Rep. Slaughter: "Let me be very clear. On this day the Republican majority shamelessly played politics with our most cherished principles. From the very beginning this resolution and this so-called debate has been about one thing and one thing only, election politics. Six months before our midterm elections Republicans are falling back on the one play that has worked for them time and time again. They are putting fear in the hearts of the American people and labeling any individual or organization that doesn't take its marching orders from the white house as a threat to our nation. Think of what we heard from leading Republicans over the past few days. They've called the disclosure of the swift anti-terrorist program a disgrace, they've accused a newspaper that first wrote it, the ""the new york times,"" of forcing its, quote, arrogant elitist left-wing agenda, end quote, on the rest of the country. If all of this is true, I have no choice but to conclude that our President, President bush himself, is a disgraceful, arrogant left-wing elitist, because it was Mr. Bush who leaked the story."

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