Chopped Liver wrote on August 28, 2008 09:27 PM: Chopped liver has more function then that so-called energy summit.

What got accomplished?... ABSOLUTELY NOTHING --- which is what Reid's majority in the Senate gets accomplished = absolutely nothing!

Harry Reid wrote on August 28, 2008 09:24 PM: Michael Green must be snorting the same thing as our savior Hussein Obama.

I am truly out in far left field. I let George Soros and Moveon.org make every decision for me. I don't have an energy policy and will block anything constructive from ever reaching the Senate floor for a vote. I WILL take bribes or kickbacks, free tickets to fights, or sweatheart land deals.

Michael Green, you're almost as crazy as me!!! I expect to go the way of Tom Daschle next election --- bye bye.

Michael Green wrote on August 28, 2008 06:51 PM: Roger, what do you think that energy summit was about? Chopped liver?

Roger King wrote on August 28, 2008 06:34 PM: I have never worked for a political candidate, but I can't wait for Sen. Reid to run for re-election. I will work as hard as I possibly can for his defeat. Nevada's citizens support closed borders, new US energy sources, and smaller govt. Reid is on the wrong side of these issues.

John in Montana wrote on August 28, 2008 04:45 PM: The article states: Nevada's senior senator is one of the most powerful people in his party and one of the most powerful people in the United States.
Maybe so, but “respected” is not considered an asset that most associate with Senator Reid. Rather than have great ideas and plans that will help this country and his constituents, he continues to criticize others. This action is totally juvenile and not productive. Nevada and this country deserve better from Senator Reid, and many other politicians.

Michael Green wrote on August 28, 2008 03:53 PM: Jack, it was indeed a Democratic senator, Bennett Johnston, who proposed the Yucca bill originally. But it's worth remembering why: Nevada's voters, in their infinite wisdom, tossed out a four-term Democratic incumbent, Howard Cannon, who was a major power on Capitol Hill. Why? They liked the conservative opponent, Chic Hecht. Now, I could add some points about Hecht's characterizations of Cannon and his record, but I'll stick with facts we can agree on: Cannon was a major power in the Senate and Nevadans defeated him for reelection with a Republican.

My point is not that Hecht was a Republican, although he and Paul Laxalt, his Republican colleague, were followers of Ronald Reagan, who wanted a dump put here. My point is that the only reason the bill came up in the first place--and this is evident to anyone who knows how the Senate works--is that Johnston had nothing to fear from the Nevada delegation, whatever its partisan hue. As a senior committee chair, Cannon (a Democrat, but this would be true of either party for someone with his seniority) was not someone he wanted to mess with--and unquestionably, he would not have messed with Cannon on this issue. Nevada usually has the intelligence to keep its members of Congress around because seniority on the Hill almost always means power, and that's vital for a small state.

Ed R. wrote on August 28, 2008 02:58 PM: Reid's speech was limp and uninspiring. He's got the kick and passion of cold oatmeal. But any voice that speaks up and calls the republican agenda and its puppet candidate out for what they are needs to be heard anyway. The country faces a assault from a party that celebrates unearned privilege, underachievement, ignorance, lies, reckless warfare, profiteering, sexual hypocrisy, corporate welfare, medieval religious fanaticism, environmental destruction, degraded education and healthcare, and total contempt for anyone who has ever told the truth in their life.

McCain's got nothing but those old war photos. His integrity once lay in his knowing that being tortured and brutalized is a bad thing. But he doesn't even remember that anymore, because his handlers have told him that American's want a president who's not afraid to torture and brutalize. He's a substandard thinker, has no idea how anything about the modern world works, has never worked a real job, has no idea what's it's like to look in a checking account and hope you'll make it to the grocery store before it's empty, and has kissed up to some of the most malignant, disgraceful rightwing traitors to democracy, progress, and human rights that have ever crawled loose on our streets. He needs to be sent packing with the media that sold him and the people who bought him.

Jack wrote on August 28, 2008 02:47 PM: Antony, I must ask then if everyone who ever proposed or signed a law, that was later struck down during judicial review, was guilty of treason.
Please, you can do better than that. Too many laws to county have failed to pass judicial review at all levels of the courts. If you propose to put all those people in Jail for treason, you may have to include a few of your buddies.
Lets start with Bill Clinton who tried to pass a law, struck down, to allow Police to enter a house without a warrant if the person was on welfare.
Sorry people, all you provide me with here is repetition of some sorry trash you read on moveon.org.
I cannot tell you how specious your argument is Antony....to silly for words!
PAULA should recall that is was democratic senators who proposed the Yucca Site not republicans.

halee wrote on August 28, 2008 02:45 PM: i love john mcain

Michael Green wrote on August 28, 2008 02:13 PM: Jon, each of us makes a compact, as it were. Mine is this: which candidate comes closest to what I believe. I don't think that is much different from others. Reid comes closer than anyone who has run against him.

I'm sorry I can't agree with your opinion because it proceeds from what I consider an incorrect presumption: that Reid goes along with the Democratic left. The word many on the Democratic left would use to describe Reid's ideology is Republican. If Reid were a true leftist, he would have pushed for no funding, period for Iraq, plus universal health care (which isn't socialist--I am amazed at people who don't expect police and fire departments to make profits but think health care should), etc. To lump him with Ted Kennedy is silly; if someone wants to claim Obama is on the left, that person obviously would think the R-J is on the left. "Tepid centrist" is a lovely term here and I'll stick with it.

Jon, I appreciate that you wanted to discuss this. Too often, this board is full of illiterate, racist, sexist, homophobic, professional haters. No doubt they feel at home with R-J editorials, but it's nice to try to discuss the matter in a reasoned way.

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