Preying Or Praying (Reuters)

By Chuck Ring (GadaboutBlogalot ©2009)

Quote Freely From The Article – Leave The Pseudonym Alone

It was pre-destined. All that pent-up angst bloating Senator Harry Reid was thought to be a part of global gas that would be a danger to humankind the world over. Well, we can hope, can’t we? It has almost happened with his latest pronouncements calling-out Republicans and their opposition to his health shill bill. Republicans and moderate Democrats have prevented Reid (up to this point) from realizing his dream of killing the fatted calf to celebrate the passage of  the gaseous health bill. Calling them out and likening them to “supporters of slavery” and more is Reid’s childish attempt at turning opinion toward being in favor of the health bill.

Here’s a bit of the story as reported by Fox News:

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.

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.

Leave it to Reid to blame everything, save common sense, as being responsible for the slowdown of the health bill’s slim chance of passage as it is now constituted. You can read and hear more of his almost puppy dog affection for the bill and while you are at it, perhaps you might want to digest this article (Wall Street Journal) … the articles, joined by their inference or reference to gas and the cost to carry out each are a monument to the lack of common sense displayed by Reid.

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