[Jonathan Adler, April 20, 2007 at 1:46pm] Trackbacks
Senator Reid Clarifies Position on PBA Ruling:

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid's office has issued a clarifying statement about the Supreme Court's decision upholding the federal partial birth abortion ban.

Senator Reid opposes abortion except in the cases of rape, incest, and when the life of a mother is at risk. Consistent with this position, Senator Reid supported the Partial Birth Abortion Ban and supports the Supreme Court’s decision yesterday. However, Senator Reid continues to disagree with Chief Justice Roberts and Justice Alito on many issues and that is why he opposed their confirmation.

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taney71:

"I would only say that this isn't the only decision a lot of us wish that Alito weren't there and O'Connor were there."


How does that statement mesh with his clarifying statement? He makes no sense at all.

I am from Nevada and hate to say we have a joke for a U.S. Senator. The guy pissed the Mormons off when he voted against impeaching Clinton (almost cost him his Senate seat in 98 against Ensign) and now he's just pissed the rest of the conservative Democrats left in Nevada who still support him.

I guess it really doesn't matter because these idiot Californians (no offense to Eugene) moving into the state will vote for him. So he's got that going for him.
4.20.2007 3:05pm
18 USC 1030 (mail):
Doesn't this say I disagree with this decision and many others?
4.20.2007 3:28pm
rlb:
<blockquote>"I would only say that this <b>isn't</b> the only decision a lot of us wish that Alito weren't there and O'Connor were there."</blockquote>But the Senator quite clearly says "is," not "isn't." I do think that "isn't" makes more sense, given his tone.

<a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.wrcbtv.com/news/index.cfm?sid=7718">You can hear the senator say it here</a> - click on "Play Video:" at the bottom.

I initially wanted to give him the benefit of the doubt but after hearing Reid say it a couple more times I think that "isn't" is more likely than "is," even if the Senator had misspoken, putting the Justices backwards.

The "clarification" exposes Reid as the lying hypocrite a lot of us were afraid he was. I'm not really surprised; it's unthinkable that anyone would value the slight advancement of his socialist politics over the lives of a million American babies every year.
4.20.2007 3:53pm
R.Loblaw (mail) (www):
RLB took the words right out of my mouth. All this statement clarifies is that Reid is the worst kind of partisan hack: a spineless one. The Democrats need some real leadership.
4.20.2007 4:07pm
billtb (mail):
So why did he vote for the bill in the first place? Odd duck this Reid, doesn't seem to know which end is up.
4.20.2007 4:09pm
rarango (mail):
Senator Reid clearly has the inside track to be the next attorney general in a democratic administration.
4.20.2007 4:09pm
Dave N (mail):
Sen. Reid's comments need to be taken in context. When the PBAB pased, you see, he wasn't Senate Majority Leader. That makes all the difference, don't you know. Either that or just plain hypocricy on his part.

Of course, this comment was less vile than the OTHER comment he made this week.
4.20.2007 4:19pm
AF:
Cool your jets, people. Reid is a pro-life leader of the pro-choice party. He sometimes speaks on behalf of the party and other times on behalf of himself. He distinguishes between his party's position and his own. Nothing he has done or said is inconsistent with these basic and well-known facts.
4.20.2007 4:23pm
taney71:
Reid was like this before he became Democratic Leader. I wouldn't blame the Democratic party for his natural tendency to do these things.

The impeachment vote was a perfect example. I remember him answer yes to all of these questions:

Did Clinton commit an immoral act? - Yes (I didn't care about this one, but this killed the Mormon vote as I already said)
Did he commit an impeachable act? - Yes
Should he be removed from office? - Yes

After that Reid was never able to say why he could vote against removing Clinton if he thought what the President had done warranted the action.

All I ask is for my political leaders to have some standards and stay with them. Reid often fails in that endeavor.
4.20.2007 5:03pm
Dishman (mail):
An alternate explanation is that he voted for the PBAB with the expectation that the Supreme Court would strike it down.
4.21.2007 1:08am
Ming the Merciless Siamese Cat (mail):
It's simple. Reid was for the ban, before he was against the ban, before he was for the ban.
4.21.2007 10:18am
Ming the Merciless Siamese Cat (mail):
It's simple. Reid was for the ban, before he was against the ban, before he was for the ban.
4.21.2007 10:18am
Mac (mail):
I didn't know much about Reid unitl I moved to Az.
Now that I've been here a while, some of his dealings are truly remarkable A lot of the highlly questionable acivity has involved land.

The most apropo joke I've heard is that the only land Reid doesn't own in Nevada is the land where the Fed's want to put the nuclear dump site or he would be for that, too.
4.23.2007 5:58pm
Harmony (mail):
I'll give Reid the benefit of the doubt. He agrees there should be a ban on partial-birth abortion.

What he can't swallow is the fact that Pres. Bush appointed Roberts and Alito to the Supreme Court. Could his political bias be messing with his head? If a couple of liberals sat on the court, instead of Roberts and Alito, Reid knows that PBA would continue...the very act of killing he's voted against.

None of us can have it both ways. It's past time when all politicians should be putting a righteous, sensible conscience FAR ahead of their political ambitions.

They would earn credibility among the very citizens they swore to represent. Instead, the behavior of many of them have earned them the distrust of many Americans, and justifiably so.
4.24.2007 3:38am