{"id":199022,"date":"2007-09-18T22:18:00","date_gmt":"2007-09-19T03:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/09\/18\/harry-reid-tells-republicans-my-way-or-the-highway\/"},"modified":"2007-09-18T22:18:00","modified_gmt":"2007-09-19T03:18:00","slug":"harry-reid-tells-republicans-my-way-or-the-highway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/09\/18\/harry-reid-tells-republicans-my-way-or-the-highway\/","title":{"rendered":"Harry Reid Tells Republicans &#8220;My Way or the Highway&#8221;."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Honestly, I think that Reid has spent way too much time being too accommodating to Republicans.  He&#8217;s given them repeated opportunities to support phony withdrawal bills.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t know why <a href=\"http:\/\/sfgate.com\/cgi-bin\/article.cgi?f=\/n\/a\/2007\/09\/18\/national\/w131138D56.DTL\">he is now saying that the negociations are off<\/a>.  This is without warning.<\/p>\n<p>One wonders why the abrupt change in position:<\/p>\n<p>Some possibilities:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>He doies not want any phony solution to get tied up in the Democratic Presidential Primaries (Translation, he doesn&#8217;t want to put Biden and Clinton in a bad place).<\/li>\n<li>Some Democrats have come to him and announced their intent to filibuster any spending measure that is not definitive.<\/li>\n<li>He has gotten definitive word on an attack on Iran, and he&#8217;s trying to stop it.<\/li>\n<li>He&#8217;s sick to death of Mitch &#8220;Got thrown out of the army after 12 days in 1967, nothing gay here&#8221; McConnel, and he&#8217;s seen his poll numbers, and he wants to prevent any half measures that might benefit him.<\/li>\n<li>He realizes that half measures mean nothing, that they will save no lives, but that they <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">will<\/span> neutralize a majro Democratic party advantage, and he does not want to stop the Republicans from stepping on their own dicks (Cheney, that is).<\/li>\n<li>That he realizes that the Republicans will break if he keeps up the pressure.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>My guess is the last one.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Honestly, I think that Reid has spent way too much time being too accommodating to Republicans. He&#8217;s given them repeated opportunities to support phony withdrawal bills. I don&#8217;t know why he is now saying that the negociations are off. This is without warning. One wonders why the abrupt change in position: Some possibilities: He doies &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[998,1063,978,1098],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-199022","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress","category-iraq","category-politics","category-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199022"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=199022"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199022\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}