Harry “Big Red Shoes” Reed should have listened to his staff. They told him not to tell the press what he really thinks of Americans who just want to see their Capitol Building.
The Capitol Visitors Center, which opened this morning, may have tripled its original budget and fallen years behind schedule, but Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid found a silver lining for members of Congress: tourists won’t offend them with their B.O. anymore.
“My staff tells me not to say this, but I’m going to say it anyway,” said Reid in his remarks. “In the summer because of the heat and high humidity, you could literally smell the tourists coming into the Capitol. It may be descriptive but it’s true.”
Very nice, Harry. Those smelly peons only pay your salary. I’m sure your pampered and powdered lifestyle is offended by the lower types – like voters, citizens and taxpayers.
This is the leader of the United States Senate. And he has nothing but loathing and contempt for the people who sent him to Washington.
Wonder why the Congress has a lower approval rating than George Bush? Just look at Harry, you’ll figure it out.
Via Memeorandum
UPDATE: Ed Driscoll has the actual video footage. It actually makes Harry look worse, believe it or not. The pauses and the timing reek of something other than the supposed smell of those tourists. I don’t think it’s the tourists who are revolting.
“I don’t think it’s the tourists who are revolting.”
No, but the peasants may be, soon.
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With that big new AC system that has been installed, it sounds like Harry won’t have to smell the riff-raff anymore. Nice to see he doesn’t mind a huge carbon footprint if it keeps him from being uncomfortable.
The worst part is that he thinks he’s being funny when he says it. He has no frikkin idea how elitist he sounds when he says it. The man is oblivious – and he runs the Senate of the United States. Scary!