Harry Reid goes there -- calls George Bush a liar.

He said that he was not one to use strong language, but he said that when people don't tell the truth, "what better word is there?" His first example was the Yucca Mountain stand, where Bush was against dumping nuclear waste there before he was for it. The second was on the Nuclear Option, where Bush had promised Reid that he would not get involved in the fight just a few days before Vice President Cheney gave a speech calling for the abolition of all filibusters in the Senate.

Reid talked about the absence of moderates in the legislature and said that the only true moderate left in the Senate on the Republican side was Olympia Snowe and that there were a few others who would vote for moderation when their votes were not needed. He said that he believed that President Bush was the worst President in history and that it was not just his opinion; he talked about how historians have nearly unanimously named Bush the worst President ever. And in returning to the Nuclear Option, he said that "if the Republicans did not get everything they wanted, they would change the makeup of this country forever."

He pointed out that the fathers, in their wisdom, made the Senate different in makeup than the House. On the one hand, the House was the people's house, while the Senate, with its arcane rules and filibusters, was designed to be much more rational and deliberative than the House was. "George Bush would have turned the Congress into a unicameral body instead of the bicameral body that it was designed to be," he said. He said that it was important for the Senate to be the kind of body that it was so that people could cool down and think rationally about the problems of the day. "As long as I'm the leader, the Nuclear Option is never going to happen," promised Reid. "It was a black chapter in US history, and the most important thing I ever worked on."

In discussing his colleagues from across the aisle, he said that while Lott was good to work with despite being a card-carrying conservative, he said that the Senate and the government had become too partisan and polarized, in contrast to earlier years. He said that back in the 1980's when Ronald Reagan was in the White House and Tip O'Neill was the Speaker of the House, they had firm ideological differences. But he said that the virtue of these people was that while they had firm beliefs about the merits of Social Security and the role of government in peoples' lives, they were able to put aside these partisan and ideological differences and save Social Security so that it would last.

Reid said that the Senate Republicans still took their direction from George Bush; he said that Bill Frist was Bush's hand-picked replacement for Lott after revelations of the latter's racism; he said that First was inexperienced as a leader and was "simply not ready." He said that the jury was still out on McConnell, but that he took directions from Bush as well.

In talking about the Presidential race, Reid said that this was one of the most important elections in history. Talking about Obama, Reid said that he realized that Obama was presidential material right away when he took charge of ethics reform legislation and got it passed. "I served in the Senate with Barack Obama, and I know this man's intellect," he said. "This young man will do a lot of good things for this country." By contrast, Reid said that John McCain did not have the temperament to be President. "He was wrong on everything, and he voted with Bush 95% of the time," he said.

He closed by talking about this Irish quote, which was a favorite of Holocaust survivors as they were hiding from the Nazis during World War II:

"I believe in the sun when it's not shining, I believe in love even when I feel it not, I believe in God even when he is silent."