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Thesis

17 Responses to “Thesis”

1. Comment by mealworm —
   January 7, 2009 @ 10:58 am

   Oh, come on. By all accounts, he was an outstanding whip. Knew how to count votes like nobody’s business. Doesn’t know how to do anything else, but the Peter Principle isn’t exactly a conspiracy.

2. Comment by Joe Strummer —
   January 7, 2009 @ 11:16 am

   Harry Reid is the Bud Selig of the Senate.

3. Comment by Barry —
   January 7, 2009 @ 11:32 am

   Or he’s considered by many elites to be non-threatening, part of a Loyal (to the elites) Opposition.

4. Comment by Hal —
   January 7, 2009 @ 11:36 am

   Apparently, what happened in Vegas, stayed in Vegas.

   But he kept the pictures, clearly.

5. Comment by The Raven —
   January 7, 2009 @ 12:18 pm

   Been writin’ about this. Also, here. And I’ve got an FDL post on the subject–mod it up.

6. Comment by Joshua Holmes —
   January 7, 2009 @ 12:54 pm

   Or he’s considered by many elites to be non-threatening, part of a Loyal (to the elites) Opposition.

   There’s no opposition; he’s just loyal.

7. Comment by Thoreau —
   January 7, 2009 @ 1:14 pm

   I’m tempted to agree with Hal (and hence Jim) but I think Barry has it right.

8. Comment by Doctor Memory —
   January 7, 2009 @ 1:52 pm

   Well, what’s the point of having a massive illegal domestic wiretapping and data-mining operation if you can’t use it to gain leverage on your political opponents? Elections come and go, but a well-stocked blackmail dossier is forever.

9. Comment by Mary Kay —
   January 7, 2009 @ 3:16 pm

   Never mind how he got the job. How the hell do we get rid of him?

   MKK

10. Comment by Thoreau —
    January 7, 2009 @ 5:53 pm

    I like the title on a Jacob Sullum post today:
    
    Reid Is Backing Down As Fast As He Can

    The topic could be, well, just about anything involving Harry Reid. It happens to be about Burris and Blagojevich, but it could have been anything else and been just as valid.

11. Comment by Captain Kool-Aid —
    January 7, 2009 @ 6:10 pm

    Reid is a puppet of the shadow goverment, thanks to alien mind control technology reverse-engineered at Area 51. Same with Bin Laden, Tim McVeigh, Lee Harvey Oswald, Sirhan Sirhan, John Kerrey, Ralph Nader, Paris Hilton, Britney Spears, and Lindsay Lohan.

12. Comment by Justin Slotman —
    January 7, 2009 @ 9:38 pm

    Remember back in the early days of blogging, when the Dubya administration would do something questionable Glenn Reynolds would say “That’s the rope-a-dope strategy!” or some variant on that. Maybe that’s what Harry actually does and it’s on such a high level we just don’t understand it. “If I make a big stink about Burris and then back down immediately, we’ll be guaranteed that Illinois Senate seat! MUAH HA HA HA! God, if I had a mustache I’d be twirling it right now.”

13. Comment by Jim Henley —
    January 7, 2009 @ 9:42 pm

    You know, Bush’s rope-a-dope strategy did work on Glenn Reynolds . . .

14. Comment by Thoreau —
    January 7, 2009 @ 11:47 pm

    And Bush seems to have gotten everything that he wanted from Reid…

15. Comment by Barry —
    January 8, 2009 @ 10:38 am

    Comment by Jim Henley —

    “You know, Bush’s rope-a-dope strategy did work on Glenn Reynolds . . . ”

    If I could send information to myself back several years, I’d make so many bets with these guys, and feel no remorse whatsoever, upon collecting their houses and life savings.

16. Comment by MRW —
    January 8, 2009 @ 2:38 pm

    “If I could send information to myself back several years, I’d make so many bets with these guys, and feel no remorse whatsoever, upon collecting their houses and life savings.”

    Sure, it seems like easy money, but if there’s one thing these guys are good at, it’s refusing to ever admit that they were wrong. So I wouldn’t count on seeing that hypothetical time-travel wager money.

17. Comment by joe from Lowell —
    January 8, 2009 @ 3:25 pm

    After losing the Senate, the Democrats decided that they needed a concilliator.

    You know, someone not as stubborn and abrasive and hostile as Tom Daschle.

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