I don't understand why Harry Reid can't force this auto loan through

[LisaM]

Doesn't he have ANY leverage on the government money that goes to Alabama or Louisiana? He has simply been ineffective (though I certainly don't think Daschle would have exerted any more muscle). They've got to tell Shelby and Vitter not to hold their breath waiting for committees to move on any funding for their states.

And where are the so-called good Republicans like Olympia Snowe and Susan Collins on this? I did hear that Hagel was willing to help out the auto companies, but I've heard precious few other names.

[marauding liberal]

1. Snowe and Collilns voted yea.

Tester and some other dems voted nay.

[gravity]

2. They got it done through the TARP money

There is no need to force it through at the moment. The Democrats got what they wanted

[Jack Bone]

3. How each senator voted on rescue bill....

http://www.freep.com/article/20081211/BUSINESS01/81212001/1014

[Tangerine LaBamba]

9. WTF?

Baucus, Reid, Tester and Lincoln voted "NO"???????????

What the ................... ?

My two Virginia Senators - one a Repubican - voted Yea, I am proud to say.

What's with these four douchebags?

[Robbien]

4. Because Reid lets GOPer McConnell lead him around by the nose. What Mitch wants Mitch gets

Nothing happens in the Senate unless Mitch says so. He also doesn't even have to bother filibustering. He whispers the word and Reid is in the corner cowering.

Reid just spends all his time whining saying I don't have the votes. As if who is to blame for that? Nobody but Reid, that's his job.

[MrCoffee]

14. Exactly correct in every respect

:thumbsup:

[iceman66]

15. Pretty much.

It's a shame Hillary never got a shot at majority leader.

I doubt she would be as timid.

[lamp_shade]

5. He didn't want to from the start. He wanted TARP to cover it. n/t

[LisaM]

7. Well I agree with that

He (and Pelosi, for that matter) never acted like they wanted it to go through at all.

[riqster]

11. He also forced Mitch the Bitch to go on record

...as anti-Big-Three-Bailout, as obviously wanting to bust the union, as being for Wall Street but against Woodward Avenue.

This'll hurt the Reeps in the next session, when they try to mooch contributions from industrial concerns OR unions. Harry done good.

[liberal N proud]

6. Reid has no spine

[snake in the grass]

8. For what you are asking...

...Reid would require a spine. He is a worthless, cowardly invertebrate and I hope to one day see him leave D.C. in shame, the fucking prick!

[Tangerine LaBamba]

10. Amen

I've been yelling that from his first day as "leader."

What a tool.

[elocs]

16. Yeah! Now we're getting back to what DU is all about now that the election is over. n/t

[Greyhound]

12. He has no interest in doing so. Look at what is happening in his state. n/t

[mdmc]

13. either he got what he wanted, or he didn't have the spine

not sure which it is..

[lamp_shade]

17. He got what he wanted. Good on Harry.