Reid doesn't back down from Friday remark about Bush

drudgereport ^ | 5/11/05 | By TONY BATT

[Mikmur]

If Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid of Nevada still feels remorse for calling President Bush a loser, he didn't show it on Tuesday.

In a news conference, Reid was asked if his comment about Bush would make it more difficult to negotiate with Republicans.

"I tell people how I feel about things. I don't try to hide how I feel," Reid said.

"Maybe my choice of words was improper, and I have indicated that maybe they were, but I want everyone here, I repeat, to know I'm going to continue to call things the way that I see them, and I think this administration has done a very, very bad job for this nation and the world."

Asked for a comment, the White House referred a call to the Republican National Committee.

"I think the Party of 'No' would be better served if it set aside its angry rhetoric and obstructionism and joined Republicans at the table to provide solutions for the issues confronting our country," said RNC spokesman Danny Diaz.

[Mikmur]

These people are incredulous. How come when they lose they call others losers....laughable. They just keep on losing and just keep on with the same tired old thing that has caused them to lose in the first place. The democrats are just sour, irritable people that you would not want your children to associate with...yet some still vote for them. The democrats are the losers and have the audacity to call the majority leaders losers?! WHATEVER

[Arkie2]

Just more proof of the total lack of leadership im the Democratic party. Rush is right, they are imploding. With leadership like Dean, Pelosi and Dingy Harry Reid they are no longer a force to be reckoned with. Now if we could only get the Republicans to govern.

[conservativecorner]

What's really laughable is that the Republicans in the senate act like losers all the time. Even when we add to our majority, we still act like a minority party. God knows it's way more important to pass a Highway Bill than a vote on jurists that have waited a very long time for an up or down vote. The bottom line is that we have republican leaders in the senate who can't find their way out of a paper bag, and RINO Senators that could give a rat's ass what the base thinks on any issue.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

At the top of the list would be Dick Lugar.

[djpg]

The Republicans should demand that Reid step down as Minority Leader. This kind of loose, irresponsible talk is beneath the dignity of a Senator, insulting to the head of state, and divisive.

If the Republicans do not respond strongly to this kind of cheap attack on a President from their own party, they have no character.

[RoseofTexas]

"The Republicans should demand that Reid step down as Minority Leader"

Surely, you're not talking about our SPINLESS gutless pubs,.. are you?! How are they suppose to remove Reid?.. with SPITBALLS? Cause that's all the ammo they carry!

[kevinm13]

The Dims always seem to deal in the politics of personal destruction. Go after Delay because he is effective by questioning his ethics (has he ever done anything that other Senators of either party have done for years? -- NO). Reid calling the President a loser is so sad. What a jerk. The Dims are imploding and still get the MSM (who also continue to loose support because of their ineffective reporting of real news) to do their dirty work.

Republicans need to step up and act like the party with the majority votes or they will lose that position next election. There has still been more done in this second term than what Bubba did. Keep doing the RIGHT thing Republicans!

[conservativecorner]

SAD BUT TRUE BUMP!!

[DM1]

"Republicans in the senate act like losers all the time"
@#$% RINOS hold us back all the frickin time

[advance_copy]

Reid has been extremely ugly and a source of acrimony. If he thinks this helps him, he's fooling himself.

[Miss Behave]

Hey Harry, The Jerk Store called....

[traderrob6]

Well said, if Frist wouls have called Clinton such names can you imagine the uproar from the left and MSM.

http://exposingtheleft.blogspot.com/2005/05/mount-reid-erupts-and-spews.html

[BigWaveBetty]

Reid doesn't back down from Friday remark about Bush

Why would he, he's not even smart enough to come his own hair for goodness sake.

[Christian4Bush]

"...I think this administration has done a very, very bad job for this nation and the world."

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Okay, Dingy...let's unpack this. I wonder who might think that "this administration has done a very, very bad job for this nation and the world":

NATION

--the 59 million + who voted for him six months ago, even after a terrorist attack, a recession, a reduction in the stock market, and losses and injuries of personnel in two major wars/conflicts?

--the American people who gave him the most votes of any presidential candidate of all time, more than Reagan and the Dim's favorite god, FDR? (probably more than those two guys combined)

--the American people who actually have more of their own money in their own pocket, and have more incentive to spend it, invest it, and to hire people with it?

--the nation where, "horrible" as it is, millions still flock each year to enjoy it (whether legally or, unfortunately, not)?

and so on...let's see...

WORLD

---how about the world community that, though they beeyatch and complain about America, knows that if we were not around to represent them, and defend them, their lives would be worse than they are now?

---how about the help and aid, financial and personnel, that we continue to give to total strangers when disaster strikes? That we give even to countries whose people don't like us?

---yeah, Dingy, I guess the people of Afghanistan really hate us. The Taliban works them over, hits us, we come in, do what we always do, fight, stand for something (you should try it), and FREE PEOPLE...

---I guess Iraq hates us too...years of opression under that Hussein guy...things done in Abu Ghraib that were much worse than anything we could possibly conceive or do...big bad America and its "loser" President comes in, "unilaterally" with Great Britain, Australia, Spain, Italy, Georgia, etc.

Baghdad falls amazingly fast, Uday and Qusay are dead-ay (not nice guys, they), Hussein is captured at the end of the year, which gives people like you and your party, Dingy, ample opportunity to "step in it" and say how it didn't really make America safer...or it did...before it didn't...is that about right?

And, oh yes, back to this election thing...THEY had elections, too. Didn't mind standing in line for hours...in fact, they braved threats of death to go and vote for someone not named Hussein...

The list could go on and on, Dingy, and others can make the case to refute you much more eloquently than my sick self, but what's the point? To tell you that for which you are most uninterested (the truth) would imply that you could handle it. America now knows you cannot.

When you are in leadership, and may you never be so, you must lead. If you do it properly, there will be those that do not like you. There will be people who hate you, and worse. PRESIDENT BUSH gets it. You, dingy, do not.

If the American people trusted those like you and your French/UN-loving socialist candidate to run this country, they would have voted for you in a manner approved by the Constitution that would have you in office right now, as the (gag) Majority Leader, rahter than the petty little roadblock that you are.

America knows that Leftists like you cannot win elections. We have been paying attention. Like the tea that was thrown into Boston Harbor (or wherever it was, I don't really care) when the people were angry about taxation, we have thrown overboard the idea that the mainstream media is the final say about what happens in the world. We are watching, and you are found wanting.

We know that you cannot win legislatively. We know that what you cannot legislate, you litigate. That's why you're fighting so hard against these judges that the President has nominated.

In short, Dingy, to use a Star Wars analogy (since you keep talking about fictional Devin), you are full of Sith.
I wish I could sum it up with more eloquence, but shouting is wasted on the deaf, and great visual effects are useless to the blind. You, Dingy, are both.

[Puckster]

And I won't back-down in my support for Reid's next opponent for his seat in the Senate, like I did in supporting Thune in South Dakota.

Patience............we'll get him.................OUT!

[Polyxene]

Ol' Squint Reid has been living in a cave for so long (hence the mole-like squinty eyes) that he doesn't know how to be civilized.

[Polyxene]

AMEN AND AMEN -- WELL SAID!!

[auboy]

Excellent response! I nominate Christian4Bush for Senate Majority Leader!!!

[jec41]

He sounds more like Ward Churchill every day. The voters will take care of him.

[Christian4Bush]

Excellent response! I nominate Christian4Bush for Senate Majority Leader!!!

You're very kind, and I thank you (I almost started to say "I accept your nomination"), but there are those who are much more qualified than I...

Two, I would be censured from here to eternity, when making my opinions known. I would be exactly what Dennis Miller described in his 2003 monologue, where he talked about Senate language: "'my good friend across the aisle' means 'this pr*ck here'."

Nonetheless, thank you for the kind thought. I'm just a FReeper that wants the good for my country, and I'm glad to have a place to say it.