Congressman: Reid runs the Senate 'like a plantation'
Source: CNN
Washington (CNN) -- Rep. Bill Cassidy, the Republican congressman running for the U.S. Senate in Louisiana, is taking heat from the left and the right after he said Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid "runs the Senate like a plantation."
Reid, asked Tuesday by reporters about the comment, demanded an apology.
"With all the things going on in America today, that's fairly insensitive," Reid told reporters on Capitol Hill. "That's really insensitive. Very insensitive. If there was ever a statement that deserves an apology, this is it big time. Has he been taking lessons from Donald Sterling? Where did he get this?"
Cassidy made the comments during an interview with an energy trade publication. He was trying to make the point that it doesn't matter whether Democratic Sen. Mary Landrieu bucks her party on energy issues because Reid calls the shots. Landrieu has told voters she'll stand up to her party and the president on energy issues.
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davidpdx
(22,000 posts)What a insensitive racist piece of shit.
former9thward
(31,997 posts)He was elected by the 55 Senators who are either Democrats or Indies that caucus with Democrats.
davidpdx
(22,000 posts)whether that was all the Senators or not.
Psephos
(8,032 posts)IDemo
(16,926 posts)being an insensitive racist piece of shit will endear him to his base.
EEO
(1,620 posts)Republicans have turned it into a fine art.
OldRedneck
(1,397 posts)Too bad Reid can't sell a few of the Republicans. On the other hand, who would buy the likes of Gramps McCain, Turtleface McConnell, and Squeaky Graham??
SoapBox
(18,791 posts)And if PukeBaggers were in control...complete dictatorship.
whereisjustice
(2,941 posts)quadrature
(2,049 posts)has nothing to do with who or what party is the boss.
one person decides what the Senate votes on.
perhaps some other word would be better?
how about hacienda?, or maybe reservation?
Major Hogwash
(17,656 posts)Amazing to me that someone like that is in Congress.
marble falls
(57,080 posts)malthaussen
(17,193 posts)In fairness, one should probably say that the Senate leader (and the Speaker of the House) wish they could run their chambers like a plantation. Or at least their parties.
-- Mal
Amethyst Ring
(15 posts)If your work is such a burden to you, that you feel like a slave, resign.
You won't like it in the Senate any better.