On Friday, Senator Harry Reid (D-NV), majority leader, said this about women and the Tea Party on the Senate floor:
“Now the Tea Party is trying to sneak through its extreme social agenda – issues that have nothing to do with funding the government. They are willing to throw women under the bus, even if it means they’ll shut down the government.”
Extreme social agenda? Defunding Planned Parenthood throws women under the bus and is extreme?
Regardless, Jamie Radtke, former leader of the Virginia Tea Party Patriots and current U.S. Senate candidate for the GOP nomination in Virginia took exception to Reid’s statement:
“Does Harry Reid think women are stupid? The Tea Party, which by the way counts women like me as the majority of its supporters, are Americans who refuse to sit quietly on the bus while Harry Reid drives us off a financial cliff.
“One look at the national debt will tell you that politicians have been throwing taxpayers under the bus for a very long time. And now Senator Reid is trying to use women to shield himself and his party from blame.
“Senator Reid, stop insulting women and patriotic Americans for your own failures and get out of the way so we can start saving our families and our country.”
A deal was struck late Friday that trims $39 billion from the remainder of this year’s budget, in addition to the $12 billion that has already been cut through continuing resolutions. However, Planned Parenthood remains funded.