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Sen. Harry Reid eviscerates GOP leaders in NYT exit interview
Yahoo News ^ | December 10, 2014 | Dylan Stableford

Posted on 12/11/2014 12:48:17 PM PST by YankeeReb

Outgoing Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid blasted Kentucky Sen. Mitch McConnell, his soon-to-be successor, and other Republicans, vowing Democrats will wage "a new battle" with the GOP when the Senate reconvenes on Jan. 6.

“Is there enough they can do to help Wall Street? I don’t think so. Big banks? I don’t think so,” Reid told the New York Times in an exit interview published Wednesday. “That’s where the new battle is going to be.”

The 75-year-old Nevada Democrat said Republicans are at odds with Americans when it comes to environmental protection laws.

“They want to eviscerate Clean Air, Clean Water, EPA,” Reid said.

(Excerpt) Read more at news.yahoo.com ...


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[SNIP][...][Reid's] "somewhat belligerent tone," as the Times described it, seems to be in contrast with postelection comments made by McConnell, the incoming majority leader, who told Yahoo News last week that he hopes to work with Senate Democrats, despite their differences.

"There's not going to be a government shutdown," McConnell said before a meeting with President Obama at the White House. "The president has been way out of line with his executive amnesty, [but] shutting down the government is not the way to respond."

You see how it is. Even when their ideas are flat out REJECTED by the voters , and they get CRUSHED in an election, the Marxists don't quit and they plow ahead with their agenda.

Meanwhile the GOP-e is constantly offering up excuses why they can't oppose anything. "We on;y control 1/2 of 1/3 of the government", "we can't shut down the government." , "We don't want to be seen as [racist] [obstructionist] [--fill in the blsnk--]". This is why the GOP is rapidly becoming the Whigs, even when they win they lose.

1 posted on 12/11/2014 12:48:17 PM PST by YankeeReb
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To: YankeeReb

Harry The Reid’s 15 minutes are up , Boohoo


2 posted on 12/11/2014 12:49:56 PM PST by molson209 (Blank)
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To: molson209

Diane
Harry

Next!

What a classless group of people.


3 posted on 12/11/2014 12:51:12 PM PST by DoughtyOne (GOP. GOPe. GOPeGads! GOPeWWWWWWWWWWWWW...)
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To: YankeeReb

Democrats never say quit.

Republicans never say start.

It boggles the mind what message our Republicans in Washington, D. C. think was sent by this last election.

It’s certainly lost on them.


4 posted on 12/11/2014 12:52:47 PM PST by DoughtyOne (GOP. GOPe. GOPeGads! GOPeWWWWWWWWWWWWW...)
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To: DoughtyOne

At least he fights. McConnell cowers.


5 posted on 12/11/2014 12:52:55 PM PST by EQAndyBuzz (You can't spell liberal without label.)
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To: EQAndyBuzz

It’s true. Check my post just above and after that one.


6 posted on 12/11/2014 12:53:25 PM PST by DoughtyOne (GOP. GOPe. GOPeGads! GOPeWWWWWWWWWWWWW...)
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To: YankeeReb

Poor Harry will have to go back to being just a simple, humble, local criminal,

now that he got is walkin’ papers from the bigshot criminals club.


7 posted on 12/11/2014 12:53:45 PM PST by PieterCasparzen (We have to fix things ourselves)
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To: YankeeReb

Want to show your “progressive” bona fides re: Wall Street?

ask them to join in shutting down the Federal Reserve

The progressive nanny state will collapse


8 posted on 12/11/2014 12:54:17 PM PST by PGR88
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To: YankeeReb

The Dems work very hard on the art of distraction.

How many Americans realize that most of the super-rich are regime affiliates?


9 posted on 12/11/2014 12:54:47 PM PST by nascarnation (Impeach, Convict, Deport)
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To: YankeeReb

What is McConnell’s reply? He is looking forward to working with Reid, and the Democrats in the next Congress?


10 posted on 12/11/2014 12:55:39 PM PST by Yogafist
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To: YankeeReb

Poor, bitter little Harry. The voters across this country tossed him out on his ear and now he is a powerless tyrant. Is left curled up in a corner crying and whining with his NYTimes blanky.


11 posted on 12/11/2014 12:55:48 PM PST by Obadiah
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Time to exorcise this government.


#ROSEMARYSBABY

12 posted on 12/11/2014 12:56:27 PM PST by a fool in paradise (Shickl-Gruber's Big Lie gave us Hussein's Un-Affordable Care act (HUAC).)
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Reid and Pelosi promised the Most Ethical Congress EVER.

Didn't work out that way.

13 posted on 12/11/2014 12:58:00 PM PST by a fool in paradise (Shickl-Gruber's Big Lie gave us Hussein's Un-Affordable Care act (HUAC).)
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To: YankeeReb

Sh*t stains on the walls of the local insane asylum have more value and meaning than Reid’s words in the NYT.


14 posted on 12/11/2014 12:58:04 PM PST by IllumiNaughtyByNature ($1.84 - The price of a gallon of gas on Jan. 20th, 2009.)
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To: Obadiah

Just think. In 2016 Harry will be running for re-election. perhaps arm and arm with Lizzie Warren. Hopefully that gets him thrown out.


15 posted on 12/11/2014 12:58:31 PM PST by nascarnation (Impeach, Convict, Deport)
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To: a fool in paradise

Yes, what a sterling record those folks put up.


16 posted on 12/11/2014 12:59:19 PM PST by DoughtyOne (GOP. GOPe. GOPeGads! GOPeWWWWWWWWWWWWW...)
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To: YankeeReb

I’ve got a big harry F U for the senior senator from
Nevada and you don’t even have to reid between the lines!


17 posted on 12/11/2014 1:00:20 PM PST by Sivad (NorCal red turf ;-))
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To: a fool in paradise

That moron in the White House said much the same thing. Another “Open” administration from the Left. Obama’s administration is what they mean when they use those code words.

Open
Ethical
Better America
More International Friendships

It’s the hopey changey thing.


18 posted on 12/11/2014 1:00:54 PM PST by DoughtyOne (GOP. GOPe. GOPeGads! GOPeWWWWWWWWWWWWW...)
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To: DoughtyOne

‘Democrats never say quit.

Republicans never say start.’

+1


19 posted on 12/11/2014 1:01:11 PM PST by Fantasywriter (Any attempt to do forensic work using Internet artifacts is fraught with pitfalls. JoeProbono)
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To: YankeeReb

The GOP has leaders?


20 posted on 12/11/2014 1:03:11 PM PST by Vigilanteman (Obama: Fake black man. Fake Messiah. Fake American. How many fakes can you fit in one Zer0?)
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