What can we do to remove Reid?

[rurallib]

I am so effing pissed right now.
Is there anything we can do?

[Dragonfli]

1. Nothing Really - it's a Senate Member Thing /nt

[Every Man A King]

2. why are you pissed?

Don't know how the senate works?

[rurallib]

7. well yes I do know how the senate works.

Based on what I see 40 republicans can pretty much run things. I have a feeling that is not how it is supposed to work.

[Jane Austin]

18. Who is pictured in your avatar?

He looks like my great-grandfather.

Thanks.

[babylonsister]

3. Wait. Listen. Learn. I have no idea what's really going on at the

moment. Nothing is a done deal afaik.

[rurallib]

9. No, nothing is a done deal. How confident do you feel

that Dems will get much meaningful legislation through at this crucial time? Health care? Unions? environment? Real stimulus?

[liberalmuse]

4. This is personal.

I voted for that simp when I lived in Vegas. Rest be assured, I sent a very sternly worded letter to him today. :eyes: To be honest, Pelosi is actually showing some balls, while Reid is up to his same 'ol shit. Pelosi is starting to get it, plus I think she adores President Obama. I am betting that Reid will be replaced by a Senator who has more viable balls by the fall (and President Obama will likely be the one responsible for his, because what happened to day is totally unacceptable!)

[Fovea]

13. I dont think that he can last til fall

Summer is gonna look so third world.

People are going to remember that it was the pugs and the blue dogs.
And the senator from phylum chordata.

[msongs]

5. reid needs to be primaired in nevada....and lose to another d em nt

[liberalmuse]

6. Reid is the only Democrat...

that I feel remorse voting for. God help me, I thought I was doing the right thing while I lived in Vegas.

[FLAprogressive]

12. Bingo

[kenny blankenship]

17. Reid is not the problem. Reid is a symptom of the problem

Who PICKED Reid to be "Leader"?

That's right, all the Dems in the Senate picked him. And why?
Because he can't make them do anything they don't individually want to do. He's weak, and that's why he's the "Leader".

They don't want to be a Party. That's why they are so shitty at acting like one when they NEED to.

[Breeze54]

8. Ummm... have an election?

:shrug:

[salguine]

10. Pelosi needs to go, too. Wid a quickness.

[PFunk]

11. I just want to see someone take his seat in the next election

While I'll much rather see a Democrait get it I will even settle for a repug at this point. Either way Reid has got to go. Period.

[rurallib]

14. we may lose Nevada and win 4 or 5 others

provided we don't totally blow it with Harry at the helm.

[kenny blankenship]

15. Reid is weak but to have a strong Senate majority leader

you need much more than one strong charismatic Senator.

Senators avoid and resent a strong Senate Majority Leader because it cramps their style, limiting their ability to get the greatest payoff possible for their vote, and pushing them in ways their constituents often don't like. The Democrats appointed Harry Reid precisely because he's weak and he can't make them toe a party line. Consequently we don't look like a party.

If you want a strong Senate leader- someone who can twist arms to make deals you need a block of ideologically allied, senior Senators, who by virtue of seniority can twist the arms of other Senators through their committee chairmanships. They must come from ideologically strong states (the most liberal or the most conservative) and are returned to the Senate by their state very reliably over and over and over again. This block then selects as a candidate Minority/Majority Leader some Senator who agrees with their intense ideology, but someone who does not arouse the suspicions of other Senators who aren't in the clique. If this candidate for leader wins the election, the clique then uses their committee powers to punish any members of their caucus who won't help them enact their program and who aren't loyal to the Majority Leader. United they stand: loyalty to the platform means you're rewarded, disloyalty means you get punished. Always. This Majority Leader would then have the power to enact his or her party's platform in the Senate, dealing with the minority party from a position of strength and unimpeded by threats from wishy-washy caucus members to hold out on cloture votes, etc.

[Joe the Liberal]

16. Not much we can do....

except wait for the next election cycle.

If he wasn't so spineless I could tolerate him. I bet you could have sex with his wife right in front of him and he would just go curl up in the corner and cry. That's how spineless he is, what a shitty majority leader.