Posted on 11/14/2014 3:30:59 AM PST by Kaslin
Serious question: Did Senate Democrats somehow miss or forget about the elections we had last week? Wow:
Senate Democrats voted on Thursday to keep Senator Harry Reid of Nevada as their leader, but his victory came only after a nearly four-hour closed-door meeting in which 28 caucus members expressed their frustration with the party’s direction after an Election Day drubbing. The voting was done by secret ballot, but it was not unanimous, reflecting a divide within the party over the need to elevate new faces and younger leaders. Those concerns were reflected in part in the decision Thursday to create a new but relatively small leadership role for Senator Elizabeth Warren, 65, of Massachusetts, a folk hero of the left.
“When you have an election like this, common sense says we need to change things,” said Senator Claire McCaskill of Missouri, one of the Democrats who did not vote for Mr. Reid. “The voice was very loud and unmistakable,” she added. “To me that means changing leadership, and it was just that simple.”
I’ll be the first to say that the guy deserves some credit. He presided over a largely ineffectual and gridlocked Senate chamber, gutted the filibuster (a power-grabbing procedure he once inveighed against), and tabled hundreds of bills passed by the U.S. House of Representatives, thus relegating his Senate colleagues to a kind of legislative purgatory. Through it all, however, he still managed to keep his leadership position. Well done, Harry. I'll tip my cap to you. (Then again, there was never any serious challenge to his reign of power. Amazing.)
Be that as it may, now that Senate Democrats have re-elected their intrepid leader–despite the clear wishes of the American public–perhaps we can take some solace in his greatly-diminished status and waning influence. It is richly deserved.
Liberals are incapable of learning from their mistakes because they believe that they are to smart to make any mistakes. This is why when one of their ideas doesn’t work they double down on it. They feel that it only failed because they did not do enough of it.
Crime families do not change their Godfather on their own. Harry Reid is delivering lots of money for his members and has ways of dealing with anyone who gets out of line. Only the voters of Nevada can get rid of Reid.
The youthful cool super hip forward looking progressive party still run by the youthful and energetic Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi.
Hope and change?
When your opponent is shooting himself in the foot, stand back and watch. Reid and Pelosi maintaining their leadership poisitions is like a gift that keeps on giving.
Much like nobody wants to impeach Obama because we would have President Biden, the GOP is gleeful to have hapless Harry, and not Chuck the Schmuck Schumer. Its a wonder how the Dems can come up with so many Turd as leaders.
They know they can fix the elections or they wouldn’t do that. It’s a clear sign.
The voting was done by secret ballot
NOTHING Congress does should be secret unless it involves national security.
I am not so sure I would be so giddy about this, look what the GOP has, the same two bumblers as we have had for years now. Worse, both are enemies of conservatives especially tea party types.
The dems are at least one thing, one group of rabid lefties. Taking out Weed, er Reid, and Pelousy would be the same as playing whack a mole when it came time to put another one in.
The Democratic leadership selection process and the crones it produced do remind me of the old Soviet system whereby some talentless, colorless, mindless old bureaucrat ultimately climbs to the top (as in “its Konstantin Chernenko’s time!!”), perpetuates the hard Stalinist face of the past, and brings not a single innovation or new idea with them. Good.
You are exactly correct. If the Dems were smart they would bring in new blood, new ideas, new policies. Instead they are stuck on the old, nasty, disproved policies voiced by the same old, nasty, politicians.
As for the Dems, when you consider some of the delusional, insulting and demonstrably-false things that Harry Reid has said in recent years, it's astonishing that any rational person could vote for him as a party leader.
But back to yesterday's news: McConnell UNANIMOUSLY voted in as Senate majority leader? Ted Cruz, Mark Lee, Rand Paul, et al -- seriously? Marco Rubio? Nobody wants to make a stand by even abstaining from voting for this clown? (McConnell)
I guess all that's necessary in D.C. is to fool us stupid voters.
I agree with post 6. I keep hearing the GOPe talking head consultants and politicians say that come January they should just keep dumping bill after bill on Obama’s desk. Not happening as Reid will absolutely shut down the Senate on every issue. It will be business as usual for that scumbag just from a smaller office. All the while the MSM will report on Republican obstructionism.
Ditto.
Giddy? Did I say something that suggests glee?
No, just a general comment regarding their election(?).
I am beyond upset by the continuence of these dunderheads in both parties being the leadership. Taking out Kantor had no effect...they refuse to see what the voters are saying. It is not business as usual, we are in serious trouble here in the US on both the economic and moral levels. It is time to stop being a piece of flotsom on the sea, time for the tide to sweep them OUT before it will take a tsumani of an outright revolt.
Do I need a/s?
Next time ya hear someone say “well, not all registered Democrats are bad...” slap em in the mouth! LOL
“.....I want them to be the ugly, aged faces of the Democratic Party”.....
you left out the words “AND GONE”.
Absolutely! The more screen time for him, Hillary, Wasserman, Rangle, et.al, the better for the adults.
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