Sen. Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) needs a reality check. His frustrating inability to effectively control his Senate has made Democrats look asinine multiple times in the past couple of months: the bewilderingly weak way in which Reid gave Joe Lieberman everything he wanted, the infuriating anonymous hold put on the President's scientific nominees by the blue team's rogue du jour Sen. Robert Menendez (D-NJ) for completely unrelated reasons, and now Reid's conspicious failure to count to 60 to pass what was supposed to be a routine holdover omnibus spending bill.
Apparently Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) was thinking the same thing in a meeting with Sen. Majority Whip Dick Durbin (D-IL) in which there was "yelling and swearing". But the Senate leadership's pandering to selfish moderates who realize how much power they can now accumulate is throwing a wrench in too many items on the Democratic agenda. Reid needs to adopt a firm, no-nonsense policy and stop letting unhelpful Republicans tack on as many amendments as they want. And he needs to learn how to count.
I dont know
So far there has been a lot of legislative progress. A stimulus package by the middle of February is no small feat.
True, but with a huge
True, but with a huge majority in the House, 58 seats in the Senate, and an extremely popular ally in the White House, I feel like there's no excuse for Democrats not running the table, which is exactly what the voters elected them to do.
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the stimulus bill was weak
if anything, the stimulus bill was an example of reid's weakness when it comes to handling his people. there's no reason why that bill should not have been stronger. if it had been as strong as the house version of the bill, that would have been nice. but reid let moderates run all over him.
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