Can Harry Reid wait out the Tea Party?
The Senate majority leader seems to think so.
Reid sat down with more than 30 Review-Journal staffers Friday afternoon for an hour-long Q&A session at the newspaper's offices. The bulk of the back and forth was dedicated to federal spending and how Congress might tame exploding budget deficits. Reid blamed everything that ails Washington and the nation on Republicans.
He slammed the GOP for its refusal to go along with tax increases as part of this month's debt-ceiling deal, saying hard-core fiscal conservatives are making it impossible to strike a long-term deal that slows the growth of the national debt.
"(Senate Minority Leader) Mitch McConnell has done a good job bringing the country to a standstill," Reid said.
The reason Republicans have drawn such a deep line in the sand on tax increases, of course, is the Tea Party movement. The populist uprising that was born from Washington's bailouts achieved critical mass after Democrats decided to start spending like no government before. The stimulus. The ObamaCare overreach. Budget deficits that made President George W. Bush look like a piker.
Democrats were tossed from office in record numbers last November. That groundswell is shaping the 2012 campaign. But Reid doesn't expect it to last. "The Tea Party was the result of a terrible economy," he said. "I've said that many times, and I believe that."
"That (the Tea Party) will pass. They will lose a number of seats next year."
The Tea Party? Slip sliding away? I doubt it senator. If memory serves? You and Nancy predicted no losses for the democrats in 2010 in the house too didn't you. How'd that work out for you? Seems senator Harry believes that the Tea Party exists only because the economy is down and as soon as that gets resolved? All will be well.
Well not exactly messer Reid. See, your guy (Mr. Hope and Change) was supposed to already have all his fixed. Wasn't he? And not only has he failed to even begin to fix the economy and unemployment? But he has in fact worsened it. I might add, with your help and the help of madam Pelosi.
So I don't think the Tea Party is going any where Harry. As a matter of fact, I am not sure that there even is a Tea Party, but I am quite sure that there are several dozen dozen million pissed off Americans who are fed up with Washington and the democrat party. And it's president and it's leaders.
So if I were you messer Reid? I'd say that you and madam Pelosi had better steer clear of adolescent girls with dogs and picnic baskets from Kansas sprinkling water. And the one who may very well fit the bill of the new age of Dorothy? May very well be Michell Bachman. So, pay no attention to that man behind the curtain senator. The Tea Party is just an anomaly and everything that happened last November? Well that was just a glitch and it won't be long before you and the other democrats are singing happy days are here again! Right?
Keep thinking that Harry. Keep telling yourself that Harry. Keep doing what you are doing Harry.
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And ... there are a lot of republicans that better not count the "tea-party" out either! :-)
I don't think that old Jedi Knight trick will work for Reid either. The old wave of the hand and stuttering something like "nothing to see here folks" isn't going to pacify the true backbone of this nation.
Good post.
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