Dangerously Misspeaking
That’s the title of today’s Washington Times editorial about Harry Reid.
With Republicans in the doldrums these days, Democrats are hopeful that 2006 is their year to recapture at least one chamber of Congress. It’s a plausible outcome, except for one thing: Sen. Harry Reid. Not to be unfair to the senator, but rarely has a minority leader so threatened the majority ambitions of his party.
There’s nothing unfair about calling Reid a threat to his own party. The thing is that he doesn’t even realize he’s sinking his party in the eyes of level-headed Americans everywhere. Harry’s doing to Democrats’ chances of retaking the Senate what John Murtha and Nancy Pelosi are doing in the House. Between the three of them, they’re destroying their majority hopes.
Perhaps more astounding was Mr. Reid’s appeal to the president to support him on comprehensive reform. “We need his help,” he said. This is the same president Mr. Reid has been describing as “dangerously incompetent.” As the Boston Globe reported, Mr. Reid “was eager to give the incompetence label ‘an edge,’ said Reid aide, Jim Manley, and ‘dangerous’ was the winning adverb, adding a flourish to the Democrats’ new line of attack.” Beamed Mr. Manley, “It’s on the cutting edge of what’s going on.”
This has to be another of Rove’s diabolical plots because nobody’s stupid enough to say the things that Reid and Manley have said recently, although some of the things Murtha’s said to Tim Russert are close.
Reading this, we couldn’t help but wonder if “hack” or “embarrassment” were similarly studied for their “cutting edge.” Former Fed Chairman Alan Greenspan, Mr. Reid has said, is “one of the biggest political hacks” in Washington, while Justice Clarence Thomas is an “embarrassment to the court,” whose opinions are “poorly written.”
It’s time for Democrats to purge their party of their idiot fringe base, eliminate the idiots in leadership positions, (yes, that means Reid, Pelosi, Murtha and Dean) and start fresh. The country, and the Democratic Party, would be much healthier for it.
Even when he is fulfilling his post, his opposition usually amounts to vain obstructionism, such as boasting to a cheering crowd last year that Democrats “killed the Patriot Act.” Mr. Reid, recall, was one of the 34 Democrats who voted for the Patriot Act three months later.
Who can forget an idiotic statement like that?
Cross-posted at California Conservative
Technorati Tags: Harry Reid, Nancy Pelosi, Murtha, Dean, Majority Leader
Cross-post at LetFreedomRing
March 24th, 2006 at 8:08 am
Oh, my, can’t a brilliant strategist and classic leader like Dingy Harry be just a little partisan?
Personally, I don’t think he’s any worse than Tubby Teddy, Slo Joe, or any of at least a dozen more donkey “leaders”. I leave Chucky Cheesy off the list because his nonsensical ramblings come from pure stupidity, not cunning partisanship. Has anyone checked to see if Schumer’s high school diploma was real, or from a diploma factory?