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Harry Reid Says He Won’t Seek Re-Election

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http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/28/us/politics/senator-harry-reid-retire.html

Mr. Reid, 75, who suffered serious eye and facial injuries in a Jan. 1 exercise accident at his Las Vegas home, said he had been contemplating retiring from the Senate for months. He said his decision was not attributable either to the accident or to his demotion to minority leader after Democrats lost the majority in November’s midterm elections.

“I understand this place,” Mr. Reid said. “I have quite a bit of power as minority leader.”


Who will fill his spot? He also says he is going to be a thorn in McConnell's side for 22 months.
 
Hopefully the people of Nevada come to their senses going forward. Will be interesting to see the jockeying among the Senate Democrats and if there's a coup to oust Reid from the leadership before this term ends.

That won't happen, he is very powerful.
 
He only won his last re-election because the tea party nutters picked an unstable kook to run against him.
 
He only won his last re-election because the tea party nutters picked an unstable kook to run against him.

You are correct. With a reasonable opponent Reid would have been long gone. But the GOP made the same mistake in Delaware the same year. Then not having learned from their mistakes of 2010 which cost them at least two senate seats, they repeated the same mistakes in 2012 costing them Indiana and Missouri which may have carried over into losses in Wisconsin and Virginia.

Think what those 6 seats might have meant. The Republicans were their own worst enemy.
 
it is great news

but will Durbin be any better?

or god forbid, Schumer?
 
" This Surge has Failed "...

Harry Ried. One of the worst examples of a hack low life Politician thats ever walked the halls of the Capital building.
 
:( No More Old Man Bitter-Crazy in charge of the Democrats in the Senate.




Even in a place dominated by narcissistic jerks, Reid stood out as someone that everyone else recognized as a major narcissistic jerk. The Senate is better without him, but Republicans will lose a foil.
 
:( No More Old Man Bitter-Crazy in charge of the Democrats in the Senate.




Even in a place dominated by narcissistic jerks, Reid stood out as someone that everyone else recognized as a major narcissistic jerk. The Senate is better without him, but Republicans will lose a foil.

Republicans may lose a foil, but the Senate will also lose a major legislation blocking blood clot in it's arteries. Perhaps to lose some of it's dysfunctionality.
 
the only better news could be that Nancy Pelosi is finally put out to pasture also

Reid & Pelosi

now that is/was a scary pair of politicians
 
You can still laugh at him when he's gone.

Yeah, but it will lose it's punch. :(


Mind you, the man is an awful person. I wonder what the statute of limitations is going to be on all the crooked ways he steered money into his coffers?
 
Yeah, but it will lose it's punch. :(


Mind you, the man is an awful person. I wonder what the statute of limitations is going to be on all the crooked ways he steered money into his coffers?

I think you can forget that, the best you can hope for is that he's gone.
 
I think you can forget that, the best you can hope for is that he's gone.

His kids took a bunch of that money. You ought not be able to break the law and get away with it because you are a big timer in a political party.


...:( But you are probably right.
 
He'll be replaced with another asshole.

I hope that person is properly trained in the important issues facing him, like the names of professional football teams and those nasty, anti-American Koch brothers. Someone needs to keep these critical issues in the forefront. Harry was quite skilled at that.
 
Hopefully the people of Nevada come to their senses going forward. Will be interesting to see the jockeying among the Senate Democrats and if there's a coup to oust Reid from the leadership before this term ends.

It will be Schumer in a walk.
 
He only won his last re-election because the tea party nutters picked an unstable kook to run against him.

So he won against a tea party kook. What is the excuse for Democrats letting him run the Senate and lose the majority?
 

His lies and deceit as both majority leader and minority leader have done serious damage to this country, the Congress of the United States and has been a contributing reason why Congress garners such little respect. Any outright liar and ideologue who leaves Congress is a step in the right direction. However, I'm wondering .... is this REALLY due to his exercising accident or does this have more to do with the Obama administrations disappointment in the mid-terms which made Obama look very bad. Remember, Harry got slapped around after Democrats lost the Senate and was put in the corner with the dunce cap on by the WH.

My personal belief is this retirement is not because of his "accident".
 
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