Harry Reid – Nevada’s Village Idiot Threatening Republican’s

Reid on bipartisanship: Republicans, drop the Tea Party ‘extremism’
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reidsaid “with a warning to Republicans to leave Tea Party behind and “learn what legislation is all about.”

“I would hope that they understand that everything doesn’t have to be a fight. Legislation is an art of working together, building consensus, compromise. And I hope that the Tea Party doesn’t have the influence in this next year that they had in the previous year.

Repeating three times his claim that Republicans are engaged in “obstructionism on steroids,” the Nevada Democrat said President Obama for two and a half years “bent over backwards” to reach out to Republicans, only to find a fist rather than a hand to shake. Reid said he’d prefer that Democrats not have to go it alone in the Senate this year.

Reid said since last September Democrats in Congress have forged ahead alone pushing the president’s jobs bill and demanding tax hikes. Obamas using a congressional recess, to appoint Richard Cordray to head the Consumer Protection Financial Bureau. Republicans are still smarting from Obama’s Out Of recess appointments!

Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney called the action “extraconstitutional” and said it shows Obama “doesn’t want to have to work with both parties, he wants to jam through whatever he’d like to do.” But Reid, who came up with the plan to use the pro-forma sessions to block former President George W. Bush’s nominees, said Obama’s move is constitutional.

Among the items Democrats want to pass this year is a widely despised Internet piracy law that supporters say is aimed at protecting intellectual privacy but opponents say will shut down social media. Reid said he expected it will pass the Senate.
However, on Saturday, House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Darrell Issa, R-Calif., said he secured an agreement with Republican leaders that the legislation will not be brought to the House floor until a consensus is reached to address concerns of the Internet community.