Reid responds to Bush's attacks: "He is only trying to divert attention from his failed presidency"

[sabra]

http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalradar/

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Reid responded Thursday, saying the White House is in the "twilight zone," because the President threatened to veto the bill earlier this month that would have funded the Department of Transportation and included money for highway safety.

"For the president today at his press availability to talk about appropriations bills not being attached, he must be in the twilight zone," said Reid. "I mean where was he during the first six years of his presidency when the Republicans weren't passing Appropriations bills? Did he say a word? No."

"For him to be staring in the face the huge amounts of money we're spending -- $350 million a day in Iraq -- and he is threatening to veto appropriations bills also? The difference between what he wants and what we want is 7/10ths of one percent. He is only trying to divert attention from his failed presidency," said Reid.

About a week before the bridge collapse, Bush threatened to veto the congressional appropriations bill that funds the Department of Transportation. Bush said on July 23 that the bill was too expensive by $22 billion, that it had too many earmarks, and that a plan in the House version of the bill to move $3.5 billion from Defense appropriations to non-defense related spending would "risk diminishing America's war fighting capacity."

[TheDebbieDee]

1. Sen. Harry Reid, tellin' it like it T-I is............... LOL!

[That Is Quite Enough]

2. You tell them, Reid!

[BlackHawk706867]

3. So based on Reid's comments about failed Presidency, how do

you feel about having GWB for your everlasting King? Now that's scary!

ww

[C_U_L8R]

4. Give em hell Harry

[The_Casual_Observer]

5. At this rate the enemy doesn't need to come "over here" to destroy

us, our own bridges & roads will do it for them.

[yardwork]

6. Maybe our real enemy is already here - in the White House.

Maybe there is no "terrorist threat." Maybe the ones who are really out to get us - the ones killing Americans and destroying our lives - are right here at home. They have Rs behind their names.

[babylonsister]

7. I love this tactic! Reid is making the dim one irrelevant! nt

[Hydra]

8. Keep it up, Harry!

:applause:

It can only help us when he points out that * wants all the money to go to the DoD or his cronies, not to anything we might actually NEED like roads, shelter, non-gmo food, clean water, etc.