On Friday, Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) laughed at his Republican counterpart’s attempt to link the improving economy to the GOP takeover of the Senate.
Calling into KNPR radio, Reid told the host it was a “gross understatement” that he disagrees with Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY).
“They [Republicans] have worked for six years to do what they said they’d do — that is, make sure [President] Obama was not reelected. They failed there. The next thing they said they’d do … is oppose everything he did,” he said.
McConnell said on Wednesday that “the uptick [in economic data] appears to coincide with the biggest political change of the Obama administration’s long tenure in Washington: the expectation of a new Republican Congress.”
The Democratic leader said “we’re satisfied” with economic improvements, but he argued that Republicans “have done things that have hurt the economy.”
“If they had cooperated with us even a little bit the economy would be stronger than it is now,” he said. “Think where the economy would be if we didn’t have a program like Cash For Clunkers … and what about the bailout of Detroit? Our auto industry was going down, down, down. … The Republicans opposed all those measures, every one of them.”
for 6 years the repukes have sabotaged the economy and now they want credit for our success? the new definition of Hutzpah
I said the same thing when this story first broke the other day. And FYI it is spelled Chutzpah
Turtle looks the gloomy evil twin of the happy, smiling guy on the right.
The GOP has been manufacturing an alternate reality for six years and what’s really CRAZY is they now BELIEVE THE FICTION and treat it as the truth… The GOP just can’t govern and the only thing they can do is LIE…
Hutzpah or Chutzpah the sentiment is the same. I’d term it the height of Arrogance for the Terrapin to take credit for anything considering the whole repub program was to oppose every last thing the democrats wanted to do, good, bad, or indifferent.