Reid: Tea Party will fade away

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) will probably never understand the Tea Party. We're not so much a movement. Rather, we are just ordinary Americans speaking up so government can be accountable to the people it represents. So if the Tea Party fades away, so do the American people.

From the Las Vegas Review-Journal:

Can Harry Reid wait out the Tea Party?

The Senate majority leader seems to think so.

Reid sat down with more than 30 Review-Journal staffers Friday afternoon for an hour-long Q&A session at the newspaper's offices. The bulk of the back and forth was dedicated to federal spending and how Congress might tame exploding budget deficits.

Reid blamed everything that ails Washington and the nation on Republicans. He slammed the GOP for its refusal to go along with tax increases as part of this month's debt-ceiling deal, saying hard-core fiscal conservatives are making it impossible to strike a long-term deal that slows the growth of the national debt.

"That (the Tea Party) will pass," Reid told the paper. "They will lose a number of seats next year."

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