In early 2006, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) said of President Bush: “I really do believe this man will go down as the worst president this country has ever had.”
Januray 4, 2009 - On “Meet the Press” host David Gregory asked Reid whether he regrets making that statement.
REID: I think you just have to call things the way you see them, I really do believe President Bush is the worst president we’ve ever had.”
GREGORY: Before you go, do you have any regrets about the way you have publicly battled with President Bush?
Over the years you’ve called him a liar, a loser, and you’ve described him as, quote, our worst president ever.
REID: I wrote a book and I said that in the book several times. David, I am who I am. I’m going to continue being who I am. I think you just have to call things the way you see them.
I really do believe that President Bush is the worst president we’ve ever had. I think his efforts to destroy Social Security were very bad. That brought about one of those statements.
I think, as we’ve looked, now, at what’s happened to the stock market, wouldn’t that have been an awful thing to do, to privatize Social Security?
Medicare — he’s done his very best to destroy Medicare, Medicare, a wonderful program. Perfect? Of course not, but one of the best programs ever developed to take care of sick people, so…
GREGORY: No regrets?
REID: Well, you know, I am just who I am.
What about this prophetic announcement from war historian Harry Reid:
“The War Is lost”
Reid’s whopper came in 2007, a year after Zarqawi and his team had been killed in Baghdad, “Al Qaida-in Iraq” , with support of the local population, was destroyed in Anbar province, and after Patraeus’ surge had ended the insurgency’s chances of winning.