Reid: On second thought, we’ll wait for Minnesota
posted at 12:30 pm on February 11, 2009 by Ed Morrissey
Over the past few weeks, Harry Reid has demanded Norm Coleman’s concession and insisted that Franken would get seated as Minnesota’s Senator. Now Reid has retreated from that position as quickly as he did from his offensive against Roland Burris. Suddenly he wants to wait for Minnesota to finish its legal processes:
Reid previously has hedged on whether he would wait for the trial on the election results to conclude before deciding whether to seat Franken in the Senate. But on Tuesday, he said he was under the impression that a ruling would come down in the next two weeks, at which point he would decide whether the former comedian should become the 59th Senate Democrat.
“We have to let the trial get over with, that should be over in two weeks,” Reid told reporters.
Two weeks? That’s a rather optimistic prediction. The election contest could take weeks longer than that, especially if the three-judge panel decides to look at absentee ballots individually, as they signaled this week. After the contest will come an inevitable challenge in the federal courts, which may have substantial grounds to throw out the entire recount on the basis of the Equal Protection Clause, as happened in Bush v Gore.
Has anyone looked as foolish as Harry Reid in these controversial Senate decisions since the election?
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“The war is lost” – Harry Reid
Vashta.Nerada on February 11, 2009 at 12:32 PM
No, but he’s had practice. He’s been doing it for decades.
lorien1973 on February 11, 2009 at 12:33 PM
His utter and complete incompetence, as well as his total corruption, has been shielded from the public by our just as incompetent media.
This clown will probably get re-elected in Nevada anyway. When the Gambinos join forces with ACORN, what results is an irresistible force.
NoDonkey on February 11, 2009 at 12:33 PM
once a lying Democratic Traitor POS, always a lying Democratic Traitor POS…
Dale in Atlanta on February 11, 2009 at 12:35 PM
Harry Reid don’t need no Minnesota, he has Arlen SPecter the Rino-king!
clnurnberg on February 11, 2009 at 12:35 PM
ugh He looks like he’s already died.
becki51758 on February 11, 2009 at 12:36 PM
I guess what I like best about our elected officials is how smart they make me look in comparison.
Tommy_G on February 11, 2009 at 12:37 PM
Knock it off about the incompetant media, they are dems and they are competantly protecting their interests. So grow up and recognize that they are dems, worked for dems, married to dems, children of dems. They are dem activists.
clnurnberg on February 11, 2009 at 12:37 PM
Didn’t hamburgler there say it would be a cold day in hell before Norm occupied a seat in congress again?
Sponge on February 11, 2009 at 12:38 PM
Yes. The Precedent. He even shared a stupid Senate decision with Reid before they both caved in (Blago’s pick never being seated).
progressoverpeace on February 11, 2009 at 12:38 PM
what’s the over/under on getting someone seated now? April?!
/FL thanks you profusely, MN dweebs …
Buckaroo on February 11, 2009 at 12:39 PM
Why does he need Minnesota? He’s found 3 traitorous RINO’s to go along with him.
roux on February 11, 2009 at 12:40 PM
Why does Harry Reid always look like he just crapped his pants?
Oh right, because he has.
NoDonkey on February 11, 2009 at 12:40 PM
Are we not sure that Reid is an android from the planet “Stupid”?
izoneguy on February 11, 2009 at 12:41 PM
Has anyone ever looked as foolish as Harry Reid period?
BKennedy on February 11, 2009 at 12:42 PM
Yes. Florida is no longer the worst state to hold an election.
Yes!
lorien1973 on February 11, 2009 at 12:43 PM
Agreed. They’ve got socialism voted in now… they don’t need Franken’s vote anymore.
Skywise on February 11, 2009 at 12:43 PM
Someone in Reid’s staff reminded him of the law.
BTW, Reid, you need another embalming treatment, you’re looking a bit green.
Bishop on February 11, 2009 at 12:43 PM
He really needs to leave the Senate, and go back to making cookies with the Keebler Elves.
blatantblue on February 11, 2009 at 12:44 PM
You think these guys actually care about the law?
Skywise on February 11, 2009 at 12:45 PM
so is this a sign Coleman has a legit shot here?
jp on February 11, 2009 at 12:47 PM
We can make fun of him all we want, he’s the man with the power and he simply doesn’t care. The “incompetant” media demonized Palin and elected Obama. Harry Reid’s corruption? No problem,no story.
So go ahead and call him a funereal elf, but be sure to stay home because Palin is “stooopid”.
clnurnberg on February 11, 2009 at 12:47 PM
Franken has looked pretty foolish as well, but that’s nothing new…
oddball on February 11, 2009 at 12:48 PM
I am deeply offended that the former head of the Nevada (one of the smallest state by population in the union, BTW) gaming commission (one of the most corrupt organizations EVAH), would not be concerned with the law.
I’m sure Senator Reid had his staff professionally study how to legally subvert each and every one the law’s intentions, through the use of bribery and thuggery.
So there.
NoDonkey on February 11, 2009 at 12:48 PM
And make sure we keep saying “it takes a Carter to get a Reagan” LOL, yep keep making fun and quipstering, that’ll help.
clnurnberg on February 11, 2009 at 12:48 PM
former comedian? Current clown? You pick.
Mr. Joe on February 11, 2009 at 12:48 PM
“lorien1973 on February 11, 2009 at 12:43 PM”
heh — it took y’all less than a decade to find someone even more stupid to get you off the hook …
:-)
:-)
Buckaroo on February 11, 2009 at 12:49 PM
Reid is probably up to something. It is almost like he is getting instructions from a hidden earpiece.
Mr. Joe on February 11, 2009 at 12:49 PM
Decisions, decisions!
blatantblue on February 11, 2009 at 12:50 PM
More and more I’m beginning to think that maybe there really is a smart, honest, and honorable Harry Reid somewhere. Unfortunately, he got replaced by his Bizarro Earth duplicate decades ago.
crazy_legs on February 11, 2009 at 12:50 PM
How embarrassing.
Mason on February 11, 2009 at 12:57 PM
This decision isn’t even one the Senate is allowed to have input in. The fact that Harry Reid is implying that it can, should be cause for derision and scorn by any American that have respect for the election process. Of course don’t expect any to come from the Dems, they have already proved they have no respect for fair elections.
Buford on February 11, 2009 at 12:57 PM
Never in our history has there been a more appropriate time for
- watching “Being There”
- reading “Parliament of Whores, by P.J. O’Rourke”
They best portray idiocy.
The lefties, who’re not idiots, educate and exploit them.
The righties have been too busy working.
The country has slipped away from the honest and working ones, and their rewards are now being distributed to the mooches. They vote.
Soon enough there won’t be enough producers. By then it will be too late.
Entelechy on February 11, 2009 at 1:01 PM
I would add watching “Idiocracy” and reading “Atlas Shrugged.” I also highly recommend Ann Coulter’s “Godless.” It perfectly explains the Cult of Obama and how liberals really are turning him into a secular Messiah and building a religion around him.
rockmom on February 11, 2009 at 1:05 PM
Started Atlas Shrugged this week. It’s hard to get very far when you have two kids (one sick). Anyone got the Cliff’s Notes?
Snowed In on February 11, 2009 at 1:06 PM
This probably means that Reid knows the fix is in for Franken. Cynical I know but …
johnsteele on February 11, 2009 at 1:11 PM
That’s what I would like to know. They have Spector so they don’t need to add another clown to the Dem rolls. If Coleman gets in he could join the Spector crew. We might be better off if the Dems have the embarrassment of claiming Frankenberry.
msmveritas on February 11, 2009 at 1:13 PM
Heh, rockmom, I own everything Ayn ever wrote. All I need now is my own Gulch.
Entelechy on February 11, 2009 at 1:14 PM
Also, rockmom, …and most all which was written about her.
Entelechy on February 11, 2009 at 1:15 PM
It’s amazing that with such incompetents in authority in both houses of Congress, Reid and Pelosi, that the Democrats could ever extend their party’s leads.
That should tell us how bad Republican leadership has been for the past few years.
Pope Linus on February 11, 2009 at 1:17 PM
The man is perpetually foolish.
Richard Romano on February 11, 2009 at 1:23 PM
I read all of Rand’s works before I was 18. I even subscribed to the Ayn Rand Letter for a few years. This was in the 1970s when nobody admitted to being conservative!
Back to the thread – I have to think that Reid knows a strom is coming over Al Franken’s tax problems if he does end up being seated. The 2010 campaign ads write themselves.
rockmom on February 11, 2009 at 1:27 PM
At this point and a miracle happens and Coleman wins I already know what Franken is going to say. That he was cheated but that he takes sollace from the fact he at least took away several months of Coleman’s term in office. (If he wins the gloating will be unprecedented and then chime in how he doesn’t have to stay in Mn now.)
Dave_d on February 11, 2009 at 1:32 PM
Say, does Nevada have a recall provision?
You guys may want to investigate that.
Iblis on February 11, 2009 at 1:40 PM
You mean he’s not 100% convinced this guy will be a Senator.
selias on February 11, 2009 at 3:00 PM
Don’t you mean Arlan Sphincter?
saiga on February 11, 2009 at 3:48 PM
When I was four i was told never to accept rides from strangers. This was before stranger danger or whatever they call it now, the days before graphics and videos. So I had to imagine for myself what this strange guy looked like.
What Harry Reid looks like is that boogeyman. No lie. First time I ever saw him I recognized him immediately.
sloopy on February 11, 2009 at 6:10 PM
Why do the people of Nevada continue to send this waste of sperm to the Senate every six year?
-Dave
Dave R. on February 12, 2009 at 12:54 AM
The “while standing on one foot” version:
Truly brilliant people (of which there are but a very small number) are worth tens of trillions of dollars to society, in and of themselves, and without them, modern society cannot exist. Everyone must be allowed to pursue their own goals, constrained only by the marketplace, so that these people may find their way and enjoy their productivity, which is what moves society forward. And they must never be made to feel guilty about their success, or required to pay some social penance for being more creative/industrious than others. These producers are what gives the rest of us a beautiful place to live.
That about sums it up, I think.
progressoverpeace on February 12, 2009 at 4:49 AM