Reid: GOP is 'afraid' of the tea party
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) worried Sunday that the government might be shut down if Republican leadership continued to be cowered by the tea party movement.
"The Republican leadership in the House has to make a decision whether they're going to do the right thing for the country or do the right thing for the tea party," Reid told CBS' Bob Schieffer.
"The tea party, you see, they spent weeks organizing here. The day came for their demonstration a couple days ago. They didn't have thousands of people there. They didn't have hundreds of people. They had tens of people. If you really stretch it, you might have had 150 people there. The tea party is is not looked at very strongly around the country. The only attention they get is in the House of Representatives. They shouldn't be getting that attention," he said.
"Are you saying that Speaker Boehner and the Republicans who have been here for a while are afraid of the tea party? Is that what's going on here?" Schieffer asked.
"That's a pretty good choice of words. The answer is yes. The tea party is dictating a lot that goes on in the Republican leadership in the House. They shouldn't," Reid explained.
Are they "afraid"..........Mostly only of losing Kochbircher/corporate $$$
The first casualty of republicanism is the truth.
Party politics are not only undemocratic, they are antidemocratic.
I like it. It looks like some of the teabaggers are removing the teabags from their eyes.
So Mr. Reid, do the right thing now. Walk the walk. Stop catering to the republican crisis capitalism and hysteria. If you do we will back you - you won't need corporate money and you'll be free of their blackmailing.
"Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob"
-= Franklin Delano Roosevelt =-
they are usually the ones dishing out the FEAR, FEAR, FEAR.
What a bunch of wienies!
“The greatest evildoers are those who don’t remember because they have never given thought to the matter, and, without remembrance, nothing can hold them back,”
Weinies.
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
Hot Dog
Little cheese with the wein? or whine?
In the marketplace of ideas, too many people shop in the bargain basement.
-- Thunder BlueRose
Why, yes, I am a card-carrying member of the ACLU
http://saxman.bravepages.com
Little chili around here, it seems...
In the marketplace of ideas, too many people shop in the bargain basement.
-- Thunder BlueRose
Why, yes, I am a card-carrying member of the ACLU
http://saxman.bravepages.com
"weenies". I've been listening to Anthony Wiener too much lately!!
“The greatest evildoers are those who don’t remember because they have never given thought to the matter, and, without remembrance, nothing can hold them back,”
would be "scared shitless". They've alienated so many demographic groups the Republicans are doomed without their base.
Hasa Diga Eebowai
I agree. I said months ago, 'Sarah Palin and the Tea Party were nothing more than MSM media creations, and would quickly disappear when something better comes along.'
I misread that as GOD is 'afraid' of the tea party
Which is silly.
But the Tea Party does make baby Jesus cry.
And everytime a Tea Partier opens his/her mouth and says something stupid, God kills a kitten...
For God's sake, think of the kittens! Oh Goddess! The myriad dead kitties!!!! Oh noes!!!!!
In the marketplace of ideas, too many people shop in the bargain basement.
-- Thunder BlueRose
Why, yes, I am a card-carrying member of the ACLU
http://saxman.bravepages.com
The 'GOP' would be wise to re-examine whom they allow in, in the dark.
As the conservatives and independents who went all tea party start to really see what they have elected to represent them with their protest votes...well, let's just say it is going to be a long 2 or 4 or 6 years for them once they come to their senses. Hopefully recall petitions and elections and how the tea party is falling in the polls will become the next msm "exciting news" addiction.
Yeah well the democrats are afraid of the GOP, the tea baggers, any type of fight or confrontation, news commentators, their own shadow, bubbles, lint.....
Like the GOP is 'scared shitless' of the tea baggers, the democrats are scared shitless of the GOP.....
Where!!!?? oh god oh god oh god!
like used here when describing the tea party. They really deserve no title.
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"Parachutes are allowed in checked or carry-on baggage, but may not be worn in flight."
---Southwest Airlines
CAUGHT BETWEEN THE DEVIL AND THE DEEP BLUE SEA
In order to gain the political power they've enjoyed for decades, Republican moderates and fiscal conservatives made a pact with the devil (faux Christians, bigots, racists, sexists - teabaggers) to achieve the numbers they needed to defeat Democrats. They made a strategic decision to manipulate/exploit the ignorance, fears and hatreds of dysfunctional/vulnerable/uninformed voters in order to win elections rather than lose them by being intellectually and morally honest.
Today, those who conspired with the devil are caught between wanting to disassociate themselves with and casting out the demons they empowered and the karmic reality that they don't have the numbers to hold on to or regain power without continuing to accept and "advocate" the immoral values, hypocrisies and corruptions that are dividing and destroying their party.
The survival of today's shrinking Republican Party is so dependent on extremism that they have no significant power left WITH or WITHOUT the support of America's increasingly pernicious lunatic fringe.
The idiom "caught between the devil and the deep blue sea" is appropriate as Republicans are facing the dilemma of choosing between two equally undesirable alternatives that both result in Republican impotence in mainstream American politics. They are suffering the consequences of their treachery.
Their irresponsible propping up of George W. Bush cost them their credibility, and the irrationalities of teabaggers, birthers and deathers exacerbated by the reckless/lying exhortations of Palin, Beck, Limbaugh and Hannity are costing them their viability.
In the 70s and 80s, the southern Democrats became Republicans and helped take over the Republican Party (along with the right-wing religious crowd). Because of the Tea Party, there should be an equal exodus to the Democrat Party of moderate Republicans who can't stand the Libertarian/Right Wing rhetoric. That's what happened to me in the early 80s. Gingrich's mouth and Reagan's financial incompetence drove me away from the Republican Party, the party of my parents.
The Democrats are scared shitless of the GOP......how else could the retrogrades do whatever the hell they want when the Dems has a big majority? Pussies.
Definitely don't cut right through the b.s. or anything, Harry.
There is a funny cartoon about a congressman who abandons all pretense and tells the unvarnished truth:
http://thedailyrawr.com/2011/03/19/too-honest...
He talks, among other things, about how it is morally necessary for him to put the interest of his donors first: "They paid good money for my campaign, and I wouldn't be much of a man if I didn't give them preferential treatment now."
It just reminds me of this story, in the way Harry says "that's a good choice of words" to the leading question. You shouldn't have to be asked leading questions about your own opinion! Just say it!
willie "Reid is afraid of the GOP"
Otherwise he would have listened to us when we were in the majority.But doing anything, anything at all that upsets the Republican makes "Sad Sack" Reid crap his pants.
The Tea Party, bat-shoot crazy as they are, is what the Republican Party is now. THESE are their constituents. By acting afraid -- yes its an act, just like all of current US Politics -- the GOP are at least pretending to care what their constituents want.
My guess is that the Teabag party will soon know, first hand, what its like to be a liberal...having your elected Party Politicians pay you lip-service then slap you in the face when it comes down to action. Boehner just needs some lame cop-out like "we didn't have the numbers" or "those stubborn obstructionist Dems wouldn't budge! Damn them!" But the GOP should be worried because the t-party has some source of inexplicable power over them...something called the Vote...and unlike liberals, they aren't afraid to use it by voting against their useless Party actors.
If only democrats were afraid of their base. Democrats too busy sh@$ing on their base.
I love how Reid was saying the the GOP shouldn't listen to their base. I should be happy about such an honest reflection about how he feels about people who don't toe the Party centrist line. But by extension, Reid is basically admitting that the Democratic Party should not listen to liberals.
Exactly! The democrat's starting meter for debate and negotiations seems to always be set on "center" and that meter moves further and further right
Sad Sad Harry has been ignoring the liberals for the past five years.
Hes going to get in a lot of trouble for this...
Politicians aren't supposed to say true things.
almost the entirety of the Democratic party, especially the WH, is literally petrified of them.
Because according to this poll, the voters are on the Boehner, Tea Party side. "Voters see Republicans as “more reasonable” than Democrats so far in budget negotiations – by a 41-to-29 percent margin, according to a poll published Monday by TheHill.com"
...link when that site's servers are back up. I'd love to see the methodology on that poll.
Don't try to confuse the issue with half-truths and gorilla dust.
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