Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid held a conference call with Democratic Party supporters and activists at around 11:45AM this morning. Unfortunately, I was about 5 minutes late for the call (confidential note to DNC: what the hell good is sending out a notification 10 minutes before the call starts? Not all of us have Blackberry's for instant updates...), however, I did manage to obtain the following rush transcript of Reid's remarks:
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Now look boys, I ain't much of a hand at makin' speeches. But I got a pretty fair idea that something doggoned important's going on back there. And I got a fair idea of the kind of personal emotions that some of you fella's may be thinking. Heck, I reckon you wouldn't even be human beings if you didn't have some pretty strong personal feelings about nuclear combat. But I want you to remember one thing, the folks back home is a countin' on ya, and by golly we ain't about to let 'em down. Tell you somethin' else. This thing turns out to be half as important is I figure it just might be, I'd say that you're all in line for some important promotions and personal citations when this thing's over with. That goes for every last one of you, regardless of your race, color, or your creed. Now, let's get this thing on the hump. We got some flying to do...
Cross posted at All Spin Zone
