Nate Silver Slays Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid By The Numbers!

I can SAY Senator Reid is a bad majority leader all I want to but it will still come across as my opinion. Nate Silver on the other hand today has presented unambiguous statistical PROOF that Harry Reid has been an EPIC FAIL in leading the Democratic Congress for the last two years. I encourage you to go to his site and check out the utter PWNAGE but I will give you just a little appetizer before you go.

B.R. raises several interesting points, but they ultimately point back to one thing: Harry Reid has been exceptionally ineffective as the Democrats' majority leader.

The number of cloture votes skyrocketed in the 110th Congress following the Democratic takeover of the Senate and Reid's assumption of the majority leader position. The Senate voted on 112 cloture motions in the 110th, exactly double the number (56) of cloture votes in the 109th Congress, and two-and-a-half times as many as the average number of cloture votes (44) over the previous nine Congresses. Of these cloture motions, 51 were rejected (meaning that opponents of a bill succeeded in blocking an up-or-down vote) and 61 were passed.

and Silver ends with

The bottom line, however, is that the Republicans are filibustering more and more often because they can get away with it. If Reid can't get them to pay a greater public price, then the Democrats ought to find somebody else who can.

Hate to say I told ya so....