Senate Democratic leader Harry Reid won’t seek reelection

[jimnyc]

And now we just need Pelosi to hit the road! This is breaking news and no story attached yet...

[jimnyc]

Oops, here's one from the NY Times... And top of his game? LOL What's his game I wonder?

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WASHINGTON — Senator Harry Reid, the tough tactician who has led Senate Democrats since 2005, will not seek re-election next year, bringing an end to a three-decade congressional career that culminated with his push of President Obama’s ambitious agenda against fierce Republican resistance.

Mr. Reid, 75, who suffered serious eye and facial injuries in a Jan. 1 exercise accident at his Las Vegas home, said he had been contemplating retiring from the Senate for months. He said his decision was not attributable either to the accident or to his demotion to minority leader after Democrats lost the majority in November’s midterm elections.

“I understand this place,” Mr. Reid said. “I have quite a bit of power as minority leader.”

He has already confounded the new Republican majority this year by holding Democrats united against a proposal to gut the Obama administration’s immigration policies as well as a human-trafficking measure Democrats objected to over an anti-abortion provision.

“I want to be able to go out at the top of my game,” said Mr. Reid, who used a sports metaphor about athletes who try to hang on too long. “I don’t want to be a 42-year-old trying to become a designated hitter.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/28/us/politics/senator-harry-reid-retire.html?smid=tw-bna&_r=0

[tailfins]

Get used to seeing YOUR Senator "Chuck the Schmuck" Schumer more on TV. What is a schmuck?, you ask.


Schmuck or shmuck in American English (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_English) is a pejorative (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pejorative) meaning one who is stupid or foolish; or an obnoxious, contemptible or detestable person. The word entered English from Yiddish (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yiddish) (‏שמאָק, shmok), where it has similar pejorative meanings, but its original meaning in Yiddish is penis (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penis).[ (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schmuck_%28pejorative%29#cite_note-1)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schmuck_%28pejorative%29

[CSM]

The guy is 75 years old. The "exercise accident" is a cover story for what I suspect is some other malady that comes with old age. I wonder about his mental acuity at this point as well. I wont be sorry to see him go.