Very cool. Little do they realize many have yet to be delivered!
Flowers for Harry
By Mary Ann Akers
Roll Call Staff
November 3, 2005
Lefty groups around town were so thrilled with Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) for pulling his now-famous Rule XXI maneuver that they showered him with flowers and balloons Wednesday, thanking him for his gumption in sending Republican leaders into a tizzy and demanding an investigation into why exactly this country went to war with Iraq.
One HOH spy spotted five "kids" - interns no doubt - tromping down the hall toward Reid's second-floor Senate office with multiple bouquets of flowers and gigantic "Thank You" and "Thank You For All You Do" balloons. A pretty steady stream of flowers rolled in all day long, his aides said.
Reid Chief of Staff Susan McCue said most of the flowers came from Web loggers at the uber-lefty Americablog.
"Senator Reid was surprised and touched and is grateful for their 'fresh approach' to politics," McCue wrote in an e-mail.
One person who definitely was not sending Reid flowers was Majority Leader Bill Frist (R-Tenn.), who still had steam coming out of his ears about getting blindsided by the Rule XXI stunt. Frist said he spoke briefly with Reid at the start of Wednesday morning's session, less than 24 hours after Reid's sneak attack.
"I expect we'll be able to work together," sighed Frist, who on Tuesday said he couldn't trust Reid for the remainder of his tenure in the Senate.
But it doesn't look like their little talk Wednesday did anything to smooth over their personal relationship. HOH asked if Frist now trusted Reid, and the usually genial transplant surgeon shrugged his shoulders and dodged the question, saying again for emphasis, "We'll be able to work together."
