McCain To Reid: ‘I’m Going To Kick The Crap Out Of You’

Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee member Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., questions Jeh Johnson, President Barack Obama's choice to become Homeland Security Secretary, on Capitol Hill in Washingto... Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee member Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., questions Jeh Johnson, President Barack Obama's choice to become Homeland Security Secretary, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Nov. 13, 2013, during the hearing on Johnson's nomination. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster) MORE LESS
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Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) was predictably angry last month when Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) invoked the “nuclear option” to abolish the filibuster. 

So the Arizona Republican gave Reid a piece of his mind on the Senate floor, according to a New York Times Magazine profile of McCain published Wednesday. 

“Harry, I’m going to go kick the crap out of you,” McCain said he told Reid, minutes before giving a speech in which he used Reid’s own words to brand the rules change a “black chapter in the history of the Senate.” 

“John, I would expect nothing less,” Reid replied, according to McCain.

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