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:
I'd say the Republicans did get a life, and it doesn't include the Democrats!
One of those things should see Reid thrown into prison.
While I think the rules in the senate need to be brought back to where they were the Demonrats need to eat their own dogfood for 16 months before any changes.
The best thing to do is IGNORE HIM COMPLETELY
reid is a criminal and should be imprisoned...then exiled. This bum should be crushed and ridiculed.
Good. He’s gone. Now investigate him.
The only ‘gitting along’ I want from Harry Reid, after all these years of spoken insults from his lips, is to either walk out, or be carried out boots first.
Send him back to his uranium miner buddies in Elko, and let him breath their dust!
Note to Dingy Harry, "Your war on the American people IS lost, now shut up and sit down, preferably where no one can see you."
If you think that you have any friends in DC, get a grip.
Your buddies in the Senate, the House, the DNC or even at the White House can't stand you and your sanctimonious, holier-than-thou behavior and they merely used you as the dour face of their evil deeds.
The fact that you stood in front of cameras the as the face of the vile Abortion/Gay Agenda, is not lost on the American people, nor would I think on your fellow family-oriented Mormons. It has certainly not been lost on God the Father, in whom you profess to believe.
I would not want to be in your shoes come Judgment Day sir.
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