Harry Reid's last gift to Ted Kennedy. Helping to kill health care reform

[Botany]

Harry needs to be replaced right now. The insurance companies, HMOs, and big pharma wanted to delay
the vote at all costs and they got what they wanted.

Ted Kennedy's days are #ed and it would mean so much to him to have a chance to vote on getting all Americans
covered as per health care. Thanx a lot Harry.

BTW one day after Obama's speech Harry pulls this crap? :grr:

[goclark]

1. How did he ever get selected for the job?

Did Viagra Inc. have a vote?

[leveymg]

3. What's the biggest city in Nevada? Who founded and still owns it?

Here's a hint:

[goclark]

5. Is that a mafia boss?

[leveymg]

8. That's the father of modern casino gambling in the United States

Meyer Lansky. But as J. Edgar Hoover once claimed, "There is no organized crime in America."

[goclark]

13. Is Reid getting a few kick backs

He sure acts like it.

[tularetom]

2. Remember how happy everybody was to get rid of that invertebrate Daschle?

Reid is 1000 times more spineless.

[HughMoran]

4. Reid is a filthy spineless coward

He needs to be replaced immediately.

[AngryOldDem]

10. +1

:thumbsup:

As many times as he's fucked over the Democrats, it makes me wonder if he's not another Joe Lieberman in the making.

I've had it with him.

[sofa king]

6. Tough crowd.

I used to follow the Senate very closely and never really stopped after I was no longer paid to do it. There's not much wrong with Harry Reid, if you ask me.

When the criminals secured every single branch of the Federal government, including the Senate, it was Harry Reid alone who took the fight to the GOP, threw the Senate into closed session, and told the Republicans something which made them shit their pants. From that day in late 2005, President Bush's evil agenda was finished, and we were spared the worst of the second term of the Worst President Ever, even though it was another year and a half before the GOP lost control of the Senate. That's all thanks to Harry Reid, damned near single-handedly (with a big shout out to Senator Byrd, who provided the procedural road-map for throwing a wrench into the Republican works).

It's easy for casual onlookers to overlook the primary duty of the Senate, which is to listen to the minority voice and to reach some sort of consensus which does not completely lock out that minority. It's especially easy to overlook because the Republicans never once took that duty into consideration when they controlled the Senate from 2003-2007. But Republicans are criminals and worthy of our contempt, not our surprise.

Now that the shoe is on the other foot, the Democratic Senate isn't as willing to completely cut out the GOP. And well it shouldn't, for consensus and respect for the minority position is one of the few things that makes America something akin to a Republic rather than a fascist dictatorship, which it very nearly became. Yeah, I want those damned fascist heads on a fucking platter, too. But that ain't how it works, and they're gonna get away with every last thing they did. If you want to change that, take your pitchforks and torches to the civil courts and to the homes of the criminals in question, not to Senator Reid.

Edit: So, to put it more clearly, most of the time when you folks call Senator Reid "spineless," what he's really doing is his job. If you don't like the kind of job he's doing, you'll find plenty of people who agree with your cutthroat ways on the other side of the aisle. But remember where that sort of shit got us.

[bobbolink]

9. It's also his jjob to know what the 'Mirkin people want, and almost 75% of us want

AT LEAST a public option.

And, we want it YESTERDAY.

He owes more allegiance to us than to the bought and owned RW and Blue Cross Dog Dems.

[Botany]

11. This action helps give the anti reform crowd a big win because the longer ..

.... it is held up the more lies and 1/2 truths they can spread. We are talking
billions if not trillions of dollars that the for profit health care insurance companies
are making and you can count on the fact that they will spend all of August trying
to find a way to stop any reform.

Sen. Reid is well aware of this calculus.

[question everything]

7. Ah, but he did vote to allow transferring concealed guns

across state line..

A nice Democrat Mr. Reid is, eh?

[felinetta]

12. Harry Reid has always sucked.

[mnhtnbb]

14. I was so pissed to see him on the news tonight. What a spineless wimp.

[graywarrior]

15. God, he is frustrating.

He makes me want to scream.

[HOLOS]

16. HOLY MOTHER OF GOD!!