Senator Reid and the Power of Persuasion
By THE EDITORSGeorge Tames/The New York Times Lyndon B. Johnson, as Senate majority leader in 1957, giving Theodore F. Green, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, “the treatment.”
Senator Harry Reid, the majority leader, having unveiled the Senate health care bill now needs 60 votes to stave off a Republican filibuster and begin formal floor debate. That means getting all 58 Senate Democrats and the two independents on board for a vote set for Saturday evening. But even among the Democrats, Senators Blanche Lincoln of Arkansas, Ben Nelson of Nebraska and Mary Landrieu of Louisiana have been cagey about whether they will support the bill.
How do Senate leaders persuade fence-sitters to vote against their own political instincts (either because they or their constituents oppose some part of the legislation or because political adversaries will use the vote against them in the next election)? What is in the Senate arm-twister’s bag of tricks — carrots as well as sticks — that’s most effective?
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Friday, November 20, 2009
Senator Reid and the Power of Persuasion
Persuasion or coercion? A fine line that has been crossed many times in this administration and Congress.
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