Every Burns Needs a Smithers.

Methinks the man doth pout too much.

Democrats must be “very, very careful” to avoid overreaching and will not rubber-stamp President-elect Obama’s policies, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) said Tuesday.

In an interview with The Hill, Reid said it is essential for Obama and congressional Democrats to work closely with Republicans in the new Congress. He added that 2009 is very different from 1993, the last time Democrats controlled both Congress and the White House.
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“Even though we’re one short of 60 [senators in the Democratic Conference], I don’t want to ever have to depend on cloture,” Reid said. “We may have to do that, but it will be with the support of a few Republicans.”
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Reid stated, “I don’t believe in the executive power trumping everything… I believe in our Constitution, three separate but equal branches of government.”

“If Obama steps over the bounds, I will tell him. … I do not work for Barack Obama. I work with him,” he said.

This from the guy who has been rolled by Rod Blagojevich and doesn’t even know it yet.

Harry Reid is going to try to assert his independence, but he doesn’t have a leadership bone in his body. When President Obama says “jump”, Harry Reid will be a foot in the air before he even knows what he’s doing and will spend the rest of his leap trying to figure out how to explain, when he hits the ground, how he really meant to jump all along.

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Category: Our New Democratic Overlords, President Barack Obama