Harry Reid’s new pal: Rand Paul (Paul doesn't see it that way)

politico.com ^ | 12/19/13 | Seung Min Kim

[cotton1706]

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) has a new — and unlikely — BFF: Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.).

Reid talked up the junior — yet influential — Republican senator on Thursday during a news conference, noting that the two met relatively recently to talk about a wide range of issues, including the Federal Reserve — which Reid said they spent much time discussing. Continue Reading

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“I spent a lot of time with him and I’ve grown to really like him,” Reid said. “Even though he has some set political views, he wants to get things done here.”

Reid later quipped: “I hope I don’t ruin him with the Republicans.”

In an interview one day earlier, Paul’s recollection of the meeting didn’t seem as cheery as Reid’s. Paul has been demanding a vote on his “Audit the Fed” bill, using the threat of holding up Janet Yellen’s nomination to chair the Federal Reserve as leverage.

As of now, the Yellen vote will most likely come sometime Saturday if there is no agreement to speed up the clock on nominations.

“We’re up against the iron fist of Harry Reid,” Paul had said then. “There’s going to be no time yielded back by any Republicans. It’s not just about Audit the Fed, it’s about whether or not there’s going to be cooperation in this place and right now, there’s no cooperation.”

[cotton1706]

Reid's phony grandfatherly, soft-spoken manner always makes him seem like a nice guy, willing to cooperate, while Paul describes him accurately: iron-fisted Reid.

[sickoflibs]

RE “I spent a lot of time with him (Rand Paul) and I’ve grown to really like him,” Reid said. “Even though he has some set political views, he wants to get things done here.”

He does? What things?

[Zathras]

This is how they took out Rubio.
I hope Rand is smarter.

[SoConPubbie]

Rubio took himself out by agreeing to Amnesty.

[be-baw]

Harry Reid is evil personified. If Paul is smart he will continue to disassociate himself from Satan

[Ab Alius Domitor]

WE NEED TERM LIMITS NOW!!!! Mr. Paul has apparently been there long enough to drink the Koolaid.Proposing a financial bill that says we’ll cut some funds later but has nothing in it that requires future legiscritters to do it is pure politics.Pis on all of them

[Jack Black]

Rand Paul's most recent article on Brietbart, which he was forced to move to after the Washington Times buckled under to Lesbian Wack-Job Rachel Maddow's ridiculous hectoring that he was "plagiarizing" by using some political talking points from a newsletter without attribution, in a previous article. We Want Our Freedoms Back

[Cyber Liberty]

Rand is smarter, and has been offered the lesson of Rubio. He knows what they’re trying to pull.

[BfloGuy]

Mr. Paul has apparently been there long enough to drink the Koolaid.Proposing a financial bill that says we’ll cut some funds later but has nothing in it that requires future legiscritters to do it is pure politics.

Um, Paul proposed no such bill. Anytime. Anyplace. You're talking about someone elese. So, piss on someone else.