Ep. 224 - Can Democrats Recover From 2016?
The Ben Shapiro Show
The Daily Wire
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🗓️ 9 December 2016
⏱️ 65 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Senator Harry Reid is one of the worst liars ever to grace the national stage. |
| 0:04.1 | He accused 2012 presidential candidate Mitt Romney of cheating on his taxes without any evidence, |
| 0:08.4 | then celebrated his lies since it helped prevent Romney from becoming president. |
| 0:12.2 | He called George W. Bush a liar who betrayed the country. |
| 0:15.0 | He said paying taxes was voluntary, which is weird since it's not. |
| 0:18.3 | Attack the Koch brothers as un-American and admitted he'd rather let a child with cancer suffer than fund the government piecemeal. |
| 0:25.0 | His Senate tenure was marked by conflict and cram downs from the Obamacare fiasco to the destruction of the filibuster, both of which, by the way, will now backfire on Democrats. |
| 0:32.5 | Yet, there was Reid, receiving accolades yesterday for his supposedly grand tenure in the Senate. |
| 0:37.3 | And there he was in the pages of the New York Times, lecturing Americans about, of all things, |
| 0:41.7 | the supposed scourge of fake news. |
| 0:43.7 | The New York Times tweeted, quote, much of the responsibility for separating what's real and |
| 0:47.4 | what's fake will fall on Democrats, writes Harry Reid. |
| 0:51.7 | Here are some of Reid's other sterling advice in the New York Times. Quote, |
| 0:54.7 | to Republicans, I say recognize the difference between campaigning and governing and between |
| 0:58.8 | knee-jerk opposition to the accomplishments of the Obama era. Really? Reed spent his |
| 1:03.0 | entire career opposing Republican policy in knee-jerk fashion. And what accomplishments of the |
| 1:07.3 | Obama era are worth upholding exactly? Reed specifically cites Obamacare. He says it's a dramatic misreading of your mandate to destroy it, even though Obama never had a clear mandate to pass Obamacare, and the public spent the next six years destroying the Democrats for misreading their mandate in passing that monstrosity. Reed wrote to Democrats, I say it has never been more important to stand up for the things we believe in. We are entering a new gilded age. Nobody's gotten richer off government than Reed. He spent his entire life in government making about 190,000 bucks a year, and now he's worth somewhere between $3 million. The Clintons are wealthy because of political back scratching, too. He wrote, quote, much of the responsibility for separating what is real and what is fake will fall on Democrats. Again, this is nuts. Reid is one of the worst liars in the history of the Senate. He also wrote, quote, when Democrats pick their fights next year, they can do so knowing that win or lose, they will be debating in a Senate that we made more open and more transparent. This is Reid defending the idiotic move of nuking the filibuster on cabinet picks. |
| 2:01.1 | It's crippled his party going into an era of Republican leadership in the White House and Congress. |
| 2:05.2 | Reid will significantly improve America by leaving the Senate. |
| 2:07.9 | But recounting his legacy, well, that should remind Americans just why Democrats should not be trusted with power. |
| 2:13.1 | I'm Ben Shapiro. This is The Ben Shapiro Show. |
| 2:19.2 | Oh, so much to get to today here on the Ben Shapiro. This is The Ben Shapiro Show. Oh, so much to get to today here on the Ben Shapiro show. Plus, we're doing the mailbag today. |
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