Harry Reid retires!!!

[Gass3268]

Sad day in Senate history. Now we can only hope McConnell is next.

[Gass3268]

Warren for Minority Leader???

Out of the realistic choices, I'd prefer Durbin to Schumer.

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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.

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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!

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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.

[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.

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?

If you allow your side to put forward amendments you have to allow the other side, hence the poison pills.

I feel like the Huffington Post knows what's up. We are truly losing The Master of the Senate.

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Republicans despise him so much because he was terribly effective as majority leader.

Pretty much, the more the hate the more you know he did his job extremely well.