Let’s face it, Harry Reid is a horrible poker player. He folds every time before finding out if his opponents were bluffing or not. How do I know this? Simple. Since becoming majority leader in 2007 Harry Reid has faced countless threats of a filibuster and never once has he made the opposition go through […]
This notion is at the most a pipe dream and we must take a serious look at the Senate today. There are a few major obstacles that need to be overcome. Can it be included in reconciliation? I have seen a lot of liberals throw out the word like it is some instant magic bullet, […]
What a bunch of useless fucking cowards: Senate Democrats emerged from a special caucus meeting Monday night determined to pass a health-care bill by Christmas — but without the Medicare buy-in plan that liberals had sought as an alternative to a government insurance option. The Medicare buy-in was never warmly embraced by moderate Democrats, but […]
2010 is going to be very ugly for Democrats: Colorado Sen. Michael Bennet is losing to all three of his Republican challengers, according to a new Rasmussen survey, another sign that 2010 is shaping up to be a very tough year for Democratic incumbents. Bennet is now the fifth Democratic senator to be trailing Republican […]
Just now reporting it on MSNBC. So much for change we can believe in. GottaLaff has more UPDATE: Here’s the breaking news alert via the AP: WASHINGTON – Democratic senators say they have a tentative deal to drop a government-run insurance option from health care legislation. No further details were immediately available. But liberals and […]
About time the Democratic leader in the Senate showed some balls. Here he is today fired up over the news that Aetna is going to shit-can up to 650,000 clients just so they can get better profits: Transcript via The Plum Line: “You see, one of the largest private insurance companies in America made a […]
You know, if Harry ends up getting voted out of office I won’t mind one bit. He has been a very ineffective leader and the Democratic caucus seems content on keeping him in the position: A new poll indicates that Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nevada, continues to trail two potential Republican rivals, less than […]
Talk about the duh moment to top all duh moments: In a closed-door meeting of his caucus, the Senate majority leader, Harry Reid of Nevada, told Democrats that Republicans were not interested in passing a bill. In effect, he prepared them for trench warfare, saying the Democrats must stick together and should be ready to […]
Is this any real shock? With Democratic leaders and White House officials holed up in Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid’s (D-Nev.) office negotiating a final bill, Republicans are demanding a deceleration of the process and moving to define whatever plan that emerges as a combination of Medicare cuts, tax increases, higher insurance premiums and rising […]
Markos explains why Harry Reid is an utter failure as a majority leader: Bill Frist never had 60 votes. Bill Frist never cared. Republicans ran the Senate as if they owned the place, even when enjoying razor-thin majorities. Yet when Democrats took the chamber, the first thing Harry Reid did was complain that he couldn’t […]