 If this is what winning looks like, then Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid wants no part of it. Tired of Republican crowing about winning on Iraq funding, the budget battle and the energy bill, Reid (D-Nev.) shot back on Tuesday afternoon. "We hear a lot of Republicans boasting ... because of their unprecedented obstruction," Reid said.
| Pot, kettle, color application. Harry was so accomodating when he was the Minority Leader, wasn't he. |
Indeed, Republicans have gotten their way in the battle over spending, have forced Democrats to jettison rollbacks of tax breaks for oil companies, and have beaten back attempts to pay for expanded children's health care programs with a tobacco tax increase. Even though they're in the minority, the GOP, backed by President Bush, has used the filibuster to block Democratic priorities over and over this fall.
| For a lame duck Dubya sure seems to be winning a lot of battles in Congress. |
"Who's winning?" Reid asked a group of reporters. "Big Oil, Big Tobacco. ... Al Qaeda has regrouped and is able to fight a civil war in Iraq. ... The American people are losing."
| Harry once again demonstrates that he's essentially an idiot. Al-Qaeda is getting whacked in Iraq. Between us and the Sunni tribal chiefs there are few safe places left for them. Even the al-Q bigs are lamenting the powers of the infidels and apostates in Anbar. Harry clearly has chosen to ride his original position all the way down to the bottom. |
Reid left the microphones to head to a signing ceremony for legislation which increases gas mileage rules for the first time in 30 years — something Democrats will indeed tout as a "W" in their won-loss column.
| Which GWB signed, by the way. He can take credit too if he wants. |
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