Harry Reid: Election results show Americans want bipartisanship

[Newsjock]

Source: Las Vegas Sun

The Senate race between Harry Reid and Sharron Angle was characterized by some of the most vitriolic, negative, mudslinging campaigning that took place during a 2010 midterms, marked by bitter divisions across the country. But by the morning after his win, Reid seemed to have forgotten all of that, boiling his promise for the future down to a single concept: bipartisanship.

"I think the main message that we should have received last night ... is that the people of Nevada and the American people want us to work together," he said.

... "Now it's time to get back to work, do what is needed to re-right the economy and create jobs," he said. "I'm hopeful and confident that when the dust settles that the Republicans will no longer want to stop everything and we'll work together."

Read more: http://www.lasvegassun.com/news/2010/nov/03/harry-reid-election-results-show-americans-want-bi/

[TwilightGardener]

1. That last sentence...that was kind of a sneaky jab, there. Good on you, Harry.

[earthside]

5. Surely you jest.

I'm afraid Harry really believes that and means it sincerely ... it wasn't meant as a 'jab'.

One of the first signs that 2012 will be an even more devastating defeat for Democrats will be if Harry Reid does not give-up his Majority Leader position or isn't challenged for that position.

That Senate Democrats would let a guy like Reid stay on as their leader after presiding over such big election losses is, well, incomprehensible.

[GeorgeGist]

44. It may of been a jab ...

but it was too weak to land.

[2Design]

2. hard to get the party of NO to do anything - they were rewarded for doing nothing

[AlinPA]

3. Politics are crazy. Poor Harry. He is pathetic. nt

[saigon68]

50. He's WORSE than pathetic he's ABOMINABLE

What a Horse Turd

About to spend a BILLION or 2 to build an Embassy in Kabul

Grow a pair Ass wipe

[LiberalEsto]

4. What is he smoking?

That is utter horseshit.

[emulatorloo]

6. He's not dumb, he knows it is horseshit.

It is basically a "challenge" to the Republicans to stop acting like asshole babies. They aren't going to do it.

[niceypoo]

11. Meaning he is, 'reaching out across the aisle'

He will only get burned again, and again, and again in the name of 'healing.'

[tinymontgomery]

30. Insanity I think they call it

N/T

[pasto76]

7. Bi-partisan means we get some, they get some. Not they get it all.

hope he understands that.

[Abq_Sarah]

15. Screw bipartisanship

It's come to mean, "We'll give you X and if you don't like it, you're not playing fair".

[Hepburn]

28. +1...Amen. n/t

[ElsewheresDaughter]

22. they got it all their way for the last 2 years!!!

[HuckleB]

8. It shows Americans are forgetful idiots.

Ugh.

[dbonds]

9. Americans do not want bipartisanship, that is like getting half a kid - it doesn't work.

This is a culture war sponsored by the owners of this country. As long as we are fighting each other then we won't notice them. And as long as we are getting half ass politics in the name of bipartisanship, then nothing changes for the owners.

[niceypoo]

10. Republicans don't do bipartisanship

Harry knows that. It's time to grow a pair of balls Harry.

[CubicleGuy]

41. To say nothing of homopartisanship

Republicans only do heteropartisanship.

Unless you catch them in the bathroom stall, doing the "wide stance" thing.

[niceypoo]

42. Publicly, they do heteropartisanship

But when they hit the clubs or the bedroom, it's AsslessLeatherChapsPartisanship

[Solly Mack]

12. Uh...

alrighty then

[One Fly]

13. Watch it happen

These damn dims are going to help these fucking regressive pigs get whatever they want. Even bama is saying we need to work together. We are screwed!

[Ian David]

14. Yay, for Bipartisanship!

Yay, for Bipartisanship!
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x9469277

[crim son]

16. It's WAY to early to already be totally wrong about what the election meant.

:facepalm:

[bemildred]

17. LOL.

"characterized by some of the most vitriolic, negative, mudslinging campaigning"

Makes me think of this:

[bluesmail]

18. WTF? WTF is the color of the sky in your world, Harry?

I am happy he beat that crazy bat woman Angle... Sad to have to say it. They're practically the same organism.

[ElsewheresDaughter]

19. you don't fucking get it!!!...Dems lost because the base is saying just the opposite of that!

[ElsewheresDaughter]

21. and all the winning Repubies are all saying "We don't owe anybody anything and we are repealing ..

Obama's bills"...what part of this do you not understand Harry?!?

[defendandprotect]

32. Of course, Reid "gets it" -- but they need to keep moving to the right....

that's simply the excuse line ....

All evidence now and always says its insane, but they can get away with it

and they will!

[Mr. Sparkle]

20. Harry Reid should not be the senate leader going into next year.

He is simply not up to the job.

[skepticscott]

23. Could he possibly be more of a surrender monkey?

The new House isn't even seated and he's already waving the white flag, ready to roll over for whatever the Repugs want.

[ixion]

24. "bipartisanship" means serving the puppet masters...

Just sayin'...

[NorthCarolina]

25. Or maybe they wanted to purge some Blue Dogs

:shrug:

[Art_from_Ark]

47. So instead of purging Blue Dogs during the primaries,

the Democratic voters waited until the general election and voted for the teabaggers.

A winning strategy since 1980.

:sarcasm:

[davidwparker]

26. Now, lets see what actually happens filibuster changes.

:popcorn:

[ArcticFox]

27. What he means of course

Now, instead of pretending to be stymied in their efforts to do anything by "the party of no", democrats can pretend they are being bullied into passing whatever republicans propose.

[catrose]

29. GOOD GRIEF

Sounds familiar, like "He'll never hit me again. He promised."

[Gamey]

31. Those leopard repubs will change their spots this time!

I just know it! Well, I hope they do. They have to. The Americans voted for bipartitanship.

[bergie321]

33. They just don't get it

If we wanted MORE compromises, we wouldn't have voted out all of the Blue Dogs.

[somone]

34. Do Republicans want bipartisanship?

[Strelnikov_]

35. God help us . . . n/t

[hughee99]

36. No one EVER really wants bipartisanship on either side.

People want agreement on doing what THEY want done. The level of "bipartisanship" is the level to which they will agree to begrudgingly horse-trade a policy they like for one they don't. If you're voting for a person because they can "get along" rather than get things done, you're not voting for someone who's going to represent your interests. Politicians who say "the people want bipartisanship" either don't know what the people want, or they're lying.

[Prana69]

37. You've got to be fucking kidding me?

After two years of "bipartisanship", you get your Democratic ass handed to you on a platter, and you come to the conclusion that the people want MORE bipartisanship?

Holy fuck Batman! I mean jayzuz h! What is wrong with this guy?

People don't want bipartisanship. They want leaders who will make strong legislative decisions and drive them to resolution.

We're screwed.

As a previous poster said, at least now Harry has someone to blame for his failures.

P69

[nradisic]

38. NOOOOOO!!!!!!!

Jesus Christ! How fucking useless is Harry Reid?

[Roland99]

39. Jesus, Harry. Really?

fucking moron

[Betty]

40. that's right, Harry, bend over

that's what Americans want. That's all we get, since the dems won't fight for us.

[hyphenate]

43. Uh, unh--I don't think so!

That was the cry at the end of the 2000 election, when he country pretty much halved the country with that same old shit about uniting the country. For those who can remember, that was one of Bush's first "jokes" about being the great "uniter."

ANYONE who uses that word under the kind of conditions that exist now is a liar and an ineffectual leader. If Harry Reid thinks that it's going to happen now really IS living in fantasyland.

To be perfectly honest, I was hoping Reid would win, just to keep the nutcase Angle from acquiring his seat. I have no delusions that Reid will do anything different than what he's done all along, and I sincerely wish we could get a new Senate Majority Leader, someone who can bring some passion into the job, and isn't afraid to stand up to the nasties on the far right, and the less far right.

It'll be a cold day in hell, though, when we finally have the leadership we need in the Senate.

As far as Pelosi is concerned, I have to admit I still have a beef with her about the "tabling" of impeachment against Bush and Cheney. Those basyards should be in jail, not writing their memoirs.

[marasinghe]

45. sorry harry; this is why you never made it big as a boxer ....

and will never make it as a successful senate majority leader - you ain't a fighter.

[MisterP]

46. great, now he's MORE delusional than his erstwhile rival nt

[Trajan]

48. Bipartisanship = Shove shit on Democratic faces

"Please sir, I want some more"

[Enthusiast]

49. Yeah, Harry, the Republicans

will work together if you do everything they want. True bipartisanship.

[struggle4progress]

51. It shows that lots of Americans can't be bothered to vote in midterms

The elections aren't a frickin sudden unexpected surprise either: if the last digit of the frickin year is even and if you aren't frickin braindead, then you pretty much frickin know there's a frickin election in November

It's not that frickin hard, either, to spend a few hours researching the races, then put down the frickin bag of cheezits and get off the frickin couch into your frickin car and drive a few frickin blocks to the polling station and do your frickin duty as a citizen. The whole frickin thing can't take more than about 0.07% of your waking hours in those two years: it's a frickin average of less than a frickin minute a day

[SKKY]

52. Um, you're wrong Harry, and it's why you almost lost...

...this was a vote against you NOT doing what YOU SAID you would do.

[Javaman]

53. meh, so what else is new?

Oh Harry, let's face it, you won because your opponent was a fucking racist halfwit.

Perhaps Harry needs to look up the definition of insane again.

[Vidar]

54. Because we are divided, Harry will give us the worst of both worlds.

[No Elephants]

55. Voters said, "We're going to keep throwing out incumbents until one of you batches of Bozos does

something good for ordinary people. And, no, trickle down isn't going to cut it."


(No offense to Bozo intended.)