“Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid ruled out a grand bargain, dismissing it as “all happy talk” in a Nevada public radio interview Thursday. “That’s all happy talk. I would hope that were the case, but we’re not going to have a grand bargain in the near future,” Reid told KNPR radio today. “I hope that we can do some stuff to get rid of sequestration and go on to do some sensible budgeteering. I’ve got a wonderful leader of my budget committee, Patty Murray from the state of Washington, and I feel pretty comfortable that she’ll do a good job for us…. I would hope there would be a grand bargain, but I don’t think that’ll happen.” Asked if cuts to Social Security and Medicare could be part of the grand bargain, Reid admonished the radio host…”.* Cenk Uygur, John Iadarola (TYT University and Common Room), Eboni K. Williams (attorney and radio host), and Ben Mankiewicz (What The Flick?! and TYT Sports) break it down on The Young Turks.
*Read more here from Arlette Saenz: http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2013/10/reid-says-no-to-grand-bargain-thats-all-happy-talk/
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