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The man is really something else. Really something else. He still doesn’t have a health care bill to show the American people, but he’s whining that Republicans don’t have sufficiently “comprehensive” alternatives of their own — when, in fact, Republicans have had plenty of legislative proposals on the table. The chutzpah of Harry Reid knows [...]

FNC’s Major Garrett tweets that Democrat Sen. Evan Bayh is “uncommitted” on Harry Reid’s “public option” plan announced yesterday.
Politico’s Manju Ranu reports that Joe Lieberman supports a GOP filibuster:
Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.) said Tuesday that he’d back a GOP filibuster of Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid’s health care reform bill.
Lieberman, who caucuses with Democrats [...]

Capitol Hill awaits a 3:15pm Eastern press conference from Harry Reid, who is reportedly set to announce his public-option plan amid uncertainty over Democrat support:
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid this afternoon will announce his decision to include a government-run health care plan, or “public option,” in the health care bill he brings to the floor, [...]

Signs of real Hope and Change from Nevada!
Via the Las Vegas Review-Journal:
It’s the highest stakes ever for a Nevada election, and former boxer Sen. Harry Reid is on the ropes early. Either Republican Danny Tarkanian or Sue Lowden would knock out Reid in a general election, according to a recent poll of Nevada voters.
The results [...]

Cue “Had a Bad Day:”
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid became the latest Democrat to stray into rhetorical trouble Tuesday, botching statements on three subjects in one news conference—including the fragile health of the chamber’s most senior members.
The Nevada Democrat reported that one of them, Sen. Edward Kennedy, D-Mass., was absent because he was receiving [...]

Dingy Harry Reid’s home state constituents are growing as weary of him as the rest of us.
Hope for change lives:
Nearly half of Nevadans have had enough of Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid as the powerful Democrat heads into his re-election campaign, a new Las Vegas Review-Journal poll finds.
About a third of the state’s voters would [...]

I want to remind you of what Harry Reid said just a few years ago in response to Republican calls for Social Security and Medicare reform. Reacting to GOP warnings in 2005 about the impending insolvency of both programs, Reid sneered:
“Today’s report confirms that the so-called Social Security crisis exists in only one place [...]

Grubby.

GOP Sen. Jeff Sessions and Democrat Sen. Ben Nelson attempted several times to bring their bipartisan amendment to the floor last week. SA 239 would require local governments and businesses that receive porkulus money to use the federal E-Verify citizenship check system.
On the House side, a long term extension of the E-Verify program passed there [...]

The Democrats’ retreat is complete:
Roland Burris gets his seat:
U.S. Senate officials have approved Roland Burris to fill the Senate seat vacated by President-elect Barack Obama, sources said on Monday, in a major about-face for the Democratic leadership.
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Wonder if they’ll do a hush-hush middle of the night swearing-in on Friday. The fewer witnesses to Harry Reid’s [...]

Harry Reid has filed S. 9, the Democrats’ new shamnesty bill. Not much difference in principle between Reid’s bill and McCain-Kennedy-Bush. Disingenuous lip service to immigration enforcement? Check. Path to legalization? Check.
There are a few new nuggets — most notably, open hostility to the Fence in Name Only on our southern border. Quoting from [...]

Darn. One high drama on the Hill is about to end. It was fun while it lasted.

The good news is that conservative stalwart Sen. Tom Coburn is looking out for you.
The bad news is that Dingy Harry and the Dems have wasted no time wasting more of your money. One of the first orders of business of the 111th Congress will be to pass a massive omnibus lands bill. Sen. Coburn [...]

Silly you! Don’t you know that when Harry Reid complained about how D.C. tourists reek, what he was really saying was how awesomely awesome they are:
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid defended himself Wednesday over a joking comment that tourists to the Capitol sometimes smell.
Turns out many people weren’t amused.
The Nevada Democrat has been attacked [...]

Stinker.

P-U!

Rejected.

Dingy.

The Democrats’ vacation continues.

Smear job.

Pity the 14 percenters.

“The lowest congressional job approval rating in the 34-year Gallup Poll history of asking the question.”

Perspective.

Scroll down for updates…10:07am Eastern: Reid is on the Senate floor whining about GOP obstruction…McConnell: Carter windfall profits tax was a “miserable failure” and would be again…See Ben Lieberman’s legislative analysis of the Dem energy measures here…11:23am Eastern Vote now underway on whether to move forward with S3044…Reid needs 60 votes…11:52am Eastern. Cloture motion fails, [...]

All aboard the economic stimulus bandwagon.

Snit fit: “Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) has announced that he will call the Senate into pro forma sessions every several days during the upcoming winter recess in order to prevent President Bush from making recess appointments.”

Losers. Update: More pile-on.

So, they can’t–make that won’t–get it together to provide funding for the troops, but they’re going to pretend to work over the weekend in order to stomp their feet over Democrat appointments. My four-year-old is more mature than Harry Reid:
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., will keep the U.S. Senate in session over the [...]

AP flash:
The Senate on Friday blocked a Democratic proposal to pay for the Iraq war but require that troops start coming home.
The 53-45 vote was 15 votes short of the 60 needed to advance. It came minutes after the Senate rejected a Republican proposal to pay for the Iraq war without strings attached.
The Republican measure [...]

Hey, why can’t the senators change their own sheets?
Liveblogging the Senate floor debate (refresh for latest updates)…
Jim Hoft notes that the Dems would not meet with anti-surrender veterans. Power Line has more.
Update 1:04pm Eastern. Teddy Kennedy has sent a new amendment on the education bill to the desk. SA 2327. A Senate source tells me [...]