It's understandable that GOP Senators don't like it when the subject of civil rights comes up. Though it is more than a tad ironic that one of the Senators upset about the civil rights mention is none other than Tom Coburn, the homophobe from Oklahoma. You'll recall that it was Mr. Coburn who recently worried that lesbians had taken over Oklahoma's girls bathrooms. (It's still unclear what Coburn was actually doing in a girl's bathroom.)
Here is Reid spokesman Jim Manley:
"It is hard to believe Senate Republicans are making these charges with a straight face.
For the past eight days they’ve done nothing but obstruct health care on the Senate floor and throughout this year have played politics with this and virtually every other issue of importance to the American people.
Today’s feigned outrage is nothing but a ploy to distract from the fact they have no plan to lower the cost of health care, stop insurance company abuses or protect Medicare.
And for those who are counting, Republicans have now held one press conference on manufactured anger and have issued one manual on how to grind the Senate to a halt – but have held zero press conferences and issued zero plans on how to help Americans afford to live a healthy life."
