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WASHINGTON — Senator Harry Reid, the tough tactician who has led Senate Democrats since 2005, will not seek re-election next year, bringing an end to a three-decade congressional career that culminated with his push of President Obama’s ambitious agenda against fierce Republican resistance.
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.”
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/28/us/politics/senator-harry-reid-retire.html?_r=0
There really is a god!!!! Praise God Almighty!!!
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/28/us/politics/senator-harry-reid-retire.html?_r=0
There really is a god!!!! Praise God Almighty!!!
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.
He only won his last re-election because the tea party nutters picked an unstable kook to run against him.
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/28/us/politics/senator-harry-reid-retire.html?_r=0
There really is a god!!!! Praise God Almighty!!!
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/28/us/politics/senator-harry-reid-retire.html?_r=0
There really is a god!!!! Praise God Almighty!!!
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/28/us/politics/senator-harry-reid-retire.html?_r=0
There really is a god!!!! Praise God Almighty!!!
it is great news
but will Durbin be any better?
or god forbid, Schumer?
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.
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Too bad. He made me laugh.
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?
I think you can forget that, the best you can hope for is that he's gone.
He'll be replaced with another asshole.
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.
He only won his last re-election because the tea party nutters picked an unstable kook to run against him.
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/28/us/politics/senator-harry-reid-retire.html?_r=0
There really is a god!!!! Praise God Almighty!!!
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