On the Senate floor this morning Sen. Mitch McConnell suggested that Sen. Harry Reid had compromised the integrity of the Senate. Implying that Sen. Reid had succumbed to outside pressure, placed on the Senate by the Obama administration.
MITCH MCCONNELL: Now, I advised the Romney team before the election that if he won and I was ever elected Majority Leader, I would defend the senate first in these battles. I would defend this institution against a Republican President trying to abuse it. That’s the precedent set by Majority Leaders like Robert Byrd, who revered this institution, because they knew what it was to be in both the majority and the minority. It’s what the best leaders of the Senate have always done. It’s absolutely tragic -- tragic -- to think this these days may be over.
