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Reid Sees His Shadow; It’s McConnell

With Senate Republicans this week looking to welcome Senator-elect Scott Brown and to emerge from the deep-freeze of their 40-vote, filibuster-short minority, the Senate majority leader, Harry Reid of Nevada could not miss the opportunity to enlist a groundhog in the political ground-game.

“The calendar today say it’s Groundhog Day,” Mr. Reid said at a news conference following the Democrats’ weekly luncheon at the Capitol. “But the truth is when you try to govern with the party of no, every day is Groundhog Day. It’s always the same ‘No. No, No’.”

“But they take pride in governing in the way they do, bringing government to a halt, where you treat it like a game and boast about scoring political points by stopping us from moving forward on things that are important to this country,” Mr. Reid continued. “But it really isn’t a game. It’s a question of national security, a question of my family’s security, your family’s security.”

Republicans, in fact, were focused on national security on Tuesday. They invited former Attorney General Michael B. Mukasey to their luncheon for a discussion on a number of issues including the handling of terrorist detainees. The Senate Republican leader, Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, would not discuss the specifics of the conversation but said of Mr. Mukasey, “He has been a leader as a you know, not only as attorney general, but since leaving as attorney general in helping everyone understand the difference between someone who tries to rob a convenience store on the one hand and somebody who tries to blow up a plane on the other.”

Mr. McConnell predicted that the Obama administration would reverse its decision to try Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the alleged mastermind of the 9/11 terrorist attacks, at the federal courthouse in New York City.

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