Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) opened the Senate floor yesterday in a tirade accusing Senate Republicans of “playing games” regarding some of President Obama’s nominations.

Unfortunately for Mr. Reid, his current rhetoric contradicts statements he made during President Bush’s tenure.

July 23, 2008 – Senator Harry Reid, the Senate Majority Leader, told his fellow Senators last week that he “can’t ever remember going home� and hearing voters complain to him about Bush’s blocked judicial nominations or judicial activism.

Here’s what Sen. Reid said: “I’m telling you, Madam President, I can’t ever remember going home and somebody saying, ‘Could you guys (confirm) some more judges? We need to take care of this judges problem.’ ” … “Frankly, judge(s) is not a big issue (compared) to all of the other problems we’re facing in America.â€�

 

 

May 9th, 2005 (Fox News) - “We know the difference between opposing nominees and blocking nominees. We will oppose bad nominees, but we will only block unacceptable nominees,” Reid said.

March 15, 2005 (Bloomberg) - Senate Democratic leader Harry Reid threatened to bring the Senate to a halt if Republicans try to change the chamber’s rules to prevent the minority party from blocking President George W. Bush’s judicial nominees.

September 16, 2007 (Reuters) - But Reid appeared to slam the door on him, vowing to do all he could as majority leader to prevent (Theodore) Olson’s confirmation

November 16, 2007 (RollCall) - Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) has decided to keep the chamber in session over the Thanksgiving break to block President Bush from making any unsavory recess appointments while Senators are out of town.

April 5, 2005 - In the November 2004 election, Republicans increased their Senate majority to 55 seats, and President Bush has re-nominated seven of the 10 blocked nominees (the others did not desire re-nomination). But the new Democratic leader, Sen. Harry Reid (D-Nv.) said that the Democrats will again block them by filibuster.

Who playing politics now Harry

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