Harry Reid: “We appreciate the leadership of Senator Byron Dorgan and Nevada's own Senator John Ensign, Majority Leader Harry Reid.”

Let ‘em do it. Why in the world would we care? We were trying to protect everybody.

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.

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.