Harry Reid Claims Common Sense Center

[sandnsea]

As George Bush and his radical right Republicans continue to concentrate power in the hands of a few in order to push the country further right, Harry Reid “introduced a common sense agenda for the common good” at the National Press Club yesterday.

The defeat of Frist’s nuclear option may well be a short lived cease fire, but Harry Reid is determined to make it the first shot in a new agenda for America.

“When George Bush and the Republican leadership make their decisions, the whispered wishes of a few right wing activists drown out the pleas of America’s families.

But if the Washington Republicans stopped to listen to the American people, this is what they’d hear:

Americans are sick and tired of getting caught in the crossfire of partisan sniping.

Americans want us to put the common sense center ahead of nonsense.

Americans want us to bring people together, to focus on what we owe to one another, and the responsibilities we share.

And Americans want their agenda – their jobs, their health care, their security – to get back on the front burners of the nation’s agenda.

Americans are coming to realize this Republican Congress is out of touch with the real problems of working families and that the agenda the Republicans are advancing is at odds with what people in this country really care about.”

Links and more:

http://www.lightupthedarkness.org/blog/default.asp?view=plink&id=970

[cornermouse]

1. A good start.

Reid's right.

[ladjf]

2. Thomas Paine, Part II. It worked before.

[IthinkThereforeIAM]

3. Common Sense....

... I smell George McGovern here somewheres. After losing his senate seat in 1980 to a GOP hate campaign (one of, if not the original one) McGovern stated he was starting a "Common Sense" group to reinject responsibility into government and political affairs. I remember him saying this back in the day.

[sandnsea]

4. Did you read the speech?

You might have a different view if you had actually clicked and read the whole thing.