Harry the Hypocrite
Ol’ Harry is at it again, decrying as Senate Majority Leader tools he utilized — with great effect — as Minority Leader. According to John Fund in today’s Political Diary (available by subscription):
Senate Democratic Leader Harry Reid once loved the Senate rule requiring 60 votes to end a filibuster, employing it frequently during the Bush years to stop conservative judicial appointments. Now he says the rule has become the Senate’s equivalent of the spitball, which eventually was banned by baseball because pitchers abused it.
“We’re looking at ways to change what has been an abuse,” he told Netroots Nation, a gathering of 2,000 left-wing bloggers and Internet activists in Las Vegas this past weekend. The Senate Majority Leader said he had “no plans yet” on how to proceed but indicated that Senate Rules Committee Chairman Chuck Schumer of New York has some ideas and action could come soon.
Tell you what, Harry, we’ll take seriously your moves on filibuster reform just as soon as you confirm every filibustered Bush judicial nominee who could have won a majority vote in previous Congresses to the federal bench.
Until you make that happen, your move is nothing more than political posturing to placate the far left.
Meanwhile, join me in donating to the woman angling to replace the outgoing majority leader.
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Apparently, Harry Reid is a proponent of retroactive abortion. What is good for the goose may not be good for the gander, but what is a eunuch supposed to do?
These libs gone wild are like watching Komodo dragons share the hors d’oeuvres at a pre-school picnic.
Comment by heliotrope — July 26, 2010 @ 7:42 pm - July 26, 2010
Everyone loves a filibuster when its in their favor.
Comment by darkeyedresolve — July 26, 2010 @ 8:10 pm - July 26, 2010
Nothing good can come from Chucky Schmucky’s ideas.
Comment by ThatGayConservative — July 26, 2010 @ 9:31 pm - July 26, 2010
Harry Reid is one of the most vile, despicable critters in Washington. In June, Nevada’s unemployment rate hit 14.2 percent, making Nevada the state with the HIGHEST unemployment rate in the nation. All that money, all those industries, all that potential for huge economic growth–and the state is economically stagnant. Meanwhile, Reid has been in the Senate since 1987, and he’s been the Majority Leader since January 2007 and what does he blame for the sorry economic condition his home state is in? Republican “obstructionism” of course. I can’t believe he has the nerve to show his face in his home state. Who could possibly vote for that slimeball? He has the charisma of a rattlesnake and he looks like he and the Crypt Keeper were separated at birth.
Comment by Sean A — July 27, 2010 @ 12:49 am - July 27, 2010