Posted on 10/04/2013 10:03:23 AM PDT by Sub-Driver
Harry Reid calls for return to ‘civil’ Senate By: Burgess Everett October 4, 2013 11:20 AM EDT
Majority Leader Harry Reid urged his colleagues — and reminded himself — to uphold the Senate’s standards of civility Friday morning.
In a departure from a series of blistering opening speeches this week, Reid said the past month of the Senate has been a departure from arcane rules to encourage senators to address each other indirectly, encouraging debate over ideas rather than people. The Nevada Democrat reminded the chamber to address people in the third-person and to speak through the presiding officer of the Senate, unusual but necessary rules championed by former majority leader and master parliamentarian Sen. Robert Byrd (D-W.Va.).
“We’ve all here in the Senate kind of lost the Aura of Robert Byrd, who was such a stickler for Senate procedure,” Reid said. “The Senate is a very special place with very particular rules. These rules help to keep debate among senators civil, even when we’re discussing matters on which senators completely disagree.”
Reid acknowledged he was not exempt from breaching Senate decorum and offered “self-criticism” for blasting Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) when Cruz was not on the floor on Thursday. Reid called the freshman conservative the “joint speaker” of the House, a reference to Cruz’s continued influence over House Republicans. That Thursday outburst prompted Minority Whip John Cornyn (R-Texas) to warn the Democratic leader that traditions of decorum were in “jeopardy of being transgressed.”
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I truly hate POLITICO with a passion,,but we all have to go over there and rock this article!
Reid = bottom dwelling slime mold.
And that’s his (its) good parts.
My hope is to live long enough to be able to take a bodacious Obama on this sewage’s grave.
I think what congress needs is a good, old fashion “B” Western bar room brawl.
Bammy's "...majority of voters blame both parties..." comment yesterday when the polls distinctly pointed to the rising resentment against the dims in general, Bammy and Reid in particular.
Why should those that already follow and respect the rules have to learn a lesson that Reid & Co. broke, and will break again it they think they can get away with it?
Like a turd floating in the punchbowl denouncing the impurities of the bowl’s contents . . .
Prelude to compromise by the Dems
Wouldn’t that mean that Reid as leader would need to be considerate? How can he do that when he says there’s nothing to discuss. He’s not calling for civility, he’s calling for adherence to decree.
I don’t want a “civil” Senate. I want war, because it is well past time for one.
Exactly. The only time there is civility is when Republicans such as Pete King, Paul Ryan and Lou Barletta are capitulating and breaking their oaths. Bob
I would agree with this loser if the DIMs/LIBs/RINOs would first embark on a year long tour of the US by walking (as a group), wearing sack cloth, beating themselves about the shoulders with sticks, chanting “mea culpa”, sleeping under viaducts or in the open, and eating only whatever might be provided by US citizens. Of course, their loser staff would do the same. Then, and only then, would I agree to some civility with these commie degenerates.
Cancer Killer Reid has read the polls. He stepped in it big time yesterday, biting Dana Basher’s head off.
Look at him try to share the blame. ‘Rats are great ones for sharing the misery and hoarding the good (especially other people’s hard-earned good)
Stand in a corner??? He needs a THRASHING.....He is a MEAN, VICIOUS, EVIL, VILE, VINDICTIVE little girlie man, and he finally got a tongue lashing from OTHER EVIL, VILE democrats for showing his true colors to the world!!
FU harry... it was you and your party that destroyed DC so eat **** and die.
Dingy is on a Jihad against America.
Harry’s idea of civility is when the Pubbies not only bend over and spread em on demand, but bring their own lube.
Best way Harry can bring civility to the Senate: Resign immediately.
Exactly!
Kelly Ayotte is busy folding more.
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