Reid Spokesman: Republican Fake Outrage 'Hard To Believe'

How dare Reid grow enough of a pair to utter a few words of truth . . .

BTW way "SIMPLY" is misspelled above.

Louder Reid, louder.

Remember the term "Obstructive anarchy." Rebublicans are openly plotting to prevent the legislature from passing any legislation, not just this bill. They want to block all executive appointees. If there is no ability to govern, there is no government - that is anarchy. Call them on it.

Let's get a little accurate history here...

Who opposed ending slavery?...the Democrats.

Who opposed and gutted the women's liberation's crowning goal, the ERA Amendment, because of homophobia?...N.O.W. and the Democrats.

Who opposed the implementation of the civil rights bill, making endless protests necessary?...LBJ and the Democrats.

Who is currently blocking Gay Rights, especially in the military?...the Democrats and Obama.

Who is using "Healthcare Reform" to harm senior Americans and gut Medicare?... the Democrats.

Who is enabling Wall Street and Corporate America to rape the American Family?...Democrats.

Who is continuing a worthless and illegal war that kills women and their fathers, brothers and sons, while claiming women's rights?...those pathetic Democrats.

Need we go on?...Some people are sooooooo gullible.

Earlier today, Reid whacked Republicans for attempting to kill health care reform, comparing their obstructive tactics to those used to slow the end of slavery, women's suffrage, and civil rights.

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Um, earth to Harry Reid - you have 60 votes in the Senate and can pass any health care legislation that you can get all Democrats to agree on. Republicans can do nothing to stop it.

This is just an attempt to draw attention away from Reid's miserable failure to to come up with anything his own caucus can agree on.

That's of course mostly because some Democrats are starting to understand how unpopular HCR really is:

http://www.pollster.com/polls/us/healthplan.php

Health Care Plan

Favor - 39.2%
Oppose - 50.9%

I'd say it was 'responsibly inflammatory'.

I sure do miss the glory days of Trent Lott and the balance of the GOP screaming for the "straight up or down vote." Remember when "obstructionist" Democrat's were 1) cry babies, 2) undemocratic, and 3) unpatriotic?

...the hypocrisy simply abounds.

Well said, Senator Reid!

all you need to know about tropicgirls credibility is right here: "...Who is using "Healthcare Reform" to harm senior Americans and gut Medicare?... the Democrats..."
gut medicare? right.

Republicans are assholes. Why do we allow ourselves to forget this?

Amazing how Republicans suffer guilt by association when being compared to sixties Democrats but Democrats never suffer from the same thing. You can mention Strom Thurmond, I can mention Robert Byrd.

http://www.claremont.org/publications/crb/id.928/article_detail.asp

This thread highlights perfectly the mindset of modern liberals and Democrats. There seems to be some sort of belief that opposing an increasingly powerful federal government, the creation of new entitlements being the perfect example, is somehow inherently racist. It is impossible to debate on good faith terms with people who automatically assume that opposition to the "progressive" agenda is tantamount to racism.

Maybe Reid discovered his ball's over the weekend

Hatch says he can go "on and on" but mentioned one thing and I gurantee he couldn't mention another.

It hard to make sense of Reids comments since playing the race/gender card in such a way is a political loser, and hardly helps a President whose political success is due in part to hovering above such tactics.

My only guess is Reids comments were actually aimed at democrats. After all, the dems have a filibuster proof majority and everyone knows the real battle is internal, with various dems along with Lieberman threatening filibusters over the abortion provsion and the public option.

So Reid is using "repubicans" as a stand in for democrats, knowing that it was his party that actully gave us segregation, lynching, jim crow laws, and the KKK while oppossing the 13th, 14th and 15th amendments as well as various civil rights and anti-lynching bills. He's saying don't be on the wrong side of history agian.

But he's saying it in a way that coyly taps the democrats own mythology about themselves, where civil rights struggles become part of the democratic party, liberalism, and progressivism...necessitating the erasure of the role of republicans, religious groups and (on the other side) progressives like woodrow wilson, fdr, and jfk who enabled the terror state (for blacks and republicans) that was the monolithically democratic south, finding common ground with the KKK (who at the time were far from a fringe group, but rather an integral part of the democratic party).

The battle now is internal. Dems control all three branches of government and it is imperative they deliver or risk a major backlash in '10. Reids comments reflect the gravitas and desperation of the situation. ergo him tapping the darkest moments in american history as a way to rally his forces.

I don't believe Reid's words were out of place. It's hard to exaggerate this issue as people are literally dying every day because insurance companies won't miss out on their profits, and Republicans are firmly on the side of the status quo even if it means that their fellow Americans will continue to die because of it.

Yes, the modern GOP is the real party of civil rights, that's why there are so many African American Repubs in congress today--NOT.

I guess they just don't know what's good for them. Ingrates.

And just look at how many southern Repubs(today's dixiecrats) are affiliated with the CCC(the "kinder gentler" Klan).
Byrd renounced his racist past, Trent Lott still wishes that Strom Thurmond had been elected president.
Oh, and look at all those black faces at the teabagging parties, yesirree.

WASHINGTON, June 4 - After a long and persistent fight advocates of woman suffrage won a victory in the Senate today when that body, by a vote of 56 to 25, adopted the Susan Anthony amendment to the Constitution. The suffrage supporters had two more than the necessary two-thirds vote of Senators present. Had all the Senators known to be in favor of suffrage been present the amendment would have had 66 votes, or two more than a two-thirds vote of the entire Senate.

The amendment, having already been passed by the House, where the vote was 304 to 89, now goes to the States for ratification, where it will be passed upon in the form in which it has been adopted by Congress, as follows:

"Article-, Section 1. - The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex.

"Section 2. - Congress shall have power, by appropriate legislation, to enforce the provisions of this article."

Leaders of the National Woman's Party announced tonight that they would at once embark upon a campaign to obtain ratification of the amendment by the necessary three-fourths of the States so that women might have the vote in the next Presidential election. To achieve this ratification it will be necessary to hold special sessions of some Legislatures which otherwise would not convene until after the Presidential election in 1920. Miss Alice Paul, Chairman of the Woman's Party, predicted that the campaign for ratification would succeed and that women would vote for the next President.

Suffragists thronged the Senate galleries in anticipation of the final vote, and when the outcome was announced by President Pro Tem. Cummins they broke into deafening applause. For two minutes the demonstration went on, Senator Cummins making no effort to check it.

The Vote in Detail.

The roll call on the amendment follows:

FOR ADOPTION - 36.

Republicans - 36.

Capper, Cummins, Curtis, Edge, Elkins, Fall, Fernald, France, Frelinghuysen, Gronna, Hale, Harding, Johnson, (Cal.,) Jones, (Wash.,) Kellogg, Kenyon, Kayes, La Follette, Lenroot, McCormick, McCumber, McNaty, Nelson, New, Newberry, Norris, Page, Phipps, Poindexter, Sherman, Smoot, Spencer, Sterling, Sutherland, Warren, Watson.

Democrats - 20.

Ashurst, Chamberlain, Culberson, Harris, Henderson, Jones, (N. M.,) Kenrick, Kirby, McKellar, Myers, Nugent, Phelan, Pittman, Ransdell, Shepard, Smith, (Ariz.,) Stanley, Thomas, Walsh, (Mass.,) Walsh, (Mon.)

AGAINST ADOPTION - 25.

Republicans - 8.

Borah, Brandegee, Dillingham, Knox, Lodge, McLean, Moses, Wadsworth.

Democrats - 17.

Bankhead, Beckham, Dial, Fletcher, Gay, Harrison, Hitchcock, Overman, Reed, Simmons, Smith, (Md.,) Smith, (S. C.,) Swanson, Trammell, Underwood, Williams, Wolcott.

http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1920womensvote.html