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Gloomy Harry
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Updated: Nov. 2, 2010 | 2:33 a.m.
Sen. Harry Reid lurches toward tonight's Election Day finish line, more unpopular than ever with Nevadans, unable to make a convincing case for voters to return him to Washington.
Last week, in a survey conducted for the Review-Journal and 8NewsNow, Mason-Dixon Polling & Research reported that 56 percent of Nevada voters have an unfavorable opinion of the Senate majority leader. The figure has been climbing steadily since summer.
The gloomy Sen. Reid can't fall back on a warm and charming personality. He can't run away from his record, pretend he's not an incumbent and try to hide his party affiliation, as so many down-ticket Democrats have done -- Sen. Reid owns the toxic Obama agenda, and he's practically married to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.
So Sen. Reid and his loyal subjects carry on with collapsing circular arguments -- primarily attacking his chief opponent, Republican challenger Sharron Angle.
The senator's campaign derides Ms. Angle's fiscally conservative positions as not only "extreme" but "crazy" and "dangerous." Then Sen. Reid's supporters point out that Ms. Angle, if elected, would be a senatorial back-bencher, unable to accomplish anything for the state's interests.
How, exactly, can Ms. Angle be dangerous and politically impotent at the same time? Sen. Reid certainly won't say.
Conversely, Sen. Reid's cheerleaders point out that he's so powerful Nevadans would be stupid to replace him with Ms. Angle. No one can do more to create jobs and serve up pork. Sen. Reid himself says it's his job to create jobs.
Yet Nevada continues to have the nation's highest unemployment rate, and Nevada not only ranks last among the 50 states in federal tax dollars returned per capita, but last in "stimulus" funding as well. And let's not forget that although Sen. Reid claimed to have single-handedly rescued the world from an economic depression, he blames Nevada's woes on former President Bush and Republicans.
So our job-creating, world-saving, pork-scoring senator can't create jobs, lift Nevadans' standard of living or bring home the bacon, after all?
And how does raising taxes on the affluent or jacking up power bills with a cap-and-trade boondoggle, as Sen. Reid intends to do, give Americans the discretionary income to fill the Strip's upscale hotel rooms and casinos with tourists?
Ms. Angle will vote against the agenda Sen. Reid has rammed down our throats. She will say no to unsustainable federal spending. That's what Nevada needs.
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Wow! An actual working man, "renostarman", voted for a Dem? Let me ask you... Did you get dropped on your head when you were a baby?
Good Morning tea baggers! It is indeed a GOOD morning! I’ve been thinking for hours as I drove along in my truck-(that’s right I’m a truck driver not a “paid shill” for Reid or Soros as I’ve been accused of 100’s of times) how I was going to post this morning. I do not know whether to gloat, as you would have, or to be humble. Gloating would be fun-but I mostly feel sad. I am sad that after all my posts accusing the tea party of racism -one of you almost always confirmed my accusations. I am sad that after all my posts stating the obvious, that Angle was an unqualified religious zealot, so many of you just did not care. I am sad, because, right now, you are more upset with Harrah’s providing busses for their employees, than you are about the millions of hidden corporate dollars that were spent here. I am sad that you think a social network is some form of a Marxist plot. I am sad that your tax bill determines your Christian Ideals. After 1000’s of years of human history, with our knowledge of the cruelties of the past, from the Inquisition to slavery to the Nazi’s, from the witch-hunts to McCarthyism, I am sickened that humans can still be manipulated with such ease.
Nothing to gloat about, Harry's son will end his career in politics and go to a lobbyist job. Harry will spend the next 6 years getting Rorty ready to fill his shoes.....Harry won....and with the split national and state govt the people won...
renostarman:
cease the gloating, you have nothing to gloat about. The Dems took a shellacking, can't you see that? Dingy survived the night, but he's been neutered, he's nothing but a gelding now, cut off at the knees. In fact he reminds me of Monty Python's Black Knight as King Aurther rides away. You done your homework yet? I see you're trying to cop the 'women in the kitchen' bit done by me earlier. Liberals, not an original thought cradle to grave...
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Dear teaparty-I hope you have enjoyed your moment in the sun; frolicking around in your revolutionary hats and carrying signs of Obama, and his family in Nazi uniforms. Many of you actually made it on TV bless your hearts. BUT YOUR 15 MINUTES ARE UP! All of the pundits who have predicted a GOP sweep in November have overlooked one important thing-you conservatives have kicked moderate Republicans to the curb-you insult them with the moniker-Rino-and consider them traitor's. How are moderate Republicans going to vote? Think moderate Republicans want women back in the kitchen? Think moderate Republicans want text books rewritten with evolution removed? Think moderate Republicans want prayer in school? Whose prayers? Think moderate Republicans are watching g beck? Think moderate Republicans agree with the "lemonade from lemons" statement? Moderate Republicans are not going to vote for Angle-and you in the teaparty have yourselves to thank for that.
To: LVRJ Editorialists,
Harry ain't limp no more.
Nevadan's ain't stupid.
WE MADE THE RIGHT CHOICE!!!
The Federal Reserve is a private enterprise. they control the money supply. isn't it interesting that the Fed will print up some money to be released unto the states... the day after this election. i wonder what party the owners of the reserve banks belong to?
RussBBinVegas, Your worldview is has been rejected, you lose 60-70 seats in the house, 6 in the Senate and 9 governorships and you want to gloat? Be my guest. LOL
Pardon me if I come back to this moron RJ editorial to GLOAT a little bit. LOL