David Broder may have indigestion
Ouch! It can be tough waking up as a Democratic Senator these days, if David Broder is feeling a little dyspeptic:
As Republicans learned to their chagrin in the past few years, it takes 60 votes to accomplish almost anything controversial or substantive in the Senate…That reality puts an enormous strain on Harry Reid, the Nevadan who has struggled these past two years to master the less arduous duties of Senate minority leader. The risk for Democrats is that Reid may not be up to the challenge…
The Senate is chockablock with presidential wannabes. On the Democratic side, they include the leading contender, Hillary Rodham Clinton of New York, as well as Evan Bayh of Indiana, Joe Biden of Delaware, Chris Dodd of Connecticut, Barack Obama of Illinois and — in his own mind, at least — John Kerry…
If you read the whole piece, you may also get the impression that Broder referred to Reid as a “tiny leader.” Does he find some of these new Democratic leaders hard to swallow?