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Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid took his GOP-blasting rhetoric to a new level Monday, comparing Republicans who oppose health care reform to lawmakers who clung to the institution of slavery more than a century ago.
The Nevada Democrat, in a sweeping set of accusations on the Senate floor, also compared health care foes to those who opposed women's suffrage and the civil rights movement -- even though it was Sen. Strom Thurmond, then a Democrat, who unsuccessfully tried to filibuster the Civil Rights Act of 1957 and it was Republicans who led the charge against slavery.
Senate Republicans on Monday called Reid's comments "offensive" and "unbelievable."
But Reid argued that Republicans are using the same stalling tactics employed in the pre-Civil War era.
"Instead of joining us on the right side of history, all the Republicans can come up with is, 'slow down, stop everything, let's start over.' If you think you've heard these same excuses before, you're right," Reid said Monday. "When this country belatedly recognized the wrongs of slavery, there were those who dug in their heels and said 'slow down, it's too early, things aren't bad enough.'"
You mean the republican constituency is different from the anti-civil rights and pro-slavery folks?
And how does the fact that the parties have played musical chairs with each-other change the point?
/shrug
Do you agree with Reid's "speech"?
the part about the republicans being partisan and opposed to positive social change
what's not to agree with
:rofl And you think Democrats are any better?
as a liberal I'm going to say that your grandpappy was against civil rights and your great grandpappy was for slavery.
I dont completely agree with her speech because I believe it is divisional and ineffective past the partisan line. Another thing I will admit is that I believe she knows alot more than when it comes to politicking so I would listen to her and quietly form my own opinion.
Thats basically what i think.
please post where i said that
being unable to do that i will now accept your appropriate apology
but the last time ... do not misrepresent what i have to say
the part about the republicans being partisan and opposed to positive social change
what's not to agree with
ironically they were both rabid Democrats.
You mean the republican constituency is different from the anti-civil rights and pro-slavery folks?
And how does the fact that the parties have played musical chairs with each-other change the point?
/shrug
Reid Compares Opponents of Health Care Reform to Supporters of Slavery
Since when was any republican's constituency "anti-civil rights and pro-slavery folks"?
or is this just an an assumption?
Some of the worst over-the-top hyperbole in a while.
The entire Black Caucus should have walked out, what an insult to what their ancestors endured.
I guess its an assumption that these folks tend to stand on the right, traditionally.
And the second point, how is that an assumption why would their having changed places make any difference when its the opposing political forces they represent that have not changed?
Republicans have offered up their own plans, but they were laughed off as being too small.
The Dims (no spell error) fought the civil right movement until they so they con never win.
You mean the republican constituency is different from the anti-civil rights and pro-slavery folks?
And how does the fact that the parties have played musical chairs with each-other change the point?
/shrug
Its pathetic that the plans couldn't address the actual weight of our healthcare economy. Thats a problem for them if they get laughed out of the building like that.
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