Reid behaved more responsibly than the MSM. I'm rapidly coming to the conclusion the biggest threats to restoration of resources and calm is the MSM (I include FOX).
The word "catastrophic" gets tossed around so much that it has become a cliche and has pretty much lost it's meaning, but this is a truly catastrophic event. I was one of those who believed (quietly) that the media was over-hyping the potential for death and destruction just to pump up their ratings, and I based this on their over-hyping of the aftermath of the three hurricanes that I lived through last year, storms that were like a little afternoon shower compared to this thing. To be fair, I think even the media didn't really believe it was going to be as bad as they said it was going to be. Well, it was much, much worse, and I was as wrong as wrong could be.
To put it bluntly, I don't know if there really is any practical way that anyone, Republican or Democrat, could have adequately prepared for something as catastrophic as this. For all the things we can do, for all the power we think we have, we're still just puny little things when compared to nature, and nature just loves to remind us of just how little we are when we start to swagger.
This has gone way beyond the finger-pointing and name-calling we love to indulge in, and I think our elected leaders are starting to get this, and are realizing that digging out and putting things right again is going to take huge amounts of time and effort. And as such, right now we cannot afford the petty partisan bickering. All we can do is roll up our sleeves and do the best we can.
I am certainly not so naive that I think this will last forever - we'll be back to the sniping and the name-calling and the blame-laying before we know it. But for now, we're beginning to realize we really do have to work together, even if just for a while, and I am very relieved to see it.
Amen to that, i have stopped watching this they are all trying to Outfox fox.