Harry Reid retires!!!

[Free Bird]

Everyone take off your partisan glasses and look at facts. Reid was an atrocious leader. He blocked amendment discussion left and right, filed the tree like nothing else, pushed only his party's agenda through, and shat on the minority's rights.

So you're saying he was a great leader, okay!

How in the blue  is that a good leader?

[Rockefeller GOP]

Praise the Lord!!! The senate is forever improved!

Except Reid was one of the best Majority Leaders of recent times. Leaps and bounds better than Frist, the racist Lott, and of course McConnell.

Heck, if we're naming bad and racist majority leaders like Lott, I'll toss in the forum's favorite Klansman Robert Byrd.

[Free Bird]

Praise the Lord!!! The senate is forever improved!

Except Reid was one of the best Majority Leaders of recent times. Leaps and bounds better than Frist, the racist Lott, and of course McConnell.

Heck, if we're naming bad and racist majority leaders like Lott, I'll toss in the forum's favorite Klansman Robert Byrd.

No Byrd is a Democrat. He can do no wrong!

[Senate Minority Leader Lord Voldemort]

Praise the Lord!!! The senate is forever improved!

Except Reid was one of the best Majority Leaders of recent times. Leaps and bounds better than Frist, the racist Lott, and of course McConnell.

Heck, if we're naming bad and racist majority leaders like Lott, I'll toss in the forum's favorite Klansman Robert Byrd.

No Byrd is a Democrat. He can do no wrong!

Bringing up the fact that Byrd was a Democrat is not acknowledging party realignment ever happened.

[Mr. Smith]

Praise the Lord!!! The senate is forever improved!

Except Reid was one of the best Majority Leaders of recent times. Leaps and bounds better than Frist, the racist Lott, and of course McConnell.

Heck, if we're naming bad and racist majority leaders like Lott, I'll toss in the forum's favorite Klansman Robert Byrd.

No Byrd is a Democrat. He can do no wrong!

Bringing up the fact that Byrd was a Democrat is not acknowledging party realignment ever happened.

And that Byrd eventually completely recanted for that matter.

[Attorney General, Senator-Elect, & Former PPT Dwarven Dragon]

Everyone take off your partisan glasses and look at facts. Reid was an atrocious leader. He blocked amendment discussion left and right, filed the tree like nothing else, pushed only his party's agenda through, and shat on the minority's rights.

So you're saying he was a great leader, okay!

What is good about blocking amendments from your own party? Reid hardly ever allowed amendments from even those in his own party, because he only wanted his caucus to take the easiest, easiest votes.

[Türkisblau]

Praise the Lord!!! The senate is forever improved!

Except Reid was one of the best Majority Leaders of recent times. Leaps and bounds better than Frist, the racist Lott, and of course McConnell.

Heck, if we're naming bad and racist majority leaders like Lott, I'll toss in the forum's favorite Klansman Robert Byrd.

No Byrd is a Democrat. He can do no wrong!

Bringing up the fact that Byrd was a Democrat is not acknowledging party realignment ever happened.

And that Byrd eventually completely recanted for that matter.

I've explained to a couple people on this forum about the context of Robert Byrd's KKK membership before...

It's not at all what most people think.

[Oakvale]

Everyone take off your partisan glasses and look at facts. Reid was an atrocious leader. He blocked amendment discussion left and right, filed the tree like nothing else, pushed only his party's agenda through, and shat on the minority's rights.

Who knows? Maybe we can finally get a damn Fed audit now.

I doubt business leaders and the big banks will allow an audit of the Fed.

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[Mr. Illini]

Why does Reid want Schumer over his #2?

[RogueBeaver]

Durbin tells Paul Kane that he's supporting Schumer & will run again for whip.

[RogueBeaver]

Ralston still thinks Roberson will have a primary for ideological reasons, and not just Bob Beers.

[Atlas Has Shrugged]

YESSSSSSS!

[justfollowingtheelections]

Schumer is a terrible choice.  The Dems need a fresh face.  Someone like Warren.

[windjammer]

RIP Palestine

[justfollowingtheelections]

Everyone take off your partisan glasses and look at facts. Reid was an atrocious leader. He blocked amendment discussion left and right, filed the tree like nothing else, pushed only his party's agenda through, and shat on the minority's rights.

So you're saying he was a great leader, okay!

How in the blue  is that a good leader?

What s/he's saying is that he was a good party leader.  And that's what his job was anyway as Majority/Minority Leader whose role is obviously very different than that of the Speaker.

[Landslide Lyndon]

Why does Reid want Schumer over his #2?

He is more of a fighter than Durbin, has access to almost unlimited cash as a New Yorker, and will never have to worry about reelection.

[Amenhotep Bakari-Sellers]

Well, in what thought it was gonna be an open Dem primary, in 2018, will be a competetive race, this year, for Reid's seat.

Thnx Reid, this is indeed a gift to Dem party, and Dems can defend this seat, with a strong recruit like Titus, who I am emboldened to endorse.

[Free Bird]

Durbin tells Paul Kane that he's supporting Schumer & will run again for whip.

Done deal then

[Gass3268]

Everyone take off your partisan glasses and look at facts. Reid was an atrocious leader. He blocked amendment discussion left and right, filed the tree like nothing else, pushed only his party's agenda through, and shat on the minority's rights.

So you're saying he was a great leader, okay!

What is good about blocking amendments from your own party? Reid hardly ever allowed amendments from even those in his own party, because he only wanted his caucus to take the easiest, easiest votes.

His goal was to make sure that legislation was passed. Unfortunately the amendment process was just a way for Republcians to introduce poison pill amendments that would have killed most Democratic legislation. Also what's the problem from preventing your caucus from having to take politically harmful votes? He was the Democratic leader that controlled the Senate, he's supposed to make things eaiser for his own members and harder for the otherside. He's not supposed to be some fair independent arbitor like a Speaker in the UK or Canada.

[Vosem]

Terrific news. I don't think it improves Republican chances in this seat much at all (if anything, Cortez-Masto will be fresher and possibly stronger than Reid, and a primary becomes likelier), but I would much rather have a random freshman Democrat than Reid, and Schumer over Reid as Democratic leader in the Senate will be a very encouraging development.

Yeah, Durbin and Schumer fought over this in 2010 when it seemed Reid would lose to Angle. Schumer won decisively and since then it has been very apparent that he would succeed Reid if he ever stepped down.

[Amenhotep Bakari-Sellers]

Durbin's days are numbered anyways. He has said many times he want Quigley to replace him.

So, it was a done deal when his term expires in 2020.

But, this seat tilt slightly Dem.

[free my dawg]

Why does Reid want Schumer over his #2?

Because the "Democrats" want to kowtow to the banks instead of their rightful masters.

[Free Bird]

Everyone take off your partisan glasses and look at facts. Reid was an atrocious leader. He blocked amendment discussion left and right, filed the tree like nothing else, pushed only his party's agenda through, and shat on the minority's rights.

So you're saying he was a great leader, okay!

What is good about blocking amendments from your own party? Reid hardly ever allowed amendments from even those in his own party, because he only wanted his caucus to take the easiest, easiest votes.

His goal was to make sure that legislation was passed. Unfortunately the amendment process was just a way for Republcians to introduce poison pill amendments that would have killed most Democratic legislation. Also what's the problem from preventing your caucus from having to take politically harmful votes? He was the Democratic leader that controlled the Senate, he's supposed to make things eaiser for his own members and harder for the otherside. He's not supposed to be some fair independent arbitor like a Speaker in the UK or Canada.

Wrong. Amendments are the lifeblood of bills. It allows individual senators to have their voices heard and openly debated, and no, his job is NOT to obstruct the other side. Partisan crap like that is what is making Congress a joke. Open debate. Open amendments. Talk. Compromise. That is what we need to solve our problems, not people like you who focus on scoring political points.

[Pandaguineapig]

All my celebrations aside; the senate probably just became less corrupt from this sorry excuse for a human being leaving now if McConnell can  leave too........

[Attorney General, Senator-Elect, & Former PPT Dwarven Dragon]

Everyone take off your partisan glasses and look at facts. Reid was an atrocious leader. He blocked amendment discussion left and right, filed the tree like nothing else, pushed only his party's agenda through, and shat on the minority's rights.

So you're saying he was a great leader, okay!

What is good about blocking amendments from your own party? Reid hardly ever allowed amendments from even those in his own party, because he only wanted his caucus to take the easiest, easiest votes.

His goal was to make sure that legislation was passed. Unfortunately the amendment process was just a way for Republcians to introduce poison pill amendments that would have killed most Democratic legislation. Also what's the problem from preventing your caucus from having to take politically harmful votes? He was the Democratic leader that controlled the Senate, he's supposed to make things eaiser for his own members and harder for the otherside. He's not supposed to be some fair independent arbitor like a Speaker in the UK or Canada.

Wrong. Amendments are the lifeblood of bills. It allows individual senators to have their voices heard and openly debated, and no, his job is NOT to obstruct the other side. Partisan crap like that is what is making Congress a joke. Open debate. Open amendments. Talk. Compromise. That is what we need to solve our problems, not people like you who focus on scoring political points.

You dodged my question. What's good about blocking amendments from DEMOCRATS, as reid almost always did?