thehill.com - 1/7/2009
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Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) said Tuesday that Democrats have to be “very, very careful” about overreaching. In an interview with The Hill, Reid argued that it is essential for President-elect Obama and congressional Democrats to work closely with Republicans in the new Congress. ...
firedoglake.com - 1/7/2009
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I want to play poker with Harry Reid.
Really I do. Rather than call for a special
election in Illinois, Reid sends a letter to Blagojevich signed by everyone in the Democratic caucus asking him to step down. They assert that they will not seat ...
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I Want to Play Poker with Harry Reid
politico.com - 1/6/2009
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politico.com —
January 05, 2009 Categories: Minnesota Reid: Coleman will
"never ever serve" Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid offered
the toughest language he has ever used in arguing that Norm Coleman s career in the Senate is finished. Norm Coleman will never ever ...
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Reid: Coleman will "never ever serve"
chicagotribune.com - 1/8/2009
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Roland "Tombstone" Burris, the amiable Illinois Democratic political
hack who is being called eminently qualified by the
national Democrats—perhaps because he's from Illinois and he hasn't been indicted—has almost reached his goal of being addressed ...
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Reid: Dems must be very careful about overreaching
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Source: The Hill Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) said Tuesday that Democrats have to be very, very careful about overreaching. In an interview with The Hill, Reid argued that it is essential for President-elect Obama and congressional Democrats to work closely with Republicans in the new Congress. He added that 2009 is very different than 1993, the last time Democrats controlled both Congress and the White House. Read more: http://thehill.com/leading-the-news/reid-dems-must-be-v... Just some sage advice from Harry Reid for Obama. Between Reid and Pelosi, it looks ...
David Roberts: Markey takes chairmanship of key energy & environment subcommittee -- House geared for action
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... to EPW though.) The 110th Congress was a dispiriting experience for greens, who watched again and again as the House passed ambitious green legislation only to have it compromised to impotence or blocked by threatened Republican filibusters in the Senate. Reid is out telling the media "Democrats have to be 'very, very careful' about overreaching." Yeah, that's the danger. ...
Reid Says Democrats Should Be 'Very, Very Careful' About Overreaching -- Verse-Case Scenario by Tony Peyser
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... Harry's a former boxer --- I've never Had the pleasure of knowing one. Why is he better at taking punches Than he seems to be at throwing one? VERSE CASE SCENARIO Tony Peyser provides daily poems and weekly cartoons for BuzzFlash and also writes the BuzzFlash column, " ...
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