It could use improvement, starting with the ever-insufferable Harry Reid:
Drum face-palms:
Democrats need to have better answers, and they need to explain just why the Republican CRs are such contemptuous exercises in trying to gull the American public. … [Reid] sounds as though he’s comparing some furloughed civilian workers in his home state with kids who have cancer. Fair or not, that’s going to sound bad.
Weigel describes the current GOP strategy as “take credit for trying to save cancer kids from heartless Democrats”:
Reid had made a mistake—a gaffe, if you will. He could have said something about how his Democrats had passed several continuing resolutions that would have funded the NIH, or that the sequestration cuts also tagged the NIH, or that the Republican budget recommendations also cut back NIH funding, or that there were probably plenty of poor kids with TV movie ailments in states where Republicans had opted out of the Medicaid expansion—well, whatever, instead he rejected the premise and insulted the reporter. He did not actually say “I don’t care about kids with cancer,” but his partial quote was enough to make the Drudge Report, Hannity, and the rest of the reliable wurlitzers of conservative opinion.
The Dish 