Harry Reid Compares GOP's Obamacare Gripes To Lame Prison Jokes
Give 'em hell Harry
WASHINGTON -- Republicans' oft-repeated complaints about Obamacare are so old, tired and bad that they're like a list of lame jokes endlessly repeated by inmates, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) said Thursday.
Speaking after Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) took to the floor to again bemoan the flawed rollout of the Affordable Care Act and its impact on Americans, Reid summarily dismissed McConnell's complaints.
"The remarks of my friend the Republican leader kind of remind me of a joke that's not very funny, but it's a joke -- it makes the point here, I think," Reid said on the Senate floor.
He said the joke involved three friends in a "prison setting" who had told all their own jokes so many times that all three knew all the punchlines by heart. Rather than keep retelling the full jokes, Reid said, they decided to number them and just shout out the number so they could laugh.
"Our Republican colleagues, why don't they just -- let's number their one-through-50 criticisms of Obamacare, and then rather than coming and give these speeches, I think we would be much better off if, in fact, what they would do is just give us a number and we would all -- because we've heard these things so many times -- we would immediately laugh, because basically they're jokes too," Reid said.
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