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To: LindyBill who wrote (337502)	12/7/2009 4:14:06 PM
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Rant Coming: Here's Harry Reid's Office phone # in DC --I just called and left a message with the live receiptionist (option 1) rather than leave a message on his VM...I told her my name, and that I was calling because he worked for me in WA as Head of the Senate...and that I was outraged by his comments as noted in the Politico article below. Told her I was a Republican, and that some of my ancestors were Abolitionists, who helped free the slaves over 150 years ago. I asked how many of Reid's ancestors helped the slaves????? She took my message, had my phone number (caller ID) and said she'd pass it on. I'm sure I'm in the stack of NO, and not only NO, but Hll NO. "Have some decent discourse first, and not a mess shoved down our throats " pile of options. I didn't add that he was an outrageous jerk of the first order. Took some restraint not to... Washington DC 522 Hart Senate Office Bldg Washington, DC 20510 Phone: 202-224-3542 Fax: 202-224-7327 Toll Free for Nevadans: 1-866-SEN-REID (736-7343) Glenn Thrush: Hill Intrigue: Reid: Blocking health reform is like fighting end to slavery, segregation* December 07, 2009 Reid: Blocking health reform is like fighting end to slavery, segregation Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) upped the rhetorical ante this morning by comparing opponents of health care reform to conservatives who tried to block emancipation and equal rights for women and blacks. Reid speaking on the floor of the Senate, today, blasted GOP leaders who have urged Democrats opt for a slower, incremental approach to reform instead of the mega-omnibus they are pushing through. Reid: "'Slow down, stop everything, let's start over.' You think you've heard these same excuses before? You're right. In this country there were those who dug in their heels and said, 'Slow down, it's too early. Let's wait. Things aren't bad enough.' -- about slavery. When women wanted to vote [the said] 'Slow down, there will be a better day to do that -- the day isn't quite right...' "When this body was on the verge of guaranteeing equal civil rights to everyone regardless of the color of their skin, some senators resorted to the same filibuster threats that we hear today." Republicans, you can imagine, were furious, via POLITICO's Meredith Shiner, who went to their Q and A. "They are so desperate that it is unbelievable. And for Senator Reid to go out this morning and make such an outlandish statement like he made, just is another indication of the desperation that the Democrats are showing and the pressure that they're feeling," said Sen. Saxby Chambliss (GA). Said Sen. Tom Coburn (Okla.). "I think it's beneath the dignity of the majority leader, for one. I think it's beneath the dignity of the Senate...to make any kind of outlandish claim similar to what was made on the Senate floor this morning, and I personally am insulted by the Majority Leader." Did Reid go too far? It's an old debate -- 40 years old, to be precise. Martin Luther King drew similar criticism - equating social reform with racial justice -- when he tried to expand the civil rights movement into a broader call for economic justice during his Poor Peoples Campaign and his final trip to Memphis in support of the sanitation strike. Reid, of course, doesn't have a monopoly on harsh pronouncements. On Sunday, NRSC Chairman John Cornyn (R-Tex.) invoked Stalin-era Soviet prison to describe Reid's reform plan on FOX: "It will limit people's choices to, in many cases, to a government-run program like Medicaid which is essentially a health care gulag, because people will not have any choices but to take that poorly performing government plan," he said. Posted by Glenn Thrush 02:40 PM