Daily Rant – April 30, 2009
April 30, 2009
Apparently many Democrats are angry at Harry Reid who made a deal with Arlen Specter to keep his seniority in the senate that he racked up serving as a Republican. HUH? Democrats should be mad. Look at the lengths Reid will go to in order to get a filibuster proof majority! So far that he is willing to anger senators in his own party.
The best part about all of this is, Reid may not even be re-elected in the 2010! So he has nothing to lose… except his senate seat.
From the LA Times:
Oops, not so fast with the feel-good vibes coming out of the Senate Democratic Caucus.
Turns out that one day after Pennsylvania Sen. Arlen Specter thrilled Democrats and stunned Republicans by defecting to the Blue Caucus, some of his new allies on the Democratic side are miffed.
The reason: Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid of Nevada, in negotiations before the announcement, promised Specter he could keep the seniority he’d accrued as a Republican on powerful committees such as Appropriations and Judiciary. There is of course precedence for this. Think Connecticut Sen. Joe Lieberman, who left the Democratic Party to run as an independent but was allowed to keep his chairmanship of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs, even though he endorsed his friend John McCain over Barack Obama in last year’s presidential election.
That did not sit well with some senators who stand to be passed over for subcommittee chairmanships because of Specter, and who shared their concerns with The Hill.
So much for singing kumbaya!
- FedUpEditor
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