for taking bribes from lobbyists and acting against the best interests of the citizens. As it stands it's damn near impossible to vote some of these shysters out of office because of gerrymandering. Their thievery is blatant and morals in the gutter. They belong in jail, not Congress.

[proud2BlibKansan]

11. "Why don't you talk about our death panels now?"

Gotta love that line!!

:applause:

[Suji to Seoul]

14. Why is it that Democrats like the Progressive Caucus

Grayson (Freshman, I understand), Hinchey, Frank, Guitierrez, etc. . .have no fucking power in Congress?

Why do wimps like Pelosi, Hoyer and the rest of the Democratic leadership bend to those DINO Blue Dogs and have no backbone to stand up to the Republican MINORITY and tell the REPUBLICAN MINORITY to go get fucked?

They did it to us all through the 2000s.

W2G, Congressman!!!

[DeSwiss]

15. K&R!!!!

- Awwwww right!!!! I like this guy!!!!!

[BREMPRO]

16. An instant classic! Excellent rebuke of the flat out lies and bank whoring of Boehner and company.

His analogies to insurance and his clear unequivocal explanation of how this is a "funeral fund" was brilliant. He tore them a new one!!

[orbitalman]

17. Luis is a rep in my state, IL

I had no idea he was sooo GOOD. WOW!

[ensho]

18. SUPER! hugs and kisses for Luis

nt

[otohara]

19. Bravo Rep. Gutierrez

:yourock: :yourock: :yourock: :yourock: :yourock:

[rateyes]

20. Kicking the hell out of this thread.

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[scentopine]

21. Fight the corporate , centrist and realist democrats, they are working to will kill this.