The smart money here is that the longer Ensign stays in the Senate, the longer this is the story, the better off it is for Harry Reid, who is a Democrat, because it just makes Republicans look bad.
Candy Crowley discusses how the ongoing situation with Senator Ensign could politically benefit Harry Reid.
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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.
Never in the history of the country, never in the history of the country have we produced more for a president and somebody that’s led his party than we’ve done together.
But the purpose of politics that Harry Reid understood very well is to get stuff done.
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