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Reid calls president latter-day Fillmore
The Washington Times ^ | November 1, 2005 | Stephen Dinan

Posted on 11/01/2005 3:44:16 PM PST by neverdem


The Washington Times
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Reid calls president latter-day Fillmore

By Stephen Dinan
THE WASHINGTON TIMES
Published November 1, 2005

Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid said yesterday that President Bush will go down as the Millard Fillmore of our time, and said the Republican president is the best thing Democrats have going for them for the 2006 elections.


    "I think our biggest cheerleader for getting back some of the votes we've lost in the last couple presidential elections and some congressional elections is George W. Bush," the Nevada Democrat said in predicting a big election year for his party.


    He said Republicans will be doomed by the indictments that have hit the White House and House Republican leaders, an investigation into stock sales by Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist of Tennessee, big budget deficits and lack of progress on pensions and health care.


    Mr. Reid has changed his mind from May, when he said on the floor of the Senate that it would take "a miracle" to win five seats -- the number necessary to gain parity with Republicans in the Senate.


    "Frankly, at that time we weren't doing nearly as well then as we are now," Mr. Reid told reporters yesterday at a lunch organized by the Christian Science Monitor. Now, however, he said he "wouldn't be betting a lot on Republicans controlling the next Congress."


    "We're going to pick up seats. History's on our side. It's just a question of how many we pick up," he said.


    He said Democrats will defeat four incumbent Republicans -- in Pennsylvania, Ohio, Montana and Missouri. He also said Democrats have


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KEYWORDS: 109th; fillmore; millardfillmore; presidents; whigparty
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To: neverdem

Oh...I thought Millard Fillmore was a duck! That's right. The duck is Mallard Fillmore. Did he die of that virus??? LOL


41 posted on 11/01/2005 4:36:32 PM PST by Cricket24 ("We have met the enemy and it's the U.S. press (and the democrats and some Republicans)!")
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To: Cricket24
And Jimmy Carter is the present day Jimmy Carter. Reid makes Daschle look rationale - incredible.
42 posted on 11/01/2005 4:44:04 PM PST by GOPRaleigh (Liberals - who needs 'em.)
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To: neverdem

Guess they ought to re- CAT scan Harry for that stroke damage.


43 posted on 11/01/2005 4:46:35 PM PST by fat city ("The nation that controls magnetism controls the world.")
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To: neverdem
35 out of 40 don't attack WHAT Reid said. The best we can do is one sentence comments like "Harry is nuts" or "Harry is on crack"? Sheesh, no wonder the DU laughs at us. (Though the Mallard Filmore cartoon was funny)
44 posted on 11/01/2005 4:47:27 PM PST by Sir_Humphrey (The mighty oak is just a nut who held it's ground)
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To: Sir_Humphrey
35 out of 40 don't attack WHAT Reid said.

When your enemy is on an unhinged rant, doing more damage to himself than probably anything we could say, I say sit back and enjoy the show. This sounds like it was scripted at Mooron.org.

45 posted on 11/01/2005 5:17:38 PM PST by neverdem (May you be in heaven a half hour before the devil knows that you're dead.)
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To: neverdem

He can't refute the president on issues and resorts to name-calling- typical liberal argument style.


46 posted on 11/01/2005 5:23:10 PM PST by Rockitz (After all these years, it's still rocket science.)
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To: EagleUSA

Reid must be hanging out too much with Senator Hillary.
Now he is cracking up too.


47 posted on 11/01/2005 5:26:28 PM PST by Revererdrv (T)
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To: Para-Ord.45
I think Ried suffers from restless leg syndrome...

Reid is gonna find out quick that you need at least one leg to put your foot down. On Valerie Plame and Joe Wilson they have staked their political fortunes in '06. If fighting the good fight still means anything to the GOP, as conservatives, this 'democratic' party's fate is sealed. That party is begging to be slayed.

48 posted on 11/01/2005 5:28:46 PM PST by eric_da_grate (a)
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To: Sir_Humphrey
Why shouldn't they laugh at us? After all, they're the reality-based community, and we aren't.
49 posted on 11/01/2005 5:33:28 PM PST by RightWingAtheist (Free the Crevo Three!)
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To: neverdem
harry dweeb should go back to his hard ware store.......worthless pos......
50 posted on 11/01/2005 6:21:50 PM PST by fatteddy
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To: neverdem

Reid: Stupid is as Stupid says


51 posted on 11/01/2005 6:27:16 PM PST by blasater1960 ( Ishmaelites...Still a wild-ass of a people....)
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To: blasater1960

Napolean-

"When your enemy is making a very serious mistake, don't be impolite and disturb him."


52 posted on 11/01/2005 6:44:16 PM PST by george76 (Ward Churchill : Fake Indian, Fake Scholarship, and Fake Art)
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To: RegulatorCountry

"Unfortunately, Harry Reid is doomed to be the Harry Reid of our time."

Or the Tom Daschle of the 2000's.


53 posted on 11/01/2005 6:55:14 PM PST by EQAndyBuzz (Liberal Talking Point - Bush = Hitler ... Republican Talking Point - Let the Liberals Talk)
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To: TheOracleAtLilac

Dream on... little dreamer dream on...


54 posted on 11/01/2005 7:01:53 PM PST by AFPhys ((.Praying for President Bush, our troops, their families, and all my American neighbors..))
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To: riri
"Oh yeah, this will resonate with a populace where 85 percent of the people couldn't tell you who the current vice president is..." --->

ROTFLMPO!!!

55 posted on 11/01/2005 7:04:41 PM PST by AFPhys ((.Praying for President Bush, our troops, their families, and all my American neighbors..))
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To: neverdem
What is it with Democrats. They act like 6th graders calling names and acting immature. Throwing temper tantrums every time they don't get their way.

Makes me want to scream; sticks and stones may break my bones but names will never hurt me.

56 posted on 11/01/2005 7:05:01 PM PST by Dustbunny (Main Stream Media -- Making 'Max Headroom' a reality.)
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To: neverdem
"We're going to pick up seats. History's on our side. It's just a question of how many we pick up," he said.
What a sad statement. Harry Reid says they've got no where else left to go but up.
It's going to be an even sadder statement when they lose still more seats in the Senate.

 
57 posted on 11/01/2005 7:09:37 PM PST by counterpunch (~ Let O'Connor Go Home! ~)
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To: Past Your Eyes

yep...with Daschle, you knew..small man,small mind lol.....whats Rieds problem??? lol


58 posted on 11/01/2005 7:12:47 PM PST by justkillingtime
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To: MNJohnnie

If it wasn't for the sports page, which I read every morning, I would cancel my subscription to the Oregonian.

Since that's all I read of the paper on a regular basis, the left-tilt doesn't affect me unless I read the opinion pages on Sunday.

Then, it's Freaksville. At least a 10-1 liberl/conservative slant to the letters and 4-1 in the columnists.


59 posted on 11/01/2005 7:13:03 PM PST by Carling (http://www.marriedadults.com/howarddeanscreamaudio141jq.mp3)
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To: neverdem

New Yorker Millard Fillmore signed the Compromise of 1850 into law and reappointed Daniel Webster as secretary of state. He was one of three former presidents who tried to regain the post as a third-party presidential candidate. I think he was the last president to become the subject of a full-length biography. And I know the Democrats have long ridiculed him, but he was NOT a Republican. He was a Whig and later a Know-Nothing Party member. Isn't a major hospital in Buffalo named for him?


60 posted on 11/01/2005 8:50:59 PM PST by Theodore R. (Cowardice is forever!)
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