senate Majority Leader Harry Reid is feelings emboldened
to some extent coming out love what most people see as a
is just an amazing victory on the part of the democrats coming out of the
government shutdown
%uh the attempt to defund Obamacare and all of that and so he's headed back to
Nevada and he was being interviewed on the radio there
talking about how the negotiation process will go forward from this point
based on a victory that
Harry Reid the other Democrats and Obama had during the shutdown fight
so recover couple different subjects here first Harry Reid is talking about
sir that the Tea Party caucus in the GOP right now
and I and how crazy they have become let's listen it was really hard
to try to be rational
and logical with people who are illogical
and not rational we have a bunch insane people in house represent us
hand we found that they
voted 40 5 times
same pro always same result the refund Obama care
and that's what I was dealing with and so that's something that we point out
many times and I think fully he at least notices that that's going on I realize
how crazy this
yet and it to me the more important part here is that the
democrats and embodied by Harriet here seem so much more emboldened
to take these guys on and he said look I before calling them crazy
do republicans were to come in and demanded apologies there would have been
period policies they would have been
thus censures in the senate et cetera
now a slight look the lunatics over I
so that's that's good rhetoric to begin with and then
he talks about having a tougher negotiations as moral
yeah exactly and so talking a both about his strategy in the negotiations that
also I love his sort of psychological evaluation Obama
and how he likes to go see it's also said that this is certainly a very
different
center for fares from the 2010 when democrats make concessions
in renewing the Bush tax cuts that year there were even a few concessions made
in the 2012 do you wish looking back at it to chew it said no concessions in
those earlier negotiations
yes well I
what was so what's up with that is just coming because because
if you deal with a boy if you give a bully
a dollar today they want a dollar have tomorrow
you cannot do business with boys I am
it's taken a while for I'll
all my caucus to come to that understanding
and I think quite frankly the present a wonderful man that he s
I'm doesn't like confrontation and he likes to work things out
people so he was he to me into those earlier negotiations them
the president feels very good about having stuck to our guns and doing the
right thing
so the president was too lenient in those earlier commercially but I was
part of the deal to I was touring
on point all on him mom I kinda wish one thing that they could have thrown in
there
is they think they talk about the concessions as a fat to give up
something
but like making the tax cuts permanent the sick witness
the sequestration process over the next decade like they just say concessions to
such a euphemism that bothers me
near well looks I guess as a scope or John saying
if President Obama and the Democrats
agreed to make in revenue wise ninety-four per cell the Bush tax cuts
permanent ninety-four percent
okay a bush could make them permanent he just he had to put a deadline on it
otherwise they wouldn't agree to it or bottom a 94 percent on the permit 6
percent change that's better than usual right and so one percent I prefer Obama
so but now I I'm says in a totally different area here
I know like for saw United yes was strong
I i was like yeah like I'm leader no need to explain this or any luck with
the gate on this
just yes yes we did not do that right and next summer coming for you right
made saleable he's doing at a series of interviews I was the second one i've
seen
where he's being patronizing towards the president and his own caucus a little
bit in an effort to take credit for himself but he's right
and he deserves that president clinton kinda glad he's doing it ways like the
president's a nice man in other words
he's the one that's been weak and I've let him be weak for too long but I
stepped in
i break my way I did and now we've taken a stand together
that's what the same between the lines I don't generally true
battery that yeah know if the part the president wrote to be a negotiator i
mean you can't just not be willing to negotiate on any terms now agreed I
think
those bush concessions were just extreme and and and shell just how weak
are Obama what the terms that leverage politically at that time
now the republicans made this almost easy right like they don't have to give
hardly anything
up but I do think hey we have to be careful here dist hone
I love I wine you gotta play that will be carefully
because Aldo public opinions clear and that
the republicans much much worse in this situation coming out
be shut down everything then the dams people are still hurting and pissed
things out when a fiend to glad about everything
yep yeah as long as you count what you want in terms that you're gonna give the
people who were
tired struggling in hurting right there's going to be an upside to that
for their in the fact that you don't think loading your very mean something
to them not something they have been just and political
you know for years Jack what we've mostly argued about you I is
you know we have slot a pointless argument about 10 arguments or never
settled because we'll never know ultimately I don't think that
interesting either but
I think what we eat get wrong what will also stop what you get wrong kind that's
my favorite thing
I I think with the show gets wrong and I include myself in that just like every
time a clear ESN on your fuckup
I but we get along that like
the the good politicians and I don't mean that good-hearted politicians I
mean the ones who are skilled at this job
like there are things that we mess that we are not hammering them for
that they're playing a longer game on but on little things like with the
militia that
we mentioned sometimes as such good explanations first up the team degree
just
there is need to get to next week what we're unquestioned write about is the
bigger thing when you were mostly write about is the bigger thing and I think
that
and hopefully this is a sign that I think it's what you're seeing is that
President Obama for such a long time and look and most members in the senate
including a read they didn't get that the it wasn't like
it was in 1987 it was in nineteen ninety-seven that any change in what was
clearly you what you were screaming about before anybody else
which was displaying kills mobile generally and they're playing you
you're not gonna negotiate something good with these guys
and maybe it took them literally almost do
all with said that the Republic missing such an enormous financial crisis
for to finally occurred a raid what you what I but mostly you been saying for
seven years like their nuts for the love of God and that's what you're hoping for
is that they finally
not just on this one issue but the figure that out launcher
wat I miss what I was wrong I