Pic Of The Moment: Give 'Em Hell, Harry

[EarlG]

Harry Reid Says GOP Is to Blame for Donald Trump as Republicans Distance Themselves From Front-Runner

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[femmocrat]

1. First rec!

[onehandle]

2. Cue a 'Not Hillary' Party member to concoct a version of this about Hillary. nt

[d_legendary1]

3. You just did!

But enough about her. This is Drumpf's moment.

[AllyCat]

19. +1

[lsewpershad]

38. Bull shit . It's about the Democratic party

If you continue to ignore the members, the grass roots, you are making the same mistake.
It's beginning to happen...... with Bernie.

[Sherman A1]

4. My only disagreement with this

is that the GOP has been working on this for far longer than 8 years.

[merrily]

5. Excellent point and very accurate. The ERA was defeated long ago--and not by Dems.

To name only one example. The only thing that has been about 8 years long is the anti-Obama part--and he's not running for anything. I guess Harry included that to help the groundwork for explaining why more did not get done in two terms under a Democratic President.

[Loki]

14. And Mr. Sanders is a one man

Bill passing machine. Oh, I guess not.

[merrily]

25. Sanders has done much better at passing his substantive bills and amendments than Hillary did hers.

So, there's that.

[Loki]

37. Prove it.

Here's some reading material for ya.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/monkey-cage/wp/2016/04/07/hillary-clinton-was-a-more-effective-lawmaker-than-bernie-sanders/

[merrily]

53. It's not a numbers game. What a bill says or does matters.

My post said substantive bills or amendments that she wrote, not re-naming a post office, or remembering the American revolution or remembering Harriet Tubman's birthday.

[Loki]

54. He's had over 30 years to get shit done and this is all he has.

[AllyCat]

20. Well the anti-Obama bit is 8 years

But you are exactly right about the rest of it.

[merrily]

27. ? That's the same thing my prior post said about the anti-Obama bit.

[AllyCat]

39. Apparently responded to wrong post and didn't see yours.

[Lochloosa]

6. I agree, but they ramped it up when a black man was elected president.

That was just a step they could not handle.

It was kind of amazing to watch.

[blm]

18. Amazing and absolutely disgusting to watch.

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[LiberalLovinLug]

34. "the GOP has been working on this for far longer than 8 years. "

And so have the Democrat apparatchik, of which Harry is a big player.

Frank Thomas's new book explains it.

http://billmoyers.com/story/author-thomas-frank-talks-hillary-clinton-bernie-sanders-and-his-new-book-listen-liberal/

While the battle rages for the soul of the Republican Party, Frank sees Democrats in the throes of their own identity crisis. The one-time party of the working class has been co-opted by a hyper-educated elite, he argues in his just-published Listen Liberal. The book can be read as an argument that the anger propelling Donald Trump’s campaign is the product of short-sighted policy decisions made by Democratic technocrats.

They feel they don't need the filthy blue collar working class anymore. And along with them the "fucking retards" liberals in their own party that support those workers rights.

[livingonearth]

41. You're right, but their treatment of Obama has accelerated it.

I have never seen a president get such awful treatment. They even blame him for things that happened before he was president.

[ffr]

7. Keep broadcasting this message: unfit GOP

Give our leaders the support they need to be more forceful with liberal ideas.

[Beartracks]

49. Hear hear! We need more grassroots level liberals in office everywhere. n/t

[rateyes]

8. This would be better if it weren't coming

from a piss-poor Dem leader.

[Loki]

12. Really?

You prefer to say nothing?

[MADem]

9. I will miss that man--no one does it better.

He understands how to play the Senate rules to his advantage, even as a minority leader. He also knows how to stick it between their ribs and deliver a fatal blow with no muss, no fuss.

What a wealth of knowledge he has been, and he's been a superb leader as well.

[stonecutter357]

10. K&R!

[Loki]

11. The GOP and its followers

Are unfit to be called human.

[niyad]

13. and that is putting it mildly, sen. reid.

[Liberal_Stalwart71]

15. And the ReThugs secretly AGREE with Trump. That is the point that I will continue to make!

I don't care what any of them say. I don't care how vociferously they scream about how Trump isn't electable and that they disagree with him. BULLSHIT!

ReThugs will rally around this man---ALL OF THEM!! Because nothing is more important to them than party politics. And Trump is a reflection of what they truly believe: They are misogynists, xenophobic, racist bigots! That's what they are and Trump is the very embodiment of the Republican Party and everything it stands for.

[AllyCat]

21. You are right. They believe and embrace what he says

They just weren't ready for it to be out in the open yet.

[TwilightZone]

23. Agreed. They're just annoyed that he's so public about it.

It's supposed to be a secret, ya know?

[Ineeda]

32. Absolutely.

They've been trying to hide this stuff forever, but now 'Tiny Hands' is exposing their deeply-held ideologies. I agree that they will all rally around, caring more about their f'ing Party than the country, its citizens, and even the planet. The infighting on the Democratic side seems not to take that into consideration in their 'my person or no one' strategy. Heaven help us if the Dems don't really come together.

[gordianot]

16. Yes but Republicanesque crap is spilling over into the Democratic Party.

Republicans deserve Trump.

Wooing Bush financial supporters is in the words of the DU alert complaint "over the top". I saw a brief interview Monday by Chris Matthews with Julian Castro answering the usual Vice Presidential questions and that he would be speaking to Bush financial supporters. Of course Democrats are immune to quid pro quo. Matthews should change the name of his show to Wiffle Ball.

[TwilightZone]

17. They shouldn't be at all surprised. Trump epitomizes everything they've been working toward...

for the past 50 years.

[hamsterjill]

22. Harry is right!

Glad someone has spoken up and explained it for the Republican leadership. It is a true statement. Way to go, Harry!!!

[lark]

24. I see Repugs running in droves to Trump.

Very few Repugs are actually saying they won't support him, Bill Krystal is the only one I can think of.

[Javaman]

28. I agree. at the end of the day, the repukes will fall in lock step and vote for their new leader.

just like robots.

[lark]

29. Exactly!

This whole Trump drama with the party is a media construction. The party has lined up with him and it's game on.

[Javaman]

30. they may gripe and bemoan him, but they will fight each other to say they were first to support him.

LOL

I can't wait for the gop convention, it will be some of the best dark comedy ever!

[3catwoman3]

48. Lock step indeed.

More like goosestepping and Sieg Heil-ing all the way.

[That Guy 888]

26. He's wrong. They've been building to trump since the "Southern Strategy" of the 1960's n/t

[oldandhappy]

31. really good one, thanks

[czarjak]

33. Hey, conservative republicans...

Oh, say can you see?

[Eleanors38]

35. The Grand Old Potty done gas-huffed its own flatulence.

[Hulk]

36. Anti-US government.....not just anti-Obama

It's time to call these seditious bastards out for what they are....anti-America.

Ever since the scourge of Alzheimer Ronnie, the gop has been telling it's minions to fear and detest the very government that serves you. Don't bother to root out corruption, which the gop has nearly a monopoly on at times, but point the entire government as corrupt and against YOU.

This is a major part of our division today. No one has taken that clown and his bastion of "democratic-haters" to task for that myth for one second. We have allowed hate radio and fox-bullshit to label the whole government as evil and corrupt...the source of our problems...that which we all need to fear and loathe. And they've been pounding that shit-skinned drum a steady beat ever since that ridiculous statement the b-grade actor blurted out to the cheers and salutes of his reagan-bots. Now it is the accepted fact.

We need to gather a strategy that brings reality back into focus. We have allowed this collection of cancerous lies to exist as "fact", and we will be paying the price for a generation to come.

NO, government is NOT THE PROBLEM. Government is "WE THE PEOPLE", dumb ass! If it is corrupt or not functioning properly, then do something about it. Complain and draw attention to it. But don't label the whole government as the evil enemy. Cops, teachers, city workers, state employees, federal employees are YOU AND ME! We are NOT FOOK'N EVIL! Hate radio and fox-bullshit are "evil", if anyone can be broadly labeled as such. The IRS has a job to do. INS has a job to full fill. TSA has a job to do. If you don't approve of the way it is being done, then write your Congressman and draw attention to it. Because the IRS calls you in for an audit doesn't make them 'the enemy". Because INS is trying to enforce the laws doesn't make them evil Gestapo. Because the TSA has lines going out the door doesn't make them the bad guys. They are ALL fulfilling a job that we put them there to do.

Sweet Jesus...it reminds me of a dozen sailors on a sinking dingy, and they are busy splashing water out of the boat as they are going down in the high seas. We need to PLUG THE HOLES and spread the truth, and then we can dispel the lies and bull shit that have been "gop gospel" since 1980.

[Motown_Johnny]

40. This does not go far enough.

It has been since Reagan that the (R)s have been on this track.

It got worse with Rove's "Deeper not Wider" approach to getting Shrub elected. Their party became dependent on the wing nuts that were hard to get out to vote. Now they need to cater to them to keep their voting numbers up and the political middle has been absorbed by the (D)s (moving our party to the right as a whole).


The thing that seems to be missing in all these discussions is that the evolution shows no signs of slowing. Trump is the current product of the (R)s needing the extreme right to stay in power, but someone/something even crazier is bound to surpass even him.

As long as they keep going in this direction, it seems inevitable. That or a complete collapse and rebuilding of their political ideology and everyone now in power wants to delay that until after their retirement.

[hrsummers]

42. Sad to see him go

As a nevadan in their 20s, I've basically always known Reid in the senate... It will be sad to see him go.

[bvar22]

43. Stephen King:

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Conservatives who for 8 years sowed the dragon’s teeth of partisan politics are horrified to discover they have grown an actual dragon.[/font]

— Stephen King (@StephenKing) March 3, 2016

[Stellar]

44. You GO, Harry Reid!!!!!

[Nyan]

45. So what's your problem with Alan Grayson, Harry?

[rladdi]

46. Plus the justice department lost 70% of it civil rights attorneys under G. Bush.

G. Bush trashed civil rights for 8 years as our worst President ever. President Obama has had to rebuild the Civil Rights section of the Justice Dept. So if Trump wins the election, civil rights will again be trashed thanks to the Republicans.

[ailsagirl]

47. Spot on, Senator Reid!!!

[PatrynXX]

50. so says a Conservadem

about a Moderate. Yeah didn't expect the Republicans to put a Moderate in when they were trying to go for extreme Right Wing Tea Party but oh well. they get what they get. But never been a fan of Harry, he has his moments but they are few and far between , Nancy has more moments.

[heaven05]

51. If "give em hell Harry"

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along with the rest of the Party leadership had been giving the repugs hell for the last seven+ years, Trump would be a laughing stock. Our Party leadership has failed the american people by allowing a devious racist/fascist like trump to become the popular candidarte of the RW, his type of persons' ascension has been formulated and nurtured since Ronald Reagan, their other 'hero'.

[houston16revival]

52. Wisdom

that paints with a broad brush and therefore captures the

overall trend.

Harry has always been understated and moderate, but his
experience is clear here for all to see

Thanks, Harry!