Harry Reid: Obstructing ObamaCare is like obstructing the abolition of slavery
posted at 4:48 pm on December 7, 2009 by Allahpundit
Via Greg Hengler, a self-parodic sequel to the “I guess I’m a racist” clip. In fairness to Dingy, if you strain hard you can make an argument that he’s not drawing a precise moral equivalence here. His point is that, like slavery, leaving the uninsured without insurance is a moral wrong that requires urgent redress, not that it’s necessarily as wrong. But let’s be real: If he didn’t want to imply that, he would have used a less incendiary historical example, like social security, wouldn’t he?
I go back and forth on whether Reid’s demagoguery is something he can’t really control or whether he’s so stupid that he thinks it helps him politically to say stuff like this. This will earn him one or two brownie points from the left, but nowhere near enough to atone for the trainwreck on the public option that’s looming in the Senate. Meanwhile, a brand new poll on ObamaCare from his hometown paper shows support for ObamaCare cratering:
President Barack Obama has lost ground in the last month in getting Nevadans to embrace his health care reform package and, for the first time, opposition is above 50 percent and support is below 40 percent, a new poll commissioned by the Las Vegas Review-Journal reveals.
The telephone poll of 625 registered voters found that 53 percent of Nevadans oppose the president’s attempt to provide a remedy for problems in the nation’s health care system. Support for the plan is at 39 percent.
That’s a 4 percentage point difference in both categories from an October poll that showed support at 43 percent and opposition at 49 percent, almost within that poll’s margin of error. Now the gap is at 14 points and opposition in Obama’s own Democratic Party is climbing, from 15 percent in October to 23 percent in the most recent poll.
It takes a special kind of imbecile to look at numbers like that, knowing that he’s already facing an uphill bid for reelection, and decide that the smart thing to do now is to compare ObamaCare skeptics to … slavery apologists. But Reid’s always been pretty special, hasn’t he?
You’ll be pleased to know that the GOP is already in a full-court press on this, with Steele calling on Reid this afternoon to step down as a majority leader. Let’s not rush things, chairman: We need this tool around for as long as possible to mismanage his caucus. Nevadans will take care of him next year.
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WARNING TO HARRY REID
I got pulled over by the cops today. They told me they were looking for a bad mo’fo and a retard. They got me Harry, you might want to gather up your crayons put on your helmet and get outta Dodge. Jacka$$!
milwife88 on December 7, 2009 at 5:27 PM
I agree… only when need be though. It should not be a standard.
upinak on December 7, 2009 at 5:27 PM
Says the Democratic Senate Leader; from the party that actually embraced slavery and blocked Republicans’ attempts to prohibit it. Irony is alive and well in Harry Reid’s world.
yogi41 on December 7, 2009 at 5:27 PM
First we’re ‘evil mongers’, now we are like ‘slave holders’? Hyperbolic much, Harry? What a douche!
JAM on December 7, 2009 at 5:29 PM
I tend to disagree. The left views you as the enemy and imbues you with all of what they view as the greatest of sins – racism, sexism, homophobia, etc.
This is par for the course. Raid just let the public mask slip a bit.
18-1 on December 7, 2009 at 5:29 PM
First we’re ‘evil mongers’, now we are like ‘slave holders’? Hyperbolic much, Harry? What a douche!
JAM on December 7, 2009 at 5:29 PM
Obamacare is slavery.
Jim Treacher on December 7, 2009 at 5:30 PM
Hey Dingy…
The Democrats’ Missing History
Seven Percent Solution on December 7, 2009 at 5:02 PM
Don’t let this gem pass you by… (Thanks SPS!!)
Gob on December 7, 2009 at 5:32 PM
I don’t think any of these people are stupid,they are just so arrogant and full of themselves right now,patting each other on the back,telling each other how special and important they are,and they have totally bought into the obama agenda….Rush has said it many times,if they truly cared about getting this country back on track,they would take back everything they are doing.
ohiobabe on December 7, 2009 at 5:32 PM
Sorry, my computer farted. I’m waiting for my fine!
JAM on December 7, 2009 at 5:32 PM
Who is the “madam president” he references at 1:08?
DanMan on December 7, 2009 at 5:33 PM
Reid just desperately needs a literal, physical a$$-kicking, old-school style.
Midas on December 7, 2009 at 5:33 PM
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB121856786326834083.html
Seven Percent’s Original link…
Gob on December 7, 2009 at 5:33 PM
woah, that was weird. For an instant I thought I saw a Palin 46/46 post go up. Mebbe AP decided to hold it for later?
John the Libertarian on December 7, 2009 at 5:34 PM
I love the smell of desperation in the morning, it smells like…… Victory.
Juno77 on December 7, 2009 at 5:37 PM
So obstructing the implimentation of slavery is the same as obstructing the abolition of slavery? Er? Harry, think you might have fallen off your rocker there pal.
Holger on December 7, 2009 at 5:37 PM
oh the trolls come out at palin’s plight. *repeat*
upinak on December 7, 2009 at 5:37 PM
Swing low…
The Ugly American on December 7, 2009 at 5:37 PM
spoke too soon, it’s up now
John the Libertarian on December 7, 2009 at 5:38 PM
FTFY
LibTired on December 7, 2009 at 5:38 PM
Come on Harry don’t use up all the derogatory names on one bill. Save some for later.
fourdeucer on December 7, 2009 at 5:39 PM
Proud Rino says if there were plants on Venus, ObamaCare wouldn’t be necessary.
LibTired on December 7, 2009 at 5:41 PM
I move that we send him there to start a farm. All in favor say aye.
thomasaur on December 7, 2009 at 5:43 PM
Bless his little heart.
He and I do not share the same planet as far as what our world looks like. Mine is sane. His is…well, his.
Tennman on December 7, 2009 at 5:43 PM
They were for it before they were against it. There current position, although they won’t admit it, is that all Americans, Black and White and other, except for their royalist selves of course, should be slaves to the Federal High Commissar Czarist government.
MB4 on December 7, 2009 at 5:43 PM
What is wrong with this man and how does anyone think this is acceptable rhetoric?
Cindy Munford on December 7, 2009 at 5:45 PM
I think this is proof positive that the Democrat/Obama meeting yesterday did not yield the desired results.
The Dems are losing their grip on their baby, and Reid is losing whats left of his insanity and on the verge of going full blown mental.
He’s always been special, but this is beyond “par for the course” for Reid. He’s pissed off. They can’t get 60.
I’m praying I’m right.
uknowmorethanme on December 7, 2009 at 5:46 PM
Well, Allahpundit, in fairness to Dingy, and without straining in the least bit, one can also make the argument that he’s a POS and meant every word he said. Let’s be real: Same ol’ left wing sh!t–if you resist stinkin’socialism being shoved down your throat you’re a racist. So f!!k Dingy Harry!
Gang-of-One on December 7, 2009 at 5:46 PM
Rostankowski
daesleeper on December 7, 2009 at 5:47 PM
Folks, it is all drama for the media and gullible conservatives. Don’t buy into the distraction. They will pass the bill with a public option in it. They are too close and will use reconciliation if they have to…..
And even if not, they will pass anything and put it back in at conference. They will stoop to anything.
Also, after 2010 eliminate the EPA.
Starlink on December 7, 2009 at 5:48 PM
Harry is an absolute idiot and how he manages to get elected is a deep mystery.
rplat on December 7, 2009 at 5:48 PM
His is curiouser and curiouser.
Cheshire Cat on December 7, 2009 at 5:48 PM
Harry – do you really want to go there bud?
anything interesting happen in 1978? **cough cough**
gatorboy on December 7, 2009 at 5:48 PM
J_Crater on December 7, 2009 at 5:49 PM
You will be able to figure out what is wrong with him if you start and the beginning and don’t stop until you get to the end, but be prepared for a very long journey.
Cheshire Cat on December 7, 2009 at 5:51 PM
Harry Reid is one giant obstruction. You know, kind of like a tumor.
scalleywag on December 7, 2009 at 5:54 PM
Supporting ObamaCare is like saying you must enslave America in order to make it free.
JellyToast on December 7, 2009 at 5:54 PM
Well you have heard of the Hockey Stick haven’t you? It does exists just with Harry Reid’s insanity rather than Global Warming. You see, everything has a moral if only you can find it.
Cheshire Cat on December 7, 2009 at 5:54 PM
When democrats are running straight for the cliff, republicans want to say “stop, slow down, start over.” Think about it, Dingy.
Mallard T. Drake on December 7, 2009 at 5:56 PM
Slavery is freedom. Oppression is liberation. Bankruptcy is frugality. Ignorance is enlightenment. Lies are truth. Death is life.
Cheshire Cat on December 7, 2009 at 5:56 PM
I am really enjoying living in a post-racial society ever since Obama became president. Oh, wait……….
Mallard T. Drake on December 7, 2009 at 5:59 PM
Talk about an obstruction. Reid looks like he hasn’t taken a crap in three months.
Kuffar on December 7, 2009 at 6:03 PM
According to Mr. Reid, people are losing their homes and even dying because of our current health care system. I would be willing to bet there are more of those things happening due to unemployment then the cost of premiums. Let’s talk about the sub-prime lending the Democrats thought was the greatest deal since sliced bread. Where has that piece of compassion landed us.
Cindy Munford on December 7, 2009 at 6:03 PM
No, the Democratic Party are the slave holders today. Their view that personhood is relative to one’s choice arbitrarily determining our value is just like what justified slavery. Only they have racially cleansed some of the argument.
Blue Collar Todd on December 7, 2009 at 6:03 PM
Away out here they have a name for lice and frogs and locust
The lice is Nancy, the frog is Harry and they call the locust Obama
Obama blows liberty away and sets the constitution a-flyin’
Obama makes the countryside sound like freedom was out there dyin’
Obama (Obama)
Obama (Obama)
They call the locust Obama
Before I knew Obama’s name
And heard his wail and whinin’
I had a country and it had me
And the sun was always shinin’
But then one day He, Pelosi and Reid betrayed me
And left me far behind them
And now I’m lost, so gone and lost
Not even God can find me
MB4 on December 7, 2009 at 6:07 PM
How about some buzzards flying overhead?
I doubt that any self-respecting buzzard would actually touch that slimeball, but they always add some nice atmosphere.
justltl on December 7, 2009 at 6:09 PM
That’s nice of you to be ‘fair’, but it is Not Fair for him to try and draw this parallel. It’s absurd on it’s face. If they wanted to insure the uninsured, they could do that without bothering the rest of the system…or the rest of us. There are millions upon millions of dollars running through Washington DC.
So, I’m not buying it and never will.
You are much more ‘fair’ than I.
bridgetown on December 7, 2009 at 6:11 PM
This imbecile must be banking on ACORN or SEIU voter fraud to save his a$$.
justltl on December 7, 2009 at 6:20 PM
There are no words to describe the insanity that is Harry Reid.
BetseyRoss on December 7, 2009 at 6:23 PM
Dingy is king of the Senatorial BOOBS!
MCGIRV on December 7, 2009 at 6:24 PM
Democrats & their racist history!
• Democrats fought to expand slavery while Republicans fought to end it.
• Democrats passed those discriminatory Black Codes and Jim Crow laws.
• Democrats fought against anti-lynching laws.
• Democrats fought to keep blacks in slavery and away from the polls, and they started the Ku Klux Klan to terrorize them.
• Democrat Senator Robert Byrd of West Virginia is well known for having been a “Keagle” in the Ku Klux Klan.
• Democrat Senator Robert Byrd of West Virginia personally filibustered the Civil Rights Act of 1964 for 14 straight hours to keep it from passage.
• Democrats passed the Repeal Act of 1894 that overturned civil right laws enacted by Republicans.
• Democrats declared that they would rather vote for a“yellow dog” than vote for a Republican, because the Republican Party was known as the party for blacks.
• Democrat President Woodrow Wilson, reintroduced segregation throughout the federal government immediately upon taking office in1913.
• Democrat President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s first appointment to the Supreme Court was a life member of the Ku Klux Klan, Sen. Hugo Black, Democrat of Alabama.
• Democrat President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s choice for vice president in 1944 was Harry Truman, who had joined the Ku Klux Klan in Kansas City in 1922.
• Democrat President Franklin D. Roosevelt resisted Republican efforts to pass a federal law against lynching.
• Democrat President Franklin D. Roosevelt opposed integration of the armed forces.
• Democrat Senators Sam Ervin, Albert Gore, Sr.(father of Al Gore Jr.) and Robert Byrd were the chief opponents of the 1964 Civil RightsAct.
• Democrat public safety commissioner Eugene “Bull” Connor, in Birmingham, Ala., unleashed vicious dogs and turned fire hoses on black civil rights demonstrators.
• Democrats were whom Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and the other protestors were fighting.
• Democrat Georgia Governor Lester Maddox “brandished an ax hammer to prevent blacks from patronizing his restaurant.
• Democrat Governor George Wallace stood in front of the Alabama schoolhouse in 1963, declaring there would be segregation forever.
• Democrat Arkansas Governor Faubus tried to prevent desegregation of Little Rock public schools.
• Democrat Senator John F. Kennedy voted against the 1957 Civil rights Act.
• Democrat President John F. Kennedy opposed the 1963 March on Washington by Dr. King.
• Democrat President John F. Kennedy, had Dr. King wiretapped and investigated by the FBI.
• Democrat President Bill Clinton’s mentor was U.S. Senator J. William Fulbright, an Arkansas Democrat and a supporter of racial segregation.
• Democrat President Bill Clinton interned for J. William Fulbright in 1966-67.
• Democrat Senator J. William Fulbright signed the Southern Manifesto opposing the Supreme Court’s 1954 Brown vs. Board of Education decision.
• Democrat Senator J. William Fulbright joined with the Dixiecrats in filibustering the Civil Rights Acts of 1957 and 1964.
• Democrat Senator J. William Fulbright voted against the 1965 Voting Rights Act.
• Republicans enacted civil rights laws in the 1950’s and 1960’s, over the objection of Democrats.
• Republicans founded the HCBU’s and started the NAACP to counter the racist practices of the Democrats.
• Republicans pushed through much of the ground breaking civil rights legislation in Congress by an 82% to 64%.
• Republicans fought slavery and amended the Constitution to grant blacks freedom, citizenship and the right to vote.
• Republicans pushed through much of the groundbreaking civil rights legislation from the 1860s through the 1960s.
• Republican President Dwight Eisenhower sent troops into the South to desegregate the schools.
• Republican President Dwight Eisenhower appointed Chief Justice Earl Warren to the Supreme Court, which resulted in the 1954 Brown vs. Board of Education decision.
• Republican Senator Everett Dirksen from Illinois, not Democrat President Lyndon Johnson, was the one who pushed through the civilrights laws of the 1960’s.
• Republican Senator Everett Dirksen from Illinois wrote the language for the 1965 Voting Rights Act.
• Republican Senator Everett Dirksen from Illinois also crafted the language for the Civil Rights Act of 1968 which prohibited discrimination in housing.
• The 1963 March on Washington by Dr. King was organized by A. Phillip Randolph who was a black Republican.
• Dr. Martin Luther King was a Republican.
xler8bmw on December 7, 2009 at 6:29 PM
!!!!!!!!!!!THE LIBERAL PARTY IS NUTS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
And Harry,aka,”THE WAR IS LOST” Reid,it was your Party
going way,way,back in US History,that were the owners of
Slavery!!!
Once again,behold the awesome power of Liberal Stupidity
on Parade that never ends!!
And,the theme all along from the Left,with Stimulus,and
Bailouts,has always been,a creative way,
for,REPERATIONS!!!!!!!!!!!!!
canopfor on December 7, 2009 at 6:33 PM
I’ll say it again,the Republican Party is in the 21St.Century,and the Liberal Party are still stuck
in the 1700′s!!
canopfor on December 7, 2009 at 6:35 PM
Dingy Harry had to qualify women who wanted to speak up as wanting to vote (cause we all know the DEMS told HRC to sit down and shut up and Harry knows it too the frakker)
frakkers
ginaswo on December 7, 2009 at 6:38 PM
According to Mr. Reid, people are losing their homes and even dying because of our current health care system. I would be willing to bet there are more of those things happening due to unemployment then the cost of premiums. Let’s talk about the sub-prime lending the Democrats thought was the greatest deal since sliced bread. Where has that piece of compassion landed us.
Cindy Munford on December 7, 2009 at 6:03 PM
Cindy Munford: Cindy,I wish,Reid had the same passion on
Afghanistan.Soldiers as well,are dying on
the battlefield!:)
canopfor on December 7, 2009 at 6:40 PM
“Nevadans will take care of him next year.”
_____________________________________________
I’ve read “articles” in Penthouse Forum that didn’t arouse me this much.
Dopenstrange on December 7, 2009 at 6:41 PM
Doorgunner: Punching Harry Reid in the face would be like freeing those he would enslave.
Doorgunner on December 7, 2009 at 7:12 PM
Hey Dingy,
Quick quiz: What was the party that OPPOSED emancipation? They went so far as starting the KKK.
Any thoughts?
Blacksmith8 on December 7, 2009 at 7:32 PM
Our leadership in Washington are stone cold idiots. All they know how to do is respond with outrage. That’s the dumbest think I’ve ever heard. Do you get mad when a clown acts like a clown? No. You point out to the world what a clown he is. You laugh at the charges of racism, and thereby de-fang those charges forever. But the numbnuts in the Senate are way too in love with themselves to do the smart thing.
voxpopuli on December 7, 2009 at 7:38 PM
Yeah, Mr. Reid.
Abortion in Obamacare. Abortion, the tool of Democrat Eugenists who wanted to reduce Black Population.
Old Republicans and Now Southern Conservatives are fighting against Eugenics … not just of the Blacks but of all Americans.
We, Conservatives, are living up to our golden place in History: Demolish Democrats’ anti-American policies such as Obamacare and Cap-n-Trade.
TheAlamos on December 7, 2009 at 7:40 PM
Reid is n absolute moron. I hope Nevada fires the stupid SOB.
ultracon on December 7, 2009 at 7:42 PM
It’s not a toomuh!
ya2daup on December 7, 2009 at 7:43 PM
It’s not the same as obstructing the abolition of slavery, Harry. It’s the same as obstructing the liberation of the Nazi concentration camps. It’s the same as obstructing the cure for cancer.
Idiot.
Grafted on December 7, 2009 at 7:53 PM
Harry is an evil man. But we knew that when we learned that he is a democrat. All dems are immoral, no exceptions. This includes democrat voters. all immoral, no exceptions.
proconstitution on December 7, 2009 at 7:55 PM
THIS MAN IS A DESPICABLE WRETCH OF HUMANITY……AND BABY KILLER!!!
Now senator Reid we’re even.
Have a nice election. >>>>>smmmmmmooooccch<<<<<<
PappyD61 on December 7, 2009 at 7:57 PM
Nevada, please make him go away!
yoda on December 7, 2009 at 8:07 PM
As a Nevadan I stand for the abolition of Harry Reid.
I worked at his opponent’s campaign last time and will this time WHOEVER that opponent is.
Mojave Mark on December 7, 2009 at 8:09 PM
Everyone of these turds need to have their retirement money taken from them after the next conservative congress wins control. They think they are safe with the millions they’ve awarded themselves, taken from Americans. Using the history of their own examples, the next conservative congress needs to go back and tax their retirements at about 99%. If it’s good enough for AIG CEO’s, it’s good enough for thieves in government.
JellyToast on December 7, 2009 at 8:22 PM
Well put.
Incompetence now. Replacement later. Defeat the bill, then defeat the tool.
sulla on December 7, 2009 at 8:50 PM
After a long day of leisure Christmas shopping I get home to see a story on Foxnewsdotcom that Reidiot had bashed the GOP again. Likening the GOP to lawmakers who clung to the institution of slavery”. Doesn’t he realize that the Dems are the ones on the wrong side of most issues. Does he forget that it was Republicans (Lincoln) who abolished slavery, not the Dems. It was the GOP, not the dems who passed the Civil Rights Act.
LurP on December 7, 2009 at 8:53 PM
Seven Percent Solution on December 7, 2009 at 5:02 PM
Thanks for this – not sure if it makes me a full 7% smarter, but it helps!
massrighty on December 7, 2009 at 10:04 PM
One couldn’t write a dumber ending to a political career.
happy2behere on December 7, 2009 at 10:04 PM
A man who wants to forcibly take the fruits of your labors without properly recompensing you for them says that opposing his plan that will eventually give him complete control over you body is like opposing slavery.
Was he trying to be ironic?
29Victor on December 7, 2009 at 11:38 PM
Funny how Reid mentions the heel-draggers on slavery, but forgets they were all in the Democrat party. It was those fire-breathing “radical Republicans” who wanted to end slavery. Before the Civil War, the most famous commentary on slavery were the Lincoln-Douglass debates. Democrat Douglass not only supported slavery, but defeated the Republican abolitionist (Lincoln) for the Senate seat from Illinois.
I have to confess a sort of morbid curiousity if it was Douglass’ seat that Obama held before his
Ascensionelection to the Presidency. If so, given how Burris later obtained the seat, it would seem that questionable morals are endemic to the thing, perhaps above and beyond the rest of the Senate, even.Blacksmith on December 8, 2009 at 1:33 AM
Dirty Harry must have missed Junior High history, the DEMOCRATS obstructed the abolition of slavery, Women’s right to vote, the abolition of Jim Crow laws and the Democrats also filibustered the Civil Rights Act for 7 years until Reid’s OWN President Pro Tempore’s (Byrd) filibuster was broken in 1964 by REPUBLICANS.
It’s clear that Reid uses the Constitution for toilet paper and is a fraud and a liar.
I will take pleasure to hang Reid myself.
nelsonknows on December 8, 2009 at 1:56 AM
IF this illegal bill passes the Federal Government MUST be overthrown, it is illegitimate and unconstitutional and cannot be recognized.
nelsonknows on December 8, 2009 at 1:58 AM
I gotta vote for stupid. Demagoguery implies that there’s some sort of intelligent thought going on in there.
n0doz on December 8, 2009 at 2:19 AM
NOT opposing ObamaCare is like asking for slavery. Between EPA CO2 edict and ObamaCare, we will have no freedom. Join us at the Patriots Corner Clubto see what you can do between TEA Parties. Or as I say, “Stop yelling at the TV, get off of the couch and join us in taking the nation back one corner at a time”.
Take care and be safe.
amr on December 8, 2009 at 8:13 AM
A majority of Democrats voted against civil rights as well. If Republicans a majority of Republicans hadn’t voted for it, it never would have passed.
MarkTheGreat on December 8, 2009 at 8:20 AM
And that would make Reid the slave master over all of us, the democrats intent is to control our lives.
And the 2010 vote will make Reid unemployed. Enjoy your “specialized healthcare” YOU and your colleagues enjoy at our expense while we pay for the overpriced and undersupported, crap leftovers you so graciously handed down to us “slave owners”.
dthorny on December 8, 2009 at 9:58 AM
The KKK was basically a strong arm wing of the democratic party.
dthorny on December 8, 2009 at 10:03 AM
Well done.
dthorny on December 8, 2009 at 10:11 AM
Reid will pass this on reconciliation with 51 votes which will destroy his parties reputation for many years.
dthorny on December 8, 2009 at 10:14 AM
Harry has it wrong. When someone takes the toil of another persons hands and turns to to their own use, that is slavery, and the person capable of doing same is a slaveholder.
This penchant for diverting the toil of others to their own use is a hallmark of the Democratic Party, from the time of slavery all the way up to today, and Harry Reid is a modern day Stephen Douglas, whose task is to justify same.
unclesmrgol on December 8, 2009 at 10:17 AM
Another example of the stupidity of the American voter. This moron keeps his job when good, hard working men and women are losing theirs daily.
afotia on December 8, 2009 at 10:27 AM
The assumption that those in Congress morally committed to passing these bills are concerned about reelection is questionable. Sincere Progressives may well decide that it’s worth the cost of their seat to enact this ‘historical’ legislation, especially knowing they’ll get pampered by Progressive talk show hosts and organizations for the rest of their lives. The sincere ones are always more dangerous than the hucksters like Gore and Clinton.
Exactly right! Bravo. It’s not about the money; it’s about freedom vs. slavery.
JDPerren on December 8, 2009 at 10:29 AM
The year 2010 and this morons defeat in the upcoming election couldn’t happen fast enough to suit most people.
TrickyDick on December 8, 2009 at 1:33 PM
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