Althouse: This Senate seat is lost.

March 27, 2015

This Senate seat is lost.

Harry Reid will not seek reelection.

36 comments:

Curious George said...: Crook.; 3/27/15, 7:10 AM
Paul said...: Good riddance.

Hope he gets his Obamacare up his dark side.; 3/27/15, 7:11 AM
bleh said...: Ding dong; 3/27/15, 7:16 AM
one of the bobs said...: Don't worry, someone will find it.; 3/27/15, 7:17 AM
Tank said...: The question is, will he:

1. Be indicted?

or

2. Begin his conversion to a Bruce Jenner like being?

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His picture appears in the dictionary next to: will say any f******g thing at all.; 3/27/15, 7:29 AM
Michael K said...: Well, he was back long enough to blow up the bipartisan sex trafficking bill.; 3/27/15, 7:32 AM
sane_voter said...: Is "This Senate seat is lost" quote from Meade or Althouse? It's not in the article. Although if Gov. Sandoval runs he probably wins it by 20 pts.; 3/27/15, 7:32 AM
campy said...: I'm glad. The repubs might have a small consolation prize to celebrate in 2016.; 3/27/15, 7:37 AM
Fritz said...: From my perspective, this seat is won.; 3/27/15, 7:40 AM
Delayna said...: (Puts Las Vegas back on list of potential future vacation venues.); 3/27/15, 7:50 AM
Hagar said...: It is going to be "interesting times."

Note that for the last several years, Schumer et al., while they have stood with Reid when he was making announcements, have kept their mouths shut and have generally tried to look like they were just part of the furniture and whatever it was, it wasn't their doing.; 3/27/15, 7:54 AM
CWJ said...: "Crook"

And liar.

Smply loathsome "human being."

The NYT story was pretty straightforward. I'll give it that. It didn't praise him. It was factually accurate, but stopped short right at the point where further facts would damn him.; 3/27/15, 7:58 AM
MadisonMan said...: I was wondering why he was always wearing dark glasses -- missed the news about the accident in January. I hope he makes a full recovery from that.

Good riddance to him the politician. Can he take Nancy with him?; 3/27/15, 8:04 AM
Simon said...: It's a good move for everyone. Just as last time, it was likely, but not certain, that he would lose, and this time he's six years older. Better to go out gracefully on top as a winner.

Not that "graceful" has ever been an apt description of Mr. Reid's style, which has been marked by a certain tacky, charmless dishonesty that he has alas inculcated in his dauphin, Mr. Durbin. America will be a better place for his departure from her public life.; 3/27/15, 8:04 AM
bwebster said...: I consider this an indication that at least some on the Dem side of the aisle -- in this case, Sen. Reid -- do not consider 2016 a shoo-in for HRC. Keep a watch on any other Dem senators up for re-election next year & see if any decide not to run as well.; 3/27/15, 8:10 AM
Wince said...: He's retiring to spend more time with his dirty money before he croaks.; 3/27/15, 8:30 AM
MadisonMan said...: @bwebster, maybe he's just freeing up his schedule so he can campaign with vigor for Hillary!!

Then Hillary!! will put him in her Cabinet.; 3/27/15, 8:38 AM
rehajm said...: I don’t want to be a 42-year-old trying to become a designated hitter.

His self image is of someone more virile than a 42 year old athlete? Heh.; 3/27/15, 8:42 AM
Original Mike said...: "Then Hillary!! will put him in her Cabinet."

That's not funny!; 3/27/15, 9:00 AM
Big Mike said...: America will be a better place for his departure from her public life.

@Simon, amen my friend.

Here in Virginia I wonder whether his retirement will mean that senators Kaine and Warner will stop leaping to do Reid's bidding like a pair of marionettes and start representing their constituents. Maybe Warner's unexpectedly close race last fall will convince him that p*ss*ng on his constituents is a suboptimal strategy.; 3/27/15, 9:00 AM
tim maguire said...: Simon said...America will be a better place for his departure from her public life.

This is all that need be said about Harry Reid.; 3/27/15, 9:01 AM
Matt Sablan said...: "Maybe Warner's unexpectedly close race last fall will convince him that p*ss*ng on his constituents is a suboptimal strategy."

-- He still won. The lesson will not be make people who don't like you happier, but make people who like you more likely to come out for you.; 3/27/15, 9:04 AM
SteveR said...: I suppose he's a hero to some Dems but I see his actions as exemplifying the very worst elements of partisan senate politics. Name the Men's room after him.; 3/27/15, 9:27 AM
TRISTRAM said...: Senate Wars: The Koch Brothers Strike Back.; 3/27/15, 9:30 AM
Ann Althouse said...: "Is "This Senate seat is lost" quote from Meade or Althouse? It's not in the article."

Actually, it's from Meade. I thought it was a good joke. Not everyone got it!; 3/27/15, 9:38 AM
CWJ said...: Yep. Good one Meade.

I didn't get it until Althouse repeated it.; 3/27/15, 9:45 AM
sane_voter said...: I am drawing a blank on the reference; 3/27/15, 10:10 AM
Quaestor said...: I was wondering why he was always wearing dark glasses -- missed the news about the accident in January.

Considering his history of shameless mendacity why should one except that "accident" explanation? Those injuries look much like multiple blows to the head dealt by someone with a massively powerful left hook, such as a Humboldt County brothel bouncer.; 3/27/15, 10:33 AM
hombre said...: Unless the Governor runs, it would be a mistake to underestimate the stupidity of Nevada voters and assume the Dems will lose the seat. It's a union state.; 3/27/15, 12:01 PM
phantommut said...: Quastor, I thought the same thing. Breaking ribs falling on a treadmill, yes, that sort of thing happens, but that's not the story told. Face getting messed up by a snapped exercise band, that's a real stretch, pardon the pun. (Those things are REALLY engineered not to break catastrophically under human loading. And why hasn't the Senator sued the manufacturer?)

No, somebody beat the crap out of him. I'd love to know why, and why it's been so successfully ignored.; 3/27/15, 12:27 PM
Brando said...: Smart move--the Dems have a better chance of holding the seat in '16 than the '22 midterm and a better chance with another candidate.

I didn't like Reid--he seemed to play dirty and is owned by gambling interests--but Schumer might be worse, so I'm not celebrating this one.; 3/27/15, 12:32 PM
Brill said...: "...somebody beat the crap out of him. I'd love to know why, and why it's been so successfully ignored."

Think money laundering and bribes.He crossed the wrong people.; 3/27/15, 12:37 PM
Anonymous said...: For years now Instapundit has been calling him a pederast. Maybe some dad caught him with his daughter.; 3/27/15, 1:49 PM
Quaestor said...: The questions: [Somebody] beat the crap out of him. I'd love to know why, and why it's been so successfully ignored.

Good working hypothesis: Think money laundering and bribes.

Reid's massive fortune dates from his service as head of the Nevada Gaming Commission. He extracted bribes from the big hotels every time their licenses came up for renewal. Just by delaying a Commission meeting he could inflict tremendous financial losses on a hotel like the MGM Grand, so they sent their bag men to meet Rory Reid with nice bundles of undeclared cash. The favorite meeting place was the golf links on the Paiute Reservation just outside Las Vegas. The rumor is the hand offs took place on a back nine green from golf bag to golf bag.

After Reid left the Commission the shakedowns continued. The hotels now live in fear of a SEIU strike among their housekeeping or restaurant staff. Reid can turn those on and off like a light switch. La Cosa Nostra was expelled from Las Vegas back in the 1970's, but that expulsion didn't fix the problem, it just created a vacuum for another kind of mob. For nearly thirty years Harry Reid has been the Capo di Tutti Capi of a Mormon Mafia, with son Rory as heir apparent.

Look for Rory Reid to announce for his dad's seat sometime this summer. If he doesn't we'll know it was the bosses of SEIU Local 1107 who got stiffed, leading to Harry's Reid's well-earned beating.

Why it's been ignored: Reid is a Democrat. If he were a Republican Eric Holder would have indicted him years ago.; 3/27/15, 2:25 PM
richardsson said...: The resignation is probably related to getting busted in the chops. I don't believe his story about webbed belts, exercise machines etc. I think his "friends" let him have it.; 3/27/15, 4:58 PM
Jack Lifton said...: I've always thought that Dick Durbin was Harry Reid's Joe Biden. A replacement so stupid that no one would want to take the chance of the job going downhill like that. Let's see now who backs this idiot for the job.

The people of Illinois have an unbroken record of sending crooks and morons to Washington, DC, but when this president leaves the white house all illinois clout remaining will be Durbin's. The people of Illinois richly deserve this fate.; 3/27/15, 8:50 PM