They’ve beat this “extremists” meme to a bloody pulp.
Via NBC News:
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid blasted House Speaker John Boehner on Tuesday after leaks circulated of a plan that House Republicans might offer to end the spending and debt stalemate.
“We felt blindsided by the news from the House,” Reid said on the Senate floor in a scathing attack on Boehner and his House GOP members. The Nevada Democrat said “extremist Republicans in the House of Representatives are attempting to torpedo” the negotiations which he and Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell have been conducting in the past few days.
Reid’s torrent of criticism came hours after he and McConnell both said they’d made progress in their work toward a plan to end the partial government shutdown and lift the government’s borrowing limit.