Quote du jour

“The reality is that a convicted felon is not going to be able to serve in the United States Senate.”

-Harry Reid

Unless, of course, one of our own gets caught!

Quote du jour

"We hope that in retirement Harry Reid keeps up his workout routine."

-National Review "The Week"

Harry Reid's Legacy

Harry Reid Blast From the Past

Ode to a Cowboy Poetry Proponent

Liberal, liberal Harry Reid
into his cornflakes somebody pee'd
Harry is leaving
tell him "goodbye, don't come back
and zip up your fly"

Lame Duck Dynasty

"Talk Like a Pirate Day" Fail

Potemkin Village People

A Direct Line to the President

The Cowboy and His Therapist

Cross posted at LCR, Political Clown Parade

Harry Reid: Often Wrong, But Never in Doubt

Original art by John Cox. More at John Cox Art

Cross posted at LCR, Political Clown Parade

Harry Reid is an Ignorant Fascist With Stinky Feet*

*According to the Harry Reid School of logic and reasoning. (Stop laughing!)


Image courtesy of John Cox
Fascist is a very precise term that describes a certain sort of person. How can I state with certainty that "Harry Reid is an Ignorant Fascist With Stinky Feet", when I've never been within twenty feet of his feet? It's quite simple really (much like Harry)! Whenever you want to call your opponent names, you pick out a word that sounds bad and then presume it means whatever you want it to mean. In other words, the Humpty Dumpty school of Rhetoric.

Harry Reid, the Dimbulb from Searchlight, said the following:

"We're not going to bow to tea-party anarchists who deny the mere fact that Obamacare is the law. We will not bow to tea-party anarchists who refuse to accept that the Supreme Court ruled that Obamacare is constitutional."

Which is funny, on the face of it, since Obama is the one known for bowing to petty tyrants and monarchs around the globe. But, lets take an honest look at his dishonest use of the word "anarchists". A dictionary definition to start?

an·ar·chist [an-er-kist]
noun
1. a person who advocates or believes in anarchy or anarchism.
2. a person who seeks to overturn by violence all constituted forms and institutions of society and government, with no purpose of establishing any other system of order in the place of that destroyed.
3. a person who promotes disorder or excites revolt against any established rule, law, or custom.

Definition one: Does the tea party, organized or otherwise believe in or advocate anarchy? Of course not! In order to believe that, you'd have to be delusional enough to believe that Harry Reid is competent, or that Obamacare would lower the insurance premium of a family of four by $2,500 a year, instead of increasing it $7,500.

Definition two: Why would Senator Cruz seek to filibuster the Senate, if the tea party "seeks to overturn by violence all constituted forms and institutions of society and government". Can Senator Dimbulb Reid point to any instance of the tea party seeking to overturn by violence ALL constituted forms and institutions of society and government? That sounds more like his friends in the Occupy movement. The tea party seeks to re-establish the preeminence of the Constitution and the return to a true Constitutional Republic, which, the last time I looked, was an institution of society and government. Maybe Harry should stick to things he knows about, like government subsidies for cowboy poetry.

Definition three comes closest to a fig leaf for poor Harry, if you used "promotes disorder or excites revolt" very, very loosely. And one could argue that Obamacare is an "established" law, even though the Executive branch picks and chooses which parts of the law to implement and enforce and which parts of the law it chooses to ignore. Hmm. Wonder what the definition of "people who ignore laws" is?

But, even if by tortuous definition one were to equate the opposition of one law with the opposition of all law and order, may we look at the consistency of Mr. Harry Pencilneck Geek Reid?

Throughout the history of our nation, there have been those who opposed slavery. Slavery was the established law of the land for the first century of our nation's founding. Were those who opposed slavery "anarchists", Mr. Reid?

"Jim Crow" laws were established in the South, Mr. Reid. Were those who opposed Jim Crow "anarchists", Mr. Reid?

The law of the land denied women's suffrage. (That means they couldn't vote, Harry.) Were those people who advocated women's suffrage "anarchists", Mr. Reid?

How about gay marriage? Child labor?? Roe v. Wade??? In the dim recesses of whatever passes for your mind, is everyone who has ever advocated for a law to be changed, an "anarchist"????

Why the people of Nevada consistently return such a dim witted fool such as yourself to public office is a bit of a mystery and more than a little bit an American tragedy. The fact that you are the leader of the Senate which your party controls speaks volumes as to how low their standards actually are.

I am willing to admit that I might be wrong in my assessment. Your feet may not stink at all. Your record as a "public servant", however, does.

Cross posted at LCR

You Don't Have to be a Lying Coward to be a Democrat (But, it Helps!)

(Bloomberg) Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid predicted that Congress will reach a deal after the Nov. 6 election to avert hundreds of billions of dollars in tax increases and spending cuts known as the “fiscal cliff” set to begin in January.

Got that? Harry Reid, who hasn't been able to pass a budget in over three years is confident that between the election and the end of the year, that Congress will pass a bipartisan agreement, to avoid Taxmageddon and massive automatic budget cuts to the military.

Between November 6th and December 31st, a little over a month and a half, with just Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Year's Eve in the way, Harry Reid is going to reveal all the economic plans he and the president have for the country but couldn't in any way reveal before the election, if they had a prayer of keeping their jobs and make all the country's problems go away. . That's going to happen. Yeah. Right!

“I do not believe that we are going to go over the fiscal cliff,” Reid, a Nevada Democrat, told reporters in Washington Thursday, adding that he opposed a short-term deal. “I’m in favor of long term.”

Unless Congress acts, $1.2 trillion in automatic spending cuts will begin in January and the George W. Bush-era tax cuts will expire Dec. 31. The Congressional Budget Office estimates that the fiscal changes would amount to $607 billion in tax increases and spending reductions for 2013 alone. Democrats propose letting tax cuts expire for top earners, while Republicans want to extend the tax cuts for everyone and back spending reductions instead of more tax revenue.

If you happened to catch tonight's presidential debate, Obama nattered on about how Mitt was "hiding" the cuts he intends to make and the loopholes he intends to close. And here, Harry Reid and the Democrats, believing we are heading for a fiscal cliff, are hiding all their cuts, hiding their spending plans and hiding every plan they have to deal with this economic mess, from you and I. They have to deal with over a trillion dollars worth of cuts, one way or the other, but are too cowardly to tell their bosses, the American people what they plan to do, until after its too late to change your vote this November, much like they failed to pass a budget in October of 2010, 'less their losses would have been even bigger. They are willing to gamble the economic future of this country, and everyone in it, for the sake of partisan political gain.

Harry Reid and the Democrats have nothing but contempt for you. Return the favor on November 6th.

Cross posted at Say Anything, LCR.

Great Moments in Hypocrisy - Starring Harry Reid

Last week, I was driving down to Fresno, and I heard something so outrageously hypocritical from Senate majority leader Harry Reid, that I thought to myself, if there is a Hypocrites' Hall of Fame, that Mr. Reid would surely get in on the first draft. And then, each subsequent newscast provided yet another line just as Hall of Fame worthy. Perhaps the biggest laugher was this one on the Republicans budget plans:

"What loopholes do they want to close? They will not say. It's part of their fictitious math."

"They will not say". Gosh, Harry! I can't imagine a political party not explicitly writing down what their spending goals are for the country. We could call it a...budget! Say, haven't you failed to produce a budget in the Senate for over three years now, Mr. Reid? What exactly are you and the Democrats "not saying"? Harry, you and the Democrats have been "not saying" what the federal budget should be since before the 2010 elections, probably because you knew that if the public was aware of the specifics of the Democrats' spending plan, your large losses in 2010 would have been much, much larger.

Hypocrisy, thy name is Harry.

One Hundred and Five Billion (with a "B") Dollars for Obamacare

This video, which I "liberated" from No Sheeples Here, is not for the faint of heart.
You've probably heard of the $105 billion dollar blank check for Obamacare, but you may not have heard all the details. Have paramedics standing by if you haven't!

105 Billion Dollar ObamaCare Secret from RightChange on Vimeo.

Some Republicans don't want to tackle this because of some obscure House rules. But, this is one dead fish that needs to be gutted and taken care of before it starts to stink any more!

Dirty Harriette - Walk Softly, Nevadans and Carry a Big Stick

"Are you feeling lucky, Mr. Reid? Well do you?"

“Man up, Harry Reid,” Sharron Angle taunted him at their Las Vegas debate here Thursday night. That’s not an idle insult, coming from a woman who campaigns at times with a .44 Magnum revolver in her 1989 GMC pickup.

-Maureen Dowd

Poor NYT columnist! Think Maureen's tighty whiteys are in a wad over the pickup or that she's packing? Strong, self reliant women seem to disturb liberals. I don't know about you, but this makes me like Angle even more! And since Dingy Harry is running ads in Nevada about his support for firearms and hunters, Mo Dowd may be helping Sharon with the very demographic Harry is trying to corral.

Ms. Angle, if you're listening? A good set of Pachmayr grips * will give you good control and help reduce the feeling of recoil.

*Not a paid endorsement. I have a set of Pachys on my .44 magnum. But if you guys at the factory wanted to show your appreciation, I have other handguns! Heh.

More at Contentions

Cross posted at Left Coast Rebel, Say Anything

Sharron Angle Trounces Harry Reid in Debate

Left Coast Rebel gave us good coverage of the Angle/Reid debate. From every indication, she mopped the floor with him. She won the debate. She showed herself to be a contender. And that's a good thing!

But the question remains, how will that affect the election? Winning a debate is one thing, winning an election is another. A paraphrase of what FDR or Truman is reputed to have said, may apply here to Reid. Democrats may take the position that,

Yes, he's a doddering fool, but he's OUR doddering fool!

Don't get cocky!

Harry Reid, Sharon Angle Debate: Highlights and Full Video

by the Left Coast Rebel

Senator Harry Reid and republican senate nominee Sharron Angle debated for the first and only time last night, October 14. Early this morning I watched the full video between the two and came away quite shocked at just how poorly Harry Reid performed. His performance, replete with gaffes, misspoken data and general awkwardness was quite unbecoming of a three-decade, veteran senate 'leader.' I was surprised at just how focused and on-point Angle was. For every Reid awkward moment, Angle went right for the jugular.

A vocal critic of Sharron Angle, the Las Vegas Sun, conceded that Angle flatly won the debate on several counts:

Sharron Angle won The Big Debate.

Angle won because she looked relatively credible, appearing not to be the Wicked Witch of the West (Christine O’Donnell is the good witch of the Tea Party) and scoring many more rhetorical points. And she won because Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid looked as if he could barely stay on a linear argument, abruptly switching gears and failing to effectively parry or thrust.

Whether the debate affects the outcome — I believe very few Nevadans are undecided — it also perfectly encapsulated the race: An aging senator who has mastered the inside political game but fundamentally does not seem to care about his public role (and is terrible at it) versus an ever-smiling political climber who can deliver message points but sometimes changes her message or denies a previous one even existed.

Politico:

Even more puzzling, with the polls deadlocked and his career on the line, the four-term senator largely avoided engaging Angle. For a hard-nosed politician who prides himself on his youthful boxing exploits, he threw surprisingly few punches.

The former state assemblywoman and tea party favorite was, in her halting fashion, the aggressor of the evening, going after the incumbent with a series of tough attacks.

Part I - Highlights - Angle comes out of the gate fighting, (3:00) "I'm not a career politician, Harry Reid lives in the Hilton." (6:00) "Every state should have a Joe Arpaio."(10:00) Harry Reid "English is already the official language.":



Part II - Highlights - (1:00) Angle against insurance mandates, "America is about choices." (2:00) Harry Reid, "You see the baseball players wearing pink shoes, the football players having pink helmets....colon cancer, because you snip off the things that they find when they go up, no more." The segment (at 3:15) seals the deal on Harry Reid's defeat. He simply cannot answer a simple yes/no question. Ouch:



Part III: Highlights - Angle (2:40) "Man up Harry Reid, you need to understand that we have a problem with Social Security." (10:00) Angle makes a great case for de-funding the Department of Education and stands her ground. Harry Reid (11:25) follows, calling the Department of Education, the "department of energy." No kidding, this guys is the leader of the United States Senate?:



Part IV - Highlights - Angle continues 1-2 punches at every point, note Harry Reid fumbling through his notes (9:00):



Watch the segments and drop some highlights of your own in the comment section.

Special shout out to readers of the Las Vegas Sun! Wish I was there! -ed.

Your Taxes Are Going Up in January- No Matter What

I heard this on the radio this afternoon. By neglecting their duties to the American people and putting off until after the election, making a hard decision on extending any of the Bush tax cuts, the Democrat controlled Congress deprived the IRS of sufficient time to calculate and implement those reduced tax rates. By law, the very sunset law that Democrats insisted upon when the Bush tax cuts were implemented, your taxes must go up.

Lets recap: The Democrats forced a sunset provision onto the Bush tax cuts, insuring that if they were not extended by 2010, your taxes would go up.
The Democrats failed to extend them. Therefore, the Democrats are responsible, doubly responsible for making your taxes go up.

Pelosi and Reid have been in charge of Congress since 2007. They've had three years to extend any or all of them. They Did Nothing.

The Obama administration and the Democrats have controlled all three branches of government for 22 months. They Did Nothing.

How can we reward the Democrats for our taxes being raised this January? We can show Democrats our appreciation for higher taxes this November, by making them all civilians and thus subject to all the laws they have passed.

Your your appreciation. Show them the door.

Video via Flopping Aces

Cross posted at Left Coast Rebel, Say Anything

Harry Reid Picks Two Dead People as Single "Greatest Living American"

So, let me get this straight...an interviewer tosses you a soft ball question: "Can you think of a greatest living American?" Hilarity ensues (about 42 seconds in):


So, he's math impaired, because he names two and can't quite pick up on the fact that both Teddy Kennedy and Robert KKK Byrd are both dead. That is to say, not living...

And "Greatest"??? One was a coward who ran away from the scene of a traffic fatality to try to preserve his political career, the other was a former Klansman.

Had he named Obama (cough, gag) he would have seemed less buffoonish. This is the guy we want leading the Senate???

H/T Mark Levin
Video via The Blaze

Cross posted at Left Coast Rebel, Say Anything