Posted on 01/07/2009 3:53:54 AM PST by Sub-Driver
Reid: ‘I don’t work for Obama’ By Bob Cusack, J. Taylor Rushing & Hugo Gurdon Posted: 01/06/09 08:26 PM [ET]
Democrats must be “very, very careful” to avoid overreaching and will not rubber-stamp President-elect Obama’s policies, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) said Tuesday.
In an interview with The Hill, Reid said it is essential for Obama and congressional Democrats to work closely with Republicans in the new Congress. He added that 2009 is very different from 1993, the last time Democrats controlled both Congress and the White House.
Back then, Reid said, Democrats had controlled the House for decades and behaved as though the opposition did not exist. This time around, their recent stint in the minority would give them a commitment to bipartisanship.
“Even though we’re one short of 60 [senators in the Democratic Conference], I don’t want to ever have to depend on cloture,” Reid said. “We may have to do that, but it will be with the support of a few Republicans.”
Reid, who lambasted the GOP-led Congress for being a rubber stamp for President Bush, indicated that he will not bow to the Obama administration.
Reid stated, “I don't believe in the executive power trumping everything... I believe in our Constitution, three separate but equal branches of government.”
“If Obama steps over the bounds, I will tell him. … I do not work for Barack Obama. I work with him,” he said.
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Go back to the cave in Nevada, sad man.
I think he's going to find out just how very wrong he is. Him and Pelosi both. Especially if this embarassing Burris flap keeps lingering on.
I love when DEMS fight.
A Nevada crime boss bucks the ChiTown crime syndicate. Someone is going to get a horse head or a dead fish.
Democrats must be “very, very careful” to avoid overreaching and will not rubber-stamp President-elect Obama’s policies, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) said Tuesday.
In an interview with The Hill, Reid said it is essential for Obama and congressional Democrats to work closely with Republicans in the new Congress
Oh my! 3 lies in 2 sentences. Harry, you’re so transparent no one believes any of that nonsense!
What a hunk of phoney baloney that old dub is.
What a friggin’ maroon. Any chance the Rats have had enough of him and make him a backbencher?
We'll see. Maybe they don't work for one another. Maybe it's a race. They have both touted spectacularly destructive policies.
She proposes to ride roughshod over the opposition.
I smell a mutt and jeff routine in the making.
The old saying: “Don’t piss on my leg and try to tell me it is raining” crosses the mind as one reads this.
Anybody who goes up against “the one” had better watch their back.
Reid: ‘I don’t work for Obama’
No, you are his b!tch!
LLS
I hope the Senate Republicans throw every obstacle and “parliamentary procedure” they can think of at the feet of Reid.
It would be nice...if he really believed this. Commies have been trying to trash the Constitution for decades. This is hogwash.
I see they're already counting Franken and Obama's replacement.
-PJ
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