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Expel Sen. Reid
The Pittsburgh Tribune Review ^ | 05/17/05 | Editorial

Posted on 05/16/2005 9:50:34 PM PDT by smoothsailing

Expel Sen. Reid

Tuesday, May 17, 2005

Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid is using the politics of personal destruction to redefine McCarthyism.

Mr. Reid, a Nevada Democrat, announced on the Senate floor Thursday that he continues to oppose judicial nominee Henry Saad because of "a problem" in the highly confidential FBI report regarding the Michigan judge. "All you need to do is have a member go upstairs and look at his confidential report from the FBI, and I think we would all agree that there is a problem there," Reid said.

Even Mr. Saad is not allowed to see his file.

Standing Rule of the Senate 29, Section 5, states that a senator risks expulsion......

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..... only Judiciary Committee members and the nominee's home-state senators are allowed access to it.

Reid is neither.

Now that Reid has let Saad twist slowly, slowly in the wind, the Senate should act swiftly to enforce its own rules in a bipartisan move to expel him.

Until this moment, Sen. Reid, America never really gauged your cruelty or your recklessness. You have done enough.

Have you no sense of decency?

© 2004 by The Tribune-Review Publishing Co.

(Excerpt) Read more at pittsburghlive.com ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Editorial; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 109th; filibuster; henrysaad; reid; reidsnuclearreaction; unfit
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1 posted on 05/16/2005 9:50:34 PM PDT by smoothsailing
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To: smoothsailing
Have you no sense of decency?

Ah, they stole that line from the McCarthy hearings, when the Senator had the stake driven into his political heart by a witness who managed to summon the effective words.

2 posted on 05/16/2005 9:52:57 PM PDT by Torie (Constrain rogue state courts; repeal your state constitution)
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To: smoothsailing
Janice Brown should be rejected because "she is a bad person" and David Pryor should be rejected because "He has deeply held personal beliefs."

The Democrats are so pathetic.

3 posted on 05/16/2005 9:54:44 PM PDT by cookcounty ("We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the Courts" ---Abe Lincoln, 1858.)
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To: smoothsailing

Republicans should demand that Sen. Reid reveal when he read Saad's FBI file.


4 posted on 05/16/2005 9:55:25 PM PDT by Texas Eagle (If it wasn't for double-standards, Leftists would have no standards at all)
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To: smoothsailing

Expelling Reid might give us Dopey Dickie Durbin as RAT Leader. No thanks. Keep Reid around and nuke 'em on Wednesday.


5 posted on 05/16/2005 9:55:25 PM PDT by BillyBoy (Find out the TRUTH about the Chicago Democrat Machine's "Best Friend" in the GOP - www.NOLaHood.com)
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To: smoothsailing

bttt


6 posted on 05/16/2005 9:57:27 PM PDT by nopardons
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To: smoothsailing

Ah, but Horrid Harry is such a useful idiot! Can't we keep him just a bit longer?


7 posted on 05/16/2005 9:58:12 PM PDT by Quicksilver (Freedom is on the march.)
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To: Torie

Funny, when daschle was beat and they were talking about reid being the moderate from Nevada, I never imagined that he would turn out to be such a horses rear (and that is a slam on horses). What a nut-job he has turned out to be...


8 posted on 05/16/2005 10:00:38 PM PDT by blasater1960 ( Ishmaelites...Still a wild-ass of a people....)
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To: smoothsailing
"All you need to do is have a member go upstairs and look at his confidential report from the FBI, and I think we would all agree that there is a problem there," Reid said.

"I hold in my hand a list...."

9 posted on 05/16/2005 10:01:21 PM PDT by KellyAdmirer
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To: smoothsailing

bookmrk ping


10 posted on 05/16/2005 10:02:08 PM PDT by Dad yer funny
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To: blasater1960

I had no such illusion. Reid as compared to Daschle is like well comparing Genghis Kahn to the Pope. Reid is a rather scar tissue street fighter guy. The guy has an anger, which Daschle did not (D was just another political hack filling a niche, like most of his species). I can almost feel the Reid anger coming through the tube. Thank heavens Reid doesn't drink. He would be a very mean drunk.


11 posted on 05/16/2005 10:06:02 PM PDT by Torie (Constrain rogue state courts; repeal your state constitution)
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To: smoothsailing

I expel Senator Reid every morning first thing...you know, along with draining the lizard.


12 posted on 05/16/2005 10:07:19 PM PDT by RichInOC (...oops, did I say that out loud?)
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To: smoothsailing

I don't know if he'll be kicked out of the Senate. But someone with a great pair of $300 imported wingtips should wind up and kick him squarely in the ass.


Repeatedly.


13 posted on 05/16/2005 10:07:30 PM PDT by Petronski (Pope Benedict XVI: A German Shepherd on the Throne of Peter)
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To: RichInOC
I expel Senator Reid every morning first thing...you know, along with draining the lizard.

Don't forget to wipe your Clinton.

14 posted on 05/16/2005 10:07:57 PM PDT by Petronski (Pope Benedict XVI: A German Shepherd on the Throne of Peter)
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To: Quicksilver; smoothsailing

I LOVE Dingy Harry....keep him where he is ;)


15 posted on 05/16/2005 10:10:24 PM PDT by Stellar Dendrite (Allen/DeLay 2008!)
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To: Texas Eagle
"Republicans should demand that Sen. Reid reveal when he read Saad's FBI file."

Yes! And do so on the Senate floor live on C-SPAN!

16 posted on 05/16/2005 10:10:37 PM PDT by smoothsailing (Qui Nhon Turtle Co.)
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To: Torie

Daschle was a priss meterosexual, this guy Reid's anger kind of reminds me of Dean. YEAAAAAARRRGHHHHHH!!!!


17 posted on 05/16/2005 10:13:02 PM PDT by Stellar Dendrite (Allen/DeLay 2008!)
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To: Stellar Dendrite

I think your take is about right. Reid is a Democrat Bob Dole without the sense of humor. Shudder.


18 posted on 05/16/2005 10:14:07 PM PDT by Torie (Constrain rogue state courts; repeal your state constitution)
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To: Stellar Dendrite
YOU LOVE HIM? Jeez,you need to get out more often.:^)
19 posted on 05/16/2005 10:15:19 PM PDT by smoothsailing (Qui Nhon Turtle Co.)
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To: Petronski

Of course.


20 posted on 05/16/2005 10:16:49 PM PDT by RichInOC (...and I use lots of paper, so as not to leave a single Democrat up there.)
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