Neil Cavuto was interviewing House Minority Leader John Boehner on Fox News this afternoon when he showed some video from Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid’s press conference today. Reid compared his attempts to get Republicans to work with him on health care reform to the plight of a boy at a high school dance who can’t get a girl to stand up and boogie with him.
“When I came here we had — Republicans and Democrats worked together,” Reid said. “But we can’t dance if your partner is unwilling to get off the chair. It’s like when I was in high school. Um, I wanted to dance but she wouldn’t get up, okay?”
Cut to Boehner and Cavuto.
Boehner: “I can understand why she didn’t want to get up.”
The House Minority Leader then took issue with the idea that it’s GOPers — at least in the House — who don’t want to dance.
“They’ve not invited us to any discussion about health care. They’re going off in their own direction. They think they have the votes to ram this down the American people’s throats. And so we’ve not been invited.”
The message seems clear: John Boehner would like a Democrat to ask him to dance.
Here’s the video:
