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Worst. Senate. Majority. Leader. EVER.

By: Pejman Yousefzadeh (Diary)  |  March 27th, 2009 at 08:46 PM  | 

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Harry Reid thinks that it is perfectly fine to filibuster judges appointed by Republican Presidents, but that it would be a sin against the Lord to filibuster Democratic health care reform plans. The fact that Reid is a Democrat probably has something to do with this, though you will never catch Reid admitting that. Not only is the Senate Majority Leader a hypocrite, he also is deluded enough to think that others have not caught and will not catch him on his hypocrisy.

Oh, and Reid engaged in more name-calling in which the facts undermine the insults–as Ed Whelan points out, it’s kind of bizarre to claim that one was fooled by John Roberts when one voted against Roberts come confirmation time. Not that I think Harry Reid is difficult to fool, of course, but in this case, Roberts did nothing to fool Reid. Reid is just fooling himself. He does that a lot.

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  • bobojake

    When I heard the Roberts lie today by Reid the first time today I darn near puked.
    He was on Rusty Humpries a week ago Friday and claimed he never ever said “the war is lost”. I’m sure Rusty would share a copy of the program with any body that could use it.
    Ethnics charges should be brought against Reid.

    Does any of Reid relation have jobs like Dodds’Wife did as a Director of one of AIG Companies?
    How can we find out who is wmployed by who so we can clean out Washington DC of this elcrapo.?

    • Adjoran

      have jobs with prominent law and lobbying firms in Nevada, and serve as paid directors on the boards of any number of corporations and organizations. None of them, naturally, have the qualifications, experience, and accomplishments normally required for those posts.

      Reid began as a “moderate conservative” Democrat, but the word on him was always that he was the Vegas Mob’s boy in Washington. He’s won a couple of real squeaker reelections, and only manages to stay in office by the steady influx of Californians fleeing their own socialist paradise and Mexican immigrants into Nevada.

      Mike Mansfield was indeed Senate Majority Leader in 1975, the time of the betrayal of Southeast Asia. However, it is hard to blame him for it. The Democrats had won huge majorities in both Houses in the post-Watergate 1974 elections, and their antiwar wing was ascendant (and frankly, the country had soured on the war thanks to the nonstop antiwar propaganda emanating from the network news, in case you thought media treason was a new phenomenon). In particular, why should Mansfield be considered more central to the fund cut-off than House Speaker Tip O’Neill?

      In speaking of the worst Majority Leaders, certainly Tom Daschle deserves at least an honorable mention, but Reid is a very strong candidate for worst ever, and has at least another year and 3/4 in which to cement his place in ignominy.

    • http://www.ssce.net/Web-Articles/Web-articles-indexed-authors.html#authors-l JLenardDetroit

      Remember those Land deals?? Any link to the High Speed Rail Project that got EARMARKED in the Porkulus Bill?? Any of that land figure into that HSR path now??

      BTW: Got a big laugh from the typo in your post “Ethnics” charges – lol

  • Mike gamecock DeVine

    I suspect he is in the lead on “worst”. Nixon had won the Vietnam War. The South was in control of the country until the Dems, post-Church commission, cot off the funds, thus handing the nation to communists and leading to near genocide in the South and in Laos and Cambodia.

    • mbecker908

      And you can add the blood of about 3 million Cambodians to that.

      Just another reason to never forget that the Democrats are indeed the “Party of Death”.

    • mom2oneson

      about the the funds? The US was giving funds to Vietnam?

      • mbecker908

        that the US pulled combat troops out of Vietnam but agreed to fund the South Vietnamese military. A combination of factors, the VC and the NVA had been seriously degraded by the US (read: we kicked their asses all over Southeast Asia) and the South Vietnamese Army (ARVN) had finally stepped up and become a reasonable fighting force under the direction of the US military, looked like the South would indeed “win” even if only in the sense of South Korea’s “win”. The one thing the South Vietnamese didn’t have was the money to support the military effort. So the Congressional Democrats took care of that little inconvenience, they cut off all funding to ARVN. The war didn’t last long after that, ARVN was overrun by the NVA and the butchery in Southeast Asia was on.

        • mom2oneson
      • UpLateAgain

        The NVA Commanding General said after the war in his memoirs that he did not understand it, because the US had effectively won the war, and he was on the verge of capitulation. It was at that time that the US started deescalating the war, which deescalation eventually evolved into an evacuation of the country. Even though we were not there, the South Viets had a fighting chance until Congress cut off funding.

        The way Giap summed it up was to say that the first duty of any army at war is to win, and though he could not defeat us militarily, he was able to do so politically.

        Reid did everything he could to gain for us the same outcome and for the same reasons in Iraq.

        He is a putz, who, had he ever been in the military, probably would have been an AH 2Lt that got himself fragged. He’s a very little man, who thinks of himself as a statesman. He’s not. He fits in with that crowd running the House and Senate perfectly. He’s the kind of guy that makes you think, “Gee…. If that horse’s hind end, on the verge of being publicly flogged for corruption regarding land deals and with the mental acuity of a door knob can get himself elected and continue to hold office, maybe I should run.”

    • mom2oneson

      I’m trying to look it up online. I’m not sure if I have the right list.

      • Mike gamecock DeVine
    • Justin_Case

      And the South was not in control of the country.

      You are overlooking the North Vietnamese Army units that were allowed to stay in the south as part of the Paris Agreement. The presence of these units was objected to by the South Vietnamese who were promised by our government that they would be assisted if the Communists attempted to take over what remained of the south.

      While Watergate rendered any possibility of retaliation and a resumption of American involvement an impossibility, one only has to look at the current situation in Iraq to see how ineffective it would be to pull out from the country while threatening to return if things get out of hand in Fallujah, Najaf or Baghdad. John Murtha’s “Okinawa” strategy comes to mind.

      By signing the agreement, the North Vietnamese had no intention of discontinuing its long term goal.

      Our departure from Vietnam was a disgraceful abandonment of an ally we pledged to support. It sickens me further to know that Kissinger and Le Duc Tho were awarded the Nobel Peace Prize at a time when the award still meant something.

      The actions of the Democrats in the US Congress were despicable, to be sure. But they were a culmination of years of bumbling and stumbling by so-called leaders of both parties-the final nail in the coffin of the South Vietnamese.

      I have said many times in this forum that the likeness of President George W. Bush would someday appear on Iraqi postage stamps. It is because he waged a successful war to liberate 50 million people in two countries without regard to how his decisions would affect him politically. This quality was sorely lacking in the leaders we had during the Vietnam era. It is evident to me that Mr. Bush is a student of history. He will be properly vindicated as will our involvement in establishing Democracy in Iraq and Afghanistan.

      Vietnam will always be a nightmare for me.

  • http://www.ssce.net/Web-Articles/Web-articles-indexed-authors.html#authors-l JLenardDetroit

    A vote for ANY Democrat, no matter how reasonable they sound for the location and/or post they are running for… No matter how “supposedly” Conservative they are…. putting them in Office only leads to the Totals that provide them the Leadership positions which are now and always will be filled by the utmost Socialist minded in the Democrat Party getting those roles!!!

    WHY THE HECK HAVEN’T PEOPLE LEARNED THAT YET?!?!?

    The Blue-Dogs have done ZERO to stop the ObamaBinBiden Autobahn to Socialism!

    • http://www.ssce.net/Web-Articles/Web-articles-indexed-authors.html#authors-l JLenardDetroit

      I clicked the “Reply To” don’t know what happened…. Ugh! Hate when these misfires occur.

    • Mike gamecock DeVine

      we are seeing that Americans in many of these em districts are being heard on energy taxes and unions…

      see here

      http://www.examiner.com/x-1597-Charlotte-Law–Politics-Examiner~y2009m3d24-The-Dawn-of-Blue-Dawg-Democrat-Power

  • http://www.publiusforum.com Warner Todd Huston

    Not only that, but Reid may as well admit that Pelosi tells him what to do most of the time.

  • bk

    is that when the Dems were in the minority, Reid and company used the filibuster for EVERYTHING, extending it even to nominations where the idea makes no sense whatsoever. Now that they are in the majority, he is working to effectively eliminate the use of filibusters even on legislation, which is the place it does make some sense if you’re going to have it.

    We’ll be hearing the term “reconciliation” a lot. It’s a very very bad thing in this context.

    For more House and Senate maneuvering recently, check out the acrobatics in this fiasco.

  • govnpot

    Whoa?. That is just over doing it a little on Harry Reid?s part. It is definitely not a sin to ?filibuster Democratic health care reform plans.? Reid has got the Lord all messed. I can not believe that he accused John Roberts as a liar. What a HYPOCRYTE!!!! It seems like he has got his own little history of ?reckless and irresponsible statements.? By the way Reid?s acting, he won?t be re-elected. Due to his behavior, it could cost him a ruined reputation and the role as senator. It?s kind of funny how people can?t catch themselves in their own lie!?!?!?!!? It?s a good thing that John Roberts?s the Chief Justice and not Harry Reid because I would not want a ?leader? like Reid. It would be a total disaster for America. We need a leader who?s honest, responsible and mature enough to not accuse others and do speak badly of others.