Harry Reid: Vote for Me, I <i>Used</i> to be a Moderate

Meredith Jessup | July 26, 2010 10:58 AM

In a recent interview with CBN's David Brody, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid seemed to suggest that he was much more moderate before he became the leading Democrat in the Senate:

We have an economic situation that’s not only in Nevada. It’s all over the country and also we have a unique situation in Nevada. I haven’t had a difficult election for 12 years. During that 12 year period of time we’ve had 600,000 new people move to the state of Nevada. They don’t know me but they’ve seen that during a lot of this last number of years me is me (sic) trying to fight with George Bush because he’s trying to privatize social security or arguing about the war in Iraq and other policies of his. I thought that all the red ink was bad and I complained about that so people are going to have to get to know me, the 600,000 people who are now here [know] who I am, a moderate kind of guy. That’s how I got elected so I feel comfortable where I am. I have a campaign that’s moving along just fine. I feel comfortable where we are today.”

As Jim Geraghty points out over at NRO, the spending bills which continue to make their way through the Senate seem to suggest "Harry Reid stopped worrying about red ink on January 20, 2009."

Now we're stuck with a politically opportunistic nightmare. It's time for Harry Reid to go.

PS--While we're on the subject of oh-so-moderate Harry Reid...

Speaking before a group of his fellow "moderates"--individuals such as Rep. Alan Grayson, Van Jones, Ed Schultz, Howard Dean, Deepak Bhargava, and Barack Obama--Reid promised the liberal bloggers at Netroots Nation that the United States would have a "public option" for health care. "It's just a matter of when," he said.

Closing thought: If Harry Reid is moderate, what the heck does liberal look like nowadays?