Posted on 11/09/2014 12:32:30 PM PST by SeekAndFind
As President Obama congratulated Republican lawmakers for “running very strong campaigns” during a meeting Friday at the White House, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (Nev.) stared, stone-faced, into the distance.
Reid was seated at the president’s elbow, but in many ways, the gulf between the two leaders has never seemed greater.
Tension between Obama and Reid has been long simmering, multiple sources with knowledge of their relationship say. It exploded into the headlines following Tuesday’s landslide victory for Republicans. Within minutes of networks declaring that Republicans had seized back the Senate, the Washington Post published a report featuring David Krone, Reid’s chief of staff, blasting President Obama for the party’s losses.
Krone described Obama as a drag on Democratic candidates across the country, with the president’s sagging approval ratings and the administration’s botched implementation of ObamaCare steepening the gradient that vulnerable incumbents had to climb.
Moreover, Krone charged, the White House had kept Senate Democrats from tapping some of the president’s most loyal donors.
The hit was the political equivalent of the kind of uppercut Reid might have delivered during his boxing career.
Democratic sources said the Majority Leader was aware of Krone’s cooperation with the Post, and that his office disapproves of staffers who freelance to the press.
One Democratic operative described the story as "a way to protect Reid for the losses that we knew we were going to face.”
“The way it was done was to ensure that people knew Reid had no fault.”
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Popcorn!
Obama is trying to throw Reid under the bus...
I would help him with the toss!
Success has many fathers, failure is an orphan.
This might be more effective:
When I read articles espousing more government interference in our personal lives I wish for a high cliff overlooking the ocean.
We could simply physically throw these people off.
The screams and splash would be very therapeutic.
I get to do the first one!
It would be nice that during the stuggle they both went under the bus.
And took Jon and Mitch with them.
“Tension between Obama and Reid has been long simmering”
No honor among thieves.
What ever “tension” there may be, Harry has been very dedicated to keeping bh0 from having to make any decision on substantive legislation, especially Harry’s refusal to bring any House passed legislation up for Senate debate.
thus I dismiss the ‘tension’ as a democrat ploy to create ‘sympathy for bh0’
Failure is an orphan indeed.
Obama will alienate himself from everyone American, his party, his media water-carriers, even his progressive comrades before its over.
**Tensions between Obama and Harry Reid**
LOL!
Obama is trying to separate himself from the Democrat legislators so that he can take over their jobs, making them irrelevant, instead of himself. Obama never really liked the legislators in his own party much more than he liked the Republican legislators.
Is Dingy a racist?
I guess Harry isn’t as enthralled with his “light skinned African-American with no Negro dialect, unless he wanted to have one”
A modern version of the Tarpeian Rock?
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