Reid: Dems must be ‘very careful’ about overreaching

Source: The Hill

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) said Tuesday that Democrats have to be “very, very careful” about overreaching.

In an interview with The Hill, Reid argued that it is essential for President-elect Obama and congressional Democrats to work closely with Republicans in the new Congress. He added that 2009 is very different than 1993, the last time Democrats controlled both Congress and the White House.

Read more: http://thehill.com/leading-the-news/reid-dems-must-be-very-careful-about-overreaching-2009-01-06.html

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Just some sage advice from Harry Reid for Obama.

Between Reid and Pelosi, it looks like we have a Reid/Pelosi White House,
with Obama just being a figure head.

a little bit, for anything. Then we can start worrying about over-doing it.

which means Democrats would have to withdraw any progressive legislation.

:)

dick than Larry Craig. Just a sad, old queen.

you pussy, NOW IS THE TIME TO REACH

What was Mr Caution worrying about then?

Yes, dems need to "work closely" with 'Licans. After all, the 'Licans' constituents are citizens too. But does that mean bending over and dropping your pants, which has been Reid's practice as majority leader? Does it mean helping them fuck the place over as they did when they were the only game in town?

I don't think so.

Reid has got to go; Pelosi has got to go.

That's us, all right. The Party of Dry Powder.

How is the senate majority leader selected? Is there any chance Reid can be replaced?

I mean, we gotta wait to push an agenda when we are out of power so we can say "Oh well, until we get power we can't do anything we'd like to do and then not do it when the opportunity presents itself."

We need to push hard to get this spineless fuck removed from his position as Senate Majority Leader.

The majority and minority leaders are elected at the beginning of each Congressional session and since they are about to start a new session...

http://www.senate.gov/artandhistory/history/common/briefing/Majority_Minority_Leaders.htm

and since those were last year's Congress voting, it doesn't seem fair to the incoming Senators....

Really?


:rofl:

Compared to the right wing bias of Senate Democrats, anything Obama would do would seem like a leftie stance.

Harry, if you are still having nightmares about scaring away "Reagan Democrats" you REALLY need to go.

Harry, why don't you just focus on doing right by the American people?

If you're nervous, ask Mommy to leave an extra nightlight on. Sheesh!

:rofl:

I spilled my coffee on that one!

possibly related to his history of TIA's.

God knows he's let every goddamned Republican hump him. He's a fucking atrocity. Someone remove this Mormon asshat. No Mormon should ever be in power--they are so incredibly brainwashed. Mormons (and most of the religious dogmatists) are taught to bend over to anyone in 'authority' (I know this from personal experience). He makes me more sick than Pelosi. As long as Reid and Pelosi are in power, being a Democrat is a fucking lose/lose situation. We have a fucking mandate and yet two of our own supposedly most powerful leaders insist on playing the perpetual 'bottoms' in the most disgusting D-grade Republican-made porn imaginable. This truly SUCKS! I'm ready to shed rotten fruit or dog shit to Reid. Gawd knows Pelosi and Reids staff don't give a fuck about people calling in with their concerns.

He is making me sick

May as well have voted straight GOP.

And I'm done giving him the "benefit of the doubt." Of course, if Dems keep him as their "leader," they are complicit, Senate-wide, yes?

and WIN for us before the pendulum swings back!

carpe diem

StudsT

especially if he doesn't define what he means. I'm all for working with moderate GOP where it makes sense, but there have to be a group of priorities that we expect to "reach" plenty.

of the past 8 years...'

and he and the rest of his colleagues (both dems and repukes) have to get all their baubles and bangles lined up for transport out of DC...and that will take a while...

in the meantime, why would he care what WE thought we were achieving in the last 2 f***ing elections?

oh...you thought it was about the 'people', huh?

I think that almost all Democrats in national politics are suffering from Stockholm Syndrome. You know, where hostages start to identify with and sympathize with their captors? They've so internalized GOP talking points about how awful both the Democratic Party and its constituencies are that they don't know how to stand up for what they supposedly believe in. Hence their fear of doing anything remotely progressive because it will be too "divisive" or "out of the mainstream." This mentality is why they also treat their core constituencies like a bunch of lepers, at least *after* they get elected.

I'm truly sick of Reid and his ilk. Why is it that elections only have consequences when Republicans win? When do Democrats get to expect that winning the White House and both houses of Congress will actually translate into some policy victories? As Arianna Huffington said, calling the Democratic leadership in Congress "spineless" is an insult to invertebrates everywhere.

only a smidge over half.

Someone tell Harry he borrow my nutz for a while .........

You're such a spineless twerp.

Who gives a shit what they think or say. They're useless f*cks.

first and always. What about taxing the rich so they will BE FORCED to invest in America instead of taking their millions out of the Country?

What a spineless fuckhead! We need to dump both Reid and Pelosi! :banghead:

Corporate Castrated Milque Toast SELL OUT

and that takes some major doing.

If these Democrats don't think all us progressive, fringe, vocal, queer, feminist, equal rights, environmentalist, pro-labor, pro-choice people elected them to office who the fuck do they think they got votes from?

Who are THESE people? And why are they scared shitless all the time? It boggles credulity.

Oh me oh my

He is as useful as a burned out light bulb.

He is a FAKE, a sham, a fraud, and one hell of an actor.

:evilfrown:

Fucking hell, they suck.

I've a good feeling about Michelle. She'll make her man act like a man. Eleanor did that too.

Did she make him vote for war criminal's Condoleeza Rice's appointment to Secretary of State?

Did she make him stand behind FISA?

Did she make him promise to continue the slaughter in Afghanistan?

Did she make him vote for the bailout?

If so, fuck the both of them.

Maybe somebody needs to send him the election results again.

:eyes:

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its all context.

CONTEXT!

:-)

Americans voted for a Democratic President and they gave large majorities to a Democratic House and Senate. Why the f*ck do the Dems have to play nice? Why can't they ever take a stand on something? ANYTHING! I am soooo freakin' tired of the "we can't piss of the GOP" crowd! If the "leaders" of the party are too f*cking timid to confront the GOP, then sit down, shut up and get out of the f*cking way! Obama better start playing hardball with the Dem leadership because right now, they are useless to him ... and us! :grr:

he SUCKS

We give the guy a mandate, we want change, and his response is with both the house, senate, and presidency we can't do anything?

I don't get it. Not even a little bit. /boggle

It doesn't matter WHY anymore. Whether he's pissing in his pants about being assassinated by Bushie Anthrax or whether Total Information Awareness has revealed to the Bushies his predilection for kiddie pron or who knows what and who cares?

He is a disgrace to the nation. But then, so is virtually 80%+ of the entire Democratic Congress.

For fucks sake, I am so sick of Reid an the rest of the Nancy Pelosi Democrats that I almost want to call it the Democrat Party, get a lobotomy and join Fox "News".

With friends like these, we sure as shit don't need any fucking enemies.

there's no danger of that.

While the Republicans run rough shod over everything, whether they're in the majority or minority - even after following 8 years of an extremely unpopular president?

You'd think Reid and Pelosi were being blackmailed or something. It makes no sense.

The Democrats still have to maintain some semblance of the notion that they represent 'the left' in the US.

you won't be consulted, case in point is DiFi. I mean, Obama was elected with how many of million of votes vs Reid and Pelosi? Laughable they he would lay down for them, they are just blowing smoke and posturing but no one cares what they think.

cretin.

How about.. "we are going to work with the Obama admin to get our country on the right track"?

Get off your tiptoes, Reid, and throw away those eggshells.

From a guy who won't lift a finger to fight the Republicans.

:eyes:
rocknation

for the Republicans.

Our corporate masters have nothing to worry about, the GOP fifth column is alive and well.