Harry Reid: Greenspan "a fraud", Bush "the worst in history"

[featherman]

and more. Whoops, there goes Harry's positive press coverage from Mrs Greenspan (NBC's Andrea Mitchell)

"In the end, however, much of the conversation was premised on a shared disappointment and disdain for the "highly-partisan" path that the Republican Party had pursued since the Gingrich revolution in 1994. Asked by a Republican in the crowd whether he would be willing to personally reach out to President Bush to bridge their partisan divide, Reid responded by calling the current Commander in Chief the worst "we have ever had in the history of this country."

Reid also lobbed some harsh rhetoric at former Fed Chairman Alan Greenspan, whom he called a "fraud," the "J. Edgar Hoover of the financial world," and, as he has in the past, "the biggest political hack in Washington."

He concluded: "The Republicans starting with Newt Gingrich and exacerbated with George Bush, they became drunk with power and we need to change that."

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/05/30/reid-superdelegates-know_n_104324.html

(This is posted here in GD-P because other parts of the article deal with the resolution of the nomination process, most of which has been covered elsewhere. In adherence to moderator guidelines.)

[olkaz]

1. Reid: Most Milquetoast Senate Leader in History

Seriously, talk, talk, talk. He must be replaced.

Clinton maybe?

[featherman]

2. I'm no big fan either but enjoyed Harry's tough talk today at least

[olkaz]

3. Yeah, I hear you.

Just way too little way too late.

We need a bulldog at his position and he's proven to be a poodle. I hope something is done.

[Spider Jerusalem]

6. Clinton hasn't the seniority, doesn't play well with others...

and after the campaign she's run will probably meet with a rather cold reception upon her return to the Senate.

And Reid is probably doingg as good a job as one could expect. Remember, the Democratic majority in the Senate is razor-thin and voting usually splits on party lines. Anyone expecting decisive action in the form of impeachment, investigation, etc in those circumstances is totally divorced from political reality.

[olkaz]

10. Let's be honest though.

You can't possibly believe he has been as forceful as he should have been, do you?

I realize that a lot of statesmanship is done behind closed doors, and I know that the slim margin has made the big goals impossible, but not making the Republicans fillibuster?

I really want somebody that is going to lay out the agenda and AGGRESSIVELY promote it and get it done.

[Spider Jerusalem]

12. The votes aren't there to end a filibuster, either, though.

It requires a three-fifths majority to invoke cloture on a filibuster. This is a matter of legislative procedure (something which, forgive me for saying, you don't really seem to understand).

[olkaz]

13. You're missing my point entirely.

I know that they couldn't end it. The point is to make them do it. When the roles are reversed, Republicans aren't satisfied to hear that we'll fillibuster something. They MAKE Democrats do it.

It promotes the idea of the Democrats being do-nothing and neutered, by letting the Republicans change the debate by threatening. If Reid had made them do it, the Republicans would have looked like the roadblocks to progress that they were.

Just out of curiousity, what exactly was it that I said that made you think I didn't understand the process?

[TheDebbieDee]

8. More milquetoast than Sen. Tom Dashiel (sp)?

Although, to his credit, Dashiel had to be "anthraxed" to be kept submissive and quiet......

[olkaz]

9. Thank you for pointing that out.

I cannot imagine how much something like that would affect me, honestly. I mean, jesus.

Daschle wasn't my ideal guy, but I give him a pass for the reason you pointed out.

[featherman]

4. More fun comments from the article:

"Pressed on several occasions why the Democrats have not achieved more legislative accomplishments, the Majority Leader put the onus on GOP obstructionism: "We don't have moderate Republicans in the Senate anymore. The only one we have is Olympia Snowe. As I say in my book, Arlen Specter is with us whenever we don't need him."

[Coexist]

5. Andrea Mitchell's gonna be pissed.

[LSK]

7. I didnt know he had any press coverage

[Cant trust em]

11. Harry "all talk" Reid. NT