Harry Reid retires!!!

[Attorney General & PPT Dwarven Dragon]

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

[Attorney General & PPT Dwarven Dragon]

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.

McConnell is better because he's very open to debate and amendments. Reid never allowed them because he was afraid of his caucus having tough votes.

[Attorney General & 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.

[Attorney General & 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?

[Attorney General & PPT Dwarven Dragon]

2016 is not a midterm, unless Republicans somehow changed the rules when no one was paying attention, so that doesn't exactly equal easy win for Republicans. I would bet heavily on Democrats holding it.

Excellent news! Dem chances of holding this seat increase without the albatross of Reid's godawful approval ratings.

Both Sabato and Rothenberg agree that this seat is more vulnerable without Reid. Let's face it, if Masto doesn't run, the rest of the dem bench really sucks.

[Attorney General & PPT Dwarven Dragon]

Do any of you guys think Cortez Masto's defense of Nevada's gay marriage ban could make an opening for Titus in the primary?

Old news, and most people accept that Masto was just doing her job.

This.

[Attorney General & PPT Dwarven Dragon]

Lots of successful governors don't want to become senators and it's not hard to see why not.

Why not? The hyperpartisan environment in Washington?

That, and the fact that Sandoval likes being governor.