Reid fires back at Bush: The president has been giving us doublespeak for

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Reid fires back at Bush: The president has been giving us doublespeak for years

RAW STORY
Published: January 24, 2006


RAW STORY has learned that Democratic Senate leader Harry Reid is set to slash the Republican Party in a renewed assault -- just a day after President Bush launched a national effort to defend his wiretap program as "terrorist surveillance."

The speech, to be delivered shortly to the Center for American Progress, a liberal thinktank, follows.


I went to college in the 1960s and studied government. One of the things I remember discussing was a quote by Lord Acton:


“Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power tends to corrupt absolutely.”

It’s been many years since I graduated college, but I finally understand what Lord Acton meant.

Republicans today control the House of Representatives, the Senate and the White House. They have absolute power, and it has corrupted their Party and led to the culture of corruption that we see now in Washington.

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1. DEMS need to stay on the offensive - period. n/t

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2. Sorry Harry, GOP was corrupted long before it attained absolute power

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3. I know everyone is busy on the hearing threads.

Just wanted to make sure people see this.