Reid is just the tip of the festering shit pile that constitutes our Senate today. With the exception of Feingold and a couple of others (none come to mind), the Senate is run by over the hill self important boobs running around in Depends (RTM).

So Ted did what he was ordered to do 65 years ago, got some “I was there metals”, attains “HERO” status in Reids myopic eyes and is therefore entitled to an ethics free zone that is the Senate and a get of of jail free card if Reid were god (he thinks he is). Jeeze the Senate sucks!!!!!

“It’s a different world we live in, and Stevens did not understand that,” Reid said.

Boo hoo. No Country for Old Men. What an arrogant SOB Reid is.

typo back-pedal.

After pretending that his signature was a big deal, SoS White is — surprise! — suddenly backing off of that pretense. Who could have known? (Heh.)

Dear Lord,

How do you say ‘tone deaf’?

I actually have a tiny bit of sympathy for Reid’s position, but not for Reid’s reasons. It’s not clear to me how we (as a society) benefit from imprisoning Senator Toobz. I’d be willing to settle for a hefty fine, but I truly believe that economic crimes are best punished monetarily.

But to do this the day after he refuses to seat Burris? That’s just f***ing stupid. It is so stupid, it burns.

PW,

Burris screwed the pooch on this one, too. He should have stayed in Springfield and brought political pressure to bear on White to sign the goddam certificate.

Lots of people are covered with something that ain’t glory on this one.

I’d be willing to settle for a hefty fine

I could live with that too, just as long as it was sufficiently hefty to really hurt.

Geez, I thought the Senate was the “world’s most exclusive club.” Nowadys it seems like they’ll let any hun-yuckle join.

“It’s a different world we live in, and Stevens did not understand that,” Reid said.

Why does this sound exactly like someone bemoaning the fact that you can’t pinch a girl’s ass without her getting all uptight about it anymore?

Does Reid have any respect for the law, or is it all about Senate entitlement?

It’s all about Sneate entitlement. Think of the one time Harry Reid hasn’t let us down: The pro forma Senate sessions to prevent recess appointments. That wasn’t a stand on principle; it was a stand on clubby privilege.

Anybody paying 10% attention could’ve seen this coming down Sepulveda.

Still miss LA I see.

Reid seems a little old to be going through the change, but he certainly seems to be suffering a lot of hot flushes lately. I can’t make him out. I find it hard to believe he could be defeated in Nevada. Why is he being such a pussy?

Maybe there’s something in the growing belief around here that we are not a nation of equals under law, but a nation of unequals under law. Certainly seems to be the case in Washington. It was the same in Rome, too. Senators had extra legal privileges, which were passed down to the old European aristocracy, and took a Revolution to dismantle.

If there is video of Reid saying that, it will become fodder for Jon Stewart. I can see it now.

Jane, more importantly, does he have any respect for us?

Doesn’t seem like it.

What an effing moron is the boxer from Searchlight. Must’ve been something in the water at the local bordello’s pool where he went swimming as a kid?

And wtf is this “like the republicans rolled over for Bush” crap? Can’t he at least be honest about his own rolling over for Bush? Wait, don’t tell me: No. Another edition of…

This “more and better Democrats” strategy doesn’t seem to be working out. Just an observation…wish I had an idea of something to suggest instead…

FunnyD

Harry Reid represents the state of Nevada.

Nevada, a state known far and wide for its gambling.

Could a state known for gambling have picked a worse gambler to be their senator?

And he is an idiot to boot.

I gotta respectfully disagree: It’s more important that he respect the law than us personally.

Obama’s instincts were also poor. When all else fails go by the book and follow the law. I guess Obama was worried about getting some more of that Blago taint on himself. Obama does best when he counterpunches the Republican attacks. As we all know at FDL, the Republicans are going to smear and attack Obama, no matter how bipartisan he thinks he can be. The conciliatory approach is not going to work. The Republicans are going to throw drinks in his face and vomit on his suit and Obama is going to pretend to like it. Obama can give them tax cuts til the cows come home and they will never be sated.

Obama needs to do the right thing for the country. That precludes Bush’s tax cuts for millionaires and billionaires.

That “changing standards” line is a golden oldie, and another way to measure the degeneracy of the Senate. In the 1990s, when Oregon’s moderate Senator Bob Packwood was accused of sexually harrassing and/or assualting various female staffers/interns, his defenders said, in part, that he was just behaving like a lot of Senators had over time, and simply hadn’t changed with the times. Didn’t work then — he resigned — and it shouldn’t work now.

If there’s anything that validates the Senate clubbiness / Villagers mentality criticism of life in DC, it’s episodes like this, and of members of his political class rallying around Scooter.

Reid said he didn’t work for Obama but does he know he works for us, we the people?

And how about those pictures of Democrats being sworn in by Dick Cheney? You know, the war criminal the Democrats did absolutely nothing to stop and are protecting. Yeh, that Dick Cheney. Utterly appalling.

For Democrats and Republicans, maintaining their corrupt and heavily-gerrymandered political system is job one. Always.

And Roland Burris got played. They sent him back to Illinois.

Gee, that’s odd. The Democrats didn’t have much trouble seating Bush’s nominees.

It’s so funny to see Jesse White say they could have seated Burris without his signature once he saw Reid using him as a scapegoat. If White knew Burris could be seated without his sig, why didn’t he just sign it? He makes it seem like he had no role in this.

As for Reid, does anybody know if there are any plans to replace him as Majority Leader. It’s really past that time. If the only times he can grow a pair of balls are against Democrats, then nothing is going to get done once Obama is inaugurated. And for him to say he doesn’t work for Obama is laughable. He didn’t have any problems working for Bush/Cheney. Why have a problem now? He needs to go!!!!!!!!!!!!!

No.
This has been another edition of…

Hey, Katymine, how are you?

FunnyD

Ah, the faithful, long-term legislator caught unawares by a change in the rules. Wasn’t that Dan Rostenkowski’s defense?

And to think, if Rosty hadn’t been charged, he might still be in the House, which would have kept both Rahm Emmanuel and Rod Blagojevich out of that particular seat.

Reids just sticking up for a fellow member of the old boys club

you know what they say..old habits die hard!

Harry Reid needs to suddenly discover his risk of re-election and step down as Majority Leader to tend his homefires. We don’t want him to lose re-election, do we? Nevada GOPs are a loony bunch.

But Harry mustn’t get Daschled. He needs the entire spectrum to move in; he shouldn’t be trying to run for re-election and run the Senate too.

Time to look homeward, Harry, and let the Senate be run by those from safe seats.

It is bizarre watching a politician that is a mormon, therefore, racist, attempt to act his way out of the paper bag of his choosing. Someone that has been in the dirty business for so long is expected to have some savvy about the matters at hand. Orrin Hatch could do a better job citing his creation of the hip hop music genre and lying about any involvement in that girls pants.
Embarrassing? More like amazing to see how inept and transparent these people are when they forget which story they are telling to who at that moment.
I wonder what else Mr. Fitzgerald has picked up on mic, transcript to follow, post indictment.

Harry Reid also had very nice things to say about freshman GOP from Tennessee Bob Corker as he tried to bust the auto unions. Dude’s an idiot.

I’m surprised he didn’t choke or have one his many heart attacks when he got to the “phold the Constitution” part and surprised the people there didn’t fall over laughing!

Harry “We just don’t have the votes” Reid.

Was there ever any doubt?

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/200.....telligence

WATB DiFi supporting Panetta.

That’s supposed to be “uphold.”

Long story so read my first comment on Suzanne’s Late late Nite last evening….
Update

Reid is just the tip of the festering shit pile that constitutes our Senate today. With the exception of Feingold and a couple of others (none come to mind), the Senate is run by over the hill self important boobs running around in Depends (RTM).

Yes, but they ran for election and have experience.
Just kidding.

Thanks.
Hugs.
FunnyD

“I’m not used to that new stop light being there, officer. I just did not adapt to those changing rules. How ’bout you just let me go?”

And their pappies and granpappies were senators/congresscritters/politicians, too!
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Harry “Lieberman votes with us on everything but the war” Reid.

Harry “I need Joe Lieberman’s vote” Reid

Poor Sen. Toobz will not be able to die in the exclusive Old White Guy’s club called the US Senate. That sure sounds like punishment enough for several felony convictions. Poor guy has lost all of his entitlements. ……Now I know why our country is in such poor shape.

Do I detect the possibility of a late night Harry Reid firedoglake poetry contest?

Or mid-afternoon:

punished enough yet?
Harry says “Ted’s a Hero!”
Wisdom score - ZERO!

is there something about Reid that could be used as blackmail against him or something, I’m trying to make sense of his extreme suckitude.

a most eXcellent idea

Reid had problems adjusting to the rules too. His sons, attorneys and lobbyists, had some cozy deals go their way from pappy.

Maybe Joe Lieberman can keep the gravy going for them in exchange for all that head from Harry.

Who moved my taint?

-G

Reid won’t roll over for the new President, who has the highest approval rating of any incoming president EVER, but he WILL go to the mat for Ted Stevens, roll over for Bush constantly, let Lieberman keep his chairmanship, and not seat Roland Burris, who is no less corrupt than any other Senator in that chamber.

Boy, Harry’s a genius!

Stevens should go to jail to prevent any other senators from breaking the rules and then claiming they didn’t know the rules had changed.

Reid is a disgrace. He should resign as majority leader.

Lots of people are covered with something that ain’t glory on this one.

You’re right. If Burris weren’t an egotistical hack, he would never have accepted Blago’s offer. So we have a corrupt governor, a self-seeking nominee, and the ever spineless Harry Reid. If you are a Republican, you have to love this.

What evidence do we have that anti-choice Harry Reid is a Democrat, anyway?

If stevens, as reid sad, is too old to adapt to changing laws and a changing world then for sure he was too darn old to be in the Senate.
Maybe be can’t get term limits since elections are supposed to do that job *snort* but maybe we can get AGE limits. Over a certain age (70?), gottta go.
Personally, I’d prefer 55 but……………….

This has been a long time theme of Glenn Greenwald, that we have two justice systems, one harsh, almost malevolent for most of us, and another that distributes Get out of Jail Free cards to our political elites.

Harry’s side ways looks at Obama should win him points with the “moderates”/ KKK / republics.

If Burris weren’t an egotistical hack, he would never have accepted Blago’s offer.

This I don’t agree with. The rest, yes.
Where does one go to do any state business in a state with a probably very corrupt governor?
Do you corrupt yourself if you’re a state legislator and you allow a corrupt gov. to sign a needed bill?

A know a coupel people who failed to adapt to laws about pot whose lives have been ruined through jail time. Does harry think they should be set free?

And how does being a war hero excuse one’s criminal behavior?

I’m really enjoying this. it’s as if someone handed Harry a shovel and he began digging his own grave.

keep it up, let’s drive him from office!

Do you corrupt yourself if you’re a state legislator and you allow a corrupt gov. to sign a needed bill?

Burris is a washed up politician who last won an election in 1991. The corruption comes in because he accepted an office that most people in the state didn’t want him to accept from a corrupt Governor whose approval ratings were lower than Dick Cheney’s even before he was arrested. Although Burris maintains there isn’t one, there is a vast difference between what is legal and what is legitimate. If Burris had not put his ego before the interests of the people of Illinois, he would have seen that and turned down Blago’s offer.

But he’s a politician. Huge ego required.

Why on earth democrats have chosen as their last two leaders senators from states where the GOP has posed a genuine threat to unseat them is inexplicable. Daschle was knocked off, of course, and Reid (naturally enough, from his point of view) veers consistently rightward in order to protect his own ass. A weak “reed” to begin with, that electoral reality should have been enough to disqualify him in the first place.

this man makes me embarrassed to have voted Democrat.

What other choice was there?

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Why couldn’t Reid, Jane? Because Reid can’t see past his nose. He has zero political instincts and I still laugh at his image of being an ex-boxer, you know, boxing is the sport where you have to know where the next punch is coming and react before it’s thrown.

As you said, Jane:

Worst. Political. Instincts. Ever.

He sucks.

No. Reid *should* not offer any comment on Toobzie’s predicament except to maybe endorse the decision of the courts. PERIOD. To make any comment gives the impression that his comment matters which shows that he thinks his opinion is better than the law!!!!

And that’s the problem with the whole stinkin’ den of thieves. IF they didn’t think this way we would not be looking at rampant criminal activity in the highest levels of our government becoming the status quo.

It’s really shocking.

It also signifies THIS is the kind of treatment he would like when his failings are discovered. Feh.

I think the weird world of their collegiality is something outsiders can never make sense of. The urge to be nice to their own blinds them to how their actions appear to the outside (to any non-crazy person).

I hope Obama will use the bully pulpit to force the issue in the senate to get past the supposedly impenetrable 60-vote barrier. He should play tough when need be, go the public and say we have some very important legislation ready to go, but certain parties (name names) are being obstructionist. In this way he could make Reid and his truly lethal incompetence irrelevant. His pointed snub of DiFi over Panetta, and his complete failure to mince words about intelligence community shortcomings, gives me some cause to hope…

It’s simple. Reid has to go!!!

Only the “D” the media put in parentheses after his name. -g-

Way late to this - Off working - But the whole Jesse White signature thing - the reason it stood out as a Big Deal to Harry Reid: Mormons have something they call a “Temple Recommend”. A honcho in the Mormon Church, I believe a Bishop (always, always, always MALE), has to sign something called a “Recommend” to let someone enter the portals of the Mormon Temples. SO - Harry Reid is acting a Bishop of the Senate. Transference of his Mormon bizarreness to keep a Black-skinned Man out of the senate “Temple”.

Just Google Mormon Temple Recommend (not Recommendation but Recommend [noun]). Read the first few links that show up. You get the idea of the weird wavelength Harry Reid is on with his requiring a signature to seat Roland Burris and legitimize his entry into a sacred Senate seat.

Getting rid of Harry Reid as majority is the also the type of change this country needs. He’s in my opinion more like a republican in his policy and beliefs but when he puts on his Democratic party hat he’s just a cowardly doofus.