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FOCUS: Harry Reid Is Quietly Laying the Groundwork for Elizabeth Warren to Be Vice President

Ian Millhiser, ThinkProgress
Millhiser writes: "Harry Reid commissioned election lawyer Mark Elias - who is also general counsel to the Clinton campaign - to explore how to work within Massachusetts law to limit the number of days Republican Gov. Charlie Baker's appointment would be able to serve in the Senate."
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Senate GOP blows itself up

Senate Democrats put a huge dent in Republican obstruction by eliminating the filibuster on almost all executive branch and judicial nominations. Supreme Court nominees are the only remaining exception. Here is our coverage of this tremendous victory: Senate GOP blows itself up: What the hell were they thinking? by kos Why did Harry Reid go nuclear? Here's why, in one image by Ian Reifowitz McConnell: For going nuclear before he was against it by Joan McCarter The rules have changed: Reid pulls trigger on nuclear option by Joan McCarter Filibuster reform is a reality. Read today's action as it happened by OllieGarkey What's next for filibuster reform by Joan McCarter Don't forget the blogger who started fighting for filibuster reform before it was polite to do so by fiver Bring on the judicial nominations! by Joan McCarter We founded the Daily Kos email activism program in August 2010 with a petition urging Senate Democrats to reform the filibuster. Today, almost 1,000,000 filibuster reform actions later, we won an enormous victory that will transform the courts with waves of nominees who will slowly pull the American judicial system out of the grip of corporate power. We really can change things if we work together. Thank you. Keep fighting, Chris Bowers Senior Campaign Director, Daily Kos

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Friday, Oct 18, 2013 11:15 AM EDT

Harry Reid: Ted Cruz is “a laughingstock”

The Senate's majority leader goes off on the Tea Party's favorite senator

By Elias Isquith

Harry Reid is certainly not the first politician to take a shot at Ted Cruz, but his attack might be the most personal.

“Ted Cruz, well, he proved he has a great fundraising operation,” Reid dismissively told the Huffington Post. “But you don’t have to have Harry Reid criticizing him. Republicans criticized him.”

“He is a laughingstock to everybody but him,” Reid continued.

Reid was no less caustic when discussing Cruz’s presidential ambitions, saying, “What has he accomplished other than raising some money for president? And if this man can get the nomination to be the Republican nominee for president, I pity the Republican Party.”

The Senate majority leader then got even more personal in his attack, essentially accusing Cruz of overestimating his own intelligence:

Ted Cruz is smart. He has always been able to talk down to people. He is now in the Senate. People are as smart as he is. He can’t talk down to anyone anymore. But he has still not accepted that in his own head. He still thinks he’s smarter than everybody else. He might be able to work a calculus problem better than I can. But he can’t legislate better than I can.

 http://www.salon.com/2013/10/18/harry_reid_ted_cruz_is_a_laughingstock/

 

This will make Mitch McConnell go ballistic on Tuesday

Republicans have held the American people hostage long enough, prevented government from functioning.

First it was done to defeat Obama. How'd that go for ya?

Now it's done like petulant children to stop government from functioning.

It's time to end the Republican childishness!

Please add your name below to support Senator Harry Reid and end the Republican gridlock.

On July 11, Sen. Harry Reid told reporters that unless Republicans dropped their filibusters and confirmed all of the nominees he filed that day, then Senate Democrats would use the constitutional option to permanently eliminate filibusters on executive branch nominations. Please sign the petition from Daily Kos and CREDO telling Harry Reid to go nuclear and implement real filibuster reform if Republicans do not immediately confirm all of the nominees he filed on July 11. The nominees at stake are big, big deals. They include Richard Cordray to head the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, Gina McCarthy to head the Environmental Protection Agency, and Thomas Perez to head the Department of Labor. They also include three nominees for the National Labor Relations Board, without whom the NLRB will cease to function, meaning that workers across the country will lose a crucial portion of their legal protection on the job (which is exactly what Republicans want). Now’s the time for Harry Reid to take action. No more "deals" with Republicans. Not another toothless "gentlemen’s agreement" like he struck in January. No more promises that don't result in meaningful filibuster reform. Please sign the petition from Daily Kos and CREDO telling Harry Reid to go nuclear and implement real filibuster reform if Republicans do not immediately confirm all of the nominees he filed on July 11. Keep fighting, Joan McCarter, Daily Kos

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Tell Harry Reid: Don't bluff on filibuster reform

On July 11, Sen. Harry Reid told reporters that unless Republicans dropped their filibusters and confirmed all of the nominees he filed that day, then Senate Democrats would use the constitutional option to permanently eliminate filibusters on executive branch nominations.

The nominees at stake are big, big deals. They include Richard Cordray to head the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, Gina McCarthy to head the Environmental Protection Agency, and Thomas Perez to head the Department of Labor. They also include three nominees for the National Labor Relations Board, without whom the NLRB will cease to function, meaning that workers across the country will lose a crucial portion of their legal protection on the job (which is exactly what Republicans want).

Now’s the time for Harry Reid to take action. No more "deals" with Republicans. Not another toothless "gentlemen’s agreement" like he struck in January. No more promises that don't result in meaningful filibuster reform.

Please sign the petition from Daily Kos and CREDO telling Harry Reid to go nuclear and implement real filibuster reform if Republicans do not immediately confirm all of the nominees he filed on July 11.

To Sen. Harry Reid:

Don't bluff on filibuster reform. Go nuclear and enact meaningful reform unless Republicans allow an up-or-down vote on all the nominations you filed on July 11. We know that if you go nuclear, Republicans will go ballistic. When they do, we’ll have your back.

 

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