Reply #94: That's almost a standing threat, but it's nice to see.

[sofa king]

Reid, having stepped up to the top slot from the Whip spot, is particularly adept at identifying who looks weak, and how to scare the shit out of them to make them act strong. Though it is a general and often used threat it is squarely aimed, as usual, at one particular turncoat within our ranks, Joe Lieberman, who caucuses with the Democrats and has the chair of HSGA in spite of acting as a GOP shill. That keeps Lieberman as honest as he'll ever be.

I know a lot of you like to hate Senator Reid and call him spineless, but he's actually done a far better job of keeping the Democrats in the Senate together than his predecessors of the past thirty years. That he kept Congress free of total criminal--I mean Republican--control, with never more than a one vote advantage and often less than that in real numbers is a credit to him and our party.