Reid and Angle disagree - on everything

[onehandle]

Source: AP

LAS VEGAS – Sixty minutes, two candidates and not a single moment of agreement. Instead, Republican Sharron Angle taunted Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid to "man up" Thursday night in their only debate of a close, caustic and costly race. Speaking more softly, Reid called her extreme, an ally of the special interests and advocate for jettisoning government agencies that millions of Nevadans rely on.

"We can't trust you with taxes," the tea party-backed Angle said near the end of their 60 shared minutes on a debate stage, returning to an allegation made nearly an hour earlier that he had voted to raise taxes 300 times. Reid said in fact he and fellow Democrats had voted to cut taxes for 95 percent of all Nevadans and Americans in the past two years, and to reduce the burden on small businesses eight times.

Later, it was his turn to attack, blending the national and the local as he did. Angle "wants to privatize the Veterans Administration. Think about that," he said, adding that a new state-of-the-art VA hospital would soon open in the state, the first in decades. "I worked hard on it," he said, referring to a facility that will be available to serve Nevada's estimated 246,000 military veterans.

He also criticized Angle for saying health insurance companies should not be under any federal coverage mandates. "Insurance companies don't do things out of the goodness of their heart; they do it because of the profit motive," he said. "We need them to be forced into" covering tests for mammograms, colonoscopies and treatment for autism and other conditions. The remark about autism was a reference to Angle once having said that autism is a catchall designation for numerous conditions, a statement that has drawn sharp criticism from adults with autistic children as well as others.

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[still_one]

1. and reid is impressed with scalia. With leadership like this in the senate is it any wonder the

Democrats are on the ropes

[wordpix]

2. hey he's representing a conservative state & he's a helluva lot better than Angle

She is as stupid as Palin

[MadMaddie]

3. Unbelievable

Of all the Justices he picks Scalia a lying piece of shit.

If Reid pulls the election off he needs to be replaced as the Senate Majority Leader. This debate just proves he does not have the backbone to get in someone's face. Nancy Pelosi has more backbone then he does.

[Ter]

7. He won't be replaced

The only way he won't be Majority Leader next year is if Angle defeats him.

[savalez]

6. self deleted

[dkofos]

4. Glad I'm not from Nevada and have to choose between the wus & the wackjob

[savalez]

8. I ran that by Harry and he said:

[dkofos]

10. Ha

[COLGATE4]

5. I only watched a small portion of their responses, but what

struck me was Reid's hesitancy and lack of any aggressiveness (or even assertion). He seemed to me to be the epitome of the Alan Colmes type Democrat who is soft spoken, deferential to a fault even when listening to raving lunatics and somewhat feeble and generally unsure of himself. I don't know if this is a tactic, or what. But I agree that if I lived in Nevada and had to base my vote only on what I saw of that debate, I don't know which one I'd pick. Not a happy state of affairs!

[jayfish]

9. LOL... You don't listen to Alan Colmes much do you? -NT-

[emulatorloo]

11. "if I lived in Nevada I don't know which one I'd pick."

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