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Harry Reid Renames The GOP the ‘Banana Republicans’
While speaking to the media today, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid coined a new term for the GOP. Sen. Reid called them the banana Republicans.
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Harry Reid Tells Pointless House Republicans, ‘We will not be extorted by tea party anarchists.’
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid responded to the news the House Republicans are going to vote against Obamacare for a 43rd time by saying, “The American people will not be extorted by Tea Party anarchists.”
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Harry Reid Warns Boehner Get Some Courage because, ‘We’re not going to be extorted.’
Sen. Harry Reid slammed John Boehner and warned him that the Senate is going to be extorted. He told Boehner to get some courage and pass the Senate bill, or the government will shutdown.
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Harry Reid Vows, ‘We’re not going to bow to Tea Party anarchists.’
Majority Leader Harry Reid took to the Senate floor and issued a battle cry for all Democrats, ‘We’re not going to bow to Tea Party anarchists who deny the mere fact that Obamacare is the law.’
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Harry Reid Calls Out the Tea Party Anarchists Who Are Destroying Congress
Harry Reid called out the tea party members of Congress for their anarchic destruction of the legislative branch, and echoed Bernie Sanders’ call for the eviction of the far right from the House.
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Harry Reid Has His Finger on the Nuclear Button To Stop Republican Filibuster Abuse
Sen. Harry Reid has let it be known that if tea party Republicans don’t stop abusing the filibuster, he thinks the Senate Democrats will go to nuclear on the filibuster.
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Harry Goes There: Reid Connects Republican Obstruction to Obama’s Race
In a fascinating interview with KNPR in Nevada Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid called out Republicans for trying to make Obama fail and connected GOP obstruction to potential racism.
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Harry Reid Reveals that Obamacare Is Step One Towards Single Payer Healthcare
During an interview on Nevada Week In Review, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid revealed that Obamacare is the first steps towards single payer healthcare for all.
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Background Checks Are Back: Reid Says Only 3 More Republicans Needed to Pass
Senate Democrats are bullish on background check legislation, they only need 3 more Republicans. There are 4 Republicans being targeted to flip their vote.
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Harry Reid Mocks House Republicans for Being Afraid of a Tea Party Revolt
Reid mocked the Republicans, ‘It seems House Republicans don’t want to be seen discussing even the possibility of compromise with Democrats, for fear that there will be a Tea Party revolt.’
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Senate Republicans Have Shamed America By Ignoring the Will of 92% of the Population
Today was a shameful day for America because 8% of the population, Ted Nugent and Wayne La Pierre, ALEC, and gun-crazed Republicans thumbed their noses at the great majority of Americans.
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Obama Called Their Bluff: Republicans Admit They Are Too Scared to Cut Social Security
You may have missed it, but over the weekend congressional Republicans admitted that they are terrified that any cuts to Social Security will be part of an Obama trap that will destroy them.
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New Poll: 85% of Gun Owners Support the Background Checks in Senate Dems Bill
It turns out the”liberal extremists” that Wayne LaPierre warned were pushing background check legislation are 85% of U.S. gun owners.
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Harry Reid Fires Back and Calls John Boehner a Do Nothing Speaker
Harry Reid fired back at John Boehner’s attempt to blame the Senate for the sequester by saying, “The speaker’s doing nothing to try to pass anything.”
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Harry Reid Needs to Get Both a Spine and a Clue and Confront Republican Obstruction
After suffering their obstruction in the 111th and 112th Congress, one would think Reid would get a clue, and a spine, and do his job as Majority Leader and end Republican abuse of the filibuster.
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Harry Reid Tells Republicans No Deal Unless Big Oil Subsidies are Eliminated
Majority Leader Harry Reid said today that any budget deal must contain new revenue, and he specifically mentioned eliminating subsidies to Big Oil.
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Harry Reid Wants Input on Filibuster; let’s give it to him
If Senator Reid needs more input on filibuster reform, let’s make our voices heard right now.
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John Boehner’s F-Bomb to America
John Boehner, back to the wall, has come out swinging a middle finger, offering an F-bomb to Harry Reid and to the victims of Hurricane Sandy
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Disgusted with House Republicans, Senate Announces ‘We’re Done’
Senate Democrats are done playing Republican House games. They won’t be making changes to the agreement. ‘We’re done,’ an aide said.
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Since Democrats took control of the Senate in 2006, Republicans Have Mounted 380 Filibusters
Republicans have managed to give the public Republican rule via the filibuster, even though the public elected Democratic rule.
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Mitch McConnell Will Filibuster Anything, Including His Own Bill
Senate history may have been made today when GOP Sen Mitch McConnell attempted to filibuster his own bill on the debt ceiling. Reid called him out, ‘I guess we have a filibuster of his own bill.’
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Pelosi and Reid Have Obama’s Back: No Social Security Cuts and Taxes Must be Raised on the Rich
Both Democratic leaders in the Senate have Obama’s back on the fiscal cliff. Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi are emphatic about the wealthy paying more taxes, and no cuts being made to Social Security.
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Romney Lawyer Admits They Manipulated Taxes to Conform to 13% Claim
Mitt Romney’s lawyer admitted that they manipulated the returns so as to conform to an August Romney claim that he always paid at least 13%.
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2012 is Already the Best Democratic Convention in Many Years
There’s lots of pressure on the remaining party ‘stars’. For today (Wednesday), you know prime time (10-11:00) speakers Bill Clinton and Elizabeth Warren won’t disappoint, but this is already a great convention.
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Romney Claims He Never Paid Less than 13% but Won’t Release his Tax Returns
Mitt Romney delivered another trust me moment in South Carolina by claiming that he has not paid less than 13% in taxes in the last 10 years, but still refused to release his tax returns.
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Watch the White House Crush Romney’s Blame Obama for Harry Reid Meme
The White House took Romney’s attempt to use the right’s blame Obama meme to cover up his tax returns and turned into another campaign disaster for W. Mitt Romney.
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With Zero Proof a Hypocritical Romney Blames Obama for Reid Allegations
Apparently oblivious to hypocrisy, the Romney campaign is offering zero proof but blaming President Obama for Harry Reid’s allegations that Mitt Romney hasn’t paid his taxes.
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Republicans Watch Their Harry Reid is a Liar Strategy Crash and Burn
Republicans are learning the hard way that calling Harry Reid a liar is a strategy that is blowing up in their faces.
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Harry Reid Wins Again as RNC Chairman Calls Him a Dirty Liar
RNC Chairman Reince Priebus couldn’t resist throwing more gasoline on to the Romney tax returns fire by calling Harry Reid a dirty liar.
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Tax Returns Smoke Hides a Blazing Inferno of Romney Lies
With all the smoke this past week regarding Willard Romney’s failure to release past tax returns, it is apparent there is a fire Romney is determined to hide and extinguish.
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Harry Reid’s Coy Maneuver Paints Romney into a Corner on Tax Returns
With one the utterance of one sentence accusing Romney of not paying taxes for ten years, Harry Reid dropped a bombshell and switched the national discussion back to Romney’s tax returns.
Free Speech Prevails As Harry Reid Backs Down And Cancels PIPA Vote
After Senate support for PIPA evaporated, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid finally got the message and postponed a scheduled January 24 vote on the bill.
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Harry Reid Sells SOPA Censorship As Job Creation
Despite the White House’s objections, Harry Reid said on Meet The Press that SOPA will save jobs and the Majority Leader continued to push the legislation.
Sharron Angle Accuses Harry Reid of Giving Legal Citizens Social Security
During the US Senate debate tonight between Sharron Angle and Harry Reid, it became clear that Angle has no idea what she is talking about on Social Security when she said, “Harry Reid has voted to give Social Security to illegal aliens, not only before they were citizens but after they were citizens.” Oh my God, Harry Reid gave benefits to US citizens!!! Wait, that’s legal.
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Sharron Angle: The Republican Party Has Lost its Principles
While claiming to be an agent of change, an outsider determined to make changes, Angle is at once claiming the Republican Party has not supported her and at the same time claiming she has “juice†in Washington.
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5 Weeks Out Polls Reveal a Surge of Support for Democrats
New polls released in Kentucky, Nevada, and California show that Democrats are making a big comeback in each state, and the tide may be turning against the GOP. In Kentucky Rand Paul has blown a 15 point lead in less than a month. In Nevada, Harry Reid is up by 5 points on Sharron Angle, and in California the Democrats in both the gubernatorial and the Senate races now lead.
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The Selling of our Democracy:How AT&T Owns Harry Reid, Mitch McConnell, and John Boehner
You may think that Harry Reid, Mitch McConnell, and John Boehner would have very little in common, but in the chummy world of corporate special interest politics, all three of them share a top benefactor. According to an investigation by the Center for Public Integrity the top backer of the careers of all three politicians was telecom giant AT&T, but beyond ideology these three share a special interest money bond.
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Obama Sets a Wall St. Reform Trap for the GOP
President Barack Obama and Senate Democrats are absolutely giddy today to be losing a procedural vote on Wall Street reform. Why are they so happy? If the Senate Republicans stand together and vote no, Democrats are prepared to rake them over the coals on the issue, as 2/3 of all Americans support financial reform. By being the Party of No, the GOP is painting themselves as the party of Pro Wall St.
Right Wing Smears Harry Reid with Edited Video
After the right wing took a beating this week due to Jim Bunning one man filibuster of jobless benefits, they counter attacked by doing what they do best. They spread a heavily edited seven second video of Harry Reid that makes it seem like he is calling the loss of 36,000 more jobs good news, but they leave out the fact that the good news Reid was referring to is that job losses were less than expected.
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Healthcare Summit Turning into another Obama Slaughter of the Congressional GOP
Congressional Republicans and Democrats have converged on the White House for a day long summit on healthcare reform with President. If you thought that the Republicans would learn from the beating that Obama gave the House GOP when he spoke to them at their retreat a few weeks ago, you were wrong. Republicans are still sticking to their talking while letting the president make the case for healthcare reform.
Bill O’Reilly Advocates that the CIA Kidnap Harry Reid and Waterboard Nancy Pelosi
While on his Bold and Fresh Tour with Glenn Beck in Waterbery, NY over the weekend, Fox News’ Bill O’Reilly claimed that he told Obama to hire him as his special advisor, and as Obama’s special advisor he would tell the CIA to kidnap Harry Reid and to waterboard Nancy Pelosi.
Racism: the Latest GOP Spin Sensation
Thanks to some seriously inappropriate words from Democratic Senator Majority Leader, Harry Reid, the GOP are up in arms while trying to spin their racist behavior on to the Democratic Party.
Al Franken’s Not So Subtle Message to Joe Lieberman
On the Senate floor today, Sen. Al Franken (D-MN) sent Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-CT) a strong message today when as acting president he denied Lieberman’s request for more time to speak. The message was simple. If Lieberman is going to destroy healthcare reform, then he shouldn’t count on getting any future help from Democrats.
How Joe Lieberman Became Progressive Enemy # 1
First, the fact that he couldn’t take losing to Ned Lamont in the Democratic Primary for his Senate seat in his last election (2006), so HE started HIS OWN PARTY, Connecticut for Lieberman then he campaigned for John McCain, and now his criticism has helped derail the public option, because at the end of the day it is all about Joe Lieberman.
Ted Kennedy is the Most Googled US Senator of 2009
Google has compiled a list of the most searched terms in various categories for 2009, and at the top of the list for U.S. senators is the late Ted Kennedy. The only Republican to appear on the top 10 list is Chuck Grassley at number nine. On any list, Rush Limbaugh, not Glenn Beck, was the highest ranking conservative.
Harry Reid Screws Obama on Closing GITMO
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid declared in press conference today that he will not support GITMO detainees being held in the United States. Reid said that he supports Obama’s plan to close GITMO, but will not support, “terrorists to be released in the United States.” Reid is screwing Obama to save his reelection bid.
CBS Golf Analyst Feherty: Soldiers Would Shoot Nancy Pelosi Over Bin Laden
In his column for D Magazine CBS Golf Analyst David Feherty made the outrageous claim that the troops all love George W. Bush to the point where if a solider had two bullets and was in an elevator with Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid, and Bin Laden, the soldier would shoot Pelosi twice.
Joe Lieberman Stabs Obama in the Back
Here are the thanks President Obama got from Joe Lieberman for saving his committee chairmanship. Lieberman has blasted Obama for releasing the torture memos, saying that their release helped our enemies, and he repeated his position that waterboarding isn’t really torture.
Pennsylvania moderate Republican Sen.The White House Turns Up the Heat on Roland Burris
In another uh-oh moment for troubled Sen.
Senate Votes Down Resolution To Block The Release of TARP Funds
By a vote of 42-52 the Senate voted down a resolution to block the release of the remaining $350 billion in TARP funds.
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Reid and Durbin: Burris Will Be Seated This Week
Senate Majority Leader and Illinois Sen. Dick Durbin announced in a statement today that the Senate will seat embattled Gov. Rod Blagojevich’s senate appointee Roland Burris this week.
Conservatives Cry Media Bias against Tavis Smiley’s Obama Comments
Some conservatives are upset because PBS talk show host Tavis Smiley, told Harry Reid to put down the crack pipe and acknowledge that Democrats in Congress work for Barack Obama. Smiley added that, “We all work for Barack Obama.” This little comment has brought out the media bias conspiracy again.
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Reid Pressures Coleman to Concede
During his statement to the new Congress, Majority Leader Sen. Harry Reid (D-NV) waded into the disputed Minnesota Senate race by referring to Republican Norm Coleman as a former senator, and he called on him to concede, but Coleman said he will be filing suit to contest the certification of Al Franken as the winner.
Burris is Blago’s Political WMD Aimed at the Democratic Party
TThe ugly yet completely scripted theater that was Roland Burris being turned away from the Senate today has managed to make Burris appear to be an innocent victim, and the Senate leadership racist. Harry Reid has been outmaneuvered by Rod Blagojevich.
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Democrats Tell Automakers No Money without a Plan
Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid held a joint news conference today where they made it clear that the auto industry has to come up with a viable plan to reorganize or they will not get a dime of federal money.
Lieberman Acknowledges Owing Obama
After Democratic Senate Caucus voted 42-13 not to strip Independent Sen. Joe Lieberman of his Homeland Security chairmanship, Lieberman admitted both that he owes Obama, and that he regrets some of the remarks he made about the president elect during the presidential campaign.
Obama Saves Joe Lieberman
It is being reported tonight that Senate Democrats will vote tomorrow not to strip Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-CT) of his powerful chairmanship of the Homeland Security Committee. Lieberman will lose his subcommittee chairmanship,and has Barack Obama to thank for his light punishment.
Hillary Clinton Praises Obama’s Election
Hillary Clinton released a statement that praised Obama’s victory in a long hard fought historic campaign, but she added the result was well worth the wait.
A Liberal’s View of the Republican National Convention: McCain’s Finale
It’s Thursday, the last day of the Republican National Convention. So far, they haven’t offered much substance. They’d better seize the day and pull this one out.
Obama Ad Slams McCain on Yucca Mountain
In a new television ad for the state of Nevada, the campaign of Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama criticized John McCain’s support of opening up Yucca Mountain as storage facility for nuclear waste. The ad hit McCain hard saying that he supports nuclear waste in Nevada, but not in his own backyard of Arizona.
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Rove Cited for Contempt, but Pelosi Could Block Vote
The House Judiciary Committee cited Karl Rove for contempt for not appearing at a July 10 committee hearing related to the politicization of the Justice Department, but as has been her habit Speaker Nancy Pelosi could block a final vote.
Senate Passes FISA Bill With Telecom Immunity
As expected the Senate passed the FISA bill today complete with full immunity for the telecoms who participated in President Bush’s warrantless wiretapping program. The bill passed by a vote of 69-28.
Political World Saddened by Kennedy Diagnosis
If there is one word that can be used to describe both Democratic and Republican reaction to the news that Sen. Ted Kennedy (D-MA) has been diagnosed with a malignant brain tumor, it is sadness. Below are some of the reactions from all over the U.S. political world.
Harry Reid Calls Bush’s Appeasement Comment Reckless
“Not surprisingly, the engineer of the worst foreign policy in our nation’s history has fired yet another reckless and reprehensible round.
Barack Obama’s Dream Ticket Nightmare
Now that Barack Obama is on the verge of wrapping up the Democratic nomination, discussion has once again started swirling about an Obama/Clinton “dream ticket.”
Senate Votes to Ban Genetic Testing Discrimination
By a 95-0 vote, the Senate has passed a bill that would ban employers and insurance companies from discriminating against people based on any results learned from genetic testing. The bill is also supported by the House and President Bush, so it is expected to become law.
Reid Skeptical Towards Petraeus Nomination
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid released a statement today that could best be described as skeptical about President Bush’s nomination of Gen. David Petraeus to be the new CENTCOM commander.
Reid Calls On Senate GOP to Stop Blocking Better Benefits for Vets
Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) spoke on the Senate floor today, urging Republicans to vote in favor of a bill that would provide better benefits to veterans.
Reid Reacts to GAO Report on Pakistan
The non-partisan General Accounting Office issued a report today that concluded that U.S. has not met its security goals in Pakistan’s tribal region. Because of this al-Qaeda has regained its attack capability. The report also found that the Bush administration has no security plan for this region.
Reid and Pelosi Slam Bush’s Call for More Tax Cuts
Before meeting with his cabinet today, President Bush said the solution to the nation’s economic woes is for Congress to make his tax cuts permanent. Bush also took full credit for anticipating the current economic hard times. This did not go over well with Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi.
Reid: Bush Only Has Exit Strategy for Himself
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) had some harsh words for President Bush’s announcement that there will be a halt to troop withdrawals from Iraq in July. Bush also announced that he is cutting the length of troop tours from 15 months down to a year. However, this change doesn’t impact troops already on the front lines.
Senate Leaders Agree on Housing Stimulus Bill
Both Democratic and Republican leaders in the U.S. Senate announced this evening that they have agreed in principle on a housing stimulus bill.
Sens. Reid and Dodd Talk About the Housing Crisis
This week the Senate will move to reconsider the Foreclosure Prevention Act, which is a bill that would allow families who are facing foreclosure, due to increases in their adjustable rate mortgages, to stay in their homes. Today Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) and Sen. Chris Dodd (D-CT) held a press conference to discuss the bill.
Nancy Pelosi on the 4,000th US Casualty in Iraq
Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi released a statement today marking the 4,000th U.S. casualty in Iraq. “Today, we mourn America’s fallen heroes; the deaths of 4,000 American soldiers are a grim reminder of the enormous cost of war in Iraq: the human cost.