{"id":318,"date":"2009-03-27T11:48:17","date_gmt":"2009-03-27T15:48:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/000af36.netsolhost.com\/wordpress1\/2009\/03\/27\/reid-the-rube\/"},"modified":"2009-03-27T11:48:17","modified_gmt":"2009-03-27T15:48:17","slug":"reid-the-rube","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/2009\/03\/27\/reid-the-rube\/","title":{"rendered":"Reid the Rube"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Has there ever been <a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/stories\/0309\/20560.html\">a more feckless Democratic Senate<\/a> leader than Sen. Harry Reid?<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said Friday that John Roberts misled the Senate during his confirmation hearings by pretending to be a moderate \u2013 and that the United States is now \u201cstuck\u201d with him as chief justice.&#160; <\/p>\n<p>\u201cRoberts didn\u2019t tell us the truth, at least Alito told us who he was,\u201d Reid said, referring to the second Supreme Court justice nominated by President George W. Bush, Samuel Alito. \u201cBut we\u2019re stuck with those two young men, and we\u2019ll try to change by having some moderates in the federal courts system as time goes on \u2013 I think that will happen.\u201d&#160; <\/p>\n<p>Reid\u2019s comments, which came during a wide-ranging discussion hosted by the Christian Science Monitor, reflect Democratic concerns that Roberts presented himself as a neutral arbiter of the law but has wielded a relentlessly conservative agenda. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>No shit, Sherlock.&#160; Most of us knew it at the time.&#160; But believing Roberts\u2019 lies gave Reid cover so he didn\u2019t have to hurt the GOPer\u2019s feelings by filibustering the nomination.<\/p>\n<p>And then Reid has the balls <a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/stories\/0309\/20559.html\">to tell progressives to back off<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Has there ever been a more feckless Democratic Senate leader than Sen. Harry Reid? Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said Friday that John Roberts misled the Senate during his confirmation hearings by pretending to be a moderate \u2013 and that the United States is now \u201cstuck\u201d with him as chief justice.&#160; \u201cRoberts didn\u2019t tell us&hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/2009\/03\/27\/reid-the-rube\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=318"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}