He’s Gone Berserk! - (welcome back, Tony Snow!...he's got Harry Reid's number!- superb column)

JEWISH WORLD REVIEW.COM ^ | MAY 16, 2005 | TONY SNOW

[CHARLITE]

At the risk of piling on, Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid, in the latest of a series of strained attempts to justify a judicial-filibuster strategy that annihilates Senate traditions, has utterly destroyed the civility that once prevailed in the World's Greatest Deliberative Body.

Reid took the floor to decry Republican attempts to restore the old traditions of voting yes-or-no on a president's judicial nominees. About two-thirds of the way through a 30-minute talk, he added the following ad-libbed passage: "Henry Saad would have been filibustered, anyway. He's one of those nominees. All you need to do is have a member go upstairs and look at his confidential report from the FBI, and think we all would agree there is a problem there."

Let us count the sins: (1) It is verboten for Senators to jibber about FBI files. (2) Harry Reid does not, under Senate rules, have the right to see those files. He is neither a member of the Judiciary Committee nor a representative of Saad's home state of Michigan. If he actually has read the Saad file, he could face an Ethics Committee inquiry. (3) FBI files are like great dumpsters for gossip, and they are filled with notoriously unreliable drivel. They contain everything anybody has told any FBI agent about the person in question. (4) Reid's smear is literally unanswerable. Saad himself has not seen the file. Neither he nor his closest associates have any idea what Reid is talking about.

This sleazy smear, twinned with his puerile dismissal of the president as a "loser," makes Reid himself look like a charmless punk. If he doesn't show contrition he will have managed to have secured enough votes for a measure that would ban judicial filibusters forever and leave many members of the Democratic caucus literally speechless.

[Sthitch]

Ping for later read.

[taxesareforever]

Harry Reid is despicable, but so is the demorat party.

[26lemoncharlie]

Their shooting themselves!!!

[TADSLOS]

Meltdowns aren't a pretty sight.

[HangnJudge]

I love the smell of napalm in the morning
and the sounds of Democrats self destructing

Tick...Tick...Tick...

[PzLdr]

True. But why aren't the Republicans running his a*s up on ethics charges. Let see how anxious Democrats are for ethics investigations then. At least it'll keep Harry the Toad hopping from foot to foot.Somebody ought to set Frist and the folks gift sets of steel cajones. Maybe they'd get a clue.

[68 grunt]

Their shooting themselves!!!

They're shooting themselves ;)

[Dionysius]

Let's reserve our jubilation until we see how many GOP Senators leave the reservation, but I'm somewhat optimistic in that Frist wouldn't be tsking this hard-ass position if he didn't have the numbers.

[CHARLITE]

"I'm somewhat optimistic in that Frist wouldn't be tsking this hard-ass position if he didn't have the numbers."

Right. He's a heart surgeon. It's in his nature and by long training to be ultra-cautious and careful. He's a lot of things that I wish he weren't, as Majority leader, but he's not hare-brained. You can bank on that.

Great eomment, Dionysius!

Thanks!

Char :)

[26lemoncharlie]

Thank you!!

[Enterprise]

"But why aren't the Republicans running his a*s up on ethics charges."

Who knows. But he just gave his opponents a bargaining chip to use against him.

[TeleStraightShooter]

Reid (D-NV) and his Nuclear option.
Is it just coincidence that Jackass Flats is a subset of the Nevada Nuke Test Site?

[WideGlide]

Smells like Victory!

[Enterprise]

Oh Tony m'lad. Me 'umble thanks yet again.

"Charmless Punk."

Priceless!

[Texas Eagle]

Republicans need to put Reid on the spot. They should demand to know when read Saad's file.

[Only1choice____Freedom]

Where were these despicable clods when Juanita Broderick's file was open?

[Prophet in the wilderness]

You mean,, a uncontrolled nuclear meltdown by the Liberals/Democrats.
In the last few months, or the last year, we have seen them meltdown and implode.
It is looking, that no matter what they do to promote their agendas, or even save their party, no matter what direction they go, or no matter what they save, they are losing big time.
We have witnessed in the last year many of them putting their foot in the mouth, and hurting their cause.
Democrats ? KEEP TALKING.

[TheGrimReaper]

Keep ranting, Harry.... you're fitting right in with the other degenerates, derelicts, and dimwits of your party:

[Prophet in the wilderness]

Bad thing,,, bad thing, to deal with the Democrats, or compromise, or bargain with the Democrats, bad thing to do.
The better word to use is, steamroll over them, and use what Harry shyster did as leverage, not a bargaining chip.