Harry Reid's anti-Koch crusade eats up precious Senate time

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Washington Examiner:

Harry Reid's anti-Koch crusade eats up precious Senate time

BY BYRON YORK | SEPTEMBER 1, 2014 | 7:07 PM

 

If you're sick of cynicism in politics, you might want to avert your eyes from the Senate for the next few weeks.

 

There's a lot lawmakers need to do when the Senate returns from its August recess Sept. 9. To take just one example, the government is set to run out of money by the end of the month, and senators must pass a measure to keep funding going and avoid a shutdown.

 

But the Senate will have almost no time to do anything. "Following the August recess, we’re going to be here for two weeks and two days," Majority Leader Harry Reid told colleagues before the break, according to an account in The Hill. "That's not a lot of time for the workload we have to do."

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REID RAGE

 

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid’s diatribes against the Koch brothers on the floor of the Senate might be evidence of certifiable insanity if anyone took them seriously. But the attitude of the mainstream media, to the extent one can be detected, is ho-hum. The fact that no moderately well informed citizen of sound mind takes Reid’s diatribes seriously should be news all by itself.

 

Reid renders his diatribes on the floor of the United States Senate where he is cloaked in the immunity afforded representatives “in either house” under the speech or debate clause of Article I of the Constitution. He is a bully and a coward who has done great damage to the institution that he leads. It is simply impossible to imagine how he would be treated by an impartial press in an alternative universe. Reid represents a dramatic example of the powerful advantage Democrats hold by virtue of their media adjunct.

 

The failure of Congress to act is one of Barack Obama’s talking points whenever he threatens or undertakes lawless executive action. The Senate having failed even to entertain many of the bills that have passed the House, Reid himself has been instrumental to Congress’s failure to act. Like Reid’s diatribes, Obama’s talking points seek to exploit the ignorance of the Democrats’ core voters. The powerful advantage Democrats hold by virtue of their media adjunct again asserts itself.

http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2014/09/reid-rage-2.php

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Sen. Joe Manchin criticizes Harry Reid’s attacks on Koch brothers Posted by Mandy Nagy ▪ Thursday, April 10, 2014 at 5:46pm

Democratic Senator Joe Manchin of West Virginia apparently isn’t hopping on the Koch Obsession bandwagon with some of his colleagues.

When asked in a FOX News interview whether he thinks it helps or hurts the cause for the country and for Congress when Harry Reid continually brings up the Koch brothers, Manchin...

http://legalinsurrection.com/2014/04/sen-joe-manchin-criticizes-harry-reids-attacks-on-koch-brothers//#more