Truth Revolt -- Former Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, notorious for repeatedly shutting down debate during his tenure, is now crying foul on newly-minted Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell for… shutting down debate.
"I've never seen debate shut down as aggressively as when Sen. McConnell refused to allow Dems to debate their own amendments for just 1 min.
— Senator Harry Reid (@SenatorReid) January 26, 2015"
In his post on Reid’s “shameless” hypocrisy, HotAir’s Guy Benson laid out just how absurd the complaint from the “established liar,” “bizarre obsessive,” “remorseless slanderer,” and “exquisite hack” of a former majority leader is:
"This is rich. Richer, in fact, than Reid himself has become during his tenure as a supposed “public servant.” "The minority leader hopes Americans will forget that until very recently, he held McConnell’s title. For the full duration of calendar year 2014, Harry Reid permitted precisely 15 amendment votes on all legislation taken up by the United States Senate. Total. Prior to Reid’s tweet above, the new Republican-controlled Senate had already surpassed that number in one week, and had held 24 votes on amendments to the Keystone bill alone. Democrats (who’ve been praising the more functional system under McConnell) have taken to griping that the Republican majority is betraying its pledge to respect an “open amendment process” by trying to place some limits on endless offerings. They mounted a filibuster to block the latest cloture vote — a maneuver they railed against as ‘extreme obstructionism’ until roughly three weeks ago — in order to demand more votes on amendments. According to Senate sources, nearly 20 additional amendments will be debated between today and tomorrow, bringing the total to more than 40. On one bill. After Reid permitted 15 all year in 2014."
Benson also notes that Reid had the gall earlier this month to do an egregious about-face on his conveniently temporary anti-filibuster sentiments:
"Sen. Reid yesterday: "The filibuster is an indispensable tool of the minority"
Blog author's comments - What Harry Reid is complaining about is too funny. This grumbling coming from one of the most wretched excuses for a human being ever to walk the halls of Congress. Reid has proven that he is the hypocrite we on the right always knew he was. Go away Harry, retire. Your present position as Minority leader of the Senate makes it much harder for you to help Obama continue with his destruction of America.
