Q: Do you support Harry Reid for Minority Leader or...

[book_worm]

do we need different leadership? If so, who would you support?

[Recursion]

1. I'd like Warren to get it just so people here will understand it doesn't come with magical powers

But, that's just me.

[book_worm]

3. We definitely need someone who understands parliamentary Senate rules

Which Reid does.

[AngryAmish]

2. Time for Reid to go.

[book_worm]

4. Who

in your opinion knows the senate rules well enough and would be tough enough to take Reid's place?

[AngryAmish]

7. LBJ?

What has been repuduated is the old way of doing things. Reid's ideas are old. He is old. His ideas don't work and do not help the American people.

Time for new things. people are hurting. Reid could not help.

Move aside, Reid. You are not helping.

[demwing]

5. Time for Reid to go

We need someone who will be a pit bull, not a puppy.

Warren.

[Erich Bloodaxe BSN]

6. Reid did one thing very well. Whether or not it turned out to be the right thing to do is

the question.

Reid blocked things coming to the floor, over and over. To some extent, this meant that the President didn't have to veto anything much. But it also meant that neither Repubs nor Dems in the Senate wound up building a portfolio of 'tough votes' on which they'd voted. He kept everyone from having to go on the record. Now Republicans were willing to go all in on being behind Republican values, even if they weren't taking the votes. But all too many Democrats instead wanted to be a mix of Democratic and Republican values. And had no real votes to point to to show they really were Dems.

Midterms are always an appeal to the 'extremes' of the party, the people who actually care about your values. So all of these wishy-washy 'Well, I am a Dem, but I agree with Repubs on coal, guns, education, nsa surveillance, ....' Dems got their butts handed to them, because they instead tried to appeal to 'the middle'.

[get the red out]

8. He's a nice man

But we don't need a nice man as minority leader. We need an asshole.

[Zorra]

9. I wrote essays here about how Harry is in the pocket of the Mining Industry

going back to 2006, when I found out they were going to elect him Senate Majority Leader.

"Democrats moving to the middle is a double disaster that alienates the party's progressive base while simultaneously sending a message to swing voters that the other side is where the good ideas are.' It unconsciously locks in the notion that the other side's positions are worth moving toward, while your side's positions are the ones to move away from. Plus every time you move to the center, the right just moves further to the right." ~ George Lakoff

[MADem]

10. We do not have a vote in this process.

The people who will vote for the Senate leadership are the people who will sit in the Senate.

Not us. This has nothing to do with us--congressional leaders are chosen by congresspersons.

There's a lot that goes on behind the scenes that we don't see. A person who is a mild-mannered type to the public can be a firebrand in private. Or a superb organizer or motivator. It's not our call who they want to represent their interests in dealing with the other side in Congress.