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Is Harry Reid Comparing His Constituents to Supporters of Slavery?

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Caught this as I was about to turn in, seems that in lashing out against Republicans who oppose the kind of health care reform Harry Reid has been proposed, the Nevada Democrat has been attacking his own constituents.

As he compares “Republicans who oppose health care reform to lawmakers who clung to the institution of slavery more than a century ago“, he seem to be oblivious to the growing number of Americans opposing the type of health care reforms he and his fellow partisans have been pushing.  If Republicans who oppose health care reform are akin to those clinging to “the institution of slavery”*, wouldn’t then Nevadans who oppose Obamacare also be a akin to those bitter clingers?

And as Michelle informs us, a “majority of Nevadans now disapprove of Democrats’ plans for healthcare reform“:

Fifty-three percent of those polled say they do not support reform legislation, wich 39% in favor. In October, 49% opposed it and 40% favored it.

Seems then that by Harry Reid’s own logic, he was elected by a bunch of people similar to those who once clung bitterly to slavery.

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*Does one cling to the institution of slavery like one clings to guns, religion and antipathy to people who aren’t like them?

Comments

  1. This is now a conscious strategy on their part, but I cannot for the life of me divine it’s purpose. (Exhibit A: “SWAAHHstickahs”, B: Brooks-Brothers suits, etc. etc. etc.)

    This doesn’t move polls and it doesn’t seem to stiffen the wavering resolve of certain Democrats. So what’s their game?

    Is it as simple as a calculated red flag to their base? A distracting rhetorical flourish? WFT?

    Best wishes,
    -MFS

  2. Harry Reid, Dick Durban, John Murtha, Nancy Pelosi, and all the other graduates of the Mumbles the Clown School of Rhetoric and Flypaper Renewal are just doing their stream of consciousness thing. When small minds talk to themselves, they overwhelm themselves with their brilliance. I wonder if they look up to Joe Biden who has hit clown school gold.

  5. Reid’s comment is extra vile because -government-run health care is slavery-. It removes people’s freedom. It turns the productive and the prudent into slaves for the unproductive and imprudent. Reid’s comment is a classic instance of Josef Goebbels’ “big lie” technique, or of the language inversions prophesied by George Orwell, or of what psychologists call “deflection” and “projection” – take your pick.

    So what’s their game?

    Rationalization. They want government-run health care. They want to rule over the People. They know the People don’t want it. They’re looking for ways to rationalize their shameful behavior – first to themselves, and hopefully also to the history books.

  6. To be clear: Opponents of government-run health care are, in reality, people who -cling to free markets-. In other words: to freedom. Thus, according to Reid, people who cling to human freedom are like people to cling to the institution of slavery.

    I’m astounded by the sheer artlessness of his self-contradiction.