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Reid Compares Opposition to Health Care Bill to Support for Slavery

By Philip Klein on 12.7.09 @ 1:10PM

Harry Reid made made the following statements today, which come to me via Brian Faughnan:

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid took his GOP-blasting rhetoric to a new level Monday, comparing Republicans who oppose health care reform to lawmakers who clung to the institution of slavery more than a century ago.

The Nevada Democrat, in a sweeping set of accusations on the Senate floor, also compared health care foes to those who opposed women's suffrage and the civil rights movement.

"Instead of joining us on the right side of history, all the Republicans can come up with is, 'slow down, stop everything, let's start over.' If you think you've heard these same excuses before, you're right," Reid said. "When this country belatedly recognized the wrongs of slavery, there were those who dug in their heels and said 'slow down, it's too early, things aren't bad enough.'"

Reid is right. There were those who were stubbornly opposed to abolishing slavery. They were called Democrats.

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Pete2| 12.7.09 @ 2:17PM

This statement ranks up there with the nazi's belief that the Jews were the cause of all the world's ills back in the 1930's. The republican party was FOUNDED on an anti-slavery platform while the democrats tried their best to keep slavery legal. During the Civil war, it was democrat copperheads who wanted to make peace with the South, even if it meant keeping slavery intact in that region. Reid is nothing more than a sleazy liar. Too bad recall isn't an option for getting rid of this POS.