Reid hammered by GOP after claiming all ObamaCare 'horror stories' untrue

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid is being hammered by Republican lawmakers after he claimed on the Senate floor that all the ObamaCare "horror stories" being circulated are untrue.

Reid tried to clarify his remarks late Wednesday by saying he was only referring to the “vast majority” of stories featured in ads funded by Americans for Prosperity, a conservative group, and not the complaints of everyday Americans. However, he added fuel to the fire by continuing to slam the group’s backers, the Koch brothers, calling them “un-American.” 

Americans for Prosperity President Tim Phillips, in response, said Reid had effectively "attacked the character and integrity of every American who had the courage to share how they're being hurt by the president's health care law." 

Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wis., called Reid's original remarks "astounding and offensive." 

Reid said Wednesday morning on the Senate floor that he believes Americans for Prosperity hires actors in their ads to tell fake stories about canceled policies, higher premiums and ruined lives under ObamaCare.

“There’s plenty of horror stories being told,” Reid said. “All of them are untrue. But they’re being told all over America.” 

It was an apparent reference to, among other instances, an AFP ad that featured a woman with cancer who claimed her health care became unaffordable under the law. Her story was called into question by critics, but she and AFP are standing by the ad. 

Via: Fox News

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Amnesty: The Next GOP Leadership Betrayal

House Republican leadership is preparing to betray the base. Again. To illustrate the magnitude of the sellout I was going to use a hypothetical analogy with Democrats and their base. Initially I was going to posit that Sen. Tim Kaine (D–Secular) had changed his mind about abortion.

House Republican leadership is preparing to betray the base. Again. To illustrate the magnitude of the sellout I was going to use a hypothetical analogy with Democrats and their base. Initially I was going to posit that Sen. Tim Kaine (D–Secular) had changed his mind about abortion.

For years Kaine has said that although he’s personally opposed to abortion, he is not willing to impose his beliefs on a ‘woman’s right to choose.’ Essentially confessing that his Catholic faith is not strong enough to get in the way of his political ambitions. (In his last campaign he became even more weaselly, saying he didn’t want to stand in the way of a woman exercising her “constitutional choices,” unless the choice involved a handgun.)

In my hypothetical Kaine would announce he had decided that what the Catholic Church teaches and the Bible says is the truth and he will no longer support any abortion unless it is to save the life of the mother. Kaine would also declare that he will no longer vote for any taxpayer dollars to be given to Planned Parenthood since both his beliefs and opinion polls show Americans don’t think tax money should pay for or help support abortion facilities.

It’s a great analogy but it has one problem: No one, but no one would believe it. The Democrat base worships at the altar of abortion. The analogy is too fantastic for even temporary suspension of disbelief. Brent Bozell, chairman of ForAmerica, put it nicely this week: “So what’s the difference between Boehner and Pelosi and McConnell and Reid? Answer: The Democratic leadership honors its promises. Republican leaders have abandoned theirs.”

Via: Canada Free Press

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The 7 most absurd things Harry Reid said in 2013

As one looks back on the political news of 2013, it would be impossible to ignore all the absurd things Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) said in the last year.

So sit back, relax and enjoy Reid’s greatest hits.

1. “Why would we want to do that?”

CNN reporter Dana Bash asked Reid why he wouldn’t put his support behind a Republican spending bill that provided funding for National Institutes of Health, which helps children with cancer. Bash inquired of the Senate Majority Leader: If you can help one child who has cancer, why wouldn’t you do it?

“Why would we want to do that?” Reid responded.

2. “Why don’t they get a life and talk about something else?”

During a press conference in September, Reid bashed Republicans for trying to defund Obamacare, accusing them of “playing silly games” and attempting to score “cheap political points.”

“Here’s a President who less than a year ago won an election by five million votes, five million votes,” he told reporters. “Obamacare has been the law for four years. Why don’t they [Republicans] get a life and talk about something else? People deserve better.”

Via: Red Alert Politics

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Neal Boortz: GOP Won’t Take Senate in 2014, and It’s Social Conservatives’ Fault

Retired conservative talk radio host Neal Boortz appeared on Sean Hannity’s radio program on Thursday to offer his political predictions for 2014. When asked how he thinks the GOP will fare in the coming midterm elections, Boortz insisted that the Republican Party will fail to retake control of the Senate in spite what he said will be a bad political environment for Democrats. When asked why the GOP would fall short of retaking the upper chamber of Congress, Boortz blamed aggressive social conservatives. 

“The survival of our republic may depend on getting the Democrats out of control of the Senate, sending Harry Reid into the position of minority leader in the U.S. Senate,” Boortz told Hannity. “the survival of the republic may depend on that.”

He added that Democrats are taking precautions for losing the Senate, including November’s invocation of the “nuclear option.” However, Boortz said he thought the GOP would fail to remove Reid from his post as Senate majority leader.

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“They’ll keep the House, but they’re not going to get the Senate and I’ll tell you why,” Boortz said, “because they simply cannot resist the urge, the impulse to get into this social conservatism.”

He insisted that the Republican message of small, manageable government is a winning message, but the party’s individual candidates will muddy that message by delving into social issues.

“They can’t stick to the small government message,” Boortz asserted. “The Republicans have this drive, this maniacal, this obsessive drive to get into social conservatism.”

The conservative talker cited races like the Senate race in Georgia where he insisted that the party is set to nominate a candidate to replace the outgoing Saxby Chambliss (R-GA) who is unelectable, potentially handing a safe GOP seat to Democrats in 2014.

Via: Mediaite.com

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Harry Reid: Redskins should change name

DON'T WE HAVE MORE IMPORTANT ISSUES TO DEBATE HARRY!!!

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) said Wednesday that the Washington Redskins should change their name.

In an interview with The Hill, Reid said, “I think [Washington Redskins owner Dan] Snyder is so short-sighted on this.”

He added, “We live in a society where you can’t denigrate a race of people. And that’s what that is. I mean you can’t have the Washington Blackskins. I think it’s so short-sighted.”

Earlier this year, Snyder said he would never change the name. Asked for comment, a spokesman for the Redskins referred to the letter Snyder wrote to the team's fans earlier this year on the name controversy

The three most powerful Democrats in Washington — President Obama, Reid and House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (Calif.) — have now urged the Redskins to rethink their mascot.

Pelosi told The Hill in October that it “probably would be a good idea if they change the name.”

Obama, meanwhile, told the AP this fall that he would think about changing the name if he owned the team.

Reid noted that other sports teams have changed their controversial monikers, including the Washington Wizards. The professional basketball team used to be named the Washington Bullets.

Other members of Congress who have called for the Redskins to change their name include Reps. Tom Cole (R-Okla.) and Betty McCollum (D-Minn.) and Dels. Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-D.C.) and Eni F. H. Faleomavaega (D-A.S.).

Via: The Hill

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[VIDEO] Harry Reid Is Taking a Taxpayer Subsidy to Buy His Obamacare Plan

(CNSNews.com) - Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D.-Nev.), whose salary is $193,400 a year, said he has purchased a health care plan through the D.C. Obamacare exchange and that he is accepting the federal subsidy that can run up up to $11,378 per year for a member of Congress to purchase a plan.

Private citizens buying an insurance plan in an Obamacare exchange can only get a federal subsidy if their income is less than 400 percent of the poverty level--which equals $94,200 for a family of four.

CNSNews.com asked Reid on Wednesday at the Capitol if he had purchased a health care plan through the D.C. exchange.

“Yes, I have,” he said.

CNSNews.com then asked Reid if he would accept the federal subsidy to help pay for that plan.

“Yes, I am,” Reid said.

Finally, CNSNews.com asked if he thought accepting the subsidy was the right thing to do.

“I’m just like 150 million other people in America,” Reid said. “My employer helps me pay for my health care.”

Via: CNS News
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[CARTOON] The Gift

Via: California Political Review

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OBAMACARE STILL ISN’T WORKING, BUT DON’T WORRY, THE ARISTOCRACY WILL BE FINE

Remember the billowing cloud of spin that poured from the Administration over the weekend, declaring that the ObamaCare exchange system was a billion zillion percent improved?  The media largely accepted this uncritically and passed it along as “news,” even though it took less than 24 hours to discover it wasn’t true.  The federal exchange site crashed on the same day all those triumphant “Healthcare.gov is fixed!” dispatches were being written.  The local exchange in Washington, D.C. went down even harder, leading to mass emails to Congressional staffwarning them about system outages.

Of course, this is no problem for the personal staff of Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV), because he won them a priceless Ruling Class exemption from using the exchanges altogether.  But everyone else who works for Congress started getting a bit nervous… until they got the kind of insurance extension the rest of ObamaCare-ravaged America can only dream about.  Audrey Hudson reports for the Colorado Observer:

Members of Congress and their staff will be allowed to keep their health insurance past the end of the year deadline because of persistent problems plaguing the DC Health Link, The Colorado Observer has learned.

A memo issued to House staffers Thursday night said that the Obama administration has been made aware of the “significant problems preventing members and staff in Washington, D.C. and in district offices from enrolling in a healthcare plan.”

The memo from Chief Administrative Officer of the House Dan Strodel said that while they are awaiting a decision to keep the enrollment time open past Dec. 9, health insurance coverage would be extended through Jan. 31.

Via: Human Events

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A Bang-Up Week - A Killer for America

Last week was a killer for America, but a bang-up one for Barack Hussein Obama in furthering his Mission from Marx to destroy free, constitutional, capitalist America. It started out with Harry Reid (D-NV), the neo-fascist Senate Majority Leader doing acomplete 180 degree switch on the Senate’s prerogative of advise and consent on presidential nominations. The minority party’s option to filibuster nominations they deem unworthy, for whatever reason, an option that had existed in the Senate for over 200 years, is gone. One party rule is the “new normal”.

Disaster 2 for America was pretty much overshadowed by Disasters 1 and 3. It happened at the UN man-made global warming confab in Warsaw. Also, it was pulled off in the wee hours of the morning on a weekend (intentional?), so it garnered minimal coverage in the “mainstream” media. However, Craig Rucker, Director of CFACT (Committee For A Constructive Tomorrow), was there:

Just as the conference was collapsing, the Obama administration came to the rescue and committed the United States to the treaty timetable and agreed to have American emissions-reduction targets in place in time for Paris. This brought the parties back to the table and permitted the bureaucrats to cobble together a consensus. The details are just emerging, but it appears that developing nations and the warming pressure groups got their loss-and-damage mechanism (cfact.org).

Via: Canada Free Press

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In NPR Interview, Harry Reid Whacks 'Extreme Right Wing' Black Female Judge

On Monday, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid showed up for a phone interview on The Diane Rehm Show on NPR to discuss shredding the filibuster for presidential appointees. A very polite Rehm asked if this might make partisanship worse.

“I'm sorry to smile, as you can't see on radio, but more dysfunction? I mean, gee whiz,” Reid replied. But underneath the Nevada-nice routine came an attack out of nowhere on black libertarian judge Janice Rogers Brown as one of the “extreme right wing people” the Senate confirmed in the Bush years.

After the “gee whiz,” Reid added, “I mean, when you have constitutionally necessary posts like judges who they refused to put in office -- take, for example, the D.C. Circuit, which was the culmination of this fight. If we had hired the best search team in the world to find the four most qualified people to fill these open spots, you couldn't do better than Caitlin Halligan and the three that they just turned down.”

Conservatives disagree, opposing Halligan as a liberal legislator thinly disguised as a judge.

Later, Reid added that “we put on that court some of the most extreme right wing people you could find. Janice Rogers Brown thinks there's a Communist behind every bush even now.”

That's a little harsh, even compared to scare quotes from the Think Progress blog, which recently lamented:

Brown labeled the New Deal a “socialist revolution,” and she likened Social Security to a kind of intergenerational cannibalism — “[t]oday’s senior citizens blithely cannibalize their grandchildren because they have a right to get as much ‘free’ stuff as the political system will permit them to extract.” Since joining the federal bench, she authored a concurring opinion suggesting that all labor, business or Wall Street regulation is constitutionally suspect. The very first sentence of her birth control opinion labels the Affordable Care Act a “behemoth.”

Via: Newsbusters

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