Is Harry Reid WEAK? Or, is he just doing his JOB? Isn't he Doing it with Excellence?

[KoKo]

Evil Thought! What if our Senate Dems who Vote Against Us have Dem Senate Approval?

Some of us "Lefty Dems" have never figured out why Harry Reid seemed such a Wimp. Why does he always have to go out an APOLOGIZE for what the House Votes on that the Senate Votes Down.

I'm thinking that maybe we shouldn't be BLAMING that Gang of 14 or 8 Conservative Dems. If Harry Reid had REAL POWER he could have put them in line like Johnson and Rostenkowski before him did. Yet...Harry Whines...and we BLAME the BLUE DOG DEMS.

WHAT IF? Go with me here......Our Own Party is using the "Blue Dog Dems" in the Senate (and the House)as a Scapegoat as to why real Dem Issues always go down?

:shrug: If Harry is so weak then our Dems would have replaced him...if Harry is so Strong...it's because he knows how to Defeat Bills sent up from the House...and he uses the "Blue Dogs" to vote Bills Down...because he's not really a Dem...just like the gang of DINO's who are useful for the "Tools" to keep voting down Dem Bills.

IOW'ds...We don't need more DEMOCRATS in SENATE/HOUSE...WE NEED REAL DEMOCRATS!

[Junkdrawer]

1. His job is getting harder and harder...

He needs Franken like he needs a hole in the head...

[xchrom]

2. since our Commander in Chief welcomed Arlen with open arms --

thrilled or some such to have him -- maybe THAT'S the real clue as to what the party is.

reid is a reflection of all that.

[liberalmuse]

4. Sadly, it's a good 'ol boys club.

I wish it weren't so, but it seems the American people are left out of this club more and more. They don't seem to really care what we want or need. I don't blame the President. He's doing his best to break that, but he also couldn't just turn away Specter after his VP's hard work, either. I guess we just need to give money to the other Dem in the primary and hope Specter is voted out. If the guy is smart, he'll start making like a good Dem, and quick, because if he doesn't, no one is going to want the guy.

[xchrom]

7. he is? -- i did not know that -- i would have said

that the geithner/bernanke terrible twosome would have said other wise.

[KoKo]

12. I hear Ya'.... But, how much longer can we keep being led by a "choke collar?"

:shrug: Heel...beg...sit up...sit down...be quiet...heel..beg...

[Junkdrawer]

3. William Greider on DemocracyNow today...

...

AMY GOODMAN: Bill Greider, what does this mean for organized labor—I mean, GM, Chrysler, EFCA, the Employee Free Choice Act?


WILLIAM GREIDER: I don’t think we know the answer yet on the Employees for Free Choice Act. I know the situation. Let me put it this way. The Democratic Party, after many years—and I’m a Democrat, I voted for Obama, I share those broad values very broadly—but they’ve had it both ways for twenty-five years or more, where they serve the financial interests and the big insurance companies and some other players, and at the same time they’re the party of working people. And that didn’t work very well for working people. But the Democrats always had an excuse: “Well, we don’t have the votes,” or “We’ve got this terrible Republican president in who won’t let us do good things for the folks.”


All those excuses are gone now, and we are seeing for the first time really in three decades the true nature of the Democratic Party. And it’s being tested and, so far, not doing very well. I won’t say it’s failed, but I think there’s a real possibility that it will.


The labor legislation is a good example. It’s actually—I’ve been around the issues of labor organizing and unions and what was happening to them over the last three decades. They were getting hammered by economic forces, like companies that broke every law in the land to keep them from organizing, firing the organizers, firing the workers who signed up. They really played vicious, hardball labor suppression and got away with it. The government never stepped in and stopped it.


So now labor wants a fairly modest bill, actually, to reform the processes of people organizing their own representatives. Sounds like democracy, doesn’t it? And the same forces are burying the politicians in propaganda and trying to convince the public this is a bad idea. And we’re seeing the Democratic Party, which now has virtually sixty votes in the Senate and a strong majority in the House, sort of saying, “Well, we don’t know if we can do this this year.”


I think—I’m going to speak to the steelworkers in Pittsburgh tomorrow, and I’ve told other labor groups this. This is also the time for labor to stand up. And it has to get much more explicit and dry-eyed with the Democratic Party in saying, “We’ve been there for you year after year with our votes, with our money, with our hearts and minds. If you’re not going to deliver now, when are you going to deliver?”

...

http://www.democracynow.org/2009/5/5/william_greider_come_home_america_the

[leftstreet]

5. Thanks for posting that

I missed it.

:thumbsup:

[theoldman]

6. Reid does not come across as a strong leader.

He may be a nice guy but a strong leader cannot be a nice guy all of the time. Obama knows when to talk tough and Reid never talks tough.

[pscot]

8. Harry Reid is a creature of the Democratic caucus

He and the conservadems provide cover for one another. It's bait and switch, the old shell game. The voters can never quite figure out where the pea is. We're not going to see much real change on health care or the environment. There will be some small stuff, just to piece off the public. They'll tell us they're watering the flowers, while really they're pissing on our shoes.

[AlinPA]

9. I can't understand why he was picked by the Democrats to lead. He is a wimp.

[Captain Hilts]

10. Same with Daschle. nt

[KoKo]

11. The point of my post is exactly what you say...He was Picked because he's a Wimp!

But, all these years we suspected that...but didn't know it as truth. The TRUTH IS...Harry Reid was picked to allow those who vote with the Repugs to KILL every Dem Bill they can that comes up from the House!

Given that the House has it's own "Blue Caucus" it all works very well together doesn't it? Pelosi an BLAME Senate and Senate can Blame their Gang of 8 or 14 for why everything Progressive Dem goes down..

[Baby Snooks]

13. He was probably picked by the lobbyists...

He and quite a few others, after all, seem to serve the lobbyists more than anyone else.

[AlinPA]

14. There you go, you nailed it.

[KoKo]

15. and then he blames a "few errant Senators" for why he can't control his Dem Majority?

How much longer do we have to put up with Harry Reid's whining when we know other Dem Senate Leaders CRACKED HEADS to PUSH THROUGH DEM President's AGENDA?

:shrug: I've listened to long to Daschle and Reid's WHINING! We have a new President! A Democrat that we busted our asses off to get elected. Harry needs to KICK BUTT...and if he Can't ...then WHY?

We Democrats need ANSWERS! :banghead: