Posted on 11/05/2014 1:29:10 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
Consider this karma avoidance by the soon-to-be-ex-Senate Majority Leader, but Harry Reid’s new act won’t fool anyone, least of all Mitch McConnell. Reid has run the US Senate for the past eight years like a dictatorship, steadily eroding minority privileges to the point where Republicans couldn’t offer amendments or put up any significant resistance to Barack Obama’s radical appointments, unless Democrats forced Reid’s hand on either score. After watching his party lay a historic egg in the midterms — the size of which is still not yet fully known — Reid tried spinning the results as a mandate for the kind of compromise that he’s blocked ever since winning control of the upper chamber in 2006:
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid has reached out to his presumed successor, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, saying that he hoped they could work together “to get things done” in Washington.
In a statement, according to Mediaite, Reid said, “I’d like to congratulate Senator McConnell, who will be the new Senate Majority Leader. The message from voters is clear: They want us to work together. I look forward to working with Senator McConnell to get things done for the middle class.”
Er … sure it was. The actual message was entirely a repudiation of the shove-it-down-your-throat approach and demagoguery exemplified by Reid’s leadership and Barack Obama’s attitude. The 2010 midterms sent that same signal, but Reid ignored it and amplified his dictatorial approach in the aftermath of a narrow 2012 win. He’s still not getting the message — or more likely, is willfully ignoring it in order to benefit himself.
Evidence of that has already been provided by Reid and his team. Despite coughing up the worst midterm results in a generation, Reid wants to continue at the helm of Senate Democrats:
Sen. Harry Reid (D-Nev.) does not have any second thoughts about staying on as the Senate Democratic leader after the drubbing his party took on election night.
Spokesman Adam Jentleson vowed that Reid will lead his party’s remaining members in the chamber next year.
“Senator Reid will run for minority leader,” he said Tuesday.
Not so fast, said Chuck Todd last night. While his colleagues in the Senate have been either quiet or publicly supportive, the extent of this collapse will almost certainly mean that Reid will be gone from caucus leadership in January:
Who is harry reid;)
His new office is going to be smaller than we imagined...
Roger that. When I saw the RINOs had won the senate, the first thing to hit my mind was bye bye Harry the stinking liberal puke.
Harry Reid is dead in the water.
Just an early attempt to frame the debate. And he who frames the debate usually wins the debate. So they need to prevent that from happening.
Replace the batteries in your hearing aid, Hairy. That wasn't the message at all.
The OBVIOUS follow-up question to this comment that even a junior high school newspaper reporter should see is this: "Mr. Senator, if the message from voters is clear that they 'want you to work together', are you saying the voters are repudiating the hyper-partisan manner in which you have ruled the Senate for the last eight years""
“Elections have consequences, A-Hole Harry; payback is a bitch; and what goes around comes around.”
Hey, who’s this bitter, old Harry guy with the dingy suits? Why does everyone keep paying attention to him, like he’s important or something? Don’t we have more important things to do, like watching cat videos on YouTube?
May not be up to him...
Fu Reid....and double FU.
Well, since his isn’t is quite the position to perform for his “bosses” it may be around 2’x2’X6’...
Harry who?
This is the theme line from the whitehut and Reid is paroting it now. I think mcConnell is not quite on board. He has not said he intends to go back to the 60 vote rule. He did say he was open to having debates on bills, something they have not had for some time. I frankly don’t have a problem with that...OK, let’s hear what you have to offer and then we can move on. I don’t think we should do back what that ass did to the gop over the past 6 years because it tees up an issue...listen and then ignore looks better with the same result.
Not a snowball's chance in hell.
And 12’ below ground because, deep down, Harry is a good guy.
“Harry Reid is dead in the water.
dont count on it last time he intimidated the turtle into giving him half the committees. Never underestimate the GOP’s ability to make a disaster out of victory.
McConnell — or whoever the new majority leader is — needs to keep exactly the same rules in place that harry reid set up for his dems to use.
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