Everyone should understand this vote is over tonight. I don't think we're going to get 60 votes. It's over with. I dread, Mr. President, I dread looking at Wall Street tomorrow. It's not going to be a pleasant sight.
Harry Reid: “Everyone should understand this vote is over tonight. I don't think we're going to get 60 votes. It's over with. I…”
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Harry Reid, the Senate Majority Leader, expressed his concerns about the impending vote on the bailout and its negative impact on Wall Street.
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Get rid of the filibuster, is nothing that as Brock Obama said, at John Lewis` funeral, it’s part of the leftovers from the days of the slave owners. You got to get rid of it. It’s very, very bad.
The country is better off having a real democracy, not a fake democracy. Sixty percent is not a democracy.
Let ‘em do it. Why in the world would we care? We were trying to protect everybody.
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.





