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Sen. Harry Reid: Republicans Can’t Listen To The ‘Radical, Unrealistic’ Tea Party

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Democratic Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid spoke yesterday about what he believes to be the Tea Party’s harmful influence on budget discussions. Reid predicts that as the economy improves, the Tea Party will fade out. However, until they are gone, he is not happy to have to deal with their criticism.

Reid has some sympathy for Republican Speaker of the House John Boehner, since:

“He’s getting a lot of pressure from the Tea Party folks to dig in his heels, even if it hurts and destroys the recovery that we have going now. What’s worse, the country doesn’t care much about the Tea Party.”

Reid cites some polls that suggest more than 50% of people think negatively of the Tea Party and that only a small percent identify with them. Reid hopes that “the Republican leadership recognize that they can’t continue be pulled to the right by the radical, unrealistic, unreasonable . . . faction – the Tea Party” and concludes that “if people want to move the country forward they can’t let the Tea Party call the shots.”

Given that Reid calls the Tea Party “radical” and Democratic Senator Chuck Schumer recently referred to the Tea Party as “extreme,” it seems if calling the Tea Party names is the best Democratic response in the budget battle, then might Reid want to be more concerned about giving the Democratic leadership advice moving forward?

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  • notsofast

    Harry, you magnigicent bastard, we read your book!

    Schumer already spilled the beans!

  • Arkansas Steve

    HARRY:
    That damn tea party! They actually want to solve our nation’s financial problems. Who the hell do they think they are?

  • Penguin60

    Harry, Harry, Harry, didn’t you get the memo? It’s EXTREME, dammit!
    Taking to the Senate floor to speak out against dissenting Americans, now that’s leadership. LMAO.

  • notsofast

    Reid cites some polls that suggest more than 50% of people think negatively of the Tea Party”

    harry, forget the polls and remember 11/02/2010, son.

  • perceptorii

    Translation: Demonizing John Boehner isn’t working, so I’m picking a new target. Otherwise, voters might notice that the budget deficit is six times what it was when my tenure as Senate Majority Leader started.

  • errxn

    Penguin60 said:
    Harry, Harry, Harry, didn’t you get the memo? It’s EXTREME, dammit!
    Taking to the Senate floor to speak out against dissenting Americans, now that’s leadership. LMAO.

    Guess who else “didn’t get” (read: chose to ignore) the memo? Mediaite. Strange how we heard so little about Schumer’s little slipup, isn’t it?

  • Moderate

    300 people died in the Egyptian riots and the progressives called it nonviolent. The tea-party is considered a violent group of hooligans that spit on politicians.

  • More Liberty5

    Let me get this straight. People that believe that $14 trillion of debt and a yearly deficit of $1.5 trillion is wrong are called “extreme” by Reid? The monthly deficit for Feb/2011 was larger than the whole freaking fiscal 2007 year, yet believing that this is wrong is somehow extreme?

    The budget they are discussing right now should have been passed before the year even began but these politicians, both sides do it, kept putting it off. That’s how nuts this whole thing is.

    The US government has completely failed the taxpayer. They can’t balance a budget, they start wars we can’t afford, they ignore the US Constitution and they just can’t take care of the business they are supposed to take care of. They give huge tax breaks to multi-billion corporations, and bailout these same companies with taxpayer dollars.

  • Penguin60

    errxn said:
    Guess who else “didn’t get” (read: chose to ignore) the memo? Mediaite. Strange how we heard so little about Schumer’s little slipup, isn’t it?

    Suprise, suprise, suprise….in my best Gomer Pyle impression. Come to think of it Harry does a good one too.

  • Big Eddie

    Why don’t you get one of your cowboy friends to make a poem out of it ?

    Harry was a boxer ? Yeah , he’s a real lightweight , alright .

  • More Liberty5

    Life according to Harry Reid:
    -$14 trillion debt is fine…nothing to worry about just move along.
    -Bailouts to Wall Street…hey we didn’t do enough
    -People who think that the US government should be responsible are extreme and unrealistic.

  • Penguin60

    More Liberty5 said:
    Let me get this straight. People that believe that $14 trillion of debt and a yearly deficit of $1.5 trillion is wrong are called “extreme” by Reid?

    No, he said radical, unreasonable. He missed the DNC memo about using EXTREME. I wish I had my 2:43 min back listening to this horses’ ass.

  • Dave Richards

    Harry, you could have passed a budet in 2010. You failed. Retire. Go back to the home.

  • Moderate

    errxn said:
    Guess who else “didn’t get” (read: chose to ignore) the memo? Mediaite. Strange how we heard so little about Schumer’s little slipup, isn’t it?

    Things were closer to fair and balanced when Steve Krakauer worked at Mediaite.

  • Barack Must Go

    Harry Reid hates senior citizens, children, especially babies and the disabled. He is determined to shut down the government simply because as the speaker ( leader ) of the Senate he can.

    While the Republican lead House drafted, then passed a current year budget, the Senate, under Reids leadership, shirked their duty and promise to the American people, debated and passed nothing, instead taking a two week vaction.

    Anyone that doesn’t put the inevitable government shut down squarely on the effeminate, rounded shoulders of Harry Reid is as morally bankrupt as he.

    When the dems held both houses, Pelosi and Reid held their votes on weekends, late into the wee hours of the morning, including Christmas Eve. There is no excuss, legitimate or otherwise for the democrat sabotage of this countries finances. We all know exactly what that reason is, even though some ( libs ) will never admit it.

  • My Horse his Name is Mack

    You have to give the Dems props for sticking to the script, even when the script is revealed to be a script.

  • BadGenome

    I agree with Harry Reid. There is no sense in listening to anyone who has a 50% unfavorability rating. Like, for instance, Harry Reid.

  • http://www.snowspot.net Snowspot

    BadGenome said:
    I agree with Harry Reid. There is no sense in listening to anyone who has a 50% unfavorability rating. Like, for instance, Harry Reid.

    The Tea Party as a movement has failed.

  • BadGenome

    Snowspot said:
    The Tea Party as a movement has failed.

    Your parents failed.

  • http://www.snowspot.net Snowspot

    BadGenome said:
    Your parents failed.

    jdubbleu said:
    if anyone knows failure, it would be you.

    My failure would be small in comparison to the thousands of people alongside you losers, it’s nice to watch a big group of stupid people get their comeuppance, can’t wait until Obama’s second term and the Tea Party’s tears and their call for a recount.

  • BadGenome

    Snowspot said:
    My failure would be small in comparison to the thousands of people alongside you losers, it’s nice to watch a big group of stupid people get their comeuppance, can’t wait until Obama’s second term and the Tea Party’s tears and their call for a recount.

    Yeah, that’s it. Keep sucking Obama’s dick while he bankrupts the country and leaves you holding the bag, you shit for brains.

  • Penguin60

    Snowspot said:
    it’s nice to watch a big group of stupid people get their comeuppance,

    Yep, Nov ’10 was a real hoot! LMAO

  • BadGenome

    jdubbleu said:
    wetspot will never make money over the poverty level, hes just looking out for his own interests…

    In the short term, sure. But as bad as hard working people are gonna get f’d over, at least they’ll have the grit to soldier on when the shit hits the fan. People like Wetspot who have never developed a work ethic will go absolutely bananas when the taxpayer tit is at long last well and truly sucked dry.

  • Dem4Ever

    Radical?! Doesn’t he mean “extreme”?

  • TeaPartyPatriot

    Hearing dingy-harry insult the millions of American tea party patriots in his girlish, wimpy voice is hilarious !

  • Nacho

    Now I understand why many of you don’t like the term teabaggers… you are all teabaggers!

  • felixw

    Reid is bankrupting the nation by refusing to make meaningful spending cuts. Meanwhile the government needs to borrow another $4 billion EVERY DAY to pay the bill for Mr. Reid’s spending spree. When it comes to a radical and unrealistic mindset, no one can top the clueless Senator from Nevada, who apparently thinks money grows on trees.

  • Nacho

    Tax cuts for the wealthy and corporate welfare put America in this position.

    You teabaggers are extremists and that was made clear long before “the caucus” decided to embrace the term. You have been duped into becoming shills AGAINST the American people.

  • http://www.zazzle.com/talkingpoints NORBIT Jr.

    Look up “ANACHRONISM” Harry, and watch the world EVOLVE!

  • illusive man

    Nacho said:
    Now I understand why many of you don’t like the term teabaggers… you are all teabaggers!

    It is quite fun teabagging the left.
    Especially when there is nothing thay can do to stop it.
    The left is nothing more then a small minority of teabagging victims.
    And all they can do is whine and pout.
    Hilarious!

  • Yoda002

    All those Tax cuts to the wealthy have put our country in this position.

  • Greg

    I find Representative Robert Toombs a perfectly a perfectly logical negotiator.

  • Penguin60

    Yoda002 said:
    All those Tax cuts to the wealthy have put our country in this position.

    How much tax did GE pay? Who’s BHO’s BFF? Don’t blame TEA Party, open your eyes.

  • Davo

    felixw said:
    Reid is bankrupting the nation by refusing to make meaningful spending cuts. Meanwhile the government needs to borrow another $4 billion EVERY DAY to pay the bill for Mr. Reid’s spending spree. When it comes to a radical and unrealistic mindset, no one can top the clueless Senator from Nevada, who apparently thinks money grows on trees.

    Easy up on Reid. He HAS to keep buying votes with taxpayers’ money to make up for also telling the Dim ones that 10% unemployment, skyrocketing food and gas costs, a $1.5 Trillion deficit this year as all a “good” thing for lthem.

  • Davo

    Also, note that if our founders were here today, shameless idiots like Reid and Schumer would publicly call them “radical extremists” as well.

  • More Liberty5

    I suggest everyone read the following. If you get upset over it, especially the part about GE, then Reid would consider you a “radical.”

    Obviously Mediaite won’t report it, but it’s now just coming out that investigators have found a hidden bailout in the sum of $2 billion in Obamacare.

    http://washingtonexaminer.com/blogs/beltway-confidential/2011/03/uncovered-new-2-billion-bailout-obamacare

    “Investigators for the House Energy and Commerce Committee have discovered that a little-known provision in the national health care law has allowed the federal government to pay nearly $2 billion to unions, state public employee systems, and big corporations to subsidize health coverage costs for early retirees.”

    So far the money has went to the” United Auto Workers, which has so far received $206,798,086. Other big recipients include AT&T, which received $140,022,949, and Verizon, which received $91,702,538. GENERAL ELECTRIC(my emphasis added), in the news recently for not paying any U.S. taxes last year, received $36,607,818. General Motors, recipient of a massive government bailout, received $19,002,669.”

    So General Electric paid no taxes to the USA, yet they received tax payer dollars. This is corruption. I’m not solely blaming Obama – he didn’t write it – I’m blaming these corrupt politicians.

  • hunter10

    Nacho said:
    Tax cuts for the wealthy and corporate welfare put America in this position. You teabaggers are extremists and that was made clear long before “the caucus” decided to embrace the term. You have been duped into becoming shills AGAINST the American people.

    I am a member of the tea party and I am also an AMERICAN FED UP WITH DEADBEATS.

  • captaingrumpy

    I think EVEYONE should pay income tax.Every other country does it,and we (Aust.) pay a value added tax, 10% on everything we buy. That way everyone pays equally.
    If you use it then you are taxed when you buy it………..fair.

  • captaingrumpy

    PS I bet harry wears his boots when he goes to the cowboy poetry sessions. They are big,black,with sparkles and a fluffy pink ring around the top. His lassoo is made from glitter tape and the leggings are beautiful.

  • X-3

    Dingey Harry’s Dictionary:

    Radical: The notion that it is impossible to remain financially solvent by spending beyond one’s means.

    Unrealistic: The notion that capitalism is better than socialism, communism, marxism, or so-called “progressivism.”

    Yep, I’m radical and unrealistic Harry.

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