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.
Donald Trump should go talk with Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid about how Senate Democrats won’t work with Mitt Romney.
Having not read all of the comments, I agree with you, that Reid is presuming he will be dealing with Romney. So he thinks Obama is out!
Well said and Double-Dog Dittos!! If I were to state my true opinion of this despicable piece of excrement, I would be banned from FR for life!!
The Las Vegas paper should un-endorse Reid and endorse his opponent.
Second, Salt Lake City should call Mr. Reid and say “We never tell our brothers in politics how to vote. But we are going to tell you to stop telling lies about Brother Romney. If you continue you will be denied paradise. In fact, since you love obama so much, we’ll seal you to his butt. How would you like spending eternity with him and Moochelle?” In fact, let’s start a letter writing campaign to Salt Lake City LDS and cc Reid.
“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?””
Ah, but the GOP Establishment really does not want to take back the Senate. That is why they have sandbagged genuine conservative candidates (Sharon Angle, Christine O’Donnell, and Todd Akin to name a few), and have supported RINOs (Arlen Specter, Scott Brown, and Olympia Snowe) election cycle after election cycle.
Channel surfing and came across Lawrence O’Donnell. He said if Romney wins he’d like to be a fly on the wall at his first meeting with Reid and Reid would say “Mr. President. Show me your tax returns.”
Is that not the dumbest thing you’ve ever heard? He’s admitting Romney will be president then saying Reid can blackmail him with tax returns. They are truly retarded...and demented.
Places like Nevada, and more specifically their unions, should be punished for inflicting scum like Harry Reid on the rest of the country. Until these people are made to feel the same pain that they are inflicting on the rest of us they will continue to do what they’re doing.
Meanwhile, please make everyone you know realize that a vote for anybody with a D next to their name is a vote for the extreme left-wing, it doesn’t matter how “blue dog” they think their candidate is. Maybe this way we can make Dingy Harry irrelevant.
OK,fair enough.If,by chance,Dirty Harry is still Majority Leader next year President Romney will simply govern by Executive Order.The precedent has already been firmly set by you-know-who.First order of business....fully defund the implementation of OsamaObamaCare.By Executive Order,of course.
And Romney would reply..."well,perhaps Attorney General Robert Bork can look into your tenure as the chairman of the Nevada State Gaming Commission,as portrayed in the film "Casino",a true story about the Mafia's control of a major Vegas casino.I believe it was Dick Smothers who played you in that riveting film".
But seriously,folks...anyone who hasn't seen that film should absolutely rent it.It *is* true and Reid *is* portrayed in it...in a *very* unflattering way.
Answer!!!
Good Answer!!!
This is why getting those Senate Seats was so important.
Sighhhh
Bump!
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