Looks Like Harkin Just Gave Up - I Will Bet the Failibuster Was The Last Straw [View all]

[TheMastersNemesis]

I am sure that Harkin was thinking about retiring anyway. I am also sure he was more than disgusted with the "filibuster" I would like to hear what he has to say privately. I am sure there are a lot of cuss words.

The Senate Majority Leader blew it twice. He blew it the first time which was the most important time in 30 years. Here is why. Had Reid gone to the nuclear option in 2009, most of the legislation that Pelosi got passed in the House would have become law and the GOP could not have stopped it.

We would have had EFCA, a better health care law, equal pay for women, taxes on the rich, penalties for outsourcing jobs, etc. We would have shifted so many things left the GOP would have had a hard time reversing it because it would have been in effect and hard to repeal. We would have likely reversed the situation and been able to regulate the banks and Wall Street.

On top of that Reid put too many conservative bastards on the health care commission in the Senate and we end up with crap. And then it only passed on "reconciliation".

Senator Reid probably scuttled the chance of a generation to reverse most of the Reagan and Bush policies. Now we are stuck with a situation which will likely leave the next generation in virtual poverty because it is almost guaranteed that they will do much worse than their parents and grandparents..

What has happened just leaves you PISSED and ANGRY as a progressive and now the country will probably really go to crap over time.