Harry Reid: The Do-Nothing Senate Leader
Senator Reid may well be the most incompetent man ever to be in charge of the United States Senate.
Political Maneuvers Delay Bill-After-Bill In The Senate - Washington Post
The Senate went home yesterday for the Fourth of July holiday to face voters, having failed repeatedly to address critical economic issues from skyrocketing gas prices to climate change to the nation’s housing crisis.
Leaders in both parties have vowed to tackle those problems. Yet the Senate has been unable to move forward even when there is broad agreement about what to do.
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Senators in both parties say the logjam is the worst they’ve seen, largely due to copious use of the filibuster. Since January 2007, motions to end debate — cloture motions — have been filed 119 times. The previous record for any two-year session was 82.
Meanwhile, Senate Majority Leader Harry M. Reid (D-Nev.) has used a procedural tactic to prohibit GOP amendments 13 times since January 2007, more than any Senate leader since 1985.
Republicans point to those statistics and accuse Reid of using cloture to deny them the ability to amend legislation often chosen for its political message.
Gee, remind me which minority-status party at-the-time began the requirement of 60 votes for passage of ANY item in the Senate? One guess only, please.
It is unbelieveable to comprehend that Reid make (Not-My) Speaker Pelosi look smart, witty, and intelligent.
-Bruce (GayPatriot)
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Nonetheless, I fault the Republicans for not actually having the Moxie to actually filibuster for their judicial nominees. And then, the Rogue Elephant and his band of merry men created that jewel they called the “Gang of 14.”
If McCain does eke out the election, he will have to deal with the Senate weeds he fertilized so smugly. When you reach across the aisle to the Democrats you had best count your fingers.
Comment by heliotrope — June 28, 2008 @ 4:17 pm - June 28, 2008
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Senator Reid may well be the most incompetent man ever to be in charge of the United States Senate.
Thank God.
Comment by V the K — June 28, 2008 @ 6:59 pm - June 28, 2008
My congratulations to you all! A careless click at Michelle Malkin’s (God she’s gorgeous!) brought me here. And I did a little reading.
Entertaining and refreshing!
Though I do NOT listen/watch mainstream media (who does any more?), *if* I listened to them I’d be a believer that our gay community was a part of our leftist regime only!
A louder voice is needed from you all! As always, our public needs to be educated!!!
I’d just bet you could do some ‘political commentary’ on Hannity, O’Reilly, and more… Even CNN with Glenn beck. (as you can tell, I’m a FoxNews junkie)…
Anyway, looks like you’ve put a nice blog together, and I very much like the conservative articles and comments I saw!
Our nation needs to hear more of this, so they don’t get sidetracked into my previous ‘understandings’! (more voice, regardless of topic as long as you have appropriate comment to apply) We’ve got a nation of 300 million (including illegal aliens I suppose), you have MANY to inform that: not all gays are leftists! (don’t worry about multi-languages, our cable channels can translate for you, and only real comment for ‘illegals’ is ‘hit the road’ anyway)
More voice! Please.
So yes, I’m conservative, yes, I’m not gay, and yes, I’m pleased to see your presence on the net. Try and step it up a notch though.
Best regards,
-Pat
Comment by Patrick Martin — June 28, 2008 @ 9:29 pm - June 28, 2008
They do have a great blog! Spread the word Pat.
Comment by American Elephant — June 29, 2008 @ 6:03 am - June 29, 2008
I was just gonna say, while it is true that the average bag of doorknobs will score higher on an IQ test than Harry Reid, I think it’s not purely incompetence that is keeping Democrats from passing legislation — I think they’re doing it on purpose. Avoiding rocking the boat, and biding their time til next year when they plan to push through their entire agenda with larger majorities.
Comment by American Elephant — June 29, 2008 @ 6:07 am - June 29, 2008
It’s hard to believe that there’d be a bigger Senate Majority Failure than Daschle, but there it is.
There you go, Bruce. There’s a new calling out there for you. All you have to do is expand GayPatriot’s America to 3 hours and get it on the AM dial nationwide. Who knows, perhaps you may wind up with your own EIB building and EIB-1.
Comment by ThatGayConservative — June 29, 2008 @ 6:08 am - June 29, 2008
Oh, and if there is any justice in the world, something will happen between now and November (no, not an attack. God forbid) that makes Americans understand how treacherous and treasonous Democrats have been over the last 4+ years. It would at least partly make up for them actively undermining the nation for political gain if they lost congress and the White House having implemented nothing.
Comment by American Elephant — June 29, 2008 @ 6:17 am - June 29, 2008
Let’s break this down:
What is it you saw that makes you believe “the man is guilty of…being stupid”?
No one said he said anything more.
Dave, you admit the man acted stupidly just from watching the clip. Are you now implying that pointing out Addington to al-Qaeda was a benign act? If so, what makes it “stupid” in your mind.
Specifically, you charge GP and Powerline with smearing Delahunt with a load of “nonsense.” What would that be? And why is it nonsense?
Comment by heliotrope — June 29, 2008 @ 9:32 am - June 29, 2008
How did I manage to get my response (#9) here? It should be with the post below! Sorry for any confusion!
Comment by heliotrope — June 29, 2008 @ 10:17 am - June 29, 2008
#8 AE something has happened. Gasoline has increased over 50% per gallon since the Democrat Congress has been in charge. After they “promised” to make it a large priority. Everyone should be hammering them for not allowing more drilling of our current raw materials. Imagine the jobs and GDP we are allowing to lay fallow. Instead they want us to wait for a more energy efficient lite bulb.
Comment by Gene in Pennsylvania — June 29, 2008 @ 9:02 pm - June 29, 2008
I agree Gene, but I don’t think that’s enough to swing congress to Republicans.
Comment by American Elephant — June 29, 2008 @ 9:27 pm - June 29, 2008
Jeez! Are you old enough to remember Moxie?
Comment by ThatGayConservative — July 1, 2008 @ 4:52 am - July 1, 2008
TGC: Yep. Ever tried to swallow a gulp of Moxie? Kerosene makes a good chaser.
Comment by heliotrope — July 1, 2008 @ 5:13 pm - July 1, 2008
#8 Yeah,, so lets look at the gas prices as a reason to hope they don’t turn their attention to anything dangerous
Comment by The Livewire — July 1, 2008 @ 10:51 pm - July 1, 2008
My father used to say, “If you have an incompetent employee, pray that he is lazy.”
Thank God that Harry Reid is the slowest, laziest person in the Senate. In an interview on Youtube, Harry was trying to convince Jan Helfeld that paying taxes in America is voluntary. It was absolutely pathetic. Can Harry walk and chew gum at the same time?
Comment by Mike — October 3, 2008 @ 3:04 pm - October 3, 2008