Harry Reid, stop being yourself

For several months, I've railed on the GOP, who now aren't the Republican Party but the Tea Party, for being bombastic and rigid. They aren't in any way the party that said that all men and women, no matter the race, were equal (Lincoln), railed against big business and their perks (Teddy Roosevelt), wanted the country to have great access to roads, trains, and opportunity (Eisenhower), and would raise taxes to get what he wanted (Reagan), so they are now the Tea Party.  But Harry Reid this week reminded me why, for most of my life, I didn't like Democrats. A bill comes to the Senate from the House with what the President wants, with extra things attached, and what do you do? You say the bill is DOA, being and rigid. Even my own Democratic Senator says you went too far. Stop being the ass you are (yes, I've met him, talked to him, and discussed issues with him when I lived in Nevada) and be the Senate Leader. Complain that the the Republicans filibuster every bill the President sends you? Then make them actually stand and do a filibuster. Don't like a bill that the House sends you? Vote, then compromise. Do your job, Senator. Your job isn't to be the pocket veto of the President. And if he asks you to do that, he isn't doing his job. Be bigger than yourself. Be the leader of the Senate, which is a chamber of the government, not the government itself, and not the representative of a small part of Nevada. I'll rail against the idiots in the GOP, and Senator Reid, if you keep being an ass, I'll rail against you too. Because if you're not part of the answer to bring our government together, then you're a problem, no matter the party you're in.