I was going to comment on Harry Reid’s latest show of disgusting and vile behavior, but I can’t top Mark Levin on his radio show last night [transcript by Real Clear Politics, posted by Ian Schwartz]:
The clear implication is that the sequester is the cause of this [the death of seven Marines in a training accident], or at least future horrific accidents of this kind. Why bring up the sequester, repeatedly, when talking about the death of the seven Marines unless you’re trying to tie one to the other? I tell you folks, the exploitation that the left — that the left is involved in, or if it is that mass murder in Connecticut, or this, it’s just inconceivable to a rational human being.
If Harry Reid really cared about these seven Marines, why politicize this? Why not just go to the Senate floor and talk about it? And if you want to talk about the sequester, that’s in a separate speech. The sequester had nothing to do with this.
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…it is grotesque, and Harry Reid, you’re the lowest of the lowlifes. You know that? You really are at the bottom of the sewer. All the time, on every issue. Whether it’s accusing Mitt Romney of not filing taxes, you are just a very ill human being. And the fact that you’re the Senate Majority Leader says an awful lot about the Democrats in the Senate.
The American people deserve better than this miscreant. We do, we deserve better than this man. He is a vicious, stupid man. Somehow, out of Searchlight, Nevada, he’s acquired tens of millions of dollars, as he lives in the penthouse floor of the Ritz-Carlton in Washington, D.C. Somehow, somehow, this low I.Q., no talent, hack, backwoods politician has become the Senate Majority Leader and an extremely wealthy man. Look at the slime that comes out of his mouth.
Seven dead Marines. Somebody’s sons, somebody’s fathers, somebody’s brothers. Seven dead Marines, and this jerk goes to the Senate floor and he has to talk about the sequester, which had nothing to do with it! Now, did a single Republican go to the Senate floor and condemn this? Well, if this did, I haven’t heard about it, and they’re welcome to call the program and tell us. Because this man needs to be condemned, on the Senate floor, in public, for the implication that he drew — and he clearly drew it — on the Senate floor today.
Our men and women in uniform, they’re not there as political props. Harry Reid and the military. Harry Reid is the Majority Leader. If he cared about the United States military, he wouldn’t allow the military being hollowed out. He has enormous power, including with Obama. Look at him — the shriveled-up, useless excuse for a Senate Majority Leader. Listen to him. Barely coherent. Always on the attack, always looking for ways to exploit for political advantage. The man doesn’t have a principled bone in his body, not one! Well, maybe the one in his head, but even that one is not principled.
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, and I mean it. Not as a joke, not to create controversy…there’s something wrong with him. And it seems to me, that if they’re going to put more rules in place before we law-abiding, honorable, mentally well citizens can own firearms, then, by God, every one of these damn politicians ought to have to prove to us before they sit in some powerful office, that they’re not mentally screwed up. Like Harry Reid, who clearly is mentally screwed up.
Much of what Mr. Levin said also applies to Nancy Pelosi.
This is what we’ve come to.
These mental midgets are our face to the world.
Tarring and feathering would be too good for these basket cases.
