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Published Tuesday, Aug. 4, 2009 | 1:55 p.m.
Updated Tuesday, Aug. 4, 2009 | 1:55 p.m.
WASHINGTON -- Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid vowed today to press forward with a bipartisan health care bill, even as “loud, shrill voices” backed by Republicans are shouting down the effort at town hall meetings across the country.
“We are going to do, if there’s any way humanly possible, a bipartisan bill,” Reid said following a lunch meeting at the White House.
President Barack Obama invited all 60 Democratic senators to lunch today to discuss health care and other issues as Congress prepares to adjourn for the August recess.
Reid, standing with Democratic Senate leaders after the meeting, compared the lunch to a “pep talk,” and signaled that it had an effect on his often disparate caucus: “The president didn’t get one standing ovation, he got several,” Reid said.
“We don’t want a partisan bill,” Reid said. “We will continue to work with them as long as we have to. The American people want health care reform and we’re going to do it -- in spite of the loud, shrill voices coming from the town hall meetings.”
We can't afford this crap Harry!
You just don't seem to want to listen to what the "working" public have to say, do you!
Idiot!!!!
"We're going to do it in spite of the loud, shrill voices coming from the town hall meetings."
Those voices would be the constituents, the voters, and the people voting you out of office soon.
hmmm Harry just does not seem to "get it" yet.... WE do not want the Gov't involved in our health care system!! (Let them work on getting the post office in the black if they need something to do)!!! Time we sent Mr. Reid out looking for employment!!
The only reason Dirty Harry wants Bi-partisanship is this; when the shoe falls he doesn't want the Dems eating a #$%@ sandwich, he wants to share the blame.
Thatta boy Harry,give the people what they dont want! Time for uncle Harry to go!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Harry and the rest of the libs in congress just don't get it. We need JOBS, not another trillion dollars in taxes. I can't wait for next November. Goodbye Harry!
Reid is being bullied by the unions who pay him to stay in office. IMO They want this healthcare reform of else!
"Sen. Reid continues to work closely with labor leaders and meets with them regularly," spokesman Jon Summers wrote in an e-mail to the Sun. "He's repeatedly stated his desire to pass health care reform this year, and remains a supporter of the EFCA, and he is the only majority leader to ever bring the bill to the floor."
But Reid refuses to hold in person town hall meetings with the public regarding healthcare reform. He will only do tele-meetings! Coward!
Reid vows to proceed with bipartisan, bipartisan....I am not sure he knows the definition.
Tellie town hall, prescreened, what a coward..
Mob, swastika carrying member here..Oh wait a sec got to go take my medicine, my arthritis is killing me and OH gee I forgot to color my hair. I have to iron my flag and get it back up..There is just so much to do, being a mob member as I am. Oh, gee my chair needs charging..Got to run my pruns are ready.
bye
PS had to look up how to spell swastika
Reid has been in office toooooo long. He has no idea what his job is anymore. The only people he cares about is his cronies that he reports to (special interests). We the people should be his speical interest. He has been in office way to long to understand that he works for the people-- me, you, your sister, your mother, your husband, your boyfriend, your father, your girlfriend, all of your family members, EVERYONE. He is too scared to hear from US, the people, that he has to run a town hall on the telephone. He is a chicken. He works for us and should hear from us IN PERSON. Why are you not doing your job Harry? I am your employer. You are not doing your job and you should be reprimanded by all. You have broken too many promises. How could you let Obama get away with putting down Las Vegas. If effect, you stamped on the city. Why didnt you suggest having the last meeting with Obama in Las Vegas. Are you ashamed of us? You owe us an apology and a resignation. Why dont you get off your high horse and come down and meet us and find out what WE, the people, think? Why?
Any elected official that had the cruel audacity to say" THE WAR IS LOST,THE SURGE IS NOT WORKING" In time of WAR,doesn't have a right to vote on anything.But it truly gives you a view into the window of his soul and who he really is and how UNAMERICAN he is.He puts his party and ideology interests first, while defending the likes of pelosi-frank and schumer, rather then our boys in uniform.The people of Nevada need to start fresh.And get this elitist special interest out of touch fr-eek show GONE! ! ! It's the right thing to do. God bless American,and God bless our Troops !!! P.S. I wonder how many of our boys were killed or wounded,with that embolden the enemy comment ?
Reid thinks these people that went to war in Nam and Korea and now attend the Town Hall meetings are "evil-mongers" because we differ and don't want Obama's socialized government health care! Obama wants this 1,000. plus pages rushed through immediately?? Sure, because he didn't want it read by the people! (Reid has to be voted out, we need reps tht support we Americans!) See story below:
by Eric Zimmermann
Town hall protesters are "evil-mongers," says Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.)
Reid coined the term in a speech to an energy conference in Las Vegas this week and repeated it in an interview with Politics Daily.
Such "evil-mongers" are using "lies, innuendo and rumor," to drown out rational debate, Reid said.
"It was an original with me," Reid said of the term. "I maybe could have been less descriptive," he said, adding that "I doubt you'll hear it from me again."
Nevertheless, Reid worked in the word one more time during the interview.
"I feel I haven't done anything to embarrass [my children]," Reid joked. "Except maybe call somebody an evil-monger."
Reid is a JOKE and I am glad Nevada is starting to see it. It is time to remove all these IDIOTS from congress! We deserve better.
Excuse me, the joke Senator in Nevada is John Ensign. The one who speaks in Republican sound bites and never takes a stand on issues until it is safe to do so. I won't get into the cult he belongs to on C Street, but I do know that a Christian magazine is highly critical of the goings on there.
This Healthcare bill and Cap and Trade is two ways O`buma will tax the middleclass. While our Federal income tax rate may not be raised for those making under $250.000, the Healthcare and Cap and Trade bills will more than make up the loss in Federal Taxes as O`Buma and his band of Socialists/Communists know all to well that business will pass on their tax increases to the consumer all of us, through higher product and or service charges. With regards to his healthcare plan, we can keep heh,heh our present insurance carrier but we`ll all also be paying one way or another for O`buma care. The word must keep spreading throughout this country that in order to save the Constitution and our democracy, we must vote out all the Dumocrats and Republicans in 2010 who have sought to destroy our Nation and our way of life. This government is all about reparations for the wrongs that were done over 450 years ago. All one has to do is look at the make up of this adminstration which includes a devout Communist as well as Socialist`s. O`buma`s pastor for over 20 years is a racist and lets not forget one of his best friends Bill Ayers, was a terrorist in the 1960`s blowing up buildings in New York City. A leader of the Weather Underground a Communist organization with ties to the old USSR (Russia).It`s our country and we need to take it back now, stand up and be heard. Harry Reid must go VOTE him out, no matter what he says he`s a yes man for this administration. along with the other Socialists and their Republican supporters.
We as a nation must fight to save our Republic from this administration and the policies that their trying to force on the Republic. Remember anything that gets passed were stuck with.
One more thing to ponder, where are the jobs that were promised ?? There are none and the reason being is the more people who lose their jobs also lose their health insurance. This administration is counting on the 30 million and more each week who have lost their jobs and health insurance to support their health plan for single payer tax supported plan. While this is real for those people, it is a well orchrestrated plan by O`Buma and his criminal empire. They want 10% or higher unemployment it bodes well for their Socialist agenda. Think about it, they`ve stopped talking about jobs for weeks now.
I believe Senator Reid should stop with the bipartisan attempt for a workable public option. The Democrats in Nevada elected him to serve his constituency, most of whom are in need of affordable health care and medicine. If he is so concerned with the Republican position, he should consider joining that political party. His style of "compromise" has morphed into appeasement. He no longer represents the people who hired him. True, he gets bigger money from campaign contributions than the meager salary we taxpayers give him so it just may be that it is with them his loyalty lies.