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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsHarry Reid Renames The GOP the 'Banana Republicans'
Harry Reid Renames The GOP the Banana Republicans
While speaking to the media today, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid coined a new term for the GOP. Sen. Reid called them the banana Republicans.
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Majority Leader Reid said, Ive heard the idea of a short term extension floated. Let me be very, very clear.The Senates bill is a short term extension. Thats what it is. Its a six week funding bill. Thats all it is, six weeks. If we cant pass this, we are in a truly banana Republican mindset. This is what we look at other countries doing. The United States funding the government for a week or ten days at a time? Not so good.
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Full article here: http://www.politicususa.com/2013/09/30/harry-reid-renames-gop-banana-republicans.html
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Harry Reid Renames The GOP the 'Banana Republicans' (Original Post)
Tx4obama
Sep 2013
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malaise
(268,998 posts)1. That's delish so it's
Banana ReTHUGs from now on
gopiscrap
(23,761 posts)2. Good for him....it's very appropriate.
blkmusclmachine
(16,149 posts)3. Harry Reid
quinnox
(20,600 posts)4. that is good
IrishAyes
(6,151 posts)5. There was an old campaign song years ago which for me still applies:
"I'm Just Wild About Harry"
Really. I know knuckledraggers like to ridicule him and abuse him almost as much as the President. But he's still there. Like a Timex watch, takes a lickin' and keeps on tickin'. It will be a sad day when he retires.
Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
(107,986 posts)6. Yep
sheshe2
(83,770 posts)7. Well done Harry!
Thanks Tx~
ffr
(22,670 posts)13. Give 'em hell Harry!
You da man!
Cha
(297,240 posts)8. Turns out it's a book, too..
Banana Republicans: How the Right Wing Is Turning America Into a One-Party State"
by Sheldon Rampton and John Stauber of the Center for Media and Democracy.[1] It was published in 2004.
More..
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banana_Republicans
They're still Bananas but they lost they're chance for "one party state".. long ago.
thanks Tx!
by Sheldon Rampton and John Stauber of the Center for Media and Democracy.[1] It was published in 2004.
More..
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banana_Republicans
They're still Bananas but they lost they're chance for "one party state".. long ago.
thanks Tx!
Warren DeMontague
(80,708 posts)9. Thats an insult to bananas.
Bananas are fucking geniuses compared to that crowd.
Gore1FL
(21,132 posts)12. They do have a peel! n/t
AAO
(3,300 posts)10. The wheels finally fell off the clown car.
meow2u3
(24,764 posts)11. Does Harry Reid read DU?
We've been calling them Banana Republicans for years.
UTUSN
(70,695 posts)14. R#42 & K for, something about "Harry" (Harry S) n/t
Jamaal510
(10,893 posts)15. It's only fair;
Limbaugh always calls us the "Democrat" Party.