After the Petraeus report it seems the Congressional Democrats’ hope for Republican defections to order a quick withdrawal from Iraq is going to end up in frustration again.
Senate Republicans, bolstered by Army Gen. David H. Petraeus’ war report this week, are closing ranks and say Democrats will continue to fall far shy of the votes [...]
Someone needs to chide this bugger. I wish the Democrats would vote someone else in as leader.
Senate Republicans are preparing to take aim at Majority Leader Harry Reid over the August recess for being “all talk but no action” and helping drag the Democrat-led Congress’ approval rating to a historic low, according to a [...]
Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority leader Harry Reid have said they will announce a new plan to end the Iraq war, to which I say, Just defund the darned thing and get it over with! Stop playing games and be the transparent Congress leaders you promised in the last election.
Speaker Nancy Pelosi [...]
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid must have shaken his head so hard something is rattling inside that is making him seem stupid!
According to Politico Reid has declared Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Pace, and the leader of the troops in Iraq, General Petraeus, a man he voted to confirm in January, “incompetent”.
Are [...]
Captain Ed has a wonderful piece up about an editorial from David Broder about Sen. Reid.
The port side of the blogosphere rings with rage over David Broder’s Washington Post column today. Talking Points Memo has called for a “blogswarm” to shout down Broder for the unforgivable offense of pointing out that Harry Reid has [...]
DJ Drummond has a wonderful post up titled The Harry Reid School of “Governance”
I am linking the last two paragraphs and urge you to go over and read the whole thing.
Now Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid has made a number of regrettable statements. Not only that any decent American would regret such sentiments, [...]
Captain Ed has done some research on Harry Reid and has put them all in one easy post to read.
These have floated in and out of the blogosphere in various forms, but I thought it would be useful to CQ readers to see the counterarguments to Harry Reid’s assertions in one easy format. I [...]
Words spoken on Capitol Hill Tuesday by Vice President Cheney:
THE VICE PRESIDENT: I usually avoid press comment when I’m up here, but I felt so strongly about what Senator Reid said in the last couple of days, that I thought it was appropriate that I come out today and make a statement that I think [...]
Congressional Democrats are looking ahead to the next stage of the political battle over Iraq cutting off funds for war operations after March though it puts lawmakers eyeing the White House in a bind.
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid has signed on as a co-sponsor of a bill to do that, [...]
What did Senator Reid actually mean yesterday when he informed us we had lost the war in Iraq. I thought the words spoke for themselves. Apparently I was incorrect:
CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER: This is a classic definition of a gaffe. The definition of a gaffe in Washington is when a politician accidentally says what’s in his [...]
Via Drudge:
TOP DEM LEADER PROCLAIMS: ‘WAR IS LOST’
How does the leader of the United States Senate make this proclamation in good conscience while we are at war? It is understandable that there are divisions and various opinions as to the state of affairs in Iraq but for any politician to [...]
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid says President Bush is as isolated as Richard Nixon during Watergate.
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) compared President Bush to former President Nixon today, suggesting Bush is “as isolated” now over the Iraq war as Nixon was during the Watergate scandal, reports Politico’s Carrie Budoff.
Reid was responding to questions [...]
Leader Reid and Speaker Pelosi have reconsidered and have accepted the president’s invitation to the White House to talk about several items, including the supplemental military spending bill.
Democratic leaders last night accepted President Bush’s offer to discuss the war-funding standoff, capitulating to the White House request after a day of alternately snubbing the invite [...]
President Bush invited Senate Majority Leader Reid to the White House to discuss the stalemate over the war funding supplemental.
Mr. Reid’s response? Basically he told the president to take his invitation and shove it.
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid on Tuesday turned down President Bush’s invitation to meet at the White House next week to [...]
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