Posted on 11/03/2012 2:16:30 AM PDT by Libloather
Reid: 'Laughable' for Romney to think Dems will pass his agenda
By Mike Lillis - 11/02/12 03:56 PM ET
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid warned Mitt Romney this week that upper-chamber Democrats would be no rubber stamp for Republican ideals if the GOP contender wins the White House next Tuesday.
The Nevada Democrat is pushing back against Romney's claims that he's better able to break Washington's partisan gridlock because he could work with congressional Democrats in ways President Obama wasn't able to work with Republicans.
The notion of working across the aisle has emerged as a key selling point for Romney, one that's won him a number of newspaper endorsements in recent weeks.
Reid on Friday warned that those endorsements might have been premature.
“Mitt Romney’s fantasy that Senate Democrats will work with him to pass his 'severely conservative' agenda is laughable," Reid said in a statement, referring to Romney's description of his own political leanings during the GOP primaries. "In fact, Mitt Romney’s Tea Party agenda has already been rejected in the Senate."
Reid noted that Senate Democrats this year have already shot down a number of proposals Romney has supported on the campaign trail, including GOP efforts to repeal Obama's healthcare reforms, cut taxes on the wealthiest Americans and eliminate the birth-control mandate for most employers.
Romney, Reid charged, “has demonstrated that he lacks the courage to stand up to the Tea Party, kowtowing to their demands time and again."
"There is nothing in Mitt Romney’s record to suggest he would act any differently as president," Reid added.
All sides agree that the emergence of entrenched partisanship on Capitol Hill in recent years has created a volatile political environment that's discouraged compromise and threatened the ability of Congress to perform even its most basic functions. Both parties have blamed the other for the gridlock, with GOP leaders accusing Obama of refusing to reach across the aisle and Democrats countering that Republican leaders have made defeating Obama their highest priority.
"The single most important thing we want to achieve is for President Obama to be a one-term president," Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) told National Journal just before the 2010 elections.
Romney, on the campaign trail, has packaged himself as the leader who could break the gridlock, arguing that, as governor of Massachusetts a decade ago, he was able to work with Democratic state leaders to get things done.
That strategy has paid dividends, as Iowa's Des Moines Register and the Detroit News have endorsed Romney in recent days, citing his record as a bipartisan dealmaker.
"Which candidate could forge the compromises in Congress to achieve these goals [of job creation and economic recovery]?" the Register's editorial board wrote last week. "When the question is framed in those terms, Mitt Romney emerges the stronger candidate."
Reid, however, disputes the notion that Romney has a good record of bipartisanship, saying the former Massachusetts governor "had a terrible relationship with Democrats" – a dynamic Reid predicts will continue if Romney wins the White House.
"In the near-decade that Mitt Romney has spent running for president, both his words and his actions have shown that pleasing the far right is more important to him than working across the aisle," Reid added. “Senate Democrats are committed to defending the middle class, and we will do everything in our power to defend them against Mitt Romney’s Tea Party agenda.”
Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus said Reid's comments showed that the Senate majority leader recognized Romney's "momentum."
"While Senator Reid might want to continue Washington politics as usual, I'm confident that there are many Democrats who value balancing the budget, reducing burdensome regulations, investing in U.S. energy resources and will be willing to work with Governor Romney to help grow our stagnant economy," Priebus said in a statement.
He will NEVER do it... but Mitt should... this should be what takes the election over the line and scores for America... but he will never do it.
LLS
Lord we pray humble this arrogant man Harry Reid for his own good and remove him as Senate majority leader.
Then we need to take the Senate and unseat Harry.
Reid may have trouble carrying out his threats... the dems will surely take away his leadership position once the pubbies gain the majority.
It’s laughable to think that Reid will have a damned thing to say about it.
Thanks Libloather.
A strong President could easily handle Reid. As head of the exective branch sequester all federal funds being sent to Nevada. You have to punish the voters for their sins until they sin no more.
First Vince Flynn novel I read involves a sniper taking out certain senators. That’s my favorite Vince Flynn nove.
If Republicans really wanted to take back the Senate they should have run ads in states like MO and MT, with Harry Reed’s face and some of his choicer quotes and say, “Do you REALLY want this guy back as Senate Majority Leader?”
What a hate-filled little weasel. He can’t keep his foul mouth shut for even a few days. Harry should keep in mind that mid-term elections will be held in 2014, the mid-terms always providing another good opportunity to review the performance of both houses of Congress.
What makes Harry believe after the butt kicking the dems are going to take in a 2nd election cycle in 4 years that he is going to remain in a senate leadership position?
After Jan 20th the senate will be Republican controlled and Mitch McConnell will be waving the gavel around not Cingy Harry. He will be just another senator with one vote.
After Jan 20th the senate will be Republican controlled and Mitch McConnell will be waving the gavel around not Cingy Harry. He will be just another senator with one vote.
I’m sorry but the best part of Harry ran down his daddy’s leg.
Perfect. We’ll clean house then in 2014. “Harry Reid is the only thing standing in the way of repealing Obamacare,”
Thirty-three seats are up for election in 2014:
Seven Democrats are seeking re-election.
Another thirteen Democrats may seek re-election.
Five Republicans are seeking re-election.
Another eight Republicans may seek re-election.
Thanks for the reminder Harry, I nearly forgot to update my weekly to-do list!
Tuesday -
1 Vote Obama out of office
2 Remove Harry Reid from Majority Leader of the Senate position - Via Josh Mandel
3 Buy a case of beer
4 Pop popcorn
5 Watch the election massacre on Fox
6 Engage in outrageous shadenfreud via the Web
There, got ya inked in Harry.
And Donald Trump’s support.
Better than that. There are 1,231 entities with ObamaCare waivers, mostly unions.
Announce that you will issue waivers to anybody who wants one.
Announce that waivers issued under Obama are cancelled, and will not be renewed, so that everybody EXCEPT Obama's buddies are exempt.
He needs to not hire or cut the positions the FBI hires to enforce the insurance mandate.
Sounds perfect. Let the Unions use their ‘collective bargaining’ power to dig their way out of that. Bust’em UP!
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