Reid blames Ted Cruz for kid with cancer comment, Politico runs cover (Video)

Examiner.Com ^ | October 3, 2013 | Unattributed

[SoConPubbie]

According to Sen. Harry Reid, D-Nev, it's apparently Ted Cruz's fault that he gave CNN's Dana Bash the answer he did regarding children with cancer, going by audio posted Wednesday at Real Clear Politics. Politico's Dylan Byers, in the meantime, was busy covering for the Senate Majority Leader by trying to make people believe that Reid didn't say what he said, Newsbusters' Tom Blumer reported.

Bash asked why Reid did not support a GOP measure that would help children with cancer.

"But if you can help one child who has cancer, why wouldn’t you do it?" she asked, according to a transcript provided by Blumer.

"That's a f--," Reid began before being cut off by Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y.

"Why pit one against the other?" Schumer asked.

"W-W-W-Why would we want to do that? I have 1,100 people at Nellis Air Force base that are sitting home. They have a few problems of their own. This is — to have someone of your intelligence to suggest such a thing," Reid stammered.

"I’m just asking a question," Bash said in response.

"Maybe means you’re irresponsible and reckless," an angry Reid spit back.

But Reid later tried to blame it on Ted Cruz and the House Republicans.

"The whole answer is this: Why would we want to have the House of Representatives, John Boehner, cherry-pick what stays open and what stays closed," he said, seemingly forgetting that the Constitution gives the House the right to do exactly that.

[SoConPubbie]

	"If we must have an enemy at the head of Government, let it be one whom we can oppose, and for whom we are not responsible, who will not involve our party in the disgrace of his foolish and bad measures." - Alexander Hamilton "We don't intend to turn the Republican Party over to the traitors in the battle just ended. We will have no more of those candidates who are pledged to the same goals as our opposition and who seek our support. Turning the Party over to the so-called moderates wouldn’t make any sense at all." -- President Ronald Reagan "A thing moderately good is not so good as it ought to be. Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice." - Thomas Paine 1792 "It does not take a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless minority, keen on setting brushfires of freedom in the minds of men." - Samuel Adams "If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, go home from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or your arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen." - Samuel Adams

[SoConPubbie]

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[xzins]

They’re not trying to cherry pick what stays open and what stays closed. They’re trying to open everything one-at-a-time if they have to.

[Ann Archy]

ooooooooohhh...Dana Bash, a HUGE LIBERAL, got DISSED nby Reid~!! Is she going to have to BOW even LOWER to these people??

[TexasCajun]

I’m thinking about signing up at Polutico just to leave comments for the Obama Gerbils over there.

[mrsmith]

“Sen. McConnell Press; @McConnellPress

Sen. McConnell asked consent to pass the #Veterans funding bill. Sen. Reid objected to funding the Veterans programs.”

Media headline: “Republicans to blame for lack of Veterans funding!”

It’s always the same...

[tumblindice]

Harry “The Buck Stops Here” Truman would be appalled.
With these people, it’s always someone else’s fault.

[sauropod]

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[miserare]

Tea Party BUMP!

[M-cubed]

“The whole answer is this: Why would we want to have the House of Representatives, John Boehner, cherry-pick what stays open and what stays closed,” he said, seemingly forgetting that the Constitution gives the House the right to do exactly that.<<< ...BINGO!!!!!!

The Representative Branch not only has the right...It has the DUTY to control the purse strings!!...It was part of the design!!!......Talk about the ultimate Law of the Land! Geez!

I'm afraid that most of “We the People” don't have a clue of how our REPUBLIC was designed to work....(democrats and republicans alike) We've turned ourselves into a “democracy” (mob rule)and don't even know it!

Dont believe me?....Look how us supporters of the Constitution as it was written are being labeled...Anarchists?...Terrorists?
https://www.google.com/#q=tea+party+anarchists

[skeeter]

“Obama Gerbils” - perfect.

[stanne]

And all Dana Bush had to do was tell Reid that the congress certainly DOES have the right, authority and resposibility represent the people andt tell the exec to quit borrowing money fringe our children who are slated to pay for this when they won’t see a dime of it

[a fool in paradise]

They keep the Saul Alinsky playbook close to the vest pocket for easy reminders on what to do. isolate, personalize, attack

“TED CRUZ! TED CRUZ! TED CRUZ!”
“TEA PARTY! TEA PARTY! TEA PARTY!”

[justa-hairyape]

They’re not trying to cherry pick what stays open and what stays closed.

When there is no budget, you have to cherry pick. Otherwise you are giving them a blank check.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks SoConPubbie.

[uncitizen]

This is — to have someone of your intelligence to suggest such a thing," Reid stammered.

Get.Out. Bwahahaha This is right up there with "you can just smell the tourists coming".