Reid gave White House a heads-up on mosque

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http://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/114699-reid-gave-white-house-a-heads-up-on-mosque-stance-

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid told the White House he would be disagreeing with President Obama on a controversial mosque near New York's Ground Zero before he went public.

Reid spokesman Jim Manley said Reid gave the administration an early heads-up, offering a slight peek at the coordination that goes on between the administration and the Senate’s leader.

White House deputy spokesman Bill Burton on Tuesday also indicated the White House knew Reid was going to come out publicly against the president.

“We did have a sense that that’s what they were going to do,” Burton told reporters in a short briefing Tuesday aboard Air Force One.

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1. Wow, preemptive spinelessness

Color me impressed.

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2. Transcript, "Hey Barack, it's me, Harry. Just wanna let you know I'm gonna...

BE A BIGGER SPINELESS ASSHOLE THAN USUAL!"