Reid Hopes Payroll Tax Cut Debacle a ‘Learning Experience’ for House Freshman

abc ^ | 12/23/2011 | By Sunlen Miller

[tobyhill]

In session for a whopping 1 minute, 28 seconds, the Senate today passed by unanimous consent the updated, slightly tweaked version of the two-month payroll tax cut extension.

Hailing this as a “new day,” Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., celebrated and then appointed, as the compromise called for, his designees for the conference committee to negotiate a year-long payroll tax deal. The appointees are: Sens. Max Baucus, D-Mont.; Ben Cardin, D-Md.; Jack Reed, D-R.I.; and Bob Casey, D-Pa.

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Reid left with departing messages to Republicans: His message to the Republican leader in the Senate should really be interpreted as for the House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio: ”Most everything we do around here is based on trust,” Reid said. “That’s how we get things done. And I want everyone to understand how much I appreciate Mitch McConnell sticking by the arrangement, the agreement that we made. ”

[LZ_Bayonet]

"This is simply the state of affairs that we live in with an MSM, recently joined by Fox News, that controls public opinion to a very large extent and is a wholly owned subsidiary of the Democrat Party. They are very hard to buck in an election year. That's life. It will take a long time to stop that train and turn it around."

Exactly! Democratic control of the media is the most important source of our enemy's power, and it is immense.

And in the next couple of months the media will do it again, the Republicans will be the bad guys no matter what they do.