It's Friday, September 16, and Day 215 since Justice Antonin Scalia died and Mitch McConnell decided no nominee would get any Senate attention: No meetings, no hearings, no votes. It's also Day 184 since Merrick Garland was nominated by President Obama to fill that vacancy.
The Senate isn't doing anything today. They're supposedly still negotiating a short-term spending bill, and who knows what's happening there. So let's spend our time appreciating Harry Reid, who doesn't give a shit for what Donald Trump might say about him.
"You can't believe anything he says," Reid told CNN's Manu Raju in an interview on Friday. […] "He is one of the most unbelievably immoral people I've ever heard deal with politics. Here's a man who attacks people of color, women, people's sexual identity, people who are handicapped, I mean what kind of a man would do this?"
Earlier Friday, the Nevada Democrat responded to a slight from the GOP nominee about an exercise accident that blinded Reid in one eye.
"Trump can make fun of the injury that took sight in my eye -- I've dealt with tougher opponents. With my good eye, I see Trump is a con-artist," Reid tweeted.
One of Reid's better lines came yesterday on the Senate floor, when he said Trump is a "human leech who will bleed the country." He also released a pointed statement saying Trump needs to come clean on these questions: "Why did Trump appear to use his charity to enrich himself and bribe elected officials who were investigating his scams? Why does Trump refuse to cut ties with business interests that would allow him to exploit American foreign policy to enrich himself? What is Trump hiding in his tax returns?"
Trump is completely out of his league in picking a fight with Reid. He can give much better than a blowhard like Trump. Keep it up, Senator! But save a little for Mitch McConnell, too.
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