Closed Door Session: Red State Dems React

[raysr]

http://blogs.washingtonpost.com/thefix/2005/11/closed_door_ses.html
Spin, spin, spin. Like Reid's closed door session could HURT anything!

[Wilms]

1. Allow me.

he Washington Post

Closed Door Session: Red State Dems React

Did Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid's (D-Nev.) parliamentary theatrics yesterday do harm to the handful of his colleagues running for reelection in red states in 2006?

At first blush, it would appear not. One high-level staffer for a red-state Democrat said that the gambit gave his boss the opportunity to look nonpartisan, standing above the fray and calling for Reid and Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist (R-Tenn.) to get to the bottom of the issue.

Sen. Ben Nelson (D-Neb.), whose state gave President Bush a 33 percent victory in 2004, was appearing on conservative talk radio personality Sean Hannity's show when Reid called for a closed-door session.

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Rank-and-file Democrats were not told of Reid's plan until minutes before he unveiled it on the Senate floor, according to Capitol Hill sources close to the process. And red-state senators have been quietly supportive of the Reid maneuver, according to a Democratic leadership aide

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http://blogs.washingtonpost.com/thefix/2005/11/closed_door_ses.html

[spindrifter]

2. Harry

These republicans are either awfully dumb as a post or brazen as hell. Pat roberts had been petitioned 23 times to get the investigation started and nothing happened. finally harry showed a little (very little) spunk and the republicans get their shorts in a bunch. good for harry and tough beans for the majority