Reid goes HAM on the House

Senator Reid spent a majority of his time ripping the House this week. The focus  of his speech was on the Republicans and the unwillingness of them to pass the ACA. Reid was all business and spoke only in ultimatums. Reid said "To be absolutely clear, the Senate will reject both the one-year delay of the Affordable Care Act and the repeal of the medical device tax. After weeks of futile political games from Republicans, we are still at square one: Republicans must decide whether to pass the Senate’s clean CR, or force a Republican government shutdown. Senate Democrats have shown that we are willing to debate and vote on a wide range of issues, including efforts to improve the Affordable Care Act. We continue to be willing to debate these issues in a calm and rational atmosphere. But the American people will not be extorted by Tea Party anarchists." (politicususa) It seemed to me that his comments about calm and rational debate is a shot at Senator Cruz's rant(for lack of a better word). All of the arguing seems to be less about the bill and more about not letting Republicans get what they want. The trend it seems in Congress especially in the last 10 or so years is there is less and less cooperation amongst the parties, instead working hard together to create laws to help the people, political ambition has enveloped the members of Congress. Everything about politics now is a zero sum game hence why every provision in these bills is fought over and stalled. In the video posted it seems like Reid also agrees. I feel also that this governmental shut down will wake up a lot of peoples political conciseness. 

LINK TO VID:  http://nation.foxnews.com/2013/09/27/video-harry-reid-“tea-party-anarchists”-need-“get-life”-and-talk-about-something-other

   http://www.politicususa.com/2013/09/28/harry-reid-tells-pointless-house-republicans-we-extorted-tea-party-anarchists.html

http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2013/09/28/reid-senate-will-reject-one-year-health-care-delay-medical-device-tax/