Reply #11: That's the thing though, Reid is not doing that [View All]

[TayTay]

He is letting these things come up and then twisting slowly in the wind in agony on them. The earmark bill is one example. Reid was horrible on that one. He allowed it to become about him and that is simply not good politics. There are reasons for earmarks. However, that stuff needs to stand up on it's own. We can't continue to have these Omnibus spending bills that are 1,000+ pages long and that are negotiated without real oversight. They are abuses of power.

McConnell is the guy who took John Kerry's Withdrawal Amendment last June and suddenly called it up for a vote before Kerry was even ready. This was done to embarrass the Dems and Kerry and show Democratic disunity. (It's a signature move for McConnell.) We need to be smarter in dealing with this guy. He is no Frist, he is much smarter and much more ruthless than Frist ever was.