Harry Reid Compares Tea Party to "Anarchists" | United Liberty | Free Market - Individual Liberty - Limited Government - Jason Pye:
April 24, 2013 - "On Tuesday, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) took a shot at the Tea Party movement while discussing the sequester and the Simpson-Bowles fiscal reform plan with Sen. Tom Coburn (R-OK). Coburn ... objected to S.788, which would suspend the sequester for the current fiscal year. The sequester — a plan that merely cuts the rate of spending increases, is being blamed for flight delays due to FAA furloughs of air traffic controllers — a move with political motivations behind it.
"'I didn’t vote for the Budget Control Act. I think sequester is a stupid way to cut spending. But I want us to understand exactly what is going on,' Coburn continued. 'This is a contrived situation because no effort — zero effort — by the FAA or the Department of Transportation has been made to have any flexibility in terms of how they spend their money.... They have over $500 million unobligated sitting in balances that aren’t obligated, so none of this had to happen. This has been a created situation.'
"Reid responded with revisionist history, bogus numbers, and a slam against both Coburn and the Tea Party movement.
"'We have a situation where this country has been driven by the Tea Party for the last number of years,' Reid said in response to Coburn. 'When I was in school, I studied government and I learned about the anarchists. Now, they were different than the Tea Party because they were violent. But they were anarchists because they did not believe in government in any level and they acknowledged it. The Tea Party kind of hides that.'"
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April 24, 2013 - "On Tuesday, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) took a shot at the Tea Party movement while discussing the sequester and the Simpson-Bowles fiscal reform plan with Sen. Tom Coburn (R-OK). Coburn ... objected to S.788, which would suspend the sequester for the current fiscal year. The sequester — a plan that merely cuts the rate of spending increases, is being blamed for flight delays due to FAA furloughs of air traffic controllers — a move with political motivations behind it.
"'I didn’t vote for the Budget Control Act. I think sequester is a stupid way to cut spending. But I want us to understand exactly what is going on,' Coburn continued. 'This is a contrived situation because no effort — zero effort — by the FAA or the Department of Transportation has been made to have any flexibility in terms of how they spend their money.... They have over $500 million unobligated sitting in balances that aren’t obligated, so none of this had to happen. This has been a created situation.'
"Reid responded with revisionist history, bogus numbers, and a slam against both Coburn and the Tea Party movement.
"'We have a situation where this country has been driven by the Tea Party for the last number of years,' Reid said in response to Coburn. 'When I was in school, I studied government and I learned about the anarchists. Now, they were different than the Tea Party because they were violent. But they were anarchists because they did not believe in government in any level and they acknowledged it. The Tea Party kind of hides that.'"
Read more: http://www.unitedliberty.org/articles/13441-harry-reid-compares-tea-party-to-anarchists
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