I blame Harry Reid for what is going on in the Senate right now.

[jillan]

I don't think Harry could sell a blanket to a cold person.

There is absolutely no leadership on that Senate floor.
It is like a 3 ring circus and nothing is getting done...there seems to be more confusion today than there was yesterday. Now I hear Voinovich is out.

We seriously need some kickass leadership or this is going to be the scene for the next 4 years.
This should've been a no-brainer. If we can't even get the Senate in shape for this bill which is very much needed - think about what's going to happen when we try to get UHC passed?

Close your eyes for a minute and imagine how different things would be at this very minute if John Kerry was the majority leader. Barbara Boxer. Russ Feingold. They'd be framing the debate, taking names and kicking donkey.

It's almost painful to watch....

[ComtesseDeSpair]

1. It's SO incredibly frustrating!

Is there anything we can do about it? Can we petition against Reid and for Boxer/Durbin/Kerry/Feingold/etc.???

[jillan]

3. I'm wondering if we should storm Whitehouse.gov and leave messages.

[jillan]

16. And I just did. Please join me.

http://www.whitehouse.gov/contact/

[whathehell]

35. I did too...Please send an email...This guy is hopeless.

[EFerrari]

7. We have perfectly good leaders, so true. Unfortunately

none of them are in the leadership.

[oldnslo]

2. He is weak, timid, and disorganized. A shame, and inhibitive.

[tkmorris]

4. I agree with you

Brace for incoming posters who want to tell you what a "good man" Reid is however. As if being a good man is all that is required to lead the Senate. Sheesh.

[jillan]

8. He is a good man. He has his heart in the right place - BUT-

he is a lousy leader.

[lyonn]

48. I used your address to express my feelings

about Pelosi and Reid. Nice people, but, not effective in helping with his program to move us out of the hole we are in. I almost feel like a turncoat. Those are two well meaning people but the repubs run all over them during debates. Boxer spoke this a.m. and I was totally impressed and inspired. She was a damn cheerleader who made sense. This is not want I wrote Obama, ha, it was short and simple.

[EFerrari]

5. Congress needs to go into rehab.

It's awful. :(

[librechik]

6. couldn't agree more.

Reid is so bad it makes you wonder what in the hell we have a Senate for.

[tridim]

9. I just want to know what Reid has to do, or not do to get demoted.

He has demonstrated over and over and over for years that he's not the right person for the job, and yet nobody even suggests that he might be the problem.

[jillan]

10. Somehow we need to open up Obama's eyes.

I can guarantee that he is not sitting around watching C-Span like we are.

He probably has no idea what a joke the last 2 days have been.

[tavalon]

41. Hate to tell you this, someone who is directly connected to

Obama has been watching every minute of CSPAN. Thing is, he can't change who the Senate Leader is because he's not in the Legislative branch.

[lyonn]

49. So true but he knows people who could maybe move things along? nt

[truedelphi]

53. It'S Good to know that Obama will be informed of C Span happenings

They are essential for knowing about everything any political animal needs to know.

[Enrique]

11. some other senator needs to challenge him

so far, no one has.

[glitch]

46. Apparently nobody else wants the leadership position.

Otherwise somebody in the Senate would bring up his performance issues and actually compete for the position.

What does that tell you?

[Left Coast2020]

61. The main problem Dems have now is the fact they don't

have Franken's vote. If they had Franken on the floor--sworn-in and ready to go, this process would have been a lot more eaiser. The sooner the whiney Coleman jerk loses his case, the better.

But I agree 1000% Harry Reid is a total failure. Don't get me started on his caving on FISA last year, or not blocking Alito/Roberts vote. Reid is a wimp.

[Postman]

12. Harry Reid is a disgrace as far as Majority Leader is concerned.

Does someone have pictures of this guy in a hotel room with a duck?

How does one explain his massive incompetence?

[Enrique]

13. the dems spent yesterday defeating republican amendments n/t

[jillan]

15. And we have made NO ground today whatsoever - except for losing a key vote.

[Enrique]

19. how do you know?

negotiations aren't public, we might be winning.

[Hubert Flottz]

14. Harry is a worse wimp than GHW Bush was!

I just am sick and tired of trying to defend or to feel sorry for Harry anymore. He acts like the GOP still has the power in Washington. Did he miss the last two god damned elections? I turned off the TV because I was about to vomit!

[ColbertWatcher]

17. Fuck that. I blame Lieberman. n/t

[Hubert Flottz]

20. I blame Harry for LIEberman...Harry forgave Joe and kissed

his ass.

[ColbertWatcher]

23. But if Lieberman wasn't such an ass to BEGIN WITH ...

Also, I wonder if Obama didn't speak with Reid about Lieberman.

[Hubert Flottz]

36. Lieberman is a backstabbing piece of shit.

Harry was never about to strip Joe of anything, IMHO. I'll bet Harry talked Obama out of shit canning Joe if the truth be told. I don't trust Harry anymore. I'm tired of his caving and whining and caving some more! The man is STILL an invertebrate.

I'd almost be willing to bet you that if things don't soon change in the senate, Harry Reid will be turned out to pasture by his own people in his home state the way Tom Daschle was.

If Harry don't have the guts to stand up to the GOP after this past November, I don't hold out much hope for him ever getting anything much done. It's like the "CHANGE" that we the people voted for, is not registering with Harry. I'm guessing that Harry was BushCo's abused whipping boy for so long that he still feels like a prisoner of the neoCons. He's like the crazy man who kept walking in circles thinking he was tied up, the first time he wore a neck tie.

[w4rma]

54. Considering Obama's DLC cabinet picks, I bet it was Obama that convinced Reid. (nt)

[DS1]

18. He needs to pack his shit and fuck off

yesterday

[DonCoquixote]

21. KEEP IN MIND

As much as we wish Obama could fire Reid, he can't, we cannot want an Imperial presidency when we like it and hate it when we don't. Simple fact is, The Congress is now our enemy. Reid and Pelosi will do perfectly well with whoever runs in 2012, as it will assure they get to keep their cushy jobs.

[Cleita]

22. I was just about to post something on this myself. This filibuster before

the real filibuster is disgraceful and just how many amendments have been added since yesterday that have to be voted on? It's time for President Obama with Vice President Biden to descend on the Senate right now and tell their former colleagues, whom they should know pretty well, to either shit or get off the pot!

[jillan]

25. Biden would be an obvious choice, but right now he is in Germany.

Obama sent him to take his place for an international meeting.


Maybe Obama should stop by...

I just left a comment at Whitehouse.gov
I urge everyone to do the same.

[Cleita]

34. Too bad Biden's gone. I would like to see him accompanied by someone else

whose a former senator, maybe Hillary Clinton, or is she done too?

[Muttocracy]

37. Biden made a comment this morning about maybe stopping by D.C. before Germany

to talk to his old colleagues.. wonder if he did...

[treestar]

24. Isn't he chosen by majority vote?

Of the Democrats? So the new 2008 Senate picked him again?

Is it necessary, in other words, can Boxer and Kerry whip everyone in line even if they don't hold the title of Majority leader?

[jillan]

26. After watching Kerry earlier on the Senate floor - I would LOVE it

if he could do some whipping.

He was on fire, on message - absolutely brilliant.

[ShortnFiery]

27. I saw Kerry too. He was VERY IMPRESSIVE - would have made an outstanding President.

John Kerry :loveya:

[jillan]

29. Just think - this would be his second term right now.

Actually, I can't think about it, it makes me too sad to think of what would have been.

[politicasista]

32. LOL! Good one!

:toast:

[Mike 03]

28. I'm just as frustrated as everyone else is, but this is hardly his fault.

Is Mitch McConnel so fucking charismatic? The guy is less charismatic than a tree stump. He could not sell water in the Sahara.

This has nothing to do about salesmanship. This is the same bullship bipartisanship we have been dealing with for eight years.

Besides, we are doing everything possible to defeat these moronic ammendments.

Eating our own right now is pointless. An obviously much better use of our energy is writing to these motherfuckers in the repuke party, or else figuring out to coordinate a meaningful asault against them.

We need to be smart right now, and intelligent, and come up with ideas. Not just piss and moan.

[jillan]

33. I agree about Mitch - but - in the morning he is up there and he is strong.

The R's are all on message and the D's are all over the place. Isn't it Harry's job to be the leader of the Dems in the Senate?

[Mike 03]

38. Sheesh, I don't even trust my own opinions anymore.

Maybe you are right.

This is so upsetting, but I expected it. I KNEW the repukes would not help Obama.

But we have to kick them out of office. Obama wants to be a great president.

How do we help him???

[mitchum]

30. Reid is just a gutless piece of shit

[SammyWinstonJack]

31. Which is why none of those Senators are the majority leader.

I'm much more cynical since the election. I didn't think that was possible. :shrug:

[Enrique]

42. why didn't they run?

why hasn't Boxer, Feingold or Kerry challenged Reid for the leadership and why don't they ever criticize his leadership?

[Mike 03]

39. Maybe you have a good point

But maybe we can get "on message" without sacrificing Harry Reid, because IMO he has done everything humanly possible, and he seems so decent and honorable. I would hate to lose him.

[bvar22]

40. The porblem is not so much Reid.

The problem is the people who own Reid and too many other Democratic Senators and Congressmen.
The PROBLEM is the corrupting influence of the DLC, and the Millions of Dollars of Corporate influence INSIDE the Democratic Party. Regardless of what they say to the TV cameras, when it comes to actual performance, he DLC is and always will be Supply Side.

When the smoke clears, this "stimulus package" will disappear into the already bloated pockets of the rich, with only token monies going to the other 98% of America.
Then the usual suspects (DLC Senators) will line up in front of the TV Cameras shrugging their shoulders and saying that they fought hard, but there was nothing they could do. Then they will board their corporate jets and fly away for a lavish "fact finding" mission to some exotic warm place.

Life is GOOD if you're in the top 2%.
Why rock the money boat?


NOW we have Your Children’s Money too !!!
And there is not a fucking thing you can do about it!
Now THIS is “Post-Partisanship” !
Better get used to it!!
Hahahahahahahahaha!

[KoKo]

43. Reid is not good....and sadly...neither is Durbin. Why are they still there?

:shrug:

[robinlynne]

44. I wonder why Biden doesn't step in and take this shit over?

[jillan]

45. He is in Germany this weekend.

There is some leadership conference on security there and he was sent.

He doesn't have it easy either - the representative from Iran is refusing to talk to anyone from the US. And Biden is going to try to talk to him.

[BrklynLiberal]

47. Obviously there are times when the best man for the job is a woman...Barbara Boxer!!!

[yy4me]

50. Reid and Pelosi are both not worth the title they carry. Refresh

my old mind, are they elected by the House and Senate, appointed, draw straws, seniority? How do they come to these positions?

[w4rma]

55. Pelosi passed her bill. What are you complaining about her for? (nt)

[NikolaC]

51. I Agree With You

Boxer would be great. I have been disappointed in Reid and some of his actions for some time now.

[xxqqqzme]

52. You are so right. This

total absence of leadership is why the publican'ts continue to wipe their feet all over the dems. But if there was ANY leadership among the Democrats, Reid would have been replaced.

How in the world did this clown in get such a leadership role anyway? I can't imagine he has a surplus of political muscle. What favors did he call in? I don't get it.

[Grinchie]

56. Pelosi and Reid are Criminally Stupid

The are old rotten Piles driven deep into the mud. Obstacles to avoid at all otherwise you'll tear out the bottom of your ship.

They really do want to force the American people to rise up with pitchforks and assert their constitutional rights. Until they do, the Corporatists and criminals that control these Democrat branded puppets will continue the status quo.

[Joey Liberal]

57. I blame Reid and Pelosi

They should have done things differently. They should have put aside their differences with the republicans (I know that is easier said than done) and worked with them from the get go. Although I would, under no circumstances, work with the diaper wearing Senator from Louisiana. How is that dude still in the Senate? Our side did put too much stuff in the bill that should not have been in there. The republicans are difficult to put up with, but we have to work with them for the good of the country. I think President Obama is on the right track as far as being bipartisan. I think Reid and Pelosi need to get with the program.

[debbierlus]

58. Reid should resign - so should Pelosi - Boxer or Kerry

Should be the Senate chair...

Kucinich should be the Speaker of the House

[leftofthedial]

59. he is epically pathetic

he's like a little old lady trying to open an umbrella in a hurricane...

[WillYourVoteBCounted]

60. Maybe his nick name should be "Give Him Balls "

instead of Give Em Hell Harry