Has Senator Reid ‘grown a pair?’
For the last two years I’ve been begging the Dem majority leadership in the Senate to use every tool to smackdown the vile Repugs. It looks like Harry Reid or somebody in the leadership has finally grown a pair and is playing hardball! I’d like to see more of this! Somebody should fly former California legislative leader Willie Brown in do D.C. to run a series of seminars on how to partisan smackdowns!
I never bought the whole ‘bipartisanship’ BS – after all, most of the Repugs are holdovers from the ‘date rape’ bipartisanship of the 4 years prior. However, by the same token, this new WWF spirit needs to be tempered with actual change in the way Congress does other business. In other words, we need to see an end to the corrupting special interest lobbying, pork barrel politics and earmarks buried in other legislation. Otherwise, we’ve just substituted one set of venal pigs for another.
Tags: bipartisanship, Harry Reid, party unity, senate
January 29th, 2009 at 10:02 am
Although the ads are targeting GOP senators, I don’t think it’s Reid calling the shots — it’s an “independent” group that appears to be working with the Obama WH (I’m not sure how closely).
January 31st, 2009 at 1:50 pm
I think you are right. Damn! Obama needs a strong partner in the Senate.