Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid took his GOP-blasting rhetoric to a new level Monday, comparing Republicans who oppose health care reform to lawmakers who clung to the institution of slavery more than a century ago.This is clearly an act of desperation. Reid thinks he can shame GOP Senators into supporting this bill with false analogies.
The Nevada Democrat, in a sweeping set of accusations on the Senate floor, also compared health care foes to those who opposed women's suffrage and the civil rights movement -- even though it was Sen. Strom Thurmond, then a Democrat, who unsuccessfully tried to filibuster the Civil Rights Act of 1957 and it was Republicans who led the charge against slavery.
Senate Republicans on Monday called Reid's comments "offensive" and "unbelievable."
But Reid argued that Republicans are using the same stalling tactics employed in the pre-Civil War era.
"Instead of joining us on the right side of history, all the Republicans can come up with is, 'slow down, stop everything, let's start over.' If you think you've heard these same excuses before, you're right," Reid said Monday. "When this country belatedly recognized the wrongs of slavery, there were those who dug in their heels and said 'slow down, it's too early, things aren't bad enough.'"
He continued: "When women spoke up for the right to speak up, they wanted to vote, some insisted they simply, slow down, there will be a better day to do that, today isn't quite right.
"When this body was on the verge of guaranteeing equal civil rights to everyone regardless of the color of their skin, some senators resorted to the same filibuster threats that we hear today."
That seemed to be a reference to Thurmond's famous 1957 filibuster -- the late senator switched parties several years later.
Who was it standing in the doorway of schools to block black students from entering? Who was it turning fire hoses on civil rights marchers?
DEMOCRATS.
Who was it trying to retain slavery in America by attempting to negotiate a settlement with the South during the Civil War? Which party ran against the president that signed the Emancipation Proclamation and wanted to end slavery while saving the Union?
DEMOCRATS
Harry Reid, you're pathetic. And after 2012, you won't be a Senator anymore.
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Oh goodie, it’s another edition of “minor Southern political figures typing on the Internet about Barack Obama.” The thick head of hair over here, Mayor Russell Wiseman of Memphis suburb Arlington, got all hot and bothered on his Facebook the other night during the death speech: “Ok, so, this is total crap, we sit the kids down to watch ‘The Charlie Brown Christmas Special’ and our muslim president is there, what a load…..try to convince me that wasn’t done on purpose. Ask the man if he believes that Jesus Christ is the Son of God and he will give you a 10 minute disertation (sic) about it….w…hen the answer should simply be ‘yes’….”
http://wonkette.com/412541/white-mayor-of-some-suburb-has-several-theories-regarding-barack-obama
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