Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid accused Senate Republicans of treating President Obama with “unprecedented disrespect,” during his two terms in the White House.
Reid, D-Nev., who is retiring this year, has been a frequent critic of the GOP’s opposition to Obama and has used his Senate pulpit to make the case the party has treated him unfairly.
Reid said Republicans promised to “oppose everything that President Obama tried to do” the moment Obama took office.
He pointed to the GOP’s refusal to hold a hearing on Obama’s fiscal 2017 budget or his Supreme Court nominee, Merrick Garland. And he cited hundreds of GOP filibusters of Democratic legislation while Republicans served in the minority.
Reid also said Obama is the first president “to be asked to show his birth certificate.”
Reid praised Obama as a “good family man” with a “great education,” and called him a “good communicator, written two best-selling books. Everybody knows he can communicate orally. He deserved better than the unprecedented disrespect Republicans have shown toward him.”
