Party of 'Just say no'?
Posted: Tuesday, March 03, 2009 6:08 PM by Domenico Montanaro
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Congress, Democrats, Republicans
From NBC’s Ken Strickland
In his weekly news conference today, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid made not-so-subtle references to the Republican infighting between RNC Chairman Michael Steele and conservative radio talk show host Rush Limbaugh.
Reid said it's clear the American economy is in trouble and needs help, "but I guess the Republicans haven't gotten that message. Maybe they're not reading the papers or watching the news; maybe they're focused on talk radio. I don't know."
Minutes later, the majority leader criticized Republicans for slow-walking a government-funding bill being debated on the floor.
"The Republicans have made a decision to ‘just to say no’ to everything," he said. "It's very clear they've made a decision that they want President Obama to fail."
Sensing Reid was enjoying himself, one reporter threw him some more bait asking, "Which Republicans want the president to fail, and what do they want him to fail at?"
"I'm not going to name individual Republicans,” Reid responded, “but I think it's very clear, as a result of the actions, since Obama was elected, that people want him to fail. Some have said so; others have just acted accordingly. And I think that as a result of what's been going on in the press the last few days, we know that there's a significant number of Republicans out there who want the president to fail."