Posted on 08/11/2013 7:08:03 PM PDT by lbryce
In a radio interview in which he lamented the GOP filibusters and a gridlock in Congress, Democratic Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said he hopes Republicans who oppose the president do so “based on substance and not the fact that he’s an African-American.”
The comment came Friday during the Nevada lawmaker’s appearance on Las Vegas-based National Public Radio affiliate KNPR (http://bit.ly/16AheWv), and drew swift response from Sen. Tim Scott, R-South Carolina, who is black.
“I hope Sen. Reid will realize the offensive nature of his remarks and apologize to those who disagree with the president’s policies because of one thing — they are hurting hardworking American families,” Scott said in a statement.
Reid took listener questions during the segment, including one from a man who identified himself as a Las Vegas resident named Sam. The caller asked Reid whether he thought congressional Republicans’ actions were just trying to block President Barack Obama’s success.
Reid recalled Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Kentucky, who said in an interview during Obama’s first term that his most important goal was ensuring Obama wasn’t re-elected.
“They haven’t changed much,” Reid said. “It’s been obvious they’re doing everything they can to make him fail.”
McConnell’s original comment, published in the National Journal on Oct. 23, 2010, came along with a discussion about lowering spending and lowering the national debt. He added later in the interview that, “I don’t want the president to fail; I want him to change.”
In the talk with KNPR host Dave Becker, the majority leader described an “absolute gridlock” in Congress and troubles getting legislation through the Republican-controlled House.
Reid said the tea party represents a small percentage of Americans while wielding outsized power in the House, and he compared members to the anarchists that helped spark World War I.
While these “modern anarchists” don’t resort to violence, he said, “they have the same philosophy as the early anarchists. They do not believe in government.
“Anytime something bad happens to government that’s a victory for them.
In the five years that Obama has lead this country down the path of perdition and ruination it would have been very easy to inject race into the manner in which he has transformed the US into a third rate power, yet until this sc*m bag, Reid, deployed the race card against the Republicans in a deliberate, facetious effort to inflame the constituency in turning things ugly, did the manner of race ever rear its ugly head.
FUHR: May You and the Democratic Leadership Suffer the Eternal Damnation You So Utterly Deserve.
Reid Apologizes for Remarks on Obama’s Color and ‘Dialect’ Reid Apologizes for Remarks on Obama’s Color and ‘Dialect’
Since implementation of Commune-Style Obama’care’ is a privacy violation to the US Constitution, then an injunction needs to be filed with SCOTUS by the Esteemed Speaker of the House, John “Cave-In” Boehner.
The key to success is to bypass all Administration Bureaus.
Oh wait, I forgot that “Cave-In” Boehner is on vaycay for 5 weeks - - - - !
Sorry about posting identical articles. When I first saw the article, I checked to see of it was already posted but as it had not appeared in the search I proceeded to post it, taking me about ten minutes to make my comments after which I noticed that the similar article had appeared about two minutes before I posted my own. Again, I apologize for the oversight.
it takes an inordinate amount of time and trouble to post, I have given it up
Our opposition is because Ogolfo hates the U.S. and is a Marxist of the first order. I dislike Marxists, Communists, and Progressives on general principle, regardless.
Agree with your assessment. The Dems must have a problem with Obama’s race because THEY keep bringing it up, we don’t.
They killed Herman Cain with the same immediacy.
Since the Members of the US House of Representatives can choose non-members to be Speaker, I think that Col. Allan West would make a GREAT Speaker of the House.
Thanks very much for your comments. I’ve done an awful amount of posting (over 1,300 since 2009) always driven to complete the post, my comments as quickly as possible to avoid this very thing of posting an article within minutes of one that is identical. This is the very first time someone had beaten me to it despite having made the search and not finding the article but taking too much time posting, commenting leading me to come in at second place.
I hate Boehner with relatively nearly every fibre in my being.
You needn’t worry.
The real reason is because you’re a Mormon.
Cheap enough shot for you?
“I hope Sen. Reid will realize the offensive nature of his remarks and apologize to those who disagree with the president’s policies because of one thing — they are hurting hardworking American families,” Scott said in a statement.
It might rain shiny bright new silver dollars first thing in the morning, too. The sad, sorry, simple fact of the matter is the Democratic [sic] party is saturated with racism of the most despicable kind.
Boehner is Speaker ONLY because the cowardly RINOs keep him there.
Boehner is a drunken sot with zero skills to do what is best for America.
Thus, the fault lies with our sorry RINOs in the US House of Representatives who keep Boehner on as their proven failed Speaker.
And I hope Reid’s dry humping of Obama’s leg isn’t over race either.
strange coming from someone who used the n word several times in reference to obama in the lead up to 2008. of course, he has scrubbed these second-hand accounts since.
Yes, yes and yes.
I have opposed Obama, since he first threw his hat into the ring, because he’s a Chicago politician.
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