Reid Called Blago - Cornyn Goes After Reid

If There Was Ever A Time (4.00 / 3)

for those guys to grow up, it's now.

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by: Alegre @ Sat Jan 03, 2009 at 20:13:38 PM CST

Heh . . . (4.00 / 2)

Sen. John Cornyn of Texas, chairman of the National Republican Senatorial Committee, said Reid "has led the charge to deny the people of Illinois a voice" in the process.

lol!~ yeah, I bet Cornyn has major concerns about the voices of the people in Ill.

I agree. Could we get some adults please . . .

Hey! Don't they go back to work next week? Aka, maybe Hillary and some others concerned with working, can get things going?

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by: nycstray @ Sat Jan 03, 2009 at 20:57:24 PM CST

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Reid is looking embarrassingly incompetent (4.00 / 2)

nothing wrong with Reid making that private call to Blago a month ago, and JJJr's weak reelection prospects are a legitimate concern for a majority leader to voice to gov. Blago. But this public fight trying to block Burress looks sloppy and weak.

Just embarrassing, let's hope it passes soon.

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by: catfish @ Sun Jan 04, 2009 at 01:06:49 AM CST

increasingly incompetent -- (4.00 / 1)

 and I'm sick of wimpy-sounding Democrats like Reid. Even when he tries to talk tough, he sounds like a wimp.

The senate Dems stupidly took the bait on the Illinois gov's replacement appointment, and now have a dragged out mess on their hands -- maybe to the supreme court.  Reid would have been smart to just go with the appointment, a man who is qualified and has done nothing untoward himself.  

and Reid is contradicting himself -- saying the peoplke should decide, all the while calling the governors telling them who to pick.
 

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by: Sharyn @ Sun Jan 04, 2009 at 13:14:57 PM CST

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Blago is actually looking gutsy by comparison (0.00 / 0)

This makes it look like Blago can perform under fire.

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by: catfish @ Sun Jan 04, 2009 at 13:32:45 PM CST

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The Blago critics (4.00 / 2)

do not appear to be any more savory than Blago.  But then, they are all Democrats er, I mean the new kind, O-democrats.

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by: twandx @ Sun Jan 04, 2009 at 05:13:11 AM CST

Clowns (0.00 / 0)

Who made Reid a king maker? He is the majority leader and nothing else. His intervention, though legal, is improper, misplaced and arrogant. By and large, during the Bush orgy, Reid has earned, with distinctions, the title of clown.

The Republican just fail to grasp the role they are supposed to play in the Obama dream come true. Cronyn and his friends are supposed to bipartisan, postpartisana, uber-partisan, ultra bi-post-uber partisans. Somehow they continue to be the Hezbollah of American politics.

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by: koshem bos @ Sun Jan 04, 2009 at 07:42:36 AM CST

reid was on the Sunday's this morning (4.00 / 1)

basically saying that the Congress gets to make up their appointment rules as they go along.  he didn't say outright that he wouldn't allow B's appointment to sit in the Senate but he kept saying that B was guilty of corruption (without a trial) so he should step down and quit embarrassing them (because they obviously can handle that all on their own).

He also said that B was making all that stuff up about the calls to B about Jesse Jr.  He better hope that their isn't anything on tape.  The longer this goes on the more I am convinced that this is a coup by the DNC leadership because B wouldn't play by their rules.  Their rules, not the law, which they obviously don't think applies to the senate.

Once again the DNC has managed to get control of both Congress and the White House and they are blowing it out of the starting gate with cronyism and in-fighting.  It's only a matter of time before they publicly turn on Obama and the Repugs run amok.  all they need is someone savvy and ruthless like Gingrinch to jump in and take advantage.

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by: artemis @ Sun Jan 04, 2009 at 10:36:44 AM CST

Well, Reid has another thing coming (0.00 / 0)

Because under Powell v. McCormack, the Senate can't refuse to seat Burris unless he fails to qualify according to the requirements set out in the Constitution (30 years old, U.S. citizen for at least 9 years, resident of IL).

It's ironic that this issue is the one Reid is choosing to take a stand on, having failed to lead or take a stand on any other political issue of importance since he became ML.

It's just one more part in the pattern of Democrats having joined an oligarchic elite, not giving a d*mn about rules or the desires of the voters, in image as well as actuality. Gaming the primaries, pushing an unqualified Caroline Kennedy on NY, and now this.  

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by: Valhalla @ Sun Jan 04, 2009 at 11:10:28 AM CST

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let's not forget... (0.00 / 0)

Reid called Gov. Patterson and urged him to appoint CK to Hillary's seat, saying "She would be perfect"!

So am I!!! :)

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by: illinoisan @ Sun Jan 04, 2009 at 22:15:10 PM CST

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Totally OT I know but (4.00 / 1)

am I a bad person for feeling deliriously happy when I read this :
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/200...

Karma, baby , karma!

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by: Runa @ Sun Jan 04, 2009 at 14:27:13 PM CST

If you are a bad person (4.00 / 1)

then you are in lots of good (bad) company today! Sometimes "bad" just feels good, lol!~

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by: nycstray @ Sun Jan 04, 2009 at 15:04:42 PM CST

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'Not the Judas Richardson I knew' (0.00 / 0)

how's that stellar vetting process - if they put Judas through the same rigor they made the Clintons go through, would this have happened?

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by: catfish @ Sun Jan 04, 2009 at 15:35:05 PM CST

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