Harry Reid and Convict Ted Stevens: Birds of a Feather
I’ve been saying for years that Harry Reid is corrupt, a mole, a crook, a stooge for the GOP. Today, Harry openly admits that he thinks Ted Stevens, the Alaska Republican convicted of corruption, shouldn’t do jail time:
The Majority Leader thinks former Alaska Sen. Ted Stevens shouldn’t face jail time for his seven-count federal conviction last year, telling our Manu Raju, who was also in the room, “My personal feeling, you guys, I don’t know what good that [would do]… He was a real war hero too, you know. He’s been punished enough.”
Members of Congress, he added, had long been used to not disclosing gifts until the rules had been tightened. And he said the 85-year-old Stevens simply did not adapt to those changing rules.
“It’s a different world we live in, and Stevens did not understand that,” Reid said.
Presumably this extends to other criminals who’ve served in the military?
And does this extend to other people who “did not adapt” to changed rules, or is just for Senators? I understand the blood alcohol limits for drunk driving are often adjusted, and I’d like the opportunity to fudge a breathalyzer and walk away.
Also note Reid’s connection to the Blagojevich scandal, in which the Illinois governor may have conspired to sell Obama’s Senate seat to the highest bidder.
Reid also said he was willing to have the FBI release transcripts of his chat with Rod Blagojevich about Obama succession.
“I have no problem with that, let them release them. I don’t care.”
So on top of refusing to honor the holds of fellow democrats while upholding the holds of racists like Tom Coburn, doing the GOP’s bidding on FISA in return for campaign donations from Verizon and AT&T, working on behalf of the billboard industry to undermine Lady Bird Johnson’s Highway Beautification Act, we can add running defense for convicted felons, suspicious discussions with a soon-to-be-convicted governor, and also unconstitutionally trying (and failing) to turn away the duly appointed Senator from Illinois (shades of Little Rock Arkansas). And there is so much more, from his support for Joe Lieberman, to his pro-life stance, to his anti-gay stance, to his utter failure to rein in the GOP since gaining power 2006, to the blank checks for Iraq, to his support for the Bankruptcy Reform Bill of 2005
Is anyone else seeing a pattern here? I am: it’s a pattern of double dealing, dishonesty, self-interest, capitulation, putting the interests of big business ahead of the people’s interest, and above all utter incompetenence.
Promised that Senate Democrats won’t be “rubber stamps” for the new Democratic president. “I like Barack Obama very much. He won a classic election, never have we had a better one,” Reid said. “But I don’t work for him, I work with him.”
This just about says it all: of course Harry Reid won’t be a rubber stamp for Barack Obama, he’s already a rubber stamp for the Republicans!
Apparently jane Hamsher and I have been communicating telepathically, because she’s on the warpath too. unlike Jane, I don’t want to play poker with Harry: why make the effort, when the guy can’t even figure out Candyland?
Harry Reid has to go.
UPDATE: Another Epic Fail for Hapless Harry: Democrats will seat Burris.
January 7th, 2009 at 12:42 pm
How about Solitare in a jail cell? hmmmmm?