A repository for Marcospinelli's comments and essays published at other websites.

Nevada Senate 2010: Harry Reid Racks Up Republican Endorsements

Wednesday, September 8, 2010


Harry Reid has served Republicans very well as the Senate Majority Leader.

He's allowed the gridlock that keeps more than 200 pieces of Democratic legislation from being voted on in the Senate.  

Reid refuses to exercise the discretion that Senate rule 22 allows him, by letting Republicans merely threaten a filibuster instead of forcing them to actually do it.  Filibustering is hard on those soft, privileged bodies.  The one and only time Reid forced it (Jim Bunning, extending unemployment benefits), the GOP caved.

 

 
Read the Article at HuffingtonPost

0 comments:

About This Blog

  © Blogger templates Newspaper by Ourblogtemplates.com 2008

Back to TOP