After GOP Attack, Reid Comes to White House Dinner With a Bitter Taste in His Mouth

Washington Post ^ | February 8, 2005 | Charles Babington

[RWR8189]

It's safe to assume that the mood at the White House dinner table last night was a bit more tense than usual. A few hours before dining with President Bush and a handful of others, Minority Leader Harry M. Reid (D-Nev.) took the Senate floor to rebuke the president and his political party for a 13-page mass-mail attack on Reid, authored by the Republican National Committee.

"Is this how he wants to be a uniter?" Reid asked in his speech. The RNC, he said, "is his committee," so how can Bush call for bipartisanship one minute and then "send out scurrilous letters saying that I'm a bad guy? In great detail. I mean, is President George Bush a man of his word? . . . Mr. President, I call upon you to repudiate this document, to tell the Republican National Committee, 'Don't mail it.'

The RNC document, first reported by Roll Call, is headlined "Reid All About It," and contains a list of complaints about Reid's voting record and statements about judges, Social Security, taxes and other topics. It says Reid is "out of touch with mainstream America," has an "extreme environmental record" and is a "Scrooge in senator's clothing." The language echoes GOP attacks on Reid's predecessor, Thomas A. Daschle (S.D.), who lost a bitter race last fall to John Thune (R).

RNC spokesman Brian Jones said his committee is sending the newsletter to about a million activists, journalists and others. "Harry Reid's record speaks for itself," he said in an interview. White House spokeswoman Claire Buchan said: "The president has been reaching out to Republicans and Democrats alike, and he looks forward to continuing to do so."

[Howlin]

Here's an example of Democratic bipartisanship:

2/7/2005 10:44:00 AM

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To: National Desk

Contact: Brendan Daly or Jennifer Crider, 202-226-7616, both of the Office of House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi

WASHINGTON, Feb. 7 /U.S. Newswire/ -- House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi released the following statement today on the $2.5 trillion Fiscal Year 2006 Budget submitted to Congress by President Bush this morning:

"The President's budget is a hoax on the American people. The two issues that dominated the President's State of the Union Address -- Iraq and Social Security -- are nowhere to be found in this budget. We know that the cost of military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan will cost billions this year, but those costs are not accounted for in this budget. Independent experts estimate the President's proposal to privatize Social Security will cost trillions in coming decades, but it is not accounted for here.

"Further, the budget should be a statement of our national values, but this budget is an assault on our values. It is an American value to guarantee our national security, but the President's budget cuts funding for first-responders and forces veterans to pay more for the health care they have earned. It is an American value to promote safe communities, but the President's budget slashes community policing initiatives. It is an American value to promote opportunity, but the President's budget eliminates 48 education initiatives and slashes funding for health care. Finally, it is an American value to promote accountability, but President Bush's budget is deeply and dangerously lacking in fiscal discipline. It does nothing to address the record deficit of $427 billion.

"The President wants to take credit for the courage to cut programs, yet he does not have the courage to admit his tax cuts for millionaires were a mistake. The cost of making his tax cuts permanent will be $2 trillion in additional debt passed on to future generations. The President's fiscal recklessness is a tax on the future.

"The President's budget is fiscally irresponsible, morally irresponsible, and a failure of leadership. Democrats insist upon fiscal discipline with budgets that pay as you go, and over the coming months, we will fight for a budget that reflects the values of America's middle class: national security, prosperity, opportunity, fairness, community, and accountability."

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[FreedomNeocon]

RTOFL.. meanwhile these two-faced jerkoffs have been saying "you should be bipartisan" while in the same sentance calling BUSH a lying, shady, crooked, moron who willingly wants people dead.

Its like the Dimpcraps running those lame race-baiting commercials on Monday and then on Tuesday 'chiding' BUSH for 'race baiting'.

[FormerACLUmember]

Democrats have raised psychosis to an art form. Primitive projection is the psychological basis of democrat party tactics:

Accuse others of your EXACT offensive behavior.

Keep in total denial of this, aided by democrat party control of the mass media.

Whine endlessly at your delusionally perceived harm.

[expatpat]

Well, the W. Compost IS the house organ of the Democrat Party, so what do you expect.....?

[Ann Archy]

LOL!

[Bonaparte]

You called it, Judith Anne! Reid can dish it out but can't take it. When the Republicans start raking him over the coals, he runs to mommy and plays the victim.

"Mommy, he's teasing me! Make him stop!"

Little does he realize that he looks like just another whiney girly-man.