I think we need to give Dirty Harry a bit more credit here...I believe Reid knows he does not have the 50 votes and will leave Obama hanging in the breeze...with this albatross of a jobs bill dragging him down....
Reid knows he has lost the senate majority leadership in 2012 and can lay the blame at Obama feet and Reid must be pissed .
I hope you’re right and that Reid is pissed, he and Nance can sit next to one another starting in 2013.
This has to be it to some degree. Reid is crafty enough to know that Bobo's lone re-election strategy -- to run against the House on a tax-hike bill -- is a total loser, when the 2010 Red Tide still has the Big Mo. Bobo is out in 2012, in is a GOP Senate & whoever the GOP nom is. But Reid will be able to say, 'we [I] did all we could', as he retains the Minority Leader role, however substantially weakened he may have made it.
But what Reid has done is handed the GOP the next 4 Supremes on a plate. Fiddy votes in the Senate? Goodbye Roe v Wade...and good riddance...