RNC finds Bush-Reid tit-for-tat

The Republican National Committee (RNC) has resurrected a bill Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) sponsored when he was in the House more than 20 years ago that would have kept members of Congress out of the Social Security program.
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In a statement scheduled for release today, the RNC blasts Reid for the 1983 bill. He sponsored it a few months after Congress passed legislation that required all members and other federal employees to join Social Security. Previously, federal employees, including lawmakers, participated in a generous defined-benefit pension program that exempted them from Social Security taxes.
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...Republicans have responded with a pointed attack of their own on the tough-talking Reid, who is emerging as the leader of Democratic opposition to the Bush administration, particularly to Bush’s plans for reforming Social Security.

Reid described his relationship with Bush in personal terms during yesterday’s reporters’ breakfast, referring to him as “this guy” and describing meetings with Bush at the White House as lectures. He lamented that Bush takes up most of the meeting time discoursing on foreign affairs and leaving Democratic leaders little time to ask questions.

http://www.hillnews.com/thehill/export/TheHill/News/Frontpage/042605/rnc.html

:shrug:

become pResident. It gives me confidence when I see our Senate leader treating "this guy" with the disdain he deserves. I have no doubt that this is the exact truth wbout WH meetings. * bloviating about things he 's totally incompetent at, foreign affairs, to avoid subjects about which he knows nothing, domestic affairs. We must have done something to deserve this.

The senators leaving the meetings, going to the closest bar and getting stinking drunk. Every time.

The nicest things they had to say made him sound like a psycho tyrant who was having a good day...

"He didn't cut anybody off," said Rep. Sherwood L. Boehlert (R-N.Y.). "He didn't try to debate us. Sometimes he's more argumentative."
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"He's out there and making sure he's talking to all of us — a lot — and not just when … we're in the doghouse," said Rep. Steven C. LaTourette (R-Ohio).

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=102&topic_id=1420655&mesg_id=1420655

OOOoooo, he behaved almost EXACTLY like a grown up. Good job!

And Reid is right!!!