Many of us have said we’ll miss President Obama when his term up, and rightly so — he’s been a great president. But spare a thought for Senator Harry Reid, who is also departing after this year. Via TPM, here’s an excerpt from Harry Reid’s statement today on Donald Trump’s proposal to make the naturalization of immigrants even more difficult:
“Since Donald Trump wants to impose new tests on immigrants, he should take the one test every immigrant has to pass to become a United States citizen. He would almost certainly fail, given his general ignorance and weak grasp of basic facts about American history, principles and functioning of our government,” Reid said. “The fact is, Donald Trump is nothing more than a spoiled, unpatriotic drain on society who has earned nothing and helped no one.”
Reid said that unlike immigrants,”Donald Trump represents none of the qualities that make America great.”
“Immigrants work hard to get here and become Americans, while Trump inherited everything from his father and works hardest at Tweeting insults and ripping off hard-working people with two-bit scams,” Reid said.
Reid also claimed that while immigrants must denounce loyalties to foreign governments to become citizens, Trump “plays footsie with Putin and invites the Russian government to launch cyber attacks against our country.”
BOOM!
I didn’t always appreciate Reid and in fact found him exasperating as hell early in PBO’s first term, when Reid was compromising to try to keep his fractious majority together and push through legislation like the ACA. Now I realize Reid was doing the best he could with the cards he was dealt, for the most part. I’m going to miss Harry Reid.