Apparently wanting to reign in the out of control deficit and runaway spending makes you an “extremist” in Dingy’s warped little pea-brain.
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D, Nev.) blamed “tea party extremists” on Tuesday for blocking a compromise that would allow Congress to keep the government running through September, the latest move by Senate Democrats to deflect responsibility for a partial government shutdown.
“Some Tea Party extremists seem to think ‘compromise’ is a dirty word, and have said that they would rather shut down the government than work with Democrats to find a common-sense, bipartisan solution,” Mr. Reid said in a statement Tuesday, ahead of an expected House vote Tuesday to keep the government open another three weeks that sparked another mini-rebellion among outspoken conservatives.
Senate Democrats have spent much of the year trying to insulate themselves if the standoff over a Republican proposal to slash $61 billion from the federal budget results in a partial shutdown of the government. Mr. Reid, citing conservative dissatisfaction with the latest extension, challenged “reasonable Republicans” to “break from tea party extremists and join Democrats to find a responsible, bipartisan solution free of extraneous riders.”
“Or will they sacrifice American jobs to appease their base?” he asked.