It didn’t take long for Reid to deny he said what he said. Reid’s in full denial mode. He’s backpedaling with this statement:

“As long as we follow the president’s path in Iraq, the war is lost. But there is still a chance to change course — and we must change course.” The war funding bill should contain a timeline to “reduce combat missions and refocus our efforts on the real threats to our security,” he said.

Here’s what he originally said:

“The (Iraq) war can only be won diplomatically, politically and economically, and the president needs to come to that realization,” Reid said in a news conference.

Reid stepped in it with his initial statement. Now he’s forced to tell people that they didn’t hear what they heard. He’s trying to tell people that he isn’t contradicting himself with his contradictory statements. That won’t fly. There’s no way that he can put that genie back in the proverbial bottle. After making such contradictory statements, he can kiss his credibility goodbye.

This is what happens when Democrats tell the truth. They’ve hidden their agenda for so long that they can’t keep their lies straight. It’s also a great picture of what happens when you put a guy in charge who isn’t ready for primetime. If they play it right, the RNC shouldn’t have any difficulty turning Harry Reid into albatross around the DSCC’s neck.

The White House pounced on the opportunity to criticize Reid:

“It’s disturbing that some on Capitol Hill believe they know more than the commanders on the ground, said White House spokeswoman Dana Perino. “His comment is in conflict with the senior military advisors who are implementing the Baghdad security plan, working to calm the violence and to protect the innocent men, women and children of Iraq who are being victimized by a vicious enemy.”

Here’s how Mitch McConnell blasted Reid:

“I can’t begin to imagine how our troops in the field, who are risking their lives every day, are going to react when they get back to base and hear that the Democrat leader in the United States Senate has declared the war is lost,” said Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, a Kentucky Republican.

It’s time that the American people told Sen. Reid that, though they aren’t happy with the war, they won’t tolerate Reid’s abandoning the troops while they’re in harm’s way. It’s time that we told the pacifist Democrats that they’d better start supporting our troops in words AND deeds.

Most importantly, it’s time that we told Harry Reid that his seditious and harmful actions are utterly unacceptable.

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1. Jerry Doyle has him (Harry Reid) pegged: Dimbulb

   Comment by T. A. Gray — April 19, 2007 @ 9:54 pm

2. The Chinese [pet] food contamination has now spread to hog farms in California. I think we need a California Conservative report on this incredibly bad development. Environmentalists want me to obsess about Frankenfood, etc. but I don’t hear any of them screaming about contaminated pet food and now, possibly, human food.

   Comment by Kalifornia Kafir — April 19, 2007 @ 11:30 pm

3. Did Reid get an offer to marry a into an Islam clan?

   Comment by chokenburger — April 19, 2007 @ 11:34 pm

4. I wonder if His Brilliancy ever considers what effects his stupid assed remarks have on the troops and the terrorists.

   This is just one more proof that the Democratic party, absolutely, without a doubt can not, repeat, not, be trusted with the defense and security of the country.

   Comment by T. A. Gray — April 20, 2007 @ 9:09 pm

5. What “defense of the country” are you refering to, T.A.? Why would they wish to defend what they believe, as a core belief, a nation saturated in the shame of others’ blood, a nation whose only self-sufficient people are to be targeted with taxes so heavy they, too, will be begging from Uncle Titty soon enough?

   The entire donkey/lib/moonbat agenda is to make everyone equal, as in equally miserable. Except for them. They’re equal to the rest of us great unwashed, just more equal.

   It’s been obvious in our culture for some time now that stupidity sells, but Dingy Harry has taken it to a sales level almost equal to Penn and O’Donnell.

   Comment by Carlos — April 20, 2007 @ 11:30 pm

6. As in making the “rich pay their fair share”.

   Remember the last time they tried that , and decided to put a luxury tax on yacht repairs. Only trouble was within a year dozens of small boat yards in southern California went out of business, along with several thousand carpenters, mechanics, boatwrights and electricians when it suddenly became much cheaper to repair yachts in Mexico.

   Comment by T. A. Gray — April 21, 2007 @ 10:43 pm

7. Our history is rife with such examples, T.A. They just can’t get it through their thick-skulled mushminds that poor folk don’t hire (at “living wages”) anyone, and when “the rich” are “soaked”, they just cut back on their expenses, i.e., on how many people they employ. They certainly don’t cut back on their lifestyles.

   Comment by Carlos — April 22, 2007 @ 7:39 pm