Reid: 'House Republicans have truly lost their minds'

United Press International ^ | May 15, 2013 | United Press International

[mdittmar]

U.S. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., said Wednesday "House Republicans have truly lost their minds" under a popular definition of insanity.

Reid, speaking of House GOP leaders' plan to hold a 37th vote on repealing the Affordable Care Act -- commonly known as "Obamacare" -- cited a statement often attributed to Albert Einstein, that insanity is defined as "doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results."

"If that's true, the House Republicans have truly lost their minds," Reid said in a speech on the Senate floor.

Noting that House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, said after the 2012 election "Obamacare is the law of the land," Reid said, "Tea Party extremists bullied the speaker into holding another vote to repeal the Affordable Care Act, and roll back benefits for tens of millions of Americans."

Reid pointed out Boehner had said last week 70 freshmen members of Congress who had not previously had an opportunity to cast a vote to repeal the healthcare reform law have "been asking for an opportunity to vote on it."

He said House Republicans "will waste this week on yet another dead-end repeal vote."

"Perhaps Republicans think the 37th time is the charm." Reid said.

Citing a CBS News analysis putting the cost of the repeal votes at "$52.4 million and counting," Reid said that was enough money "to restore funding for 19 million meals for homebound seniors or 6,900 children dropped from the Head Start program" under federal spending cuts known as the sequester.

"Fortunately, Republicans' latest repeal effort -- their latest exercise in insanity, as described by Albert Einstein -- is doomed to fail like all the others," he said.

[Amagi]

Yo, Pinky Reid.
Repealing ObamaCare is a brilliant winner for the House Republicans.
Every single poll since the beginning has shown that a majority of the American people have understood that ObamaCare will be a disaster.
It makes one wonder how much vote fraud was involved in the re-election of Obama.

[Rocky]

Lost their mind?

Pot... kettle

[billhilly]

We could look back through congressional history and it would be difficult to find another person as despicable as Harry Reid who served in his office.

[teeman8r]

if there was a tagline hall of fame... i’d nominate that one...

and vote for it in the first wave.

good job.

t

[xrmusn]

Democrats lost their morals long ago. All that’s left is the argument.
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Kind of reminiscent of the ‘guy’ to ‘gal’:

“Would you go to bed with me for a million dollars”
“Well, I would have to think about it”
“Would you go to bed with me for 500 bucks”
“HELL NO! You must think I am some kind of prostitute”.
“WE have already established what YOU ARE!. We are just negotiating a price.”