Tuesday, July 8, 2014

The Power of Harry Reid

The Washington Times has a long article on the power of Harry Reid, Senate Majority Leader. The article involves mostly a complaint that Harry Reid shows partiality toward Democratic proposals and suppresses Republicans proposals.
Complaints are cheap and many, but let's look at the facts.
The majority of the Senate is Democratic, and this situation was imposed by the votes of the American public. With that, a person, such as Harry Reid, automatically becomes the Democratic majority leader and is in control of the Senate. It may be that the American public did not want that, but based upon the vote, there is no indication it did not.
If the American public wants an elimination of the Democratic majority and Harry Reid, as majority leader, it can easily do so in the next November election. There are only four months to wait.
Meanwhile, one of the complaints is that just 14 Senate bills have been signed into law so far this year. That’s nine fewer than at the same point in 2013. Why this is a complaint, I'm not sure. I interpret all laws is restrictive. Even those giving special advantages to some persons, simultaneously do damage to others who have to pay for it. The fewer laws we generate now the better, and in fact, we should be undoing many of the laws previously passed. The fact that Harry Reid has been able to cut back the number of new laws is favorable. The only problem is that few new laws are likely disadvantageous to the development of the country.

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