To: Shoot1st who wrote (12106 ) 11/9/2014 3:57:33 PM From: joseffy Respond to The Democrats' family drama: Tensions between Obama and Harry Reid The Hill ^ | 11/8/2014 | By Amie Parnes and Justin Sink Harry Reid (Nev.) stared, stone-faced, into the distance. Reid was seated at the president’s elbow, but in many ways, the gulf between the two leaders has never seemed greater. Tension between Obama and Reid has been long simmering, multiple sources with knowledge of their relationship say. It exploded into the headlines following Tuesday’s landslide victory for Republicans. Within minutes of networks declaring that Republicans had seized back the Senate, the Washington Post published a report featuring David Krone, Reid’s chief of staff, blasting President Obama for the party’s losses. Krone described Obama as a drag on Democratic candidates across the country, with the president’s sagging approval ratings and the administration’s botched implementation of ObamaCare steepening the gradient that vulnerable incumbents had to climb. Moreover, Krone charged, the White House had kept Senate Democrats from tapping some of the president’s most loyal donors. Democratic sources said the Majority Leader was aware of Krone’s cooperation with the Post, and that his office disapproves of staffers who freelance to the press. One Democratic operative described the story as "a way to protect Reid for the losses that we knew we were going to face.” “The way it was done was to ensure that people knew Reid had no fault.”thehill.com
