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tblue

(16,350 posts)
Wed Jul 10, 2013, 01:27 AM Jul 2013

Regarding Harry Reid:

What should we do?


17 votes, 1 pass | Time left: Unlimited
Get a new Senate Majority Leader today!
0 (0%)
Get a new Senate Majority Leader yesterday!
10 (59%)
Get a new Senate Majority Leader after the 2014 election!
1 (6%)
Keep this Senate Majority Leader and move to Canada!
0 (0%)
Keep this Senate Majority Leader and scream whenever you hear his name!
0 (0%)
Keep this Senate Majority Leader. He's fine. I like him.
5 (29%)
Give up on politics.
1 (6%)
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Regarding Harry Reid: (Original Post) tblue Jul 2013 OP
Harry Reid is okay. He just needs to talk louder, and sound angry more often. n/t Tx4obama Jul 2013 #1
He needs to have somebody's foot stuffed up his ass Warpy Jul 2013 #2
He’s a Mormon so he doesn’t drink.. busterbrown Jul 2013 #3
I don't drink Warpy Jul 2013 #4
He's a Mormon so that's the problem. defacto7 Jul 2013 #5
This message was self-deleted by its author busterbrown Jul 2013 #6
This message was self-deleted by its author busterbrown Jul 2013 #7
This will be easy listening music for ya.. Enjoy !!!! busterbrown Jul 2013 #8
Oh man.... defacto7 Jul 2013 #9
Yea, The Jeff Beck group with Rod as lead singer.. Ron wood Bass, Mick Waller drums and Nicki Hopkin busterbrown Jul 2013 #10
Yah, maybe he took some acting lessons it'd help his presentation. delrem Jul 2013 #11
Angry Reid... awoke_in_2003 Jul 2013 #15
Get another Majority Leader now davidpdx Jul 2013 #12
I always feel bad replacing someone who has served us for so long but... bamacrat Jul 2013 #13
"we" don't pick the majority leader. the members of the caucus do onenote Jul 2013 #14
They're not answerable to us, I guess. tblue Jul 2013 #17
A new direction Harmony Blue Jul 2013 #16
Reid dusty trails Jul 2013 #18
I've long thought that Reid should be replaced (nt) bigwillq Jul 2013 #19
I like Harry Reid JustAnotherGen Jul 2013 #20
I voted #2, but Harry's just part of a broken system Doctor_J Jul 2013 #21
I hope that SOB McConnell Wabbajack_ Jul 2013 #22
It's not up to us. The leadership of the House and Senate is voted in by their peers. MADem Jul 2013 #23

Warpy

(111,437 posts)
2. He needs to have somebody's foot stuffed up his ass
Wed Jul 10, 2013, 01:58 AM
Jul 2013

until he stops trying to scare the GOP with threats and actually does something about the problem.

Harry, it's been 4 1/2 years. It's time, damn it.

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defacto7

(13,485 posts)
9. Oh man....
Wed Jul 10, 2013, 03:41 AM
Jul 2013

That just hit the spot. whoa... memories... 1968... that was one of those surreal dream/memory years for me. I'm mellow.

busterbrown

(8,515 posts)
10. Yea, The Jeff Beck group with Rod as lead singer.. Ron wood Bass, Mick Waller drums and Nicki Hopkin
Wed Jul 10, 2013, 03:53 AM
Jul 2013

s Keys...Saw them 5 times at Fillmore East,, Rod was great back then. Some set of pipes..
Check the Truth Album out... One of the best.. Stay Mellow, my man..

delrem

(9,688 posts)
11. Yah, maybe he took some acting lessons it'd help his presentation.
Wed Jul 10, 2013, 03:53 AM
Jul 2013

Esp. amongst those who only care about fancy rhetoric and histrionic acting. Why, if only Harry Reid talked louder and acted angry everything would be fine.
One thing is true, he was blessed from on high when the R's chose Sharon Angle to oppose him, allowing him to slip by once again.

davidpdx

(22,000 posts)
12. Get another Majority Leader now
Wed Jul 10, 2013, 07:25 AM
Jul 2013

But we are going to have to wait until after 2014 to see if we can replace him.

bamacrat

(3,867 posts)
13. I always feel bad replacing someone who has served us for so long but...
Wed Jul 10, 2013, 11:05 AM
Jul 2013

Harry is the poster child for the lefts lack of testicular fortitude. We have the best ideas, the most charismatic people but we have not spine, balls, guts or whatever word you want to use to imply those who submit and give in easily. We need people like Elizabeth Warren and Alan Grayson to be in control, a new liberal with the thick skin and hutzpah to get shit done.

onenote

(42,829 posts)
14. "we" don't pick the majority leader. the members of the caucus do
Wed Jul 10, 2013, 11:50 AM
Jul 2013

And I've seen nothing to suggest the caucus has any plans to dump Harry.

tblue

(16,350 posts)
17. They're not answerable to us, I guess.
Wed Jul 10, 2013, 01:27 PM
Jul 2013

Well we need to tell them anyway, and hold them accountable.

dusty trails

(174 posts)
18. Reid
Wed Jul 10, 2013, 04:58 PM
Jul 2013

Reid needs to stop letting the minority GOP insist on 60 votes to pass everything. He's in effect turned control over to the Republicans and helped them block every bill that's good for America. The man has no backbone. This Congress and country is quickly going downhill, thanks to the GOP and wimpy "democrats" like Harry Reid.

 

Doctor_J

(36,392 posts)
21. I voted #2, but Harry's just part of a broken system
Wed Jul 10, 2013, 07:09 PM
Jul 2013

we have an appeaser in the WH, an appeaser as Senate Majority Leader. Our party "leaders" are weak, corporate centrists while the repuke leaders are insane far-right partisan zealots. The results of their staged "battles" are very predictable.

MADem

(135,425 posts)
23. It's not up to us. The leadership of the House and Senate is voted in by their peers.
Wed Jul 17, 2013, 02:25 AM
Jul 2013

The only thing that matters about Harry Reid is that the Democratic SENATORS like the way he runs things, and they return him to his post because THEY believe he is the most effective representative for them.

What I think, or anyone else thinks, matters not.

It's an organizational leadership position. He speaks for the Democrats in the Senate, and he organizes the Dem's strategy based on inputs from others in the leadership and from the membership as well.

I don't know why people don't understand this.

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