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2016 Postmortem

BlueStreak

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7. Easy

Reply to dsc (Reply #6)

Tue Feb 5, 2013, 12:48 AM

Feb 2013

Ask LBJ. OK he's dead, but the answers are simple. Committee assignments. Withhold pork. Threaten to not put the Senator's favorite bills on the docket. Etc. And at some level, if the President really wants that, those Senators are not going to go against him.

If Obama doesn't know how to make that happen by now, he's an idiot. And he is not an idiot, so the only possible conclusion is that both Obama and Reid actually wanted it to turn out this way.

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GOP to Reid: Thanks for caving on filibuster reform, we will now destroy the Consumer Financial Prot [View all] DonViejo Feb 2013 OP

That's how Reid works atreides1 Feb 2013 #1

You seem to assume this is not the outcome Reid wanted BlueStreak Feb 2013 #2

Yup. Good-cop/Bad-cop tblue Feb 2013 #5

how dsc Feb 2013 #6

Easy BlueStreak Feb 2013 #7

And in the case of Levin dsc Feb 2013 #8

LBJ never had a problem with it. But he wasn't a wuss. BlueStreak Feb 2013 #9

Johnson could end your career dsc Feb 2013 #10

McConnell is able to get 100% compliance any time he wants it. BlueStreak Feb 2013 #11

Maybe Reid can send xxqqqzme Feb 2013 #3

I don't ever want to hear him complain tblue Feb 2013 #4