Reid Says GOP 'Treated President Obama With Unprecedented Disrespect'
Source: Talking Points Memo
By LAUREN FOX Published SEPTEMBER 29, 2016, 10:56 AM EDT
Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) went to the Senate floor Thursday morning to declare that when history looks back on the current Congress, it will "note the Republicans in Congress treated President Obama with unprecedented disrespect."
"President Obama is the first President to be denied a hearing on his budget. He's the first President to be denied a hearing on a Supreme Court nominee. President Obama is the first President asked to show his birth certificate," Reid said on the floor. "President Obama is the first President to face over 500 filibusters here in the Senate. In this Republican Senate, President Obama will receive fewer nominees confirmed than any President in many many decades. Republicans have not done their basic work of government."
The comments were part of a string of political speeches Reid has given on the floor in recent months, as the general election has approached and Congress' productivity has come to a screeching halt. During his speech, Reid blamed Republican obstructionism and political games for laying the groundwork for Donald Trump as the GOP nominee.
"They would have us believe that Trump just fell out of the sky and somehow mysteriously became the nominee of the party, but that's not the way it is," Reid said. "Everything that he's said, stood for, done in this bizarre campaign that he's run has come, filtered up, from what's going on in the Republican Senate." Trump, Reid said, "is the monster Republicans built. He is their Frankenstein monster. They own him," he said.
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I'm glad he's saying something, but the time to say something was about seven years ago. Once the pattern had begun to establish itself. BIG STINK should have been made about it starting back then.
Anybody remember how the Obamas reached out right at the beginning of his first term? There was news that they wanted to bring back the cocktail party. They wanted to host cocktail parties at the White House for their fellows in Washington DC. Where House and Senate folk could fraternize with the White House in an easier, less-formal social setting and get to know each other and maybe start forming possible alliances. No go. It failed. NOBODY came. It was a public embarrassment leveled at the White House from these selfish closed-minded, sore-loser assholes.
Anybody remember how the Obamas extended invitations to come to the White House for numerous occasions - watching the NCAA finals, watching Oscar screeners before Academy Awards night? NOBODY came. Invitations to state dinners with visiting VIPs and international celebrities and heads-of-state. Turned down. I vaguely recall somebody asking John Boehner about it after one of these and he responded with some pride that he had decided not to accept his invitation. On "principle." 
They absolutely turned their backs to him. DELIBERATELY. From the time they all met in a secret huddle on Inauguration night when everybody else was partying at the various inaugural balls. These assholes, Mitch McConnell, Eric Cantor*, Dan Lundgren*, Kevin McCarthy, Jeb Hensarling, Pete Hoekstra*, Paul Ryan, Tom Coburn*, Jon Kyl, John Ensign*, Pete Sessions, Jim Demint*, Newt Gingrich, Frank Luntz, and Bob Corker. All sequestered together in this little coven-meeting, devising a strategy to say "no" to EVERYTHING President Obama put forward, even if it was something the CONS actually wanted. Objective: To make him a one-term President. These assholes were determined FROM THE START to ruin his Presidency. SO glad it failed. The names with * are those who aren't in Congress anymore, either because they were defeated or stepped down on their own - or in John Ensign's case, in disgrace. I printed out a list several years ago and it's taped to my bedroom wall with other notes and important stuff I don't want to forget.
On edit - I went back and BOLDED each of their names, because I don't want ANY of us to forget, either.
Corrected that for ya. 
Or has he been asleep for the past seven years?
rocktivity
for the past 8 years
And these are the same bold-faced hypocrites who claimed that any criticism of a Republican president is treason and anti-American
