"The Republican Congress created Trump": Harry Reid's thoughts on a fallen Senate

[kpete]

[b]“The Republican Congress created Trump”: Harry Reid’s thoughts on a fallen Senate
Reid thinks the Senate has lost its way.
By Ella [e-mail] May 9, 2019, 6:50am EDT


LAS VEGAS — Former Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid thinks Republicans have been seduced by President Donald Trump and forgotten the whole point of the US Senate.

Sitting at his desk in his old Senate chair with his name engraved on the back, Reid complained that the Republican-led upper chamber has become too subservient to the president under current Majority Leader Mitch McConnell.

“I can’t imagine how the Republicans are being so compliant on everything [Trump] wants,” Reid told me during a recent interview in his Las Vegas office. “What’s the Senate all about?”

It’s not because Trump is an aberration, he cautions: “Trump did not create the Republican Congress; the Republican Congress created Trump.”

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https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2019/5/9/18518997/harry-reid-senate-filibuster-mcconnell-trump

[patricia92243]

1. I f Reed were still in office he would be doing the same as the rest of them. Easy

to be an armchair quarterback.

[INdemo]

2. When Reid was majority Leader he allowed the Repulicans to walk all over the

Democratic Majority ..one reason Democrats lost the Majority,voters thought they had no backbone.

[Maven]

3. The modern Senate itself is an aberration.

It's a minority-rule enabling body that should be greatly diminished in power, if not abolished altogether.

[Vinnie From Indy]

4. Reid has it somewhat incorrect

Fox News, Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity and the rest of the gargantuan right wing media apparatus created Trump by creating Trump's base.

The Republicans in Congress are simply slaves now the Frankenstein monster created by right wing media.

[corbettkroehler]

5. He's Right And Deserves Some Of The Blame

How long did we BEG him to enforce a talking filibuster?