Who would YOU like to see as Senate Majority Leader instead of Reid?

[UrbScotty]

Poll question: Who would YOU like to see as Senate Majority Leader instead of Reid?

[PBS Poll-435]

1. Ron Wyden

:-)

[JeffR]

2. anyone

anyone at all

[SharonRB]

3. Boxer, Dodd, Kerry or Feingold

Too hard to pick just one.

[Muttocracy]

19. my exact 4 - though they're all needed on committees too...

Kerry will be leading foreign relations, Dodd banking, Boxer environment and public works, and there is a ton to do on those. I think the majority leader doesn't usually chair a committee. Can't remember if Feingold is a committee chair already?

Anyway, I agree with your top 4!

[CrispyQ]

23. Ditto.

Any of them would be outstanding!

[Sebastian Doyle]

4. Feingold or Boxer would be my first choices.

Leahy, Kerry, or Durbin would be OK. Schumer is completely NOT acceptable (he'd be as bad as Spineless Reid if not worse.) I thought Dodd was a good fit for the job during the FISA mess, but I'm not so sure now after the Wall Street Meltdown.

[Liberal Veteran]

5. Senator Al Franken.

Just to watch Bill O'Reilly have a seizure on the air.

[onehandle]

10. Seconded! nt

[GodlessBiker]

13. Thirded. New blood.

[BlooInBloo]

30. :)

[rwheeler31]

6. Reid is just fine.

[Liberal Veteran]

9. He certainly does a good job of representing the invertebrate caucus.

[FLAprogressive]

7. Feingold, Leahy, or Boxer. nt

[WeDidIt]

8. I'm fine with Reid. n/t

[Webster Green]

11. Boxer (she's my U.S. Senator)

Well, she's one of my Senators. The other one is a fucking right-wing idiot. (DiFi) :smoke:

[fla nocount]

12. I can't think of anyone who doesn't lick boots.

Robt. Byrd is a defender of the constitution and votes to the right of BO. How about him?

[Webster Green]

16. Barbara Boxer stood up to challenge the 2004 Ohio rigged elections

She's very courageous!

No boot-licker there. :smoke:

[fla nocount]

34. Okay, FISA, Iraq, bailout...she voted Nay with Byrd.

She can have it. She's prettier, probably smells better even if she's not as eloquent as Byrd (nobody is). Sadly I must petition this choice through our own Bill Nelson who I'd be willing to help defeat in the primaries...he knows it too. He and I don't communicate much these days.

[stevedeshazer]

14. Kent Conrad -- Mr Budget

My dark horse choice.

[jaysunb]

15. Let a Lady !

I'm proud of my Senator !

[ProSense]

17. The Dems have already re-elected Reid majority leader.

In the 111th Congress, Reid will serve his third consecutive two-year term as Senate Democratic Leader, his second as Senate Majority Leader.

link

Also, I doubt Senators Boxer, Dodd, Kerry, Leahy and Feingold would be interested. The majority leader cannot chair a committee. They spend most of their time in the Senate coordinating floor activities.

[fla nocount]

28. Hey, I'm a Dem. I don't recall voting for Pelosi in pants..

to be Senate leader. Leaders are supposed to lead not roll in the community latrine so that they will smell like everyone else and be accepted as just another ol' Blue Dog.

[ProSense]

29. The Senate Dems elect their leader. n/t

[BlooInBloo]

31. What the hell are you talking about?

[fla nocount]

36. Leadership, competance, representative government owing...

allegiance to the citizenry of this country. Someone with a vision and purpose for the nation who is universally respected by their peers and constituents so that things actually get done other than bailing out bankers and enabling a police state both domestic and abroad. Someone other than a boot-licking blue dog.

There, I've said it, now ask me a hard one.

[BlooInBloo]

37. Um, were you aware that Pelosi isn't a Senator?

EDIT: And also that you don't know how to spell "competence"?

[fla nocount]

40. Yes, I know, Pelosi is the leader who enables down the street from...

Reid. The pretender that sits in Rayburn's chair and has T. Boone for a business partner. I'll chalk the spelling error up to ebonics since you caught the drift.

[Freddie Stubbs]

35. Are you a Democratic United States Senator?

They are the ones who elect the Senate Majority Leader.

[fla nocount]

39. No, sad to say, one Mr. William Nelson is my Senator and he's...

so busy with the mirror admiring his togs and tutu that he has little thought for leadership.

[annabanana]

18. Sheldon Whitehouse D - RI

He knocked my socks off during the Justice Department hearings...

[Muttocracy]

20. he impressed me on Foreign Relations too

maybe he'll follow in Biden's footsteps and end up leading both of those committees eventually. Someone from RI posted to DU that they were not at all pleased about him but I don't remember the details.

[book_worm]

21. Joe Lieberman!

Hey wait...wait...I was just kidding...HELP !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[orleans]

46. i was scanning the list of answers--you got me to click on yours! n/t

[Call me Deacon Blues]

22. Jim Webb

He's a bit to the right of my politics, but he's tough, he's got class, and he'd kick some ass. The man has a spine, which is more that I can say for Harry Reid.

[PassingFair]

24. I'd LOVE Russ Feingold...

but I'll gladly settle for Dick Durbin.

Love them BOTH.

[mucifer]

25. Bernie Sanders. I know he's not a dem. But, he's my favorite. He's a socialist.

[XOKCowboy]

26. That would be poetic! I love it.

I voted for Barbara but Bernie is my favorite Senator.

[OnceUponTimeOnTheNet]

27. Boxer or Feingold. No one else does it for me. nt.

[sce56]

32. My pick is Finegold!

With apologies to my Sen. Barbra Boxer It is Fiengold hands up or down!

[madokie]

33. Personally I wish they could change the rules or whatever and let Sanders have it

he's the smartest mo'fo in the room no matter what room it is or whose in it. Well he may not always be the smartest but hes always the one with the most common sense.

[Aviation Pro]

38. Jim Fricking Webb....

...

[fla nocount]

42. Still wondering about his aide and where in the head...

did the bullet make him dead. Murder or suicide, it dropped off the map real quick.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/greg-mitchell/young-aide-to-jim-webb-fo_b_115807.

There hasn't been a damn word about it since it happened. There's nothing to research either, funeral notice, coroners report...nothing.

[norepubsin08]

41. Bernie Sanders

and Kucinich for Speaker of the House

[anonymous171]

43. Someone with balls.

[Greyhound]

44. Kick for Feingold. n/t

[TreasonousBastard]

45. I'm perfectly happy with Reid, and anyone who isn't...

should start learning the first fucking thing about how the Senate works.

(Beginning with how Congressional leadership isn't about getting what YOU think should be done)

[orleans]

47. boxer, feingold. durbin? maybe maybe not. n/t

[B Calm]

48. Benard Sanders

[shadowknows69]

49. personally, I want Barbara Boxer elected as Queen of the Universe

But I'll take Sen. Maj. Leader. For now.