Harry Reid, A Hero at the RIght Time

Boy oh boy. Let the Democrats finally get a little back bone, and give the Republicans just a little of their own medicine, and you can really make Bill Frist pout!

Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid, in the middle of a speech on the floor of the Senate last week, invoked what is called Rule 21, which throws the Senate into a secret session. This was done to force the hand of the majority to get moving on Phase Two of the investigation of how the White House may have manipulated bad intelligence to convince the Congress and the American people that we needed to invade a soveriegn country. The investigation, which is handled by the Senate Intelligence Committee, chaired by Senator Pat Roberts, had been stalling and ducking this part of the issue for nearly two years.

With the indictment of Vice-President Dick Cheney's Chief of Staff, I. Lewis (Scooter) Libby, on five counts of lying, the Democrats found some traction, and went to work. Now, Senate Majority Leader, Bill Frist came out into the hallway all red-faced and bumfuzzled, complaining about it being a slap to the face, and whined on TV about how they just weren't playing fair. I, myself, find that very interesting indeed, when it is the Republican majority in the Senate that is threatenting to change the rules if there are anymore filibusters of judicial nominees by the opposition party. Seems to me that the Democrats just kind of pulled their own "nuclear option" out of the bag, using a perfectly legal, ethical, and by the rule book move to get the attention of Hier Bush's party members.

I believe that the party of Harry Truman, John Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson, and Bill Clinton, should search around for the political guts left behind by these four leaders who knew how to play the political games and not only beat their opponents, but continue to beat them while they are down, and still make them feel like you were doing them such a favor that they wanted more of it!!

Republican's do not have the market on values and morality. They just have a different definition of these, and it is time that they are taken to task on it.

Harry Reid is my new hero. I just hope he doesn't let up, and continues to push the Party of the People until they overcome the robber-barons and the corporate criminals that have their hands in the cookie jar of the American taxpayer.