Oh Harry Reid, What Tact

2:46 pm EST September 1st, 2009 | News | 10 Comments

What a mistake this guy is.

Q: How will U.S. Sen. (Edward) Kennedy’s death affect things?

A: I think it’s going to help us. He hasn’t been around for some time. We’re going to have a new chairman of that committee, it’ll be, I don’t know for sure, but I think Sen. (Chris) Dodd (D-Conn.). He has a right to take it. Either him or (U.S. Sen. Tom) Harkin, (D-Iowa), whichever one wants it can have it. I think he (Kennedy) will be a help. He’s an inspiration for us. That was the issue of his life and he didn’t get it done.

In a perverse way, I sort of want Reid to lose his seat next year. That seems to be the only way to get him out of the senate leadership, his replacement would be from a true-blue state (my preference: Schumer or Durbin), and it would teach Dems that milquetoast leadership leads to milquetoast results (though its arguable they will never learn that lesson, since they replaced a weak leader in Daschle with Reid).

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10 Responses to “Oh Harry Reid, What Tact”

  1. jr says:
    September 1, 2009 at 2:56 pm

    Harry’s a Bushonian vacation addict who would rather do interviews than work

  2. Indeed says:
    September 1, 2009 at 3:01 pm

    In a perverse way, I sort of want Reid to lose his seat next year.

    In a totally pragmatic and decent way, I definitely want Reid to lose his seat next year. Guy’s a whore. Not as bad as Daschle, but a whore nonetheless. Schumer would be an improvement, Durbin would be a vast improvement.

  3. steve says:
    September 1, 2009 at 3:11 pm

    Reid was a lot funnier when the GOP was in power and he was saying things like “I’m not going to get into a name-calling match with someone who has a nine percent approval rating.” Now he’s just painful.

  4. Duros62 says:
    September 1, 2009 at 4:23 pm

    That was the issue of his life and he didn’t get it done.

    How very nice of you to bring that up. Why don’t you just give him a nice paper cut and pour lemon juice on it?

  5. bethany says:
    September 1, 2009 at 6:22 pm

    I agree, but I believe his son heads the Nevada Democratic party. I could be wrong there, though. So, even if we could get a Democrat to run against him – a good solid Democrat in the primary, he or she would, sadly, probably go down in flames, unable to find good financial backing for the campaign. (Or were you meaning a moderate Republican could take the seat? And lose the majority?)

    But, man… there was a way to say it, this wasn’t the time or the way… Geeez…

  6. Jay Tea says:
    September 1, 2009 at 6:49 pm

    Perhaps he’s thinking that Zombie Ted Kennedy will be easier to keep on subject. Instead of Chivas and blondes, all he chases now is brains.

    On the other hand, that’s a very scarce commodity on Capitol Hill…

    J.

  7. ignobility says:
    September 1, 2009 at 7:09 pm

    He seems soooo interested in replacing Kennedy with someone who will do anything progressive with “that committee.”

  8. Rudy says:
    September 1, 2009 at 8:47 pm

    Reid is fecal matter. I hope he loses his seat, no qualifiers necessary.

  9. Bruce says:
    September 1, 2009 at 9:52 pm

    I would consider donating to a Republican; 60 seats haven’t done us a whole lot of good. I would prefer 52 seats with a real leader than 60 with this jurassic skidmark.

    Is electing weak leaders the way that progressive Senators get to have their cake and eat it too – by posturing against lassitude and appeasement for the home town crowds while profiting from it under Reid’s lax leadership?

    I think the man’s had his damn job too long, the goddamn weasel.

  10. Duros62 says:
    September 2, 2009 at 5:36 pm

    Too soon, Jay.