Harry Reid Lashes Out At Republicans

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) went off on the Republicans in Congress on Sunday. Appearing on NBC's Meet the Press, Reid accused the party of "obstructionism on steroids."

"Mitch McConnell said his number one goal at the beginning of this Congress was to defeat President Obama, not have him reelected. And that's how they've legislated. We've spent months on things that used to happen just matter-of-factly -- raising the debt ceiling," Reid said.

"I would hope the two Republican leaders have learned from what took place in the previous year," he continued. "I would hope that they understand that everything doesn't have to be a fight."

The majority leader said the Tea Party is driving Republicans "right over the cliff," and suggested the movement is dying out.

He pointed to the recent partisan battle over extending the payroll tax credit, calling it a "disaster" for Republicans who fought unsuccessfully to block the tax cut. "Can you imagine, Republicans, as reported in the Wall Street Journal, were opposed to lowering taxes?" said Reid.

The message wasn't all was negative, however. Reid said despite Washington gridlock, the legislature accomplished a lot last year, claiming "we had the most productive Congress in the history of Congress." He expressed hope for compromise going into 2012.

Comments

[yesiamaconservative]

06:27 PM on 04/29/2012

If there are any Harry Reed Fans left after watching this ...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?NR=1&feature=fvwp&v=_Rl1xgT3REE

the last one leaving the room please turn out the lights ...

[kengault]

10:58 AM on 01/17/2012

Harry Reid himself said that it would be “foolish” for Democrats to offer a budget plan. Meanwhile, the Republicans in the House pass a budget but they are the ones who are considered “extreme.”

By the way, don’t count on the ObamaMedia to point out the fact that we are going on three years without a budget from Democrats in the Senate. This doesn’t fit into their Obama/Democrat election narrative.

[surfinnonreality]

03:40 PM on 01/17/2012

The last time the Senate passed a budget was April 29, 2009. Over a 1000 days.

[yesiamaconservative]

06:28 PM on 04/29/2012

fanned.

watch this
http://www.youtube.com/watch?NR=1&feature=fvwp&v=_Rl1xgT3REE

[scandaliciousreserve]

08:15 PM on 01/16/2012

The majority leader said the Tea Party is driving Republicans "right over the cliff," and suggested the movement is dying out.

******

More like members of the Democratic Party are dying out at the election box.....

unless there is a power outage - to benefit yr cause - like in Nevada.

[commiepinko]

07:25 PM on 01/16/2012

Did he hit them with a wet noodle?

[supergenius02]

07:00 PM on 01/16/2012

Harry Reid is a political eunuch. He has done nothing in the Senate. He literally road the coattails of Nancy Pelosi and now that she is irrelevant after losing her Speaker status, Reid has returned to irrelevancy. The GOP does not need to obstruct the Democrats. The Democrats are obstructing themselves.

[Grichde]

06:06 PM on 01/16/2012

Grumpy man

[ThePen]

04:40 PM on 01/16/2012

I don't know why Reid just does not enter a bill that would outlaw Republicans in the Senate? That would get the juices flowing.

[marielct5]

05:35 PM on 01/16/2012

Yes and when he does that enter a bill to outlaw all Democrates!!!!!!

[Hooponopono]

06:37 PM on 01/16/2012

Marieict, it's spelled "Democrats". Ahhhh, the heartbreak of home schooling.

[fourex]

04:05 PM on 01/16/2012

Harry Reid is the most impotent Senate Leader of my lifetime. Basically the Senate minority leader ran the club.

[hoperequired]

03:27 PM on 01/16/2012

Poor Harry. He's so ineffective. He's one of the many who have been in office too long.

[Hooponopono]

03:53 PM on 01/16/2012

He will remain in office until 2017 along with President Obama. LIVE WITH IT !!

[marielct5]

05:36 PM on 01/16/2012

You may be wrong about that!!!!!!

[njterry7]

02:46 PM on 01/16/2012

If Harry Reid shot himself in the foot, He would blame republicans for passing a gun bill. Go home harry haven't you done enough damage already

[Hooponopono]

03:52 PM on 01/16/2012

GOOD LORD !! Are you deaf, dumb and blind to the horrible mess the Republcians have made of this country during the Bush years??

[njterry7]

03:56 PM on 01/16/2012

Keep holding on to that and obama will leave you with nothing

[marielct5]

05:38 PM on 01/16/2012

Bush is gone or do you know that!!!!! The Bush thing is getting really old..... Try something else!!!!!

[Aarron Burr]

02:37 PM on 01/16/2012

The Democrat Senate has neither created nor approved a budget for how many years? But the Republicans are "obstructionist". We can't fund our government at the current rate, but any attempt to change it is stomped on by the Democrat Senate. But the Republicans are obstructionist. I see a trend here. The Democrats very quietly admit a need to cut spending, but insist on raising taxes first. Reagan fell for that one and raised taxes, but the Dems. They didn't reduce spending. Fool me once shame on you, fool me twice shame on me. The obstruction of insanity is a good thing.

[Hooponopono]

02:43 PM on 01/16/2012

You have forgotten about the 4 trillion dollar reduction package that Obama offered; the one that the CEO of S and P said would have prevented the downgrade if only the Republicans had not rejected it.

[Aarron Burr]

04:27 PM on 01/16/2012

Which included tax increases, something even Bill Clinton said was not wise. Frurthermore, it included "savings" accrued from Obamacare, in other words more spending.

[scandaliciousreserve]

05:43 AM on 01/17/2012

@ Hooponono:

You forgot Timothy Geithner as Sec of the US Treasury stated we would not be downgraded - he intended to resign after the Debt Ceiling Conferences - but changed course - when demands for his resignation were in full gear.

Obama's destructive behavior during the Debt Ceiling Conferences will last longer than his presidency.

[Dean King]

01:34 PM on 01/16/2012

Stop the madness/Save America
Romney 2012 REAL Hope and Change

[Hooponopono]

02:03 PM on 01/16/2012

The man we elect this fall will undoubtedly appoint one or more to the Supreme Court. If you just LOVE Citizens United and want to enshrine this approach for years and years to come, Mitt Romney is your guy. If you H8 Citizens United, as the vast majority of Americans do, you shouldn't go anywhere near the guy.

[kathy smelser]

02:03 PM on 01/16/2012

you must have gotten a job with Mitt handing out those pink slips

[snapperhead]

01:30 PM on 01/16/2012

It would be nice if the regressives were working for all Americans.

Instead, they dredge up useless dialogues about failed supply-side economic theory and complain that the spending, which they now own, is the problem. Why is it that only conservative spending policies create problems?

[phoebe54]

01:53 PM on 01/16/2012

Hear it from the former Assistant Treasury Secretary under Bush I: http://front.moveon.org/former-reagan-adviser-bush-tax-cuts-arent-the-key-to-prosperity/?rc=daily.share&id=34753-20730697-kiYvKgx

[marielct5]

05:41 PM on 01/16/2012

BUSH, BUSH, BUSH, SO SICK OF HEARING ABOUT BUSH.... HE IS GONE GET OVER IT!!!!!

[Son of Liberty 1765]

01:11 PM on 01/16/2012

This spinless waste of breath hasn't passed a budget since Obama took over.

[Hooponopono]

02:05 PM on 01/16/2012

I am astonished by the vast number of conservatives who post stuff like this. They are always throwing the constitution in our faces and don't even know the basic; that the constitution makes the budget the responsibility of the House, the very House led by John Boehner and the Repulbicans for the last year. You might direct your ire against the orange guy when he sobers up.

[Son of Liberty 1765]

02:46 PM on 01/16/2012

THey didn't pass one nefore the midterms.... two years with Pelosi as Speaker. I know your a liberal and your memory is short so do some research and be honest with your vapid mind for a change.

[surfinnonreality]

09:20 PM on 01/16/2012

Wrong. Read the following. reid has not brought a budget to conference in a 1000 days. No budget for the last 3 years is reid's fault.

On or before the first Monday in February, the President submits to Congress a detailed budget request for the coming federal fiscal year, which begins on October 1. (In years where there is a change in administration, the budget is submitted later.) This budget request, developed by the President's Office of Management and Budget (OMB), plays three important roles. First, it tells Congress what the President recommends for overall federal fiscal policy, as established by three main components: (1) how much money the federal government should spend on public purposes; (2) how much it should take in as tax revenues; and (3) how much of a deficit (or surplus) the federal government should run, which is simply the difference between (1) and (2).After receiving the President's budget request, Congress generally holds hearings to question Administration officials about their requests and then develops its own budget resolution. This work is done by the House and Senate Budget Committees, whose primary function is to draft and enforce the budget resolution. Once the committees are done, their budget resolutions go to the House and Senate floors, where they can be amended (by a majority vote). A House-Senate conference then resolves any differences, and a conference report is passed by both houses

[4everright]

01:08 PM on 01/16/2012

a liberal trait, blame someone else for your misgivings.

[burrs55]

01:30 PM on 01/16/2012

LOL - I have always thought that was a GOPT trait - I hear them doing it every day!

[Hooponopono]

02:06 PM on 01/16/2012

Nobody needs blame anybody for anything. We simply drag out the facts and watch Republicans scatter like the roaches in your kitchen when you turn on the light at night.

[Deep Thinking Man]

05:24 PM on 01/16/2012

Hooponopono...my friend...you are exactly right !!!!!!...too bad the trolls don't understand this...but then again...they are paid a nickel a post so...they're happy thinking they're 1%ers !!!!!!

[marielct5]

05:43 PM on 01/16/2012

You must be talking about the Democrates RIGHT!!!!!!