The chutzpah of Harry Reid
The man is really something else. Really something else. He still doesn’t have a health care bill to show the American people, but he’s whining that Republicans don’t have sufficiently “comprehensive” alternatives of their own — when, in fact, Republicans have had plenty of legislative proposals on the table. The chutzpah of Harry Reid knows no bounds:
As you also know, we are now working to take these publicly-available provisions and meld them together into a single bill. Apart from my decision to include a public option from which states may opt out, no final decisions have been made – and none can be made until we get more information about how CBO would score different combinations. In other words, there is no bill to release publicly – it does not exist.
… assure you that I will make the legislation available to the full Senate and the American people prior to its consideration. There will be ample opportunity to examine and evaluate its provisions. Furthermore, if we are able to overcome your opposition to permitting the Senate to even debate this important legislation, all members will have the opportunity to offer amendments. I have no intention of rushing this process or blocking senators from offering alternatives.
While the two health care reform plans that are serving as the main building blocks for the merged bill have been publicly available for quite some time, I would note that the Republican leadership’s health care plan remains a secret, unless perhaps it does not exist.
Via Sean Hackbarth, here is Sen. Judd Gregg’s Coverage, Prevention and Reform plan.
And here is Sen. Jim Demint’s Health Care Freedom Plan.
And here is Sen. Bob Bennett’s Healthy Americans Act.
And here is the Patients’ Choice Act of Sens. Coburn and Burr and Reps. Ryan and Nunes.
Dingy Harry can’t stop projecting.
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You lie!
Just looking at this individual and recognizing he looks just like a under fed Snapping Turtle leaves me no doubt he is pulling his head back into his shell and snapping out at anything that crosses his path.
Ried is putting all his political capital on the line with this one. In fact we should start calling it the Obama/Ried bill so it is their defeat forever. Let’s hope it drags him back down into the primordial slime whence he slithered.
Ried/Reid. Whatever. Polish a turd, its still a turd.
I have a plagerized alternative:
The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.
The federal government has no authority to impose this on The People (unless we sheepishly let them get away with it).
Well, Dingy Harry, after 2010 you ain’t gonna matter no more!
This jerk and Pelosi are more dictatorial than Obama! He makes my skin crawl he is so creepy. Lying, stinking sack of excrement is determined to destroy this country .
A cornered rat can be dangerous.
The Dems know they are going to lose, and lose big, next year.
I think they’ll cram whatever and as much as they can down our throats now while they have the big majorities. Then obstruct attempts to fix it after the elections.
chutzpah, or verkakte. I actually prefer them used together.
And yet the best the GOP can offer in the primary against him is sad.
Lowden is a woman clearly beholden to the party bosses and not her constituents. Tarkanian comes from a long line of wealthy and influential Democrats. Sharron Angle is probably the most conservative but hasn’t had any help at all from the party, and isn’t independently wealthy.
Well said.
Donks know that for at least the next generation or two they’re not going to have another opportunity like this to put the screws to the American People, and they’re going for broke to do as much damage as they can before next November.
Chutzpah as in Bull chutzpah? Although that whiny weenie always reminded me more of s steer, not to get vulgar. Yep we need to quote Joe Wilson: You Lie Dingy. When the voters in Nevada this retire this lying sack of chutzpah he can be Darth Daschle’s limo driver–just make sure Darth pays his taxes. Not only does Death Warmed Over Dingy make these outrageous lies our dinosaur media covers for him.
Shameless.
Projection is the modus operandi of pretty much all of the
Democratic Socialist Communists
Chutzpah? No.
Mendacity, yes.
Perfidy, yes.
Duplicity, yes.
But chutzpah? Sorry, not enough testosterone.
isn’t lying by politicians covered free speech by the courts? you know the left lies, “i did not have sex with that woman” “i will not raise taxes on people making less than 250k, not income taxes, not payroll taxes, not capital gains tax.” but i won’t make the bush tax cuts permanent, so your taxes will go up, but i didn’t raise them, i just didn’t stop the raise.
Well, how does she look? What is her record and experience? How well does she communicate? If she is a good candidate, WE THE PEOPLE should HELP HER!
When a politician has gone bad as much as Reid has, the only thing you can do is pray that God reaches into his soul and tears the evil out of it.
Barring that, the man is a hopeless case who needs to be voted out of office ASAP.
I never want to see the bastard’s face again after 2010.
Hate is awful.
This man looks like the most unhappy person on earth. He is always scowling and he looks angry and full of hate. I’m sure he thinks he hates us but I think he hates himself more.
The government encouragement of health insurance via the employer has drastically distorted the market.
I’m afraid the transition to an alternative system has to recognize and correct that terrible litany of government intrusion into the marketplace.
Simply throwing open the market to interstate competition is not enough. Absolutely, it’s the starting point, but it’s not enough.
We need a one-time “reset” of the market. One that gives people with pre-existing conditions a chance to get affordable insurance.
I don’t think we should hide the cost of this in overall insurance premiums, or give people some kind of “enduring” right to insurance without underwriting.
Whether the government acts as reinsurer or pays a subsidy equal to the actuarial value of the pre-existing condition, we must reset the marketplace.
Such intrusion stinks, but sometimes it’s the only way to put markets back on the right track after decades of horrendous government sponsored distortions.
Nevada, PLEASE, do this country a favor and give this guy the jackboot – I will try to do likewise to Arlen Specter here in PA.
Add Shep Smith from Fox News. What a dillweed. He just said the Dems have been complaining that the Repubs have been standing in the way and haven’t offered any plans. He went on to say that is partly the case, but have now offered a plan. Fair and Balanced my a$$.
Harry Reid is nothing more than a political hack bent on keeping his political seat at any costs. Some have asserted he’s taking a “stand” at the expense of his political survival regarding Health Care but I don’t see it. He and that witch Pelosi are far left dupes whose strings are being pulled by other people.
Who really represents the Dem party anymore? These people are beholden to the unions and special interests, not the American people. They are the party of the handouts to weak people who can’t (or won’t) make decisions for themselves.
How this man gets off accusing Republicans of not having an answer is rich. Repubs have been shut down and dismissed.
The fact is that Reid and Pelosi are tone deaf.
i do believe harry has gastrich distress. no wonder when you have your head so far up your butt, it tends to cause blockage and fill you up with even more crap. he needs a high colonic, would someone please stand on his feet and pull, but watch out for the explosion.
Dingy Harry says…
Dems have lied so blatantly for so many years, and are called on it less and less each year by the drive-by media…
Geez Dingy, one of your staffers and 5 minutes on the interwebs could have helped you look less stupid.
Smith…what a poltroon. He must feel so embarrassed to be associated with Fox News when he’s at parties…
Hey, Dingy Harry? Why do the Republicans have to have “comprehensive health care reform” legislation of their own, if they just don’t like yours? As the saying goes, “To recognize a rotten egg, I don’t have to be able to lay a fresh one.”