Harry Reid: “Let me respond to my friend. When I was a young boy, I could not run very fast. I was never fast afoot. So I…”

“Let me respond to my friend. When I was a young boy, I could not run very fast. I was never fast afoot. So I participated in games where it did not matter how fast you could run. I loved tug of war because I was as good as anybody. I would dig in my heels and it would take a lot to move me. I want everyone within the sound of my voice to know my heels are dug in. The Democratic caucus' heels are dug in. We will win this tug of war. They can put us to the test and have a series of votes to see if we can proceed. They can have all the votes they want on the motion to invoke cloture, but we are not going to bend. The Democrats in the Senate are dug in and we are not going to bend. The resolution of this is going to be the same as it was in the last Congress because that was fair. We were fair to the Republicans and we expect them to be fair to us. If they want to get to the issues my friend from Arizona brought up--Iraq, Medicare reform, prescription drugs--let them do it. They can do it 15 minutes from now. Organize the way we organized; otherwise, they can wait because they are holding it up; we are not.”