Reid Compares Opponents of Health Care Reform to Supporters of Slavery

[madmom]

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 -- even though it was Sen. Strom Thurmond, then a Democrat, who unsuccessfully tried to filibuster the Civil Rights Act of 1957 and it was Republicans who led the charge against slavery.

Senate Republicans on Monday called Reid's comments "offensive" and "unbelievable."

But Reid argued that Republicans are using the same stalling tactics employed in the pre-Civil War era.

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I know this is from faux but I find the story kind of amusing.

[loyalkydem]

1. He just

so happens to be right. But in this hateful climate will anyone listen?

[liberal N proud]

2. The opposition to health care is probably descendants of the supporters of slavery

They all come from the same DNA politically

[LuvNewcastle]

3. By 1957, Strom Thurmond had already

left the Democratic Party and then came back. He ran for President as a Dixiecrat in 1948. In a way, he foreshadowed Zell Miller and Joe Lieberman. But you won't hear that on Fox.

[joeybee12]

4. I know...the article is rife with misinformation...

...what else can you expect from faux?