Thursday, Nov. 20, 2008 | 10:43 a.m.
WASHINGTON — So which Sen. Harry Reid will show up in the new Congress?
Colleagues at the R-J this morning quote the majority leader as saying that with President-elect Barack Obama in the White House and a bolstered majority in the U.S. Senate, “I will be able to be a different leader. … There will be a different, softer majority leader, not because of being afraid to continue to fight but there is no need to."
No more ramming horns like bighorn sheep as Reid described his relationship with President George W. Bush. "I will have nobody to butt heads with," the senator told the paper.
But Roll Call, a paper on the Hill, peers through a different lens in a story today about the strained relations between Reid and his Republican counterpart, Sen. Mitch McConnell of Kentucky. Democrats tried to defeat McConnell this past election, and Republicans are looking forward to doing the same to Reid when he stands for re-election in 2010.
Roll Call reported: “One veteran Democrat warned that Reid is not afraid of a fight, saying the Majority Leader 'ain’t afraid to whip out the old Searchlight sling blade and cut their nuts off.'”
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