Oops! Senate Leader Votes Against His Own Bill on Its Way to Passage [Reid Gaffe]

Yahoo! News ^ | Dec. 24, 2009 | The Newsroom

[justiceseeker93]

Early this morning, after weeks of raucus debate and exhausting negotiations, the U.S. Senate passed a historic health-care reform bill. The gravity of the rather solemn moment, however, was momentarily broken when Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, the main architect of the bill's passage, accidentally voted against it.

With the debate on the bill entering its 25th day and the Senate's storied polite decorum eroding, the roll was called for a vote at 7:05 a.m.... Reid, clearly weary from the process, stood when his name was called and said "nay." Realizing what he had done, he quickly switched his vote to "aye" as his colleagues laughed...

[justiceseeker93]

Maybe Reid did this to campaign next year on the notion that he voted against it before he voted for it. Or, just as likely, he demonstrated once more his lack of emotional and mental equilibrium.

Imagine if a Republican had accidentally voted "aye." You can bet that the video of that would be on all the MSM outlets for days. And he might not have been granted the courtesy to change his vote.

[SkyDancer]

It would have been great if he immediately fell asleep after casting his “NO” vote ... wonder how the msm would have dealt with that ..... or not ....

[K-oneTexas]

Rule should be: No Takebacks!

[ozzymandus]

This is the guy who called Bush a “loser”. Retire, you old fool.

[justiceseeker93]

Ping!!!

[ExTexasRedhead]

The words that I use to refer to Dingy would be banned. Use your imagination.

[smokingfrog]

You can't make this stuff up. Is Harry just nuts, or showing signs of early Alzheimers too?

[Red_Devil 232]

Gee he was making what he thought was a joke - you know being bipartisan - what an a$$Hole!

[justiceseeker93]

...wonder how the msm would have dealt with that...or not.

Speaking of the MSM coverage, if you look at the whole article on the Yahoo!News web site, you'll notice that there was a video of Reid's gaffe after the text story. However, it is no longer accessible. Seems like it's the same old MSM bias at work.

[freekitty]

And the others were too dumb to not remind him.

[RebelTXRose]

Yep - as in Jeopardy - “Sorry, we must take the first answer and it was “NO”.”

[Atom Smasher]

I think God that man, as well as many others, will be voted out soon...it is way past their bed times!

[The FIGHTIN Illini]

No he is just a freakin’ IDIOT! He has NO business running the Senate or anything else for that matter.

The whole lot has to go.

[1_Rain_Drop]

I just loooooove God's sense of humour. HE tangled Reid's tongue.

Back to the real world.... Could this little "oops!" be used against Reid in the future? Such as him not being coherent or some such nonsense?
Didn't the dems force someone to step down because he was confused when he wasn't. (I forgot the details)
Anyway, it could be fun using their tactics against them. We must show them how well they taught us.

Matt 7:12 ~Do unto others as you would have them do to you ~

[sheik yerbouty]

A man whose addled brain allow him to self perform an act not normal in nature. Of course he’ll just say he was a self made man..