Reid calls president latter-day Fillmore

The Washington Times ^ | November 1, 2005 | Stephen Dinan

[neverdem]

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Reid calls president latter-day Fillmore

By Stephen Dinan
THE WASHINGTON TIMES
Published November 1, 2005

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Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid said yesterday that President Bush will go down as the Millard Fillmore of our time, and said the Republican president is the best thing Democrats have going for them for the 2006 elections.

    "I think our biggest cheerleader for getting back some of the votes we've lost in the last couple presidential elections and some congressional elections is George W. Bush," the Nevada Democrat said in predicting a big election year for his party.

    He said Republicans will be doomed by the indictments that have hit the White House and House Republican leaders, an investigation into stock sales by Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist of Tennessee, big budget deficits and lack of progress on pensions and health care.

    Mr. Reid has changed his mind from May, when he said on the floor of the Senate that it would take "a miracle" to win five seats -- the number necessary to gain parity with Republicans in the Senate.

    "Frankly, at that time we weren't doing nearly as well then as we are now," Mr. Reid told reporters yesterday at a lunch organized by the Christian Science Monitor. Now, however, he said he "wouldn't be betting a lot on Republicans controlling the next Congress."

    "We're going to pick up seats. History's on our side. It's just a question of how many we pick up," he said.

    He said Democrats will defeat four incumbent Republicans -- in Pennsylvania, Ohio, Montana and Missouri. He also said Democrats have

[Theodore R.]

Still people in NV revere Reid and have for many years.

[Theodore R.]

Fifty years of liberal tyrany is over.

No, the liberals will still control the Supreme Court by at least 5-4 even in both Roberts and Alito prove to be consitutionalists.

[ntnychik]

But what about Dingell-Norwood?

I think of that as Dingell-Gorewood.

[Mo1]

Yea yea yea .. I recall Terry "global crossing" Mcauliffe saying the Republicans were going down too

Keep talking Harry .. better yet ... go shut down the Senate again .. I DARE YOU

[Jrabbit]

Poor Harry....stuck permantly on stupid

He's gonna be deeply saddened.

[TheClintons-STILLAnti-American]

"...said the Republican president is the best thing Democrats have going for them for the 2006 elections. "

Another Democrat pays homage to Rush, as that is precisely what he says about Dingy Harry, et al, all the time.

[TheClintons-STILLAnti-American]

" He said Republicans will be doomed by the indictments that have hit the White House and House Republican leaders, an investigation into stock sales by Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist of Tennessee, big budget deficits and lack of progress on pensions and health care."

Or just maybe voters will pay enough attention to notice that Harry's little list is the sum total of the accomplishments of the Democratic Party: bogus charges in an attempt to harm every Republican leader and obsessive obstructionism to block progress on anything that may be credited to this administration.

I'd rather be remembered as Millard Fillmore than the second coming of Tommy Daschle, outed and sent home with his tail between his legs as a nasty little man, a failure as a leader and and a nut case.