Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid,

QUOTE OF THE DAY.... Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D) of Nevada.

Reid says he expects the tactic of gentle persuasion to work best, given the size of his Senate Democratic flock and the political divergences within it. "I don't dictate how people vote," he said in an interview this month. "If it's an important vote, I try to tell them how important it is to the Senate, the country, the president ... But I'm not very good at twisting arms. I try to be more verbal and non-threatening. So there are going to be -- I'm sure -- a number of opportunities for people who have different opinions not to vote the way that I think they should. But that's the way it is. I hold no grudges."

I don't doubt Reid is widely liked and admired within the caucus. But "gentle persuasion" is rarely a recipe for party discipline.

There have been plenty of Senate Majority Leaders in history who members feared and wouldn't dare cross. Reid isn't one of them.

—Steve Benen 2:25 PM Permalink |
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Snatching defeat from the kid gloves of victory.

-Harry Reid (Senate Majority Leader)

Posted by: Gallop Trollop
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After this admission, that he can't or won't do the job, shouldn't the words 'I therefore resign' be forthcoming? These are very serious times, with challenges and opportunities such as the Democrats have not seen in many decades and he offers a genteel style over real substance.

Posted by: Michael7843853 on July 3, 2009
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Well, I guess I should be glad Reid at least has a realistic assessment of his skills and style - imagine how embarrassing it would be if he thought he was being a hard-ass, kickin' butt and takin' names?

Now if only I could understand why he thinks cajoling folks to do the right thing is sufficient for Senate Majority Leader.

Posted by: biggerbox on July 3,
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Link:
http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/archives/individual/2009_07/018920

We need a Strong and Tough Majority Leader Now !
And,that's Not you..

Please Resign so we can get someone in there to do the job correctly !

Thank you,M..A Democrat..

Mirror,Mirror on the wall..

All she did was secede from Alaskan politics and expose her hypocrisy. People like little Willie Kristol
will love her for this. Normal people will think it’s a skit from SNL. She a very odd duck and she’s
head over high heels in love with herself. And if she went away, who would Greta stalk?

WRando

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WaPo Does Damage Control After Cash-For-Access Scheme Leaks

By Versha Sharma - July 2, 2009, 12:21PM

This morning, Politico published a story detailing an interesting flier apparently being passed around DC health care lobby circles: a dinner invitation from the Washington Post at the house of CEO and Publisher Katherine Weymouth, selling access to its news and editorial staff and top Obama officials for $25,000 to $250,000. A health care lobbyist passed the missive on to Politico staff because he felt "it's a conflict of interest for the paper to charge for access to, as the flier says, its 'health care reporting and editorial staff.'"

Two and a half hours after the story was published, executive editor Marcus Brauchli sent an internal memo entitled "Newsroom Independence," in which he stated that the news department will not be attending the dinner. The sentiment echoes the statement WaPo spokesperson Kris Coratti made to Politico:

The flier circulated this morning came out of a business division for conferences and events, and the newsroom was unaware of such communication. It went out before it was properly vetted, and this draft does not represent what the company's vision for these dinners are, which is meant to be an independent, policy-oriented event for newsmakers.

As written, the newsroom could not participate in an event like this.

Read the full text of Brauchli's memo and the original flier after the jump. More....


http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2009/07/washington-post-sells-access-to-its-executive-editors-top-obama-officials.php?ref=fpb


Thanks,ToniD.. :)

USA 2000,2004, Iran 2009..

More Rethug Hypocrisy..

That Sh*thole they call Wingnut Punditry..

Brilliant !

Subject: *Government Single Payer Option..

Bart: I ask you to send out the word to all Democrats to call their Congresscritters and their Senators and tell them that
we have been betrayed on everything we have stood for so that they can get elected. When it comes to health care,
we expect them to take the money from the health insurers and from big phara and for just this once vote for the people anyway.

We didn’t get war crimes trials, we didn’t get an immediate end to the war in Iraq.
We paid trillions to thieves in bailouts and we don’t even have newspapers or jobs anymore.
But we still pay taxes and we still have to pay the trillions the bankers borrowed.

We demand to be able to join the federal government health care plan. Period.
We will pay the cost, but we can’t be turned down.
This is to be available starting January 1, 2010, not years away.

We demand that when the Democratic Congress decides whether to betray the people or their corporate bribers,
that this time they must choose the people and let their corporate bribers be disappointed. The people have been
disappointed enough, the corporate bribers have never been disappointed.

E.L. DeFlagrante


Bartcop.com

Single-Payer and the 'Democracy Deficit'

Guest Editorial By Ernest A. Canning on 6/5/2009 2:15PM

Or, 'Why corporate control of the media may be hazardous to your health'..

"Americans think that it’s healthcare that produces health, when there really is very little evidence for that. What turns out to be really important is the nature of caring and sharing in society….Where societies are more equal --- and economic equality is the thing that is most important in this --- people look after each other…and pretty well everyone does better. There’s almost nothing that is better in a society that tolerates the extreme levels of inequality in the United States. And so, we end up dying younger than people in all the other rich countries, despite spending half the world’s healthcare bill." - Dr. Stephen Bezruchka, March 30, 2009

"Who are we? Is this what we have become --- a nation that dumps people off like garbage who can't pay their hospital bills?" - Michael Moore, following a segment in which a confused elderly woman in a flimsy hospital gown is dumped curbside near a Skid Row rescue mission, in his documentary Sicko!*

In Failed States (2006), Prof. Noam Chomsky, a preeminent linguist and one of this nation’s most prolific political writers, concludes that the U.S. suffers from a “democracy deficit” --- the significant gap between the policy positions of the electorate and their elected representatives --- which he attributes to the manner in which “elections are skillfully managed to avoid issues and marginalize the underlying population…freeing the elected leadership to serve the substantial people."

Con't - Bradblog

"Hello to our friends and fans in domestic surveillance."

Just More Of The Old Piss Down Theory..

We Don't Need No Stinking Regulations..



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Get Rid Of Health Care For Profit !