There was once a boy who was put in charge of watching his village’s sheep. Because he was bored, he would occasionally report that he had seen a wolf when in fact he had not. Every time that he falsely cried out that a wolf was about, the village would rouse itself to come out and scare the wolf away, but they soon learned that these were false alarms. One day, an actual wolf showed up. The boy cried “wolf” but no one in the village believed him anymore. And the wolf ate some of their sheep. That boy was named Harry Reid.
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Good one. I love it. It’s time for Dem pols to translate progressive vision into action. Let the chips fall where they may.
He’s only doing his job, B. And by that I mean, “maintaining the status quo”. That’s what the Senate is for. They don’t call it “the place good bills go to die” for nothing.
That’s the only thing that makes any sense. Because a grown man show has served as long as he has cannot be both that stupid and that naive. What he is getting has to be pretty much what he wants.
It has to be for “consumption” by the base. A doggie treat. Pavlov’s bell. Start salivating, good doggie!
Hapless Harry (and his Dem cohort) really think that we are that stupid.
Nothing “hapless” about it. It’s deliberate.
The warning about changing the rules is just for show.
I don’t think the base has ever bought Harry’s BS on this. It is the base that was screaming for him to do something about filibuster reform. It is the base trying to hold his feet to the fire to use his constitutional power and the election results to actually govern like a majority party. His finger wagging is window dressing for the Party establishment. The base has had enough. Every time he does this kind of stuff he simply looks like a weak and foolish man.
Well, Hapless Harry is definitely the Boy who cried Wolf, but the problem is that his “villagers” don’t own any sheep for the wolf to kill. WE own the sheep. Hell, we ARE the sheep. That’s who’s suffering from the idiotic boobery of Bad Shepherd Harry.
You know, by all accounts Shepherd Mitchipoo gathered his Repub flock together when all seemed lost and they had only 40 “conservative” shitheads to opppose the New Dem Majority in the entire gub’mint. He told them they had to agree to stick together or the flock was fucked. And his sheep did it. Followed their shepherd Mitchipoo’s orders. Because he acted like an actual leader. And they destroyed the New Dem Majority and ruined everyone’s hopes for the future.
But after that catastrophic defeat, Hapless Harry can’t even order his flock to modify the Repubs’ filibuster. If he even tried, we don’t even know that. And that’s why Repubs have defeated us, and make no mistake, we have been defeated. Repubs got right wing loons like war criminal Bybee and lunatic Janice Rogers Brown on federal appeals courts when they had the majority. We can’t get the fucking NY AG on an appeals court. Or the fucking Ohio AG to head up a consumer agency.
Shepherd Harry has been an unmitigated disaster for the Dem party. And he thinks that anyone is listening to his absurd bleating on the filibuster now? Low comedy. Bleat away, you worthless loser. You snatched defeat from the jaws of victory and led the country into paralysis and total gub’mint collapse. That’s your unrepairable legacy.
Does anyone watch House of Cards? It’s an entertaining view of how the House operates.
I enjoyed it too. Spacey projects the conniving character quite well. Also liked the earlier BBC version back in the 1990s with Ian Richardson. I’m thinking of taking a look at that again sometime.
Oh Harry, you’re such a tease!