Harry Reid: “There is not anything we could do to satisfy them in this health care bill.”

The portraits of Senator Harry Reid and Senator Ted Stevens are the first additions to the leadership series since 2011.

But the purpose of politics that Harry Reid understood very well is to get stuff done.

Get rid of the filibuster. It’s nothing. As Barack Obama said at John Lewis’ funeral, it’s part of the leftovers from the days of slave owners. You have got to get rid of it. It’s very bad.

He has no regrets. He says he had to do it to save Obama’s presidency because of what the Republicans were doing to obstruct the president’s confirmation of judges and other legislative things.