Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid on Monday taunted Republicans who are attacking him in their Senate races, citing a recent Wall Street Journal article documenting the ways the Nevada Democrat has become a fixture in GOP campaigns.
“In Senate races across the country, Republicans will avoid the issues that matter most to Americans. Instead trying to focus attention on a senator not even up for election. That senator is me,” he said on the Senate floor on the day the chamber returned from a two-week recess.
True to form, Reid used the opportunity to — yet again — tie Republicans to the billionaire Koch brothers after contrasting his party’s agenda with the GOP’s agenda.
“Charles and David Koch and their radical henchmen — feel free to attack me as much as you want. I can take it,” he said. “But don’t expect the American people to be fooled by this newest tactic.”
If all the eligible voters that know the GOP is ignoring their needs would actually VOTE, the GOP would be finished as anything more than a scattered regional party. That remains the biggest problem we face: the wingnuts always vote. The people they harm far too often don’t… which helps give the wingnuts power to put ever more obstacles in the way of voting for anyone but themselves.
Give 'em hell, Harry. He can even use Truman’s response, “I don’t give them hell, I just tell the truth about them and they think it’s hell.”
I wish I could make a bumper sticker of your post and distribute it.
100% of the problem is that the old, hateful, racist people will ALWAYS have a more natural tendency to vote (nearly always Republican), rather than more progressive younger people–who still have not been able to fathom that voting matters.
What was the tipping point that pushed him over the line to being all bad ass?
For years I thought of him as a backroom dealer, inside baseball kinda guy, now he’s the new sherrif in town, come to clean things up.
Win or lose, Harry, we need more Democrats to speak out with courage rather than caution. If they don’t, they are enabling the country’s regression at the hands of ignorant, racist republicans. Stand up and force the media to acknowledge the truth and to stop sniffing around facts just to make the republicans sound rational. Go for it Harry. Internalize Truman, like another commenter tweeted, “I don’t give them hell, I just tell the truth about them and they think it’s hell.” If you don’t stand up to these obstructionists, Harry, the media never will.