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Reid: 'No intention of just rolling over' (Broken ribs get worse?)
The Hill ^ | 1/07/15 | Alexander Bolton

Posted on 01/07/2015 6:15:44 PM PST by Libloather

Senate Democratic Leader Harry Reid (Nev.) on Wednesday fired back at Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s (R-Ky.) characterization of the chamber as dysfunctional during eight years of Democratic control.

McConnell, speaking on the Senate floor this week, has repeatedly characterized the upper chamber as a body paralyzed by Reid’s iron grip on the agenda.

The new Republican majority leader pledged Wednesday to “restore the Senate” by returning to regular order and getting committees working again.

Reid said McConnell’s narrative is off-base.

“The new majority leader claims the Senate has not achieved, in his words, ‘squat,’ in recent years. The numbers in fact tell a different story,” he said in a statement read from the floor by Assistant Democratic Leader Dick Durbin (Ill.).

Reid said that over the past six years the U.S. economy has added 10 million jobs, the stock market has reached an all-time high and the domestic automobile industry was saved from bankruptcy.

He also said 10 million Americans now have health insurance thanks to the Affordable Care Act, which Democrats passed in 2010.

“While some here in Washington may see that as ‘squat,’ the economic recovery has been very real to American families. I know how important it has been to working Nevadans,” he said in the statement delivered by Durbin and later emailed to reporters.

Reid said the Senate confirmed 132 judges in the 113th Congress, the most since the Carter administration, and 611 of President Obama’s nominees “in spite of Republican opposition.”

He urged McConnell to work with Democrats over the next year to confirm more of the president’s nominees and pass legislation to create jobs and spur growth in the economy.

“Working together, we can easily meet and surpass last Congress’s benchmark of 611 confirmations,” he said.

Reid pledged to work with Republicans but warned, “I have no intention of just rolling over.”

“Any attempt to erode protections for working American families — the dismantling of Dodd-Frank, the weakening of net neutrality rules or the Republicans’ never-ending quest to repeal ObamaCare — will be met with a swift and unified Democratic opposition,” he said.

Still, Reid promised not to engage in the “gratuitous obstruction” that he says Republicans were guilty of in the last two Congresses.

“The filibuster is an indispensable tool of the minority, but Republicans’ abuse of it last Congress has come to epitomize the gridlock here in the United States Capitol,” he said.

He pointed to the GOP filibuster of former Republican Sen. Chuck Hagel (Neb.), whom Obama nominated to serve as secretary of Defense.


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Extended News; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: dumbbell; mobbeating; reid; ribs; senate
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The after-election medication is kicking in - hard.
1 posted on 01/07/2015 6:15:45 PM PST by Libloather
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To: Libloather

Harry who?


2 posted on 01/07/2015 6:18:28 PM PST by G Larry (Amnesty imposes SLAVE WAGES on LEGAL immigrants & minorities)
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To: Libloather

“The filibuster is an indispensable tool of the minority, but Republicans’ abuse of it last Congress has come to epitomize the gridlock here in the United States Capitol,” he said.

Hey Harry, are we supposed to believe for a second that YOU would not abuse the filibuster?


3 posted on 01/07/2015 6:19:58 PM PST by G Larry (Amnesty imposes SLAVE WAGES on LEGAL immigrants & minorities)
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To: Libloather
Anyone wanting to see an interesting take on Dirty Harry's early years should check out “Casino” a film telling the true story of the Mob's control of Vegas in the 70’s/80’s.Dickie Smothers plays “Senator”,who was the Chairman of the Nevada State Gaming Commission.In real life Dirty Harry was Chairman of the Nevada Gaming Commission.

"Ugly" isn't the word for it.

4 posted on 01/07/2015 6:20:35 PM PST by Gay State Conservative (Jimmy Carter;No Longer The Worst President In My Lifetime)
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To: Libloather

I still want to know who worked him over..


5 posted on 01/07/2015 6:21:59 PM PST by cardinal4 (Certified Islamophobe..)
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To: Libloather
The new Republican majority leader pledged Wednesday to “restore the Senate” by rolling over for the democrats.
6 posted on 01/07/2015 6:23:00 PM PST by PAR35
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To: Libloather

Harry won’t need to roll over with McConnell in a permanent fetal thumb sucking position.


8 posted on 01/07/2015 6:24:14 PM PST by Manic_Episode (GOP = The Whig Party)
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if he has broken ribs, he won’t be rolling over soon


9 posted on 01/07/2015 6:24:15 PM PST by morphing libertarian (defund Obama care and amnesty. Impeach for Benghazi and IRS and fast and furious.)
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To: Libloather

He’s waiting until his next shipment of Depends arrive.


10 posted on 01/07/2015 6:28:07 PM PST by South40 (Hillary Clinton was a "great secretary of state". - Texas Governor Rick Perry)
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“If he has broken ribs, he won’t be rolling over soon.”

Personal experience?

I broke three while I had bronchitis.

11 posted on 01/07/2015 6:28:46 PM PST by CrazyIvan (I lost my phased plasma rifle in a tragic hovercraft accident.)
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To: Libloather
So just what was his BAC at the time of this latest mishap?



America demands Justice for the Fallen of Benghazi!

O stranger, tell the Lacedaemonians that we lie here, obedient to their command.

Listen, O isles, unto me; and hearken, ye people, from far; The LORD hath called me from the womb; from the bowels of my mother hath he made mention of my name. (Isaiah 49:1 KJV)

12 posted on 01/07/2015 6:29:07 PM PST by ConorMacNessa (HM/2 USN, 3/5 Marines RVN 1969 - St. Michael the Archangel, defend us in Battle!)
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To: cardinal4

Me too. I bet it was someone in his family. Perhaps he was holding out on on of the sons or grandkids who wanted more gravy train action.


13 posted on 01/07/2015 6:31:29 PM PST by americas.best.days... ( I think we can now say that they are behind us.)
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To: americas.best.days...

RESTORE THE 17TH AMENDMENT.

Until that is done, the senate is redundantly elected by the SAME ZOMBIES that elect the house.

SIMPLE fix to the stupid senate.


14 posted on 01/07/2015 6:37:04 PM PST by bicyclerepair (Ft. Lauderdale FL (zombie land). TERM LIMITS ... TERM LIMITS)
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To: Libloather

now dirty, don’t throw a clot.


15 posted on 01/07/2015 6:41:38 PM PST by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: cardinal4

i want to buy “exercise equipment” a beer.


16 posted on 01/07/2015 6:46:03 PM PST by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: americas.best.days...

I’d like to think he made promises to the Mob and couldn’t keep them, because Obama is just doing what he wants..


17 posted on 01/07/2015 6:46:04 PM PST by cardinal4 (Certified Islamophobe..)
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To: Libloather

FUHR.


18 posted on 01/07/2015 6:54:04 PM PST by sauropod (Fat Bottomed Girl: "What difference, at this point, does it make?")
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To: Gay State Conservative

I will definitely check it out!


19 posted on 01/07/2015 6:55:19 PM PST by sauropod (Fat Bottomed Girl: "What difference, at this point, does it make?")
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I will definitely check it out!

It's a great film starring DeNiro and Peschi (again).Not quite as good as Goodfellas (IMO) but still very worthwhile...partially because it's a true story.And Peschi plays the psychopath again and does it well.

20 posted on 01/07/2015 7:04:59 PM PST by Gay State Conservative (Jimmy Carter;No Longer The Worst President In My Lifetime)
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