http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0410/36524.html

 

Kentucky Sen. Jim Bunning called Harry Reid an “idiot” during a lunch meeting with other Republican senators this week — the latest sign that the Senate majority leader is getting under the skin of his GOP counterparts.

 

Bunning’s harsh words — confirmed by several people in the room — came in the midst of Tennessee Sen. Lamar Alexander’s presentation about Reid’s handling of the Senate floor. Bunning rose from his seat and, speaking loudly, read fundraising data that singled out Reid and other Senate Democrats for taking more money from Goldman Sachs and other Wall Street firms than Republicans had.

 

After Bunning called Reid an “idiot,” another voice yelled out: “He is acting like an idiot.”

 

They argue that Reid is being driven by internal Democratic polling data showing the majority party has to recapture the “reform” mantle rather than compromise — or risk huge losses in November.

 

In order to do that, Republicans say and Democrats privately acknowledge, Reid will have to play the “populist card” and paint the GOP as the defender of special interests while the majority leader and his Democratic colleagues are protecting average Americans.

 

And, Republicans say, he’s using tough talk along the way to fire up the Democratic base ahead of the November midterms — including the tough election Reid will face in Nevada

 

Reid seems to have realized that his attacks against McConnell may have gone too far, clarifying his comments Monday in an unusual floor statement saying, “I was in no way impugning the integrity of my friend from Kentucky.”

 

Over the past week, Reid and some of his Democratic colleagues have taken direct aim at Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), charging that he’s taking his marching orders from Wall Street after a private meeting with bank executives and the head of the Senate GOP’s campaign committee, Texas Sen. John Cornyn.

I pulled this one out separately considering how the Democrats handled the putting together of the health care reform bill....

 

Reid took his criticisms a step further Wednesday, calling Republicans “anti-American” for blocking the Wall Street reform bill and demanding changes in back-room negotiations rather than on the Senate floor.

 

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Bunning as a lame duck is going to make for some interesting copy this year. He has always been cantanerous but he is ratcheting it up even a couple notches more these days. Mitch better walk the line with him or Bunning will unleash a few of his old high hard ones.

Bunning as a lame duck is going to make for some interesting copy this year. He has always been cantanerous but he is ratcheting it up even a couple notches more these days. Mitch better walk the line with him or Bunning will unleash a few of his old high hard ones.

 

Did you read the article because they asked Reid's spokesman for a quote on Bunning's comment and he said he wasn't going to get into a battle with someone who through high hard ones.:thumb::lol:

Did you read the article because they asked Reid's spokesman for a quote on Bunning's comment and he said he wasn't going to get into a battle with someone who through high hard ones.:thumb::lol:

 

No I didn't read the article but that is a natural comment with Bunning due to his baseball background.

Thats like calling the kittle black...

Bunning's actions over the last few months have really swayed my opinion on term limits.

Bunning's actions over the last few months have really swayed my opinion on term limits.

 

Me too...in the opposite direction I bet.

 

When you are going out then you can be 100% straightforward, which is what they should all be going in, but then they get sucked into the machines- DNC + RNC.

Jimbo still has a grasp of the obvious though, doesn't he?

Jimbo still has a grasp of the obvious though, doesn't he?

 

:thumb:

 

If the shoe fits...

Bunning's right on this one.

Bunning is a grumpy old man , at least that is the image he projects in Church on Sunday . Never smiles , never acknowledges greetings , and acts like he has terminal hemorrhoids .

Pretty weak on Reid's part if he backs off warranted criticism of a dirtbag like McConnell.

Pretty weak on Reid's part if he backs off warranted criticism of a dirtbag like McConnell.

 

Pretty weak on most peoples part for not raising cane over Reid calling the republicans Anti American and then whining about a "dirtbag" like McConnell.

 

Democrats give their all to this country and it's citizens while republicans do nothing but rape and pillage the "poor" they have created. Shame on Mitch and Bless Harry's heart.

Harry Reid is far from a favorite of mine ... personally, it won't hurt my feelings to see him get beat in November, even if his opponent is an idiot, too.

 

Bunning, however, doesn't have any room to talk.