Dems Should Get Rid Of Reid

After the events of the last few days, I've become convinced that the Democrats in the Senate need some strong leadership. The problem is that I don't think Harry Reid is capable of providing that leadership. Just look at what's happened under his guidance the past couple of years.

In 2006, voters gave the Democrats a very slim majority in the United States Senate. They did this because they wanted to change the direction George Bush was taking our country, especially in Iraq. This slim majority made Reid the Majority Leader of the Senate.

But under Reid's leadership, the Senate did nothing but continually knuckle under and let Bush have everything he wanted. Now I realize he didn't have the votes to force Bush to do things the way the Democrats wanted, but he did have the votes to stop Bush from having things his own way. He had the votes to force a compromise, and possibly even force Bush to agree to a timetable, but he didn't. He just gave in to Bush over and over.

But the Republicans had screwed up so bad, in 2008, the American people gave Reid and the Democrats a workable majority in the Senate (and the House). Surely Reid would step forward and show some party leadership now! After the repeated betrayal of the Democratic Party by Joe Lieberman, surely Reid would take action. After all, he said no one was more angry than him at Lieberman's rancid behavior.

So what did Reid do? Nothing! He led the movement to allow Lieberman to keep his committee chairmanship and stay in the Democratic Caucus. What's a little betrayal among friends?

Now we come to the possible bailout of the Big Three American automakers. I know they don't deserve it, but the fact is if we let them go down it could cost millions of jobs and throw the country into an even bigger economic tailspin -- not seen since the Great Depression. Not only can Reid not get the majority he needed to get something done, he even backed down from having any vote at all. The very least he could have done was make the Republicans publicly vote against saving our economy.

Frankly, Reid doesn't have the courage or the foresight to lead Democrats in the Senate. If a new Majority leader was ever needed, now is the time. Reid is not tough enough for the job, and needs to be replaced as soon as possible.