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Harry Reid to Ted Cruz: “My friend from Texas is like a schoolyard bully”
Hotair ^ | 05/07/2013 | Erika Johnsen

Posted on 05/07/2013 7:00:56 AM PDT by SeekAndFind

Yes, because goodness knows Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid has never thrown a political punch below the belt in the course of his career. Via The Hill:

The two senators bickered as Cruz rose to object to Reid’s motion to appoint conferees to a House-Senate budget committee. …

He said Cruz’s request to eliminate all taxes in a final House-Senate budget was absurd.

“The senator from Texas was on the losing side…now he wants us to adopt the losing side’s view or we cannot go to conference,” Reid said.

“My friend from Texas is like a schoolyard bully,” Reid added.

“He pushes everybody around and is losing and instead of playing the game according to the rules, he not only takes the ball home with him, but he changes the rules that way no one wins except the bully who tries to indicate to people that he has won.”

Cruz, a Tea Party darling whose rhetoric has sometimes raised eyebrows among Republicans, shot back that “I wasn’t aware we are in the schoolyard.”

Reid cut him off saying “enough.”

Heh. Sen. Reid simply couldn’t bring himself to understand how it is that Republicans could possibly blocking an effort to go to conference on the budget — although Sen. Cruz’s concern was that the non-filibusterable conference report could be used to raise the nation’s debt ceiling, and he was asking that Reid amend his motion to go to conference to classify any provisions raising taxes and/or the debt ceiling as out of order before proceeding further — hence the apt display of schoolyard-style petulance.

Funny you should mention that though, Sen. Reid. Over the weekend, longtime Democratic strategist James Carville said of Sen. Cruz: “I think he is the most talented and fearless Republican politician I’ve seen in the last 30 years. … And this guy has no fear. He just keeps plowing ahead. And he is going to be something to watch.”

To which Sen. Cruz responded on Fox News this afternoon that he was flattered by Carville’s kind comments, but to all of his haters out there, it’s just a little amusing that “a number of people have criticized me on the grounds of civility and, in particular, have insulted me while doing so,” no?

CLIKC ABOVE LINK FOR THE VIDEO OF TED CRUZ REACTING TO JAMES CARVILLE's COMMENTS ABOUT HIM



TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: harryreid; tedcruz
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To: SeekAndFind
"“My friend from Texas is like a schoolyard bully,” Reid added."

Harry Reid has no friends.

21 posted on 05/07/2013 7:20:17 AM PDT by Colonel_Flagg (Blather. Reince. Repeat.)
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To: SeekAndFind
Congressman Harry Reid's great-great uncle..maybe one day Harry you can join your criminal relative in hell very soon I hope..
22 posted on 05/07/2013 7:23:05 AM PDT by PLD
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To: stickywillie

harry used to be a boxer<<

LMAO...Talk about a beard!


23 posted on 05/07/2013 7:23:27 AM PDT by M-cubed
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To: SeekAndFind

Hypocritical Harry. He’s the bully. The “Senior” senator can go home if he doesn’t like the contest of ideas.

Cruz is doing the job he was elected to do: stop the nation’s march towards tyranny (which Harry is hellbent on us falling into).


24 posted on 05/07/2013 7:25:39 AM PDT by nonsporting
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To: SeekAndFind

Takes one to know one, I guess....


25 posted on 05/07/2013 7:26:26 AM PDT by Adder (No, Mr. Franklin, we could NOT keep it.)
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To: ZirconEncrustedTweezers

What we have here is someone using Harry’s techniques back on him, and he does not like it. Too bad Harry. You should have been in jail long ago and only worrying about the bulls, not “bullies” like Cruz.

Memo to Harry: go back to your condo over at the Ritz and GFY.


26 posted on 05/07/2013 7:28:42 AM PDT by Mouton (108th MI Group.....68-71)
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To: Rummyfan

who was 22 with?.....Maxine Waters?


27 posted on 05/07/2013 7:29:23 AM PDT by M-cubed
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To: SeekAndFind

Translation -

Reid: “He’s a Conservative so he’s a bad man.”

The sheeple are going to stop listening to these cries. All the Dems do is say things to make them think that conservatives are evil. Cruz has done nothing to back up Reid’s claim. He’s no bully. Reid is, though.


28 posted on 05/07/2013 7:31:53 AM PDT by al_c (http://www.blowoutcongress.com)
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To: stickywillie
harry used to be a boxer

Color me completely non-impressed

Even with no formal boxing training, if some kind soul would lend him fifteen years to even things up, I'd happily climb into the ring with the vile maggot.

29 posted on 05/07/2013 7:32:01 AM PDT by tomkat
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To: SeekAndFind
Reid had his cute little scripted comment ready and Cruz just off the cuff fed it back to him.

Masterful.

30 posted on 05/07/2013 7:32:14 AM PDT by gov_bean_ counter (Romans 1:22 Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools,)
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To: SeekAndFind

Reid can say anything he wants. Idiots are not responsible people.


31 posted on 05/07/2013 7:41:26 AM PDT by Don Corleone ("Oil the gun..eat the cannoli. Take it to the Mattress.")
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To: SeekAndFind

He should have said, “I am not your friend”. That is that stupid Sean Vannity thing where he calls everyone his friend. I hate that. That word is reserved for a very few people.


32 posted on 05/07/2013 7:44:53 AM PDT by Resolute Conservative
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To: SeekAndFind

Cruz is like the well armed sheep negotiating with Democrat wolves on the dinner menu......Listen and you’ll hear the wolves howl in protest that mutton is not being served......


33 posted on 05/07/2013 7:46:50 AM PDT by Forty-Niner (A Strong Man Armed who guards his home, lives in peace.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Shut your festering gob you twit. Damn Harry, you won’t pass a MANDATED budget for over 5 years, but Cruz is the “bully”?

Maggots have more honor...


34 posted on 05/07/2013 7:47:17 AM PDT by Dead Corpse (I will not comply.)
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To: AtlasStalled

“Harry Reid strikes me more as a mobster than a politician although the distinction sometimes can be fine.”

Whorehouse Harry Reid, The Mormon Mobster! The Mormon Church, if it had and decency, would excommunicate this bastard!


35 posted on 05/07/2013 7:49:04 AM PDT by vette6387
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To: SeekAndFind

When I see Dingy Harry waddle up to the podium with a wedgie up his ass, I’ll believe him.


36 posted on 05/07/2013 7:50:47 AM PDT by bigbob
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To: AtlasStalled
"Harry Reid strikes me more as a mobster than a politician although the distinction sometimes can be fine."

Funny you should say that:

Dirty Harry Reid: The Mafia's "Mr. Clean Face" on the Nevada Gaming Commission

37 posted on 05/07/2013 7:56:39 AM PDT by uncommonsense (Conservatives believe what they see; Liberals see what they believe.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Why do I wish he’d said “If I was a schoolyard bully I’d already have given you your daily wedgie.”?


38 posted on 05/07/2013 8:30:27 AM PDT by OneWingedShark (Q: Why am I here? A: To do Justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with my God.)
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To: bigbob

LOL — I was thinking much the same.


39 posted on 05/07/2013 8:32:36 AM PDT by OneWingedShark (Q: Why am I here? A: To do Justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with my God.)
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To: Neoliberalnot
May this snide little weasel rot in a deep warm pit.

better, a warm dim room, eating Jello with his hands....
40 posted on 05/07/2013 8:34:06 AM PDT by Rumplemeyer (The GOP should stand its ground - and fix Bayonets)
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