Senator Harry Reid Is a Blundering Fool

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid has once again proven that he is familiar with racist comments - because he seems to let them tumble from his lips rather often by American standards. Yesterday on a National Public Radio interview in Las Vegas, Reid said he hopes Republicans who oppose the president do so "based on substance and not the fact that he's an African American." Reid, who is a Nevada Democrat, lamented Republican filibusters and claimed opponents do everything they can to make Obama fail. He recalled that Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, a Republican, said during Obama's first term that his most important goal was ensuring Obama wasn't re-elected. (Wake up, Senator Reid - EVERY Republican's goal is to prevent the re-election of Democrats - and vice versa. Did the GOP call you a religious "racist" because you tried to keep Mormon Republican Mitt Romney from being elected? ) Senator Reid continued : "Here we are seven months into his second term and nothing has changed....It's been obvious they are doing everything they can to make him fail. And I hope, I hope, and I say this seriously, it's based on substance and not the fact that he's an African American." NO, Senator Reid, the GOP is not racist, as you are. The GOP opposes Obama's programs - when one actually emerges from the fog that has submerged the White House since 2008. And the GOP will continue to oppose the tax-and-spend attitudes of Obama, and you and your Democrat colleagues on Capitol Hill until you come to your senses and begin to help the GOP dig America out of its fiscal mess before it is too late. But to get back to the Reid interview, Reid's comments went unchallenged by the program's moderator, but not by Newsmax contributor and conservative African-American columnist Clarence V. McKee, who said there was no reason for Reid to raise the race issue during the interview. “It’s been typical for the last 3½ years whenever he’s [Obama] criticized the first thing they yell is ‘race or racism,’” said McKee who held several positions in the Reagan administration as well as the Reagan presidential campaigns. “For the Senate majority leader to stoop that low and go into the racial gutter is disgusting.” He said Reid’s comments were tantamount to “liberal, elitist, racism.” McConnell's office referred a request for comment to Senator Tim Scott, a black Republican from South Carolina, who said Reid's remarks were offensive and asked for an apology. In 2010, Reid apologized for comments he made about the president’s race during the 2008 presidential campaign. Reid described then-Senatior Obama as “light skinned’’ and “with no Negro dialect, unless he wanted to have one.’’ In his 2010 apology, Reid attributed his private description of Obama to a “poor choice” of words. “I deeply regret using such a poor choice of words,” he said at the time. “I sincerely apologize for offending any and all Americans, especially African Americans for my improper comments.’ In his radio interview, Reid also criticized members of the tea party, comparing them to anarchists who helped spark World War I. He said that while modern anarchists don't resort to violence, they do not believe in government and rejoice in its troubles."They have the same philosophy as the early anarchists," he said. "They don't believe in government. Anytime anything bad happens to the government, that's a victory for them. It makes it very difficult to get things done." ~~~~~ Dear readers, as President Reagan would have said, "There he goes again." Senator Reid, tea partiers are not anarchists. They are hard working middle class Americans who understand something that you and your Democrat Party fail to comprehend -- that America is in a horrible fiscal black hole caused by your Democrat policies. Tea partiers are trying to change how things work in Washington and to save America from your efforts to kick the can down the road until it falls off the fiscal cliff, and America with it, and tea partiers are using a time-honored mechanism. It is called the constitutional right to free speech, peaceful assembly and voting. Think about it, Senator Reid. Voting. That is not anarchy. It is the opposite of anarchy. It is the exercise of the fundamental right of every American to vote for the candidates and parties he or she prefers. Got it, Senator Reid? Constitution. Racial equality. Voting. America.