Reid’s ‘Armey Moment’

Published April 24, 2007 1:36pm ET



It attracted little attention the other day when Harry Reid said:

like it or not, George W. Bush is still the commander in chief – and this is his war.

In 1994, former House Majority Leader Dick Armey infamously stated on the House floor ‘your president is just not that important for us.’ Liberals were outraged, and Armey was (rightly) criticized widely in the media. Michael Barone recalls the incident in this piece, and Paul Begala talked about it in this PBS Interview:

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