GOP Rep: Harry Reid runs the Senate 'like a plantation'

GOP Rep: Harry Reid runs the Senate &#039;like a plantation&#039;

(Image credit: Win McNamee/Getty Images)

last updated 8 January 2015

Rep. Bill Cassidy (R-La.) is urging voters to help Republicans retake the Senate this year and finally put an end to Majority Leader Harry Reid's (D-Nev.) reign. Yet his choice of words is raising eyebrows, as he likened Reid to a slavemaster in an interview with E&E Daily.

Reid "runs the Senate like a plantation," Cassidy said. "So instead of the world's greatest deliberative body, it is his personal, sort of, 'It goes if I say it does, if not it stops.' Senator Landrieu's first vote for him to be re-elected means that every other wish for a pro-oil and gas jobs bill is dead. Reid will never allow a pro-oil and gas jobs bill." [E&E Daily]

Subscribe to The Week

Escape your echo chamber. Get the facts behind the news, plus analysis from multiple perspectives.

SUBSCRIBE & SAVE

https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/flexiimages/jacafc5zvs1692883516.jpg

Sign up for The Week's Free Newsletters

From our morning news briefing to a weekly Good News Newsletter, get the best of The Week delivered directly to your inbox.

Explore More

Jon Terbush is an associate editor at TheWeek.com covering politics, sports, and other things he finds interesting. He has previously written for Talking Points Memo, Raw Story, and Business Insider.

Subscribe to The Week

Sign up for The Week's Free Newsletters

Sign up for Today's Best Articles in your inbox