Sens. John Ensign (R-NV) and Tom Coburn (R-OK) have both broken with many other GOPers and spoken out in defense of Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid.
Following Sen. Reid’s racial remarks about then-Sen. Barack Obama during the 2008 campaign, a number of Republicans have called for his resignation from the Senate.
Now, some GOP senators are speaking out in support of Reid.
Ensign said yesterday that “we need to get away from this politics of gotcha,” and that “I don’t think there’s a person walking, certainly not a politician out there, that hasn’t made comments they regret.”
Sen. Coburn, for his part, also said that “Washington plays a game of gotcha.”
He continued:
It pains me that Republicans are saying Harry Reid ought to step down. When you point a finger, you have four fingers pointing back at you. There is not anybody in Washington who has not said something that could be judged inappropriate and wrong.
