Posted on 12/08/2016 5:39:30 PM PST by jazusamo
Sen. Harry Reid warned his colleagues not to abuse the filibuster, asked for a return to pork-barrel spending and begged them to find a way to limit the power of interest groups to spend money in elections, saying Thursday that the fate of American democracy depends on it.
The Nevada Democrat who led his party to political heights of a 60-vote majority, then watched as it slipped away over the last six years, delivered a pair of swan song speeches, regretting nothing from his hard-nosed approach to politics, while doling out advice to all who would listen.
He is retiring at the end of this year, capping a 34-year career including four years in the House, then the last three decades in the Senate. He has said he would have stuck around for another term but for an exercise injury in 2015 that left him entirely out of action for weeks and still hobbles him.
For the last 12 years he’s led his party in the Senate, including herculean efforts to advance President Obama’s health care, stimulus and financial recovery laws in 2009 and 2010, then shifting to play defense for Mr. Obama in the face of a rising Republican wave from 2011 on.
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He came with a functioning America and leaves with an America approaching ruin...Thank God for President-elect Trump!
Good riddance, Dingy Harry!
I think Mondale got the filibuster rule reduced from 2/3's to 60%.
LOL ! Another long, incredibly stupid opus.
A year from now Harry Reid will be Emmanuell Goldstein of the Democrat party.
A year from now Harry Reid will be an un-person.
What a corrupt and vicious twit.
Adios MFer
When he passed his new rule, Dingy Harry forgot to include in it that it only applies to Democrats. Republicans have to follow the old rules!
I keep wishing one of these farewell speeches would start with him saying something about having seen C-beams glittering near the Tannhauser Gate.
LOL! Love it, looks like he’s holding her up and she’s feeling no pain.
I am disappointed that Harry Reid isn’t leaving in handcuffs or a body bag.
I pray the forthcoming Senate goes nuclear with Trump’s picks for Cabinet Secretaries.
Nothing but a bad memory now.
SHUT UP HARRY, no one cares what you think!!!
I for one would like to see the threshold for overriding a filibuster raised back up, with the caveat that all filibusters be conducted in person by a single senator and not administratively by a cabal of the party not in power. Each senator in office should also be obliged to successfully perform one not shorter than eight hours unassisted by staff or protective undergarments once per term as a conditiin for standing for reelection.
Notice how HELLARY is wearing ALL purple now because she believes the entire country is PURPLE what a twit!!!!
Why is Harry tickling Hillary’s left Utter?
Is it me or does she look wider than usual?
“Is it me or does she look wider than usual?”
She’s been out in the woods taking selfies.
And grazing.
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