BlogRoll: Beltway Buzz

I love NRO, the online community of National Review magazine. If Bill Buckley's aim was to stand athwart history and bid it "Stop!", NRO's taken a very futuristic path of accomplishing that goal.

In addition to The Corner and Jim Geraghty's TKS, I will now be reading Eric Pfeiffer's Beltway Buzz blog regularly.

Here's a sample which demonstrates why:

Reid Between The Lines
02/18 10:55 AM
Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid paid a visit to Jim Lehrer and the “News Hour” on PBS last night. During their chat, Reid dropped a few interesting comments, including acknowledging that Social Security has been a “good program for Democrats.” Here’s the full quote:

Lehrer: “So you think the president is really motivated by a desire to get rid of Social Security?” Reid: “Well, I'm a great fan of public broadcasting. I listen to public radio every morning and try to watch you as much as I can. Last week on public radio, you had a couple of Republican operatives, one of which was Grover Norquist, talking about their effort to get rid of Social Security. It's been a successful program for the Democratic Party, and they're committed to getting rid of it.”

Now, this next comment is less revealing than it is desperate. There has been a fair share of grumbling about the president’s failure to place a specific Social Security plan on the table. But it’s not getting in the way of Reid’s strategy. Lehrer: “So you're going to do everything you can to keep the president's plan from being enacted into law?” Reid: “Oh, we certainly will.”

More Lehrer: “So you're going to define your job or define success in your job is in stopping the president from doing things rather than enacting things that you think should be enacted? Reid: “Of course, that's one of the things that I think is successful.”

So, when he’s not putting us to sleep, Reid’s asleep at the wheel of opposition party politics. Not that we’re craving success for Reid, but can’t he shoot higher than being a watered down Daschle?

And with a heave, and a ho, to the BlogRoll it will go!