Senator Harry Reid denounced Rush Limbaugh -a private citizen- from the Senate floor for using the phrase "phony soldiers" on Limbaugh's radio program.
The roars of Democrat Senators confirming the condemnation were deafening.
A letter signed by 41 Democratic senators sent to Mr Limbaugh was sold Friday on eBay for a record $2.1 million, ALL of which goes to benefit the Maine Corps Law Enforcement Foundation, a nonprofit organization that gives scholarship assistance to children of Marines and federal law enforcement personnel whose parents die in the line of duty.
Mr Limbaugh promised to match the selling price and challenged each of the 41 Senators to do the same.
The silence is deafening.
And then, if you can believe this, Mr Reid, once again on the Senate floor, attempted to horn in on the credit.
Limbaugh:
“Harry Reid in a speech on the Senate floor at 12 noon today, a little over an hour ago, attempted to hone in on all this and take some credit for it, claiming that he and I had buried the hatchet, or implying that that had been the case, and then kept using the pronoun "we" in discussing how good this was, the money going to the Marine Corps-Law Enforcement Foundation.”
“I asked Sen. Reid to match and all the other senators who can afford to do so. I haven't heard from them on that. I asked Sen. Reid to go on the program and discuss his discussion of me as "unpatriotic." He did not accept my offer to do that and now has the audacity to climb aboard this, praising the effort, saying that "he" never knew that it would get this kind of money."
Mr Limbaugh also announced that an unknown number of certified copies of the letter signed by him will be sold for $1,000 on his Web site, with proceeds also going to the Marine Corps Law Enforcement Foundation.
It will be interesting to see if any of those 41 elected idiots will put their money where their big mouths are.
Once again, if you are a US Senator, talk is cheap.
Who Signed?
Harry Reid, Hillary Clinton, Blanche Lincoln, Richard Durbin, Kent Conrad, Bob Menendez, Charles Schumer, Christopher Dodd, Barbara Mikulski, Patty Murray, Byron Dorgan, Bill Nelson, Daniel Akaka, Dianne Feinstein, Barack Obama,
Max Baucus, Tom Harkin, Jack Reed, Joseph Biden, Daniel Inouye, Jay Rockefeller, Barbara Boxer, Edward M. Kennedy, Ken Salazar, Sherrod Brown, John Kerry, Bernie Sanders, Robert Byrd, Amy Klobuchar, Debbie Stabenow,
Benjamin Cardin, Mary Landrieu, Jon Tester, Tom Carper, Frank Lautenberg, Jim Webb, Bob Casey, Patrick Leahy, Sheldon Whitehouse, Carl Levin, Ron Wyden
(Political cartoonist: Lisa Benson)
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