Harry Reid on Ted Cruz

[babylonsister]

[Auntie Bush]

1. Good for Reed...he does some things right.

[corkhead]

2. Yes, he's right, the bullies have won.

[sheshe2]

3. Thank you Harry Reid!

That Teddy he is "Cruzing" for a bruising!

Graet graphic, babylonsister.

Kicked!

[SMC22307]

4. Yet he calls him "my friend" in the same breath. Hmm.

Republicans don't mind being portrayed as bullies. They embrace it. Figure out a way to BEAT the bullies, Harry, or step aside.

[longship]

7. SOP for speaking in the well of the Senate.

Senate members are always kind when twisting the knife in another member's back. I don't think that they're allowed to do it any other way.

So relax. (The House has similar rules, too.)

[Cha]

9. thanks for the relating the FYI about Senate SOP, longship.

[longship]

11. You're welcome.

Some people here apparently think that there aren't Senate rules about such things. Even the House has rules about this kind of thing.

No chair throwing allowed.

[Cha]

12. Yeah, they can start out with "my friend from wherever" and

proceed to metaphorically whack 'em.

Just like Senator Reid.

[backscatter712]

17. Exactly - the Senate has comity rules that Reid has to follow.

So even when going on an epic rant, a senator will always refer to other senators as "my friend" or "my colleague" or "the gentleman from Texas". Failure to follow those rules could result in a censure.

[dhill926]

5. it's like a badge of honor....

for these assholes....

[DeeDeeNY]

6. Harry talks a good game

But doing something about the filibuster when he had the chance? Not so much.

[truebluegreen]

18. That particular statement (assuming the transcript is correct)

sounded more like word salad...

But concerning "getting something done", about the filibuster or anything else, Harry Reid is not the man for the job.

[mick063]

8. Cruz is as crazy as any of the major Tea Party politicians

Instead of one Joseph McCarthy, we have a whole slew of them.

Tell me if this doesn't sound like a current Tea-billy Republican....just substitute Moslem for Communist:

link

As re-election began to loom closer, McCarthy, whose first term was unimpressive, searched for ways to ensure his political success, resorting even to corruption. Edmund Walsh, a close fellow Roman Catholic and anti-communist suggested a crusade against so-called communist subversives. McCarthy enthusiastically agreed and took advantage of the nation’s wave of fanatic terror against communism, and emerged on February 9, 1950, claiming he had a list of 205 people in the State Department who were known members of the American Communist Party. The American public went crazy with the thought of seditious communists living within the United States, and roared for the investigation of the underground agitators. These people on the list were in fact not all communists; some had proven merely to be alcoholics or sexual deviants. Regardless, McCarthy relentlessly pushed through and became the chairman of the Government Committee on Operations of the Senate, widening his scope to “investigate” dissenters. He continued to investigate for over two years, relentlessly questioning numerous government departments and the panic arising from the witch-hunts and fear of communism became know as McCarthyism.

Joseph McCarthy then accused several innocent citizens, most notably Owen Lattimore, of being associated with communism. Along the way, he had Louis Budenz, the former editor of The Daily Worker, back his accusations with evidence that was circumstantial at best, for Budenz was only using information he had heard from other people as much as 13 years prior. Another victim of McCarthy’s spurious communist accusations was Drew Pearson, a critic who discredited McCarthy’s accusations regularly through columns and radio broadcasts. McCarthy made seven speeches to the Senate on Pearson, which resulted in the loss of sponsors to Pearson’s show. Also, money was then raised to help numerous men sue Pearson, all charges of which he was found innocent and not liable.

McCarthy’s downfall finally began in October of 1953, when he started to investigate “communist infiltration into the military.” This was the final straw for then president Dwight D. Eisenhower, who realized that McCarthy’s movement needed to be stopped. The Army fired back at the accusations, sending information about McCarthy and advisors abusing congressional privileges to known critics of McCarthy. Reporters, Drew Pearson included, and other critics soon hopped on board, publishing unflattering articles about Joseph McCarthy and his methods of seeking out the supposed communists in America.

[Gidney N Cloyd]

10. Somehow he never struck me as being intimidating enough to be a bully.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

13. Repunctuate the sentences to get probably how Reid actually spoke it. Punctuation seems mangled.

[SaveOurDemocracy]

15. Agreed. The punctuation errors make it nearly unreadable.

[raouldukelives]

14. That's why we react so well to people like Grayson, Sanders & Warren.

When you see & smell shit, you should immediately warn everyone not to step in it. Not worry if the dogs owner might withhold campaign contributions.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

16. Politico seems to have the correct version:

"My friend from Texas is like the schoolyard bully,” Reid said. “He pushes everybody around and is losing, and instead of playing the game according to the rules, he not only takes the ball home with him but changes the rules. That way no one wins except the bully who tries to indicate to people he has won. We’re asking Republicans to play by the rules and let us go to conference."

http://www.politico.com/story/2013/05/harry-reid-ted-cruz-a-schoolyard-bully-90988.html#ixzz2SZm4bK4x