Reid Gives Top Senate Spots To Worst Liberals

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30 Responses to “Reid Gives Top Senate Spots To Worst Liberals”

1. Lyn Wilson
   November 14th, 2006 at 6:36 pm

   Well the upside is, this whole situation is going to make 2 years of great commentary. And also, once the Dems figure out that “governing” as Nan Pelosi puts it, isn’t nearly as easy as it looks from the old arm chair! The Bush legacy is safe.

   Lyn

2. jwalker
   November 14th, 2006 at 6:57 pm

   John Kerry watches on. Was it something he said????

3. Gila Monster
   November 14th, 2006 at 7:02 pm

   This will get very interesting folks, with this bunch of “bottom dwellers of the gene pool” in charge.

   The “Grand Wizard” Byrd in charge of Appropriations, read what you may into that one.
   Boxer in charge of Sewers, that fits.
   The “Swimmer” in charge of Health? That’s a bit of a stretch. I’d be surprised if he survives his term.
   Rockefeller heading Intelligence?? What a laugh, that buffon couldn’t think his way out of a paper bag!
   “Lurch” heading Small Business?? He couldn’t run a lemonade stand for pete’s sake..!!

   Rewarding the “Dim-witted” party liners are we there “Dingy Harry”?
   Like I said, interesting and a very target rich environment.

4. doingwhatican
   November 14th, 2006 at 7:29 pm

   Is it only a “Culture of Corruption” if the miscreants are Republican?

   Ah, what fresh hell this is.

5. esul
   November 14th, 2006 at 7:32 pm

   I’m not seeing Hillary’s name amidst these beauties. Has she been given any increase in responsibilities?

6. wampaku40
   November 14th, 2006 at 7:45 pm

   With Byrd in charge of Appropriations (kind of like putting a cat in the mice lab for a weekend?) perhaps it is a great time to move to WVa?! He has always been the porkiest Senator, and they must be running out of fat cats there to soak up his largesse. S’pose I have to be a Dhimmie or a felon or or a labor union member to get some?

7. rocketman
   November 14th, 2006 at 8:09 pm

   The above story as reported by CNN omitted one appointment. As reported by AP

   …Senate Democrats also filled some administrative posts for when the new Congress convenes. The new sergeant-at-arms will be Terrance Gainer, who was ousted earlier this year as chief of the U.S. Capitol Police after questions were raised about him hiring is son-in-law as a police officer.
   http://www.tinyurl.com/y4llvq

   Dontcha love it?? Corruption?? Naw

8. rocketman
   November 14th, 2006 at 9:25 pm

   Editing function wouldn’t work. Source for above story is:
   http://www.tinyurl.com/y4llvq

9. SG
   November 14th, 2006 at 9:31 pm

   As noted above the comment entry box, sometimes the edits do not show up right away because of the system “caching.”

10. Voice of Reason
    November 14th, 2006 at 9:32 pm

    Funny if it weren’t so tragic…..

    Byrd in charge of Appropriations??? Wow….Fox in the hen has never meant more to me than right now.
    Teddy the Killer in at Health?? Who’s health? Certainly not anyone who is a passenger in his automoblies.

    But the classic is Kerry at Small Business. This guy has never worked a day in his life. What did Ann The Magnificent call him?? A low brow Lothario?? Lap dog for rich women?? LMFAO. Only thing that could be less fitting is Byrd in charge of the Black Caucus.

    At least they have the Smartest (or smuggest) man on the planet in charge of our interface with the Euroweenies. Biden can now tell EVERYONE and not just Americans how to do everything.

    Classic.
    VoR

11. Professor_Repulso
    November 14th, 2006 at 9:34 pm

    Before I read the caption I was wondering who the midget was. Murray certainly looks butch in her big boy trousers. All they needed to complete their ensemble were some of those wide brimmed fedoras so they could look exactly like the gangsters they are. Reid appears to be reaching for his piece, or maybe some brass knucks. Ichabod Kerry languishes in the background.

12. 1sttofight
    November 14th, 2006 at 9:45 pm

    Lock and Load Boys and Girls.

    It is coming sooner than we thought.
    Either we die fighting or we die in prison.
    Yall know what I am going to do.

13. mathews
    November 14th, 2006 at 10:09 pm

    Looks like they are shutting out Joe Lieberman, it’s not to late to change party’s Joe!

14. mathews
    November 14th, 2006 at 10:13 pm

    Red Meat, if this crew doesnt lose the Presidential election the USA’s going to freeze over (as in we’ll be in hell for sure).

15. SG
    November 14th, 2006 at 10:24 pm

    Here is a hilarious article from ABC News about the photo at the top:

    What on Earth Did Schumer Say to Kerry?

    November 14, 2006

    ABC’s Z. Byron Wolf Reports: For anyone who needed more evidence that Sen. John Kerry (D-MA) is out of favor with Democrats, it appeared that Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) kicked him out of the Democrats’ leadership walk on Tuesday.

    As the new Senate leaders departed from the Old Senate Chamber on their way to the Ohio Clock Corridor to talk about their agenda, the election of the leaders, and Iraq, John Kerry — not a member of the new leadership — walked out of the room behind new Majority Leader Harry Reid, Majority Whip Dick Durbin, Caucus Secretary Patty Murray and Caucus Vice-Chair Schumer. It is, after all, a public hallway in the Senate.

    This reporter was standing with a scrum of journalists as Democrats left their caucus. It appeared that when Schumer noticed Kerry behind him, he turned around said something to Kerry.

    We obviously don’t know what Schumer said, but Kerry stopped in his tracks, watched the four Democratic leaders walk on without him, and when then he ducked between two of the marble statues in the hallway, which leads from the old Senate Chamber to the new Senate floor. Someone trying to project might say that Schumer had told Kerry to get the heck out of the leadership shot and Kerry, after digesting the request for a moment, did it.

    http://blogs.abcnews.com/polit.....rth_d.html

16. 1sttofight
    November 14th, 2006 at 10:27 pm

    Do they know who he is?

17. Helena
    November 14th, 2006 at 10:32 pm

    Kerry in charge of Small Business? Is he planning to open another phoney David’s Cookies franchise?

    From ‘The Hill’:

    How did Kerry’s cookies crumble?
    http://www.hillnews.com/news/012804/kerry.aspx

18. Nimblicity
    November 14th, 2006 at 10:34 pm

    “Lurch” heading Small Business?? He couldn’t run a lemonade stand for pete’s sake..!!

    But the classic is Kerry at Small Business. This guy has never worked a day in his life.

    When I saw that it reminded me of a story back when Kerry was running for POTUS (remember, things could be worse than they’ve become). It answers the question of Kerry’s qualifications for heading the Small Business Committe…though not in a way he’d be proud of, necessarily:

    http://www.hillnews.com/news/012804/kerry.aspx

19. SG
    November 14th, 2006 at 10:36 pm

    Great minds, you guys.

    And you know if has to be true or Kerry would have sued Liederman (David’s Cookies) for a fortune.

    My favorite part:

    “Some guy who called me up was John Kerry, in ’79 or ’80,” Liederman recalled. “He said he wanted to come down and talk to me about franchising. He came to the office and said he had an incredible space in Boston, which was Faneuil Hall. He said he needed some plans and some layouts and all sorts of things to get the approval of the landlord.”

    “So I gave him the layout, the package, and he went back and I didn’t hear from him for six or seven months.”

    Then one day Liederman got a call from someone who said they’d seen one of his stores in Faneuil Hall. Not having a store in Boston, Liederman decided to have a look for himself.

    “It was a direct, 100-percent knock off of David’s Cookies,” said Liederman, from the appliances to the shop’s design to the cookies themselves. “If you had walked into a David’s Cookie’s store in Manhattan at the same time he opened ‘John’s Cookies’ in Boston, you couldn’t tell the difference.”

    “John’s Cookies.” Kerry is so stupid and lazy he couldn’t even come up with a different sort of name.

    And he is so stupid and above the law he thought he could just plagiarize lock stock and barrel.

20. Nimblicity
    November 14th, 2006 at 10:38 pm

    Hats off to you, Helena “Quick Draw” McGraw.

    But then I’m an opinion-slinger, not an article-citer, so let me sell you my post.

21. Helena
    November 14th, 2006 at 10:45 pm

    Great minds is right. I can vouch for Nimb’s.

    But there’s a really great-mind-numbing quote at the end of the Hill article from Liederman:

    Still, if he wants it, Kerry hasn’t quite lost Liederman’s vote.

    “I’d support anybody that wasn’t Bush,” he said. “If Kerry got the nomination, I’d absolutely support him — although Bush never stole David’s Cookies from me.”

    Even though David Liederman knew beyond a doubt from personal experience that Kerry was a liar and a thief, he still said he’d vote for him before Bush. What are you going to do with people like that?

22. Professor_Repulso
    November 14th, 2006 at 10:58 pm

    Poll: Most doubt Dems have plan for Iraq
    http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/200.....on_ap_poll
    I don’t know whether to laugh or cry.

23. SG
    November 14th, 2006 at 11:07 pm

    Isn’t it funny how we never saw any such polling when it actually might have mattered?

24. BillK
    November 15th, 2006 at 1:27 am

    I’ve seen election ads, I know the Democrats have always had a clear plan in Iraq:

    “What we’re doing isn’t working.”

    Ah, fun.

25. Lyn Wilson
    November 15th, 2006 at 9:08 am

    “I’m not seeing Hillary’s name amidst these beauties. Has she been given any increase in responsibilities? ”

    No but its a priviledge just to be nominated. :) Acutally Senator Clinton is the junior Senator from NY (we’re so thrilled to have Upchuck Schumer as our Senior Senator….) She is however, on the Senate Armed Services Committee. Isn’t that enough power for her?

26. AmericanIPA
    November 15th, 2006 at 11:07 am

    Kucharsk, I think “what we’re doing isn’t working” could be a blanket Deomcratic campaign slogan, if they were into truth at all.

    The beautiful part for Hillary is that she can sit back and let her comrades be the bad guys, never do anything too partisan, then reap the rewards in 2008. And let’s not kid ourselves about how “unelectable” Hillary is. All she needs is about 19 more electoral points than Kerry got and she’s there. See for yourself at http://www.270towin.com/

    How much campaigning do you think Hillary will do in Ohio in the coming 22 months?

27. wirenut
    November 15th, 2006 at 11:15 am

    Don’t be so hard on Lurch folks, all parades with donkey’s need someone in the back with broom and pail !

28. EvilConservo
    November 15th, 2006 at 1:19 pm

    Don’t worry, be happy!

    Take comfort in knowing that Charles K. is always right and what he said about this this whole situation makes a lot of sense. Not all is doom and gloom and may even turn out better than anyone expected.

29. esul
    November 15th, 2006 at 5:14 pm

    She is however, on the Senate Armed Services Committee. Isn’t that enough power for her?

    Actually, no. I want her to have a clearly definable record in ‘08.

    The beautiful part for Hillary is that she can sit back and let her comrades be the bad guys, never do anything too partisan, then reap the rewards in 2008.

    Exactly. She’s going to try to present herself as a populist, b/c to most people, she’s a blank slate. The fact that she’s not seen as one of those ‘crazy lefties’ running the cmtes will help her. Kerry &/or Gore running will also help her seem more centrist by comparison.

30. 1sttofight
    November 17th, 2006 at 11:59 am

    James Taranto notes:

    “You know, education–if you make the most of it, you study hard, you do your homework, and you make an effort to be smart, uh, you can do well. If you don’t, you get stuck between two statues.”

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