Posted on 10/15/2013 4:24:37 PM PDT by mdittmar
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid blasted House Speaker John Boehner on Tuesday after leaks circulated of a plan that House Republicans might offer to end the spending and debt stalemate.
“We felt blindsided by the news from the House,” Reid said on the Senate floor in a scathing attack on Boehner and his House GOP members. The Nevada Democrat said “extremist Republicans in the House of Representatives are attempting to torpedo" the negotiations which he and Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell have been conducting in the past few days.
Reid’s torrent of criticism came hours after he and McConnell both said they’d made progress in their work toward a plan to end the partial government shutdown and lift the government’s borrowing limit.
The Reid-McConnell talks came as the federal government neared the point of exhausting its ability to borrow and running out of cash on hand to pay its bills.
Although the House Republicans reportedly are working on plan that would end the shutdown, Boehner told reporters “There have been no decisions on what exactly we will do” and left open the questions of whether or when any House GOP bill would be put to a floor vote
The Democrats’ method of governing is to have Harry Reid run out to the playground ten times a day to yell nasty accusations about John Boehner which everyone forgets five minutes later.
Are you talking about “My way or the highway” Reid? I think it is time for the media to expand on their definition of shutdown.
Reid blasted House Speaker John Boehner... said "extremist Republicans in the House of Representatives are attempting to torpedo" the negotiations which he and Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell have been conducting in the past few days.Waaaaaaah! Harry "Mafia" Reid's next move is to hold his breath until he turns blue.
he gives Boner too much credit
But calling the House’s funding bill “DOA” to the Senate isn’t “torpedoing” anything, right Harry?
Awwwww, poor dingy Harry!
Oh, BTW, Reid: funding bills must originate in the House.
Oh, he knows it. It's why he and Obama have steam coming out of their ears day and night.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3079399/posts
> Having hammered out a deal to shoot back to the Senate tonight — with most Republicans reportedly on board... Then the medical device tax delay was stripped out, and the “full Vitter Amendment” (no special treatment under Obamacare for Congress, staffers, and White House officials) was inserted in... opposed to stalling or repealing the tax as part of this deal... The delay would look like another favor to big business rather than the little guy... would take the issue off the table as a Democrat-dividing maneuver for future negotiations...
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