{"id":6929,"date":"2006-03-23T09:46:26","date_gmt":"2006-03-23T14:46:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/?p=6929"},"modified":"2006-03-23T09:46:26","modified_gmt":"2006-03-23T14:46:26","slug":"reid-doesnt-hold-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/reid-doesnt-hold-back\/","title":{"rendered":"Reid doesn&#8217;t hold back"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tpmcafe.com\/node\/28053\">raised a few eyebrows<\/a> a few days ago when he labeled George W. Bush &#8220;the worst president this country has ever had.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Would the mini-flap over the comment prompt Reid to back down? Not so much. The next day, Reid was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lasvegassun.com\/sunbin\/stories\/nevada\/2006\/mar\/22\/032210068.html\">still not holding back<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Reid also responded to comments the president made Tuesday when he said his successor in the White House would likely be responsible for deciding when U.S. troops leave Iraq.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;To me it shows how dangerously incompetent he is,&#8221; Reid said. &#8220;&#8216;Stay the course, mission accomplished, bring &#8217;em on,&#8217; the American people are sick of that. We need to change course in Iraq. &#8230; I think the president burying his head in the sand is not going to do the trick.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I may not agree with every policy Reid takes, but I think he&#8217;s a fine Senate leader and I always enjoy it when he speaks his mind like this.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tpmcafe.com\/node\/27975\">Matt Yglesias wrote<\/a> the other day that Reid&#8217;s aggressive rhetoric is a bit of a tangent from his important responsibilities. &#8220;What liberals need from progressive politicians isn&#8217;t rhetoric that&#8217;s pleasing to the ears,&#8221; Yglesias said, &#8220;but a combination of election strategies likely to win, and policies that will benefit the country.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t disagree, but hearing some hard-hitting rhetoric <i>with<\/i> effective strategies and policies is heartening, too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) raised a few eyebrows a few days ago when he labeled George W. Bush &#8220;the worst president this country has ever had.&#8221; Would the mini-flap over the comment prompt Reid to back down? Not so much. The next day, Reid was still not holding back. Reid also responded to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6929","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6929","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6929"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6929\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}