Harry Reid: It’s ‘A Good Day for the Anarchists’

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) slammed Republicans from the floor of the U.S. Senate on Tuesday in the wake of a partial government shutdown. He said that a shutdown has been the goal of a faction of the Republican Party all along and that today is “a good day for the anarchists.”

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“My friend, the Republican leader, spoke as if George Orwell wrote his speech,” Reid said of Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY). “This is 1984, where up is down, down is up, East is West.”

“We have a situation where we have a good day with the anarchists. Why? Because the government is closed,” he continued.

“Speaker [John] Boehner and his band of tea party radicals have done the unthinkable — they’ve shut down the federal government,” Reid added. “Now, for us that’s hard to comprehend as being good. For them, they like it.”

Watch the clip below via C-SPAN:

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