Discussion: Reid On Obama Immigration Order: 'We've Got His Back'

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Discussion for article #230395

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That’s nice…does this mean you’ll block any and all attempts to overturn the orders if they aren’t in line in some way with the orders?

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You’ve got his back? Since when?

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As he was seen running at full speed away from the president along with the other cowardly dems.

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Good. Then get on national TV, even if you have to hip check McCain and Graham to do so, and make some noise.

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That’d be a first.

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“Reid: “We told the president, and we’re telling him in front of the TV cameras: We’ve got his back.””

This reminds me a little of that scene from “Superman” where Superman is flying with Lois Lane and he says “Don’t worry, I got you” and she replies “Yeah, but who’s got you?”

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The president will be with Reid in Nevada on Friday, and below is what Reid said in a statement. Also promising their support are Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) and Sens. Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.), Dick Durbin (D-Ill.), Robert Menendez (D-N.J.), Patty Murray (D-Wash.) and Michael Bennet (D-Colo.), Senate Democratic leadership. .

“This is personal to me,” Mr. Reid said in a statement, adding that he has been disappointed that Republicans have “ducked, dodged and skirted” taking up legislation, forcing Mr. Obama to act administratively. “There is no better place than Nevada for President Obama to outline the actions he is taking.”

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Do you mean if Harry doesn’t say it on TV it doesn’t count? What if he’s on the record in print in the letter he and other Democratic leaders sent to the President giving their support? The dog whistle in this item was too subtle for me, I guess.

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Excerpt from HuffPo

Reid and other top Senate Democrats sent the president a letter on Monday saying they stand behind him on executive action, including for parents of DACA recipients, U.S. citizens and legal permanent residents.

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Yep… way back.

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I took that comment to mean that Reid et al. should start getting far, far more aggressive in pushing to balance the presence of GOP voices on TV, in the places most people get their news. Something I think we all agree has long been desperately needed.

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Sorry, but I think the republicans are a bunch of seditious traitors who won’t stop until they’ve
destroyed this country.

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That’s what I meant. I am not sure what the ‘dog whistle’ was.

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Reading between the lines…

We standing behind him

waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay behind him.

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Obama drops immigration EO and you switch your demeanor. Well - we don’t believe you, you need more people!

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Reid’s not the enemy, we know who is, but this article has incited people to go after him like he is. He’s not my Senator, but for him to go on TV as much as other Senators do and say whatever you think he should say still doesn’t get the job done. With 36.3% of the country not turning out to vote and with only MSNC and Univision carrying this most important speech of the president’s, we’re dealing with apathy of the worst kind. Reid’s not going to change that.

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TPM regularly publishes articles which subtly but surely encourage commentators to take out after the subject, in this case Reid. The information is incomplete and we’re all wishing we still had a majority in the Senate. Nevada had a 31.8% voter turnout, so nobody there much cares about Reid or the future. Blame him because he’s a convenient target.

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He has to be invited to appear on TV first. And as we know, GOPers like McCain and Graham always get the invitations first from the MSM.

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I wasn’t going after Reid, and I hardly think he’s the only one we need to see more of in venues most people see (hence my “et al.”). And this is very much connected to our low-turnout problem, which partly traces to the Dems-run-away-from-Obama-and-their-own-accomplishments thing, but also – hugely – from our awful, awful political “reporting” that sees, eg, clips of 2 GOP senators passionately (and falsely) asserting that Obama’s expected order is unconstitutional and ignores their desire to work with him as perfectly “balanced” by the reporter’s telling us the Administration says that’s not true (NBC, last night). The media universe we’re trapped in is the product of 40 years of concerted ref-working by the right to turn the “liberal media” into what they are today; that makes it that much harder for Dems – and facts – to be heard by most of the country, but that much more important that Dems be as aggressive as humanly possible about getting heard. Literally nothing more important, because everything else depends on it.

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