He was saying it more than two weeks ago. He was saying it last Monday and he's still saying it:
On the floor of the U.S. Senate on Friday, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D.-Nev.) said that "a very wealthy group of people" are backing the Tea Party in what Reid described as an "effort to destroy our government."
"A bad day for government is a good day for the anarchists among us, those who believe in no - I repeat, no - government. That is their belief," Reid said. "The modern-day anarchists known as the Tea Party, they believe in no government. And they are backed by a very wealthy group of people who finance this effort to destroy our government."
Reid's accusation that the Tea Party is an "effort to destroy our government" - which he made at 12:16 p.m. Friday afternoon Eastern time - was not included in "his remarks as prepared for delivery" that were posted on his official Senate website. However, they were captured on video by C-SPAN and included in the transcript of Reid's speech printed in the Congressional Record.
Today’s vote by House Republicans is pointless. The American people will not be extorted by Tea Party anarchists. #GOPshutdown
— Senator Harry Reid (@SenatorReid) September 28, 2013
The voices inside Harry Reid's head started making these kinds of statements back in April, and then elaborated on the idea during a radio interview at the beginning of May, as reported by The Hill:
"We have a situation where this country has been driven by the Tea Party for the last number of years. When I was in school, I studied government, and I learned about the anarchists," Reid said. "Now, they were different than the Tea Party because they were violent. But they were anarchists because they did not believe in government in any level and they acknowledged it. The Tea Party kind of hides that."Or maybe there's no "anarchism" to be hidden because the accusation itself is a load of bullshit. I'm just sayin'...
Of course real anarchy is the rule of man, as opposed to the rule of law. Reid is the real anarchist in his support of a totalitarian, technocratic government divorced from oversight by Congress or the people.
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