GOP to Reid: You're next

[Leroy N. Soetoro]

http://www.politico.com/blogs/charlie-mahtesian/2012/08/gop-to-reid-youre-
next-131134.html

The Sunday news shows featured a rare spectacle that at once revealed the
decline of civility in Washington and the depth of GOP outrage over Harry
Reid’s unproven claim that Mitt Romney didn’t pay income taxes for an
entire decade: two of the nation’s top GOP officials flat out called the
Senate majority leader a liar.

That’s no ordinary criticism in official Washington.

There are plenty of other ways that pols use to call out their partisan
rivals on their statements. Reid’s GOP counterpart, Minority Leader Mitch
McConnell, for one, has already said Reid’s charge is “beneath the
dignity” of his office.

But the actual term ‘liar’ crosses a line that’s seldom breached,
signaling a widespread GOP belief that, even by the diminished standards
of contemporary political debate, Reid has violated a code.

Republican National Committee chairman Reince Priebus delivered the most
stunning response to date Sunday, calling Reid a ‘dirty liar.’

“As far as Harry Reid is concerned, listen, you might want to go down that
road, I'm not going to respond to a dirty liar, who hasn't filed a single
page of tax returns himself,” Priebus said on ABC's "This Week" with
George Stephanopoulos. “He complains about money but lives in the Ritz
Carlton here, down the street. If this is on the agenda, I'm not going to
go there. This is just a made-up issue. The fact that we're going to spend
any time talking about it is just ridiculous."

South Carolina GOP Sen. Lindsey Graham also slammed Reid, accusing him of
“lying.”

“I've been around this town for a while. I actually like Harry,” Graham, a
South Carolina Republican, said on CNN’s “State of the Union” on Sunday.
“But what he did on the floor of the Senate is so out of bounds. I think
he's lying about his statement of knowing something about Romney.”

They weren’t the only top GOP officials ripping the Senate majority leader
Sunday in unusually personal terms.

"This is a reckless and slanderous charge by Harry Reid," Virginia Gov.
Bob McDonnell said on "Face the Nation." "This is a guy who hasn’t
released his own returns and for three years, can't get a budget passed in
the United States Senate.

Both Priebus and Graham knew exactly what they were doing. The RNC
followed up Priebus’s criticism with a press release including the “dirty
liar” description. Graham also had a chance to clean up his remarks –
recognizing the gravity of the senator’s assertion, CNN host Candy Crowley
sought to confirm that Graham thought Reid was lying. Graham reiterated
his claim.

“I think he's making things up," Graham said. “Let's start talking about
the real issues that matter to real people and I just can't let that pass.

I just cannot believe that the majority leader of the United States Senate
would take the floor twice, make accusations that are absolutely
unfounded, in my view, and quite frankly making things up to divert the
camp campaign away from the real issues.”

POLITICO’s Manu Raju wrote Friday that Reid remained unruffled by the
flap, and “has calculated that the frenzy created by his charge has
accomplished exactly what he sought to do: Turn the focus back onto the
GOP nominee’s unreleased tax returns.”

Now, though, the GOP has indicated it plans to make it personal. Between
the loaded language and Priebus’s pointed reference to Reid’s Ritz-Carlton
abode – an issue that surfaced in the senator’s 2010 re-election campaign
– Republicans just sent the clearest signal to Reid yet that he needs to
either produce the evidence, stand down or prepare for an extended public
discussion of his own finances.

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