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Tanuki

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15. No, it's not about Harry Reid

Reply to delrem (Reply #14)

Mon Dec 16, 2013, 07:32 AM

Dec 2013

For a majority leader to campaign against the minority leader has generally been considered bad form, and Bill Frist's active campaign to unseat Tom Daschle was widely condemned.

http://articles.latimes.com/2004/may/21/nation/na-decorum21

..."The air is so thick with partisanship that Sen. Robert C. Byrd (D-W.Va.), a former majority leader and the Senate's longest-serving member, said April 28 on the Senate floor: "It used to be unheard of for Senate leaders to seek an active role against each other in campaigns. That time has apparently gone. Has honor gone too? Who cares about honor when a Senate seat might be gained?"....

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No, it's not about Harry Reid Tanuki Dec 2013 #15

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No, I was "explaining", not "excusing." Big difference. Tanuki Dec 2013 #18

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