Reid apologizes???? WTF?

[raysr]

WASHINGTON -- Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid on Thursday apologized to 33 Republican senators singled out for ethics criticism in a report from his office titled "Republican Abuse of Power."

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/01/19/AR2006011902459_pf.html

[cantstandbush]

1. this is why I want to join a third party. WTF??? n/t

[raysr]

I can't believe it.

Are there NONE of them with any balls? Repukes never apologize, even after murdering thousands.

[ClassWarrior]

10. Yeah, let's be more like THEM! Murder!! And no apologies!!

:eyes:

Not.

NGU.

[Beelzebud]

23. Apologize for WHAT? THE TRUTH?

[ClassWarrior]

24. Yes, murder is the truth.

:eyes:

Please read the thread before you post next time.

NGU.

[Beelzebud]

27. I think it's you that needs to read it....

Reid tells the truth about these crooked bastards, and apologized for it. And that is ok with peopel like you...

[ClassWarrior]

31. No, this is okay with "peopel like" me...

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=364x204402

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=364x205121

Given what this man has been doing lately, I choose give him the ol' Progressive benefit of the doubt. And I choose NOT to advance the Freeper meme that Dems are wimps.

NGU.

[graywarrior]

2. Fer crissakes

I give up.

[kliljedahl]

3. He's got as much balls as Hillary

He spoke the truth & then wimped out. The Dems are pathetic lately.



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[raysr]

7. My god,

they couldn't ask for better politcal atmosphere, war in tatters, wiretapping, Alito, Libby, Abramoff. What more do they need?

[OzarkDem]

4. I'm getting really sick of Reid

Just when you think he might be growing a pair, he turns around and does something stupid like this.

Sooner he leaves the better.

[ClassWarrior]

12. Yeah. Things like THIS disgust the HELL out of me:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=364x204402

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=364x205121

The sooner he leaves the better.

:eyes:

Not.

NGU.

[GrumpyGreg]

5. Another day,another apology !

[ClassWarrior]

14. Tough to be the party of personal accountability, eh?

Better than the alternative tho. :thumbsup:

NGU.

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[OldLeftieLawyer]

8. It's another example

of Democrats stepping on their own dicks over absolutely nothing.

That "report" was so stupid, so unnecessary, you'd swear there was a freeper mole in Reid's office.

I lose so much hope when bullshit like this takes place, and I look around and realize there is NO ONE in the Democratic Party who's going to stand up with a platform and throw the punches and take the punches and then punch the opposition back so hard that their dead grandmothers have pain.

I am daily fading away farther and farther from the Democrats, and it's breaking my heart.

They are just so fucking incompetent.

[napi21]

9. I complained about this the other night!

Lots of people on DU told me they thought Reid was great and I was wrong for criticizing him! Well, I still think he was wrong for appologizing. If you think you're right, you don't appologize! That's why I like Howard Dean and yes, Hillary! I know every time I heard somebody ask Howard if he wished to appologize of rethink his statements, HE alsawys said NO, I stand by my statement!

I'm really tired of the Dems backtracking and acting like cowards! Think about what you're going to say before you open your mouth, but when you do...have the balls to stick by it!

[Nite Owl]

11. That WAPO article still says

the dems accepted money also from Abramoff. By apologizing he is saying that they too are implicated. Melman doesn't want it to be a 'partisan' scandal, is it or isn't it? Did the Dems take money, I was under the definite impression that they had nothing to do with Abramoff. If they didn't he just muddied the waters by apologizing.

[raysr]

15. I don't care if they took money

or not, have you heard Delay apologize? Libby? Any except "Duke"? Fuck an apology, say it and let it stand.

[jillan]

13. What did he apologize for?

Speaking the truth????

This makes no sense.
What happened to Give 'em hell Harry?

[OldLeftieLawyer]

18. There was never any such person -

except Harry S Truman.

When Reid folded in the face of Frist's threat of a "nuclear option," I knew he was a wimp.

He's no kind of leader, especially now.

Wusses, all of them. Flapping wusses.

[jsamuel]

17. people, calm the * down... Yes, he shouldn't have apologized

I think he may have violated an ethics rule when he sent that out and he is basically required to apologize or get sent to the ethics committee, but I am not sure. The apology had nothing to do with Dems, but had to do with the fact that he NAMED Republican Senators as corrupt.

[1620rock]

19. still, a boot licking quitter! n/t

[Beelzebud]

21. What ethics committee? The rethugs are so corrupt they dont' have one!

[jillan]

26. but it's okay that the repugs are naming names and attaching

the names to OBL's sentences:shrug:

[OzarkDem]

36. Carville said he broke the law

I didn't realize Senate ethics committee rules were now part of the US Code.

Does anyone have a copy of the letter?

[OzarkDem]

37. Getting sent to the ethics committee would have been great

He should have accepted it as a chance to shine a bigger spotlight on these crooks.

[Beelzebud]

20. Oh for crying out loud... WTF is he thinking?

I'm starting to wonder why the fuck I even bother caring...

[ClassWarrior]

29. I dunno. Why don't you ask him? Oh yeah, that's right...

...it's much easier to sit on one's hinder in front of a monitor and bash people than it is to actually go and seek out the facts.

You're not a member of the press corps, are you?

NGU.

[Beelzebud]

34. Are you DLC?

[Stephanie]

22. Get him out.

Get someone in who will fight. Just get him out. He was terrible, terrible on Meet the Press. He's useless. Get him out.

[derby378]

25. Wimpy, wimpy, wimpy!

I think Paul Hackett should be allowed to give the Democratic response to this year's SOTU. Show Reid how it's done in the 'hood.

[ClassWarrior]

33. Thanks for joining the Radical RW message machine!

Karl Rove loves it when we help advance his themes.

NGU.

[Beelzebud]

35. The Karl Roves of this country depend on weak democrats......

[Peter Frank]

28. Fuck Reid - He has to go...

He's an embarrassment to the Democratic party. He took Abramoff money (70K) and holds on even after Republicans saw the wisdom of spewing it up.

We need far better leaders.

[ClassWarrior]

32. Reid took Abramoff money??

:rofl:

Nice try.

NGY.

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

39. He took money from tribes.

But, that's OK eh? After all he has a (D) after his name.

[Beelzebud]

40. To be fair. It's not illegal to take money from tribes.

They are his constituants. After they got involved with JackOff they started funneling money away from the dems and to the republicans.

My point isn't to bash Reid over the tribal money.

It's to bash him for apologizing for speaking the damn truth...

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

41. Why not both? Money is the poisen destroying democracy.

Remember, the legislation that makes it "legal" was made by the very folks getting the dough.

[Beelzebud]

42. Yeah, but the fact remains. Reid took no JackOff money.

Don't play into the right-wing BS. It's not illegal to take money from people living in your state.

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

43. Why not be against money in politics? Hardly a RW point.

It may not be "illegal" but it sure as hell is unethical.

[Beelzebud]

44. I won't argue that pont at all. But we're dealing with what the law is.

Not what it should be.

It's also a fact that after JackOff got involved with the tribes, their money started going to the American Nazi Party, and stopped going to the Democrats.

[derby378]

45. Agreed

There were Democrats who took money from associates of Abramoff, but nobody on either side of the aisle has produced one shred of evidence that any Democrat on the Hill took money from Abramoff himself.

Which cannot be said for the Republicans.

[Skidmore]

30. So he apologize.

It's out there though. In the public arena. He apologized last year for something. But what he said was out there and carried on.

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

38. Well, Reid has sticky fingers himself.

He also took money from the tribes. Oh, wait...that's OK, he's just being "realistic".