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 wouldn't exactly call it an "aura." "Stench" would be a bit closer.
THE DEMOCRATS ARE LOSING AND CAN FEEL IT.
THE GOVERNMENT IS NOT THAT IMPORTANT; IT SHOULD BE CUT.
NOW THE REPUBLICANS NEED TO SAY “SEE? IT WASN’T SO BAD.”*
Excellent point!
I hope that EVERYONE can see that a smaller government is good for all except for scammers, goons, and the lazy.
There is no Senate. There is only a leader Dingy Harry prohibiting the Senate from doing it’s sworn duty.
Internal polls must be looking really grim.
He’s an evil, rotten scoundrel, and he’s calling for civility? What a joke he.....
Reid is a liar and a hypocrite.
I agree, with so much heartfelt-ness. I pray that this once, they stick with the courage of conviction, against their every instinct to conduct “business as usual”.
“Communists”. Yes! Did you notice his use of the term “self-criticism”? I know it’s a not uncommon term, but in the context of who’s using it...
They have conveniently short memories (”convenient” being the pertinent word) , and so do their followers.
Harry is the one calling names and being nasty.
He is trying to head off the responses.
He's resigning???!!!
Paula Deen should have pointed out Robert Byrd to her critics when she was being excoriated. If an ex-leader in the Klan could rise to respected leader of the Senate by the left, why couldn’t she be forgiven for saying one word while a gun was at her head?
Not sure I want war in the Senate. McCain has crashed enough planes and would be one of the first taken prisoner as he fights Democrats war with his hands up holding a white flag
Reid: “OK, you terrorist, jihadi, anarchist Republicans...isn’t it time we all showed a little civility?”
Reid: “OK, you terrorist, jihadi, anarchist Republicans...isn’t it time we all showed a little civility?”
Dingy Harry is such a POS. I despise his funky MoFo a$$.
Translation: "We want the Republicans to always go along with us."
“Harry Reid calls for return to ‘civil’ Senate”
the same harry reid who called Bush a “loser” (true or not)? the same harry reid who lied about romney’s taxes
he is the worst kind of hypocrite
There is plenty of cowardice to go around. Bob
When a major sh*tbag like Harry Reid starts calling for “civility”, you know the dems are losing this, and they know it. Sort of like a bully who suddenly decides to play nice once someone punches him in the nose...
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