He's old. Perhaps that's why he's tone deaf.To hear Reid tell it, the party’s electoral collapse wasn’t a result of poor messaging or even a bad candidate. It stemmed from looser campaign finance rules, FBI Director James Comey and the influence of a few powerful individuals — namely the Koch brothers, his long-running nemeses. The outgoing Senate minority leader is unapologetic on behalf of his party, and remains resolute that Democrats don’t need to chart a new political course after their 2016 debacle.
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"I don’t think the Democratic Party is in that big of trouble,” Reid said in a half-hour interview with Politico on Wednesday, one day before he’ll deliver his farewell address. “I mean, if Comey kept his mouth shut, we would have picked up a couple more Senate seats and we probably would have elected Hillary.”
Politico
If Comey kept his mouth shut? Hey, if nobody realized what a crooked bag of shite they would be putting in office, Hillary probably would have won.
Does he realize that they don't have the power to do much of anything now? By the way, just what are their core principles? It's not obvious that they have any principles.Though the filibuster is Democrats’ best weapon against Trump, Reid said it would be a “mistake” for his party to reflexively oppose whatever Trump proposes. But the outgoing minority leader also wants Democrats to stand firm for their core principles, urging lawmakers to do “everything in their power” to block “wacky” Supreme Court nominees and to not be “complicit” in supporting GOP priorities like tax cuts for the rich and repealing Obamacare.
Harry, I would stay away from calling anyone in the other party a loser just now.And Reid called [Sen. John Barrasso of Wyoming] a “loser” for his tirades against the Affordable Care Act, Reid’s signature legislative accomplishment as majority leader.
Nice move, Harry.Reid’s most controversial move as leader — invoking the “nuclear option” on Senate confirmations — will leave his party essentially powerless to halt Trump’s Cabinet selections.
When the Dems were in power, they seemed to think they always would be. Delusional people that they are, they vested even more power in the president, and Harry, in his great wisdom, got the Senate to change their rules so that confirmations could be made with a mere majority, and not the 60 votes necessary in the past.
We can't, Harry. Because we're too flabbergasted over thoughts of what our country is going to be now with Donald Effing Trump as president and the GOP with control over both houses of Congress.Reid insisted that it was the right thing to do.
“I don’t know if it’s my biggest achievement, but I’m satisfied we did it. We had to. Look at why it was done,” said Reid, who turned 77 this month. “We got almost 100 judges approved … we saved the integrity of different agencies of government. No, think of what our country would’ve been without that.”
Ah, the dignity of the office. And now, whose rear-end is going to get kicked?Reid’s decision to water down the filibuster prompted now-Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) to declare that the Nevada Democrat will be remembered as the “worst majority leader ever.”
Three years later, Reid says he understands why McConnell responded the way he did.
“I have no ill will toward him. He was mad,” Reid said. “He got his rear end kicked, OK?”
Bingo, Harry. Bingo.Reid even admitted that while he disagreed with McConnell’s retaliatory tactics, which led to Merrick Garland being blocked from being confirmed to the Supreme Court, he had to give Republicans credit for the result: control of Congress and the White House and, in all likelihood, a more conservative Supreme Court in time.
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And here's their answer to what just happened:
Tone deaf. And clueless.Four weeks out from Donald Trump’s victory in the presidential election, Democrats may soon be launching a few unorthodox, mega-rich candidates of their own.
Politico
...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.
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