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Sep 28, 09:54 AM | Harry Reid
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- Harry—I’m with you on the message, but there are typos galore on your website, which just drives me crazy. For instance, the plural of “Americans” is not “American’s” (used improperly twice), and it is “ExxonMobil” and not “ExxonMobile”. Also, it should be “Give us YOUR thoughts on this website”, not “Give us YOU thoughts on this website.” Constructive criticism—I’m sure you’ve heard of this from others. :-)))
— Donna in Houston Sep 28, 12:11 PM # - And on a ClearChannel – owned billboard! I bet they have sensors on those things to tell them which way the wind is blowing!
— Bob King Sep 28, 12:15 PM # - There is an issue that has been bothering me for quite some time and I am hopeful that you will be able to explain this to me.
Why do the members of Congress have a separate retirement plan rather than Social Security? What incentive is there for the members of Congress to protect and strengthen Social Security when they will not have to rely on it for their retirement? I like thousands of others in the lower middle class work very hard but, unfortunately, live paycheck to paycheck and am unable to set aside very much money for my retirement. My job does not offer a retirement plan. So, when I see that the very people that are supposed to be representing our interests have absolutely no vested interest in saving/maintaining/strengthening Social Security or, for that matter, Medicare/Medicaid, I am left cold and with little reason to believe that the elected members of either political party care about the “little people.”
— Roxanne O'Connor Sep 28, 12:49 PM # - Yes agree with Donna in Houston great message but it must be iron-clad and grammatically correct in order to convey strength and intelligence. The billboard apostrophe is facing the wrong way—seems a small point but it is important, please get a copy editor! Good luck, Sen. Reid!
— Alessandra Sep 28, 01:17 PM # - What a bunch of pre-screened suck ups.
Why not “Take more Casino money, Harry”.
Or “I can put more relatives on the government payroll than anybody else, Harry”.
Those would better,
And while you’re at it, Bush looks better in the western thing.
— Tom Sep 28, 01:55 PM # - Harry: We love you Dems up in DC. So much we want to keep as many of you there as possible. So, could you all look into that voting machine issue? Billboards are great and all. But if all of our votes are going to turn up Republican regardless of which button we press, trying to sway public opinion is a waste of time, don’t you think? Thanks for the opportunity to voice our opinions.
— Scott Sep 28, 01:57 PM # - Great you have a blog and there are good things on it oo – BUT the good things are short on the “how we get there”.
For example: I share your commitment to making our country independant of foreign oil, but wonder about the HOW. I am very concerned about the new HR 3824 which the House Republicans are pusing toward law and which will weaken environmental rules – andruning at it’s lethal high.
I would appreciated hearing your views on this: HOW do we reduce our dependence on foreign oil?
Dare we mention conservation and gas efficient cars?
According to a non-partisan poll heard recently on NPR even the slightest conservation effort would save us $millions of gallons daily.
What do you say? How do we do it? Digging up our country or conservation?
Thank You, Joyce
— Joyce Scheffey Sep 28, 02:25 PM # - PS
I see I have typos just like you, Harry. We’ll have to be more careful, you and I. Meanwhile, continue the good fight.!
— Joyce Scheffey Sep 28, 02:32 PM # - I’m glad that ``Give ‘em hell’’ is your motto, because that’s just what we must give this corrupt administration should they nominate a right-winger to replace Justice O’Connor. I do not think any good Democrat will accept anything less than a battle to the finish in such a case.
And keep in mind that Justice O’Connor will stay on the Court until her successor is confirmed. No matter what happens, let’s make her eventual successor’s confirmation a slow process.
Keeping her on the Court for another term would promote stability and give us a good read on CJ Roberts
— Ed Mulligan Sep 28, 03:11 PM # - Harry,
Are you on board with the 1% Solution?
see
http://www.1percentsolution.org
— Stephen Pizzo Sep 28, 03:23 PM # - MASSIVE 5 GAL TO THE MILE SUV’S ARE EVERYWHERE – STALLED, MOSTLY, ON THE SIDE OF THE ROAD IN TEXAS AND LOUISIANA.
You can’t handle the price of gas? well too bad, because you’re sucking it up at five times the rate of the rest of the world. The Germans came up with the smart car – it gets 80 MPG!!!
What do GM, Ford and Chrysler come up with? BUBKISS! Junker cars that play into the oil barrons hands. You deserve to get fleeced!
The proof is that you’re still buying junkers from the big three.
The price of gas will go up because China is gonna get just as greedy as YOU and there are a heck of a lot more of them than you.
So grab your cheeks with both hands there America, and spread ‘em – Chumps!
— unowho Sep 28, 03:24 PM # - If you read that sign fast,
it (HillHarry) almost “sounds” like a Hillary ad
You should rethink the sound bite
— step back Sep 28, 03:25 PM # - ‘Give Em Hillary’ :D
— James Sep 28, 03:32 PM # - nise shert. whats em forget box for?
— muck4doo Sep 28, 04:05 PM # - Loser.
— Scott Sep 28, 04:07 PM # - yeah i think it safe to assume this passed under the bigwigs at clearchannel’s radar. or maybe they put politics aside for the good ol’ cashola. where are these billboards? las vegas? D.C.? Searchlight?
— clayton Sep 28, 04:09 PM # - New Mexico, Arizona and one other place… umm.
— James Sep 28, 04:40 PM # - I have several areas of concern. First – Lets impeach G.W. Bush and Co. and try to start over with some common sense.
Re: Energy – I liked someone’s idea of wind or solar power units for individual homes and businesses. I come from a generation when windmills in Texas were a must. They worked. Oh they creaked, but they did work!
Re: Health care – How about putting everyone on the Medicare system. Skip the many insurance companies. Should not be too difficult to do. I estimate 25% (or more) of the people in America today are either on Medicare or Medicaid, or work for Federal, State or local governments. What we are paying private insurers can then be paid to Medicare. This program should then be run by “capable” individuals (do not look for them in hose shows, or under rocks) who are willing to take some heat by not kow-towing to mega drug companies. Insurance companies as we know them would be a thing of the past.
Re: Religion – separate church and state as was suggested by our founding fathers.
Re: Democrates – Get a program! I have heard nothing much from the Democratic side of things lately. Why weren’t you all in the Gulf after the storms, with your boots and gloves on and working to help clean up the mess? Think of the publicity – Elected officials actually doing something rather than holding press conferences. Oh Yes, your “press” would eventually find out and the reviews I am sure would outshine the Pres and his cronies show of caring.
I have been a republican all my life, but no more. It would be helpful for the democrats to start something that voters could be excited about. Surely someone has some ideas.
— jshore Sep 28, 04:50 PM # - Harry Truman was one of my fav. presidents BTW…I’m starting to think that perhaps Senator Reid should run for president.
Anyways, We need to come up with the biggest and boldest ideas for reforming this broken government…and we need to make sure all these ideas are coming from the dems and that the american people know it. We haven’t effectively put forth any real ideas yet. We need something bigger than the GOP’s contract with america. Which, i’ll mention BTW was a broken contract. I’m tired of Howard Dean also saying embarassing things that make us look mean and stupid…if he can’t learn to act like an adult we need a new chairman. Public dissatisfaction with the US congress isn’t necessarily them just putting blame on the republicans who run the place…they’re disgusted with both republicans and DEMS…we must obtain the moral high ground…and if we do something bigger than the CONTRACT with america….We’ve got it made come 2006…..2 POINTS to get this thing going….Make Howard Dean shut up and let’s GET SOME IDEAS…good luck
-jared
— Jared Sep 28, 06:16 PM # - Gotta do something about the typos.
And as someone said earlier—battle the next SCOTUS nominee, if not a moderate.
Dean’s a little bit off center, but his heart is in the right place and he doesn’t take Republican/conservative BS. He says it like it is. Gotta respect the guy for that.
— christianleftie Sep 28, 06:37 PM # - Dear Senator,
I hate to repeat what other commenters have already noted, but since I expect that your office may not have time to read through all comments on each entry carefully: Please proofread. This website is going to be a wonderful tool, but if the text appears hastily done, the site won’t present the professional appearance that it needs and deserves.
— Sylvia Drake Sep 28, 07:08 PM # - I am glad to see you stepping forward again and speaking out on these issues, especially the oil company/government affair.
Many of us speak this way in private, but don’t know how to help fix the problems or bring them to light. Keep it up. There is hope for change.
— elyse Sep 28, 07:41 PM # - Thank God someone out there is trying to get the message out. You do not need to be a Rhodes scholar to see that “Emperor Bush” and his band of stooges have no clothes on. What does it take? Botched attempt at capturing Bin-Laden, distracting side show (albeit lethal) in Iraq-botched chance at diplomacy with Iran- the list is endless. As I quip frequently to my conservative friends bemoaning gas prices as the fill their hummers, “I gased up for .89 a gallon in 1998—-when Cinton was in”. I think the worm has finally turned. This DeLay thing has got a stick in their spokes and I think the preseident is really a lame-duck now. As Winston Churchill said after victory in North Africa, “This is not the end, this is not the beginning of the end, but it is the end of the beginning”! Give them hell Harry! I want that billboard up all over this nation. God bless and carry on.
— Lars Sep 28, 08:37 PM # - Depleted Uranium is just uranium 235. If we refused
to use the Pentagon’s term DU, we could educate
the public and stop the occupation of Iraq and any
further military adventure by the Bush administration.
When you dig uranium ore out of the ground, you get
U 238 and U 235. Uranium 238 is fissionable and is
used in nuclear reactors. U 235 is called depleted
uranium because the fissionable isotope has been
removed.
The New York Daily News ran sophisticated exams on
just 9 Iraq war veterans and found that 4 of the men tested
positive for U 235. Two states have demanded testing for
all returning National Guard troops from their states. What
we need to do is to lobby the Congress to demand testing
for all veterans. And by that I mean testing for U 235 in
their lungs and not just urine. The military brass is using
urine tests to confuse the issue. Any urine test given 30
days after leaving Iraq will be negative. By testing only
urine, the military knows they are subjecting the veterans
to cancers and other diseases. And they are also subjecting
their unborn children to birth defects. This will probably be
worse than Agent Orange. One gram is more than
sufficient to give cancer to one soldier and create a birth
defect in his or her unborn child.
We can stop this war by refusing to call uranium 235 DU
and by demanding that every veteran be tested by state
of the art methods as the Daily News did. Who would join
an army that exposed you to cancer causing radiation and
subjected your unborn to high risks for birth defects?
— Daniel Sep 28, 09:02 PM # - Welcome to the blogosphere. Give ‘em hell is exactly the message that the progressive blogs want to hear from you but will they believe you mean it? Increasingly Democrat representatives are being characterised as cowards who just won’t fight—by people who are Democrat supporters. This business with the vote for Roberts is a good example—half the Democrat Senators voting for him. Another example would be the unwilingness to call for a withdrawal from Iraq.
Is this characterisation unfair? If it is then you need to do a better job of explaining to the rest of us what the game plan is—because it doesn’t look good.
— DavidByron Sep 28, 09:18 PM # - Senator, you are no Harry Truman!
— calvon Sep 28, 10:48 PM # - It is actually funny that some of the commentators are upset that some Dems voted for Roberts. They should be ashamed that Harry and a few of his dwindling group of Dem Senators were unable to realize how qualified Roberts was. Ginsberg was no where near as qualified and was a clear extremist ideologue yet the Republicans acknowledged that she met the minimum standard of qualification and confirmed her nomination.
— LargeBill Sep 28, 11:09 PM # - To the critics, a thought: Good or bad, right or wrong, this blog has the potential for finally establishing the position of the party. For all sides, it’s a win/win venture.
— vinrym Sep 29, 12:15 AM # - Any comment on the Second baptist CHurch Gate?
— the general Sep 29, 12:38 AM # - Where did you ever aquire such a masculine nom de plume “Pinkey” ?
— megimoo Sep 29, 12:59 AM # - When will your party of obstruction start to work for what we Americans want and forget about what the party of Kennedy, Schumer and Pelosi and the rest of the East and West cost liberal/Socialists bleat for ?
The Democratic party of Roosevelt and Harry Truman (The real Harry) have disappeared from America and has been hijacked by Adversarial Socialists bent on remaking America into a Socialist haven like Cuba with the United Nations deciding our rules of law and ignoring our constitution!
— megimoo Sep 29, 01:17 AM # - Harry,
I hope you will ‘give ‘em hell’! We need more Democratic leaders who will stand up and tell the unvarnished truth.
I watched as the right-wing smeared honest war heros like John Kerry and Max Clelland (heck, even John McCain!), and I waited for the Democrats to launch into a blistering attack on the countless chickenhawks that didn’t have the nerve to defend our country. Yet, the Dems did nothing. And I believe that was the big reason why Kerry lost the 2004 election.
I watched Dick Durban tell the truth about the interrogation of prisoners at Gitmo, only to see him apologize for using the word ‘gulag’. He shouldn’t have apologized. He should have shoved pictures of the atrocities our soldiers committed into the face of everyone that tried to downplay what he was talking about!
We have to be willing to fight, and if the Republicans want to fight dirty, then we’ve got to climb down in the mud to knock them down and keep them there!
We need to start championing the causes that we’ve always stood for: equality, the right to a living wage, the protection of our constitution from religious zealotry.
I’m very afraid for our country. Everyday this administration destroys a little more of the separation between church and state, and eliminates our rights as free citizens.
Please, Harry, give ‘em a little hell for me, ok? :) Thanks…
“Carry the battle to them. Don’t let them bring it to you. Put them on the defensive and don’t ever apologize for anything.” – Harry S. Truman
— spuddonna Sep 29, 02:45 AM # - You’ve done a remarkable job as Senate Minority Leader so far. With very rare exception, you’ve fought all of the fights that I believe in. Thank you Harry. I’m glad you’re my Senator
(now find us a candidate to run against Porter!!)
ps- what’s with all the conservative anger here? Is “Pinky” showing a little too much backbone for you nutcases to handle?
— roller Sep 29, 03:12 AM # - Harry: Check out the 1% solution!http://www.1percentsolution.org/
— Julie Zuber Sep 29, 03:18 AM # - Explain, please:
The money that led to the indictment this week of two Las Vegas pastors and the wife of one of them came from federal grants arranged by Sen. Harry Reid in September 2001, a Reid spokeswoman said Wednesday.
Moving to distance Reid from a possible scandal, aide Tessa Hafen said the senator sought the money on behalf of a nonprofit social services agency and not for the churches or persons who have been accused of mishandling the money.
“The money was administered by the Department of Justice, and it went to the agency in Nevada (Alliance Collegiums Association of Nevada),” Hafen said.
The Rev. Willie Davis, the longtime pastor of Second Baptist Church, and his wife, Emma, were indicted Tuesday on fraud charges with an associate minister, the Rev. McTheron Jones.
They are accused of spending $330,000 from federal grants on themselves although the money was intended for halfway houses for prison inmates in Southern Nevada.
The indictment identifies Willie Davis as president of the Alliance Collegiums Association of Nevada board of directors.
In late 2002, Emma Davis became executive director, and Jones was assistant director.
According to the indictment, a grant of $423,000 was approved for the alliance in September 2002.
The indictment charges the defendants of using the grant money to benefit themselves.
— Diane Jeffries Sep 29, 08:28 AM # - I’m a little confused, you and other democrats are demanding that President Bush nominate a “moderate” to replace Justice O’Connor because she was a “moderate.” But, in 1993 I never heard any democrat demand the same from Bill Clinton. Where were the democrats when the pro-life and “moderate” Byron White was replaced by pro-abortion and former ACLU attorney Justice Ginsberg? For some reason I don’t remember Justice White advocating that the age of consent be dropped to 12 years old like Ginsberg did. I don’t remember Justice White advocating co-ed prisons or aboloshing the Boy and Girl Scouts or adocating the aboloshment of Mothers day and Fathers day and have them replaced with “Parents” day like Ginsberg did.
The hypocrisy of the left is stunning!
— Capitalist Infidel Sep 29, 08:31 AM # - Harry, Whats your relationship with Willie Davis? He just got slapped with an indictment. Looks like you arranged a few federal grants for him. The indictment identifies Willie Davis as president of the Alliance Collegiums Association of Nevada board of directors.
I demand an investigation.
— Chris Sep 29, 08:37 AM # - Money connected to Reid
Senator arranged for grant now involved in indictment of pastors
— Jon Lewis Sep 29, 08:41 AM # - From the blog’s front page:
“Why, in the face of national tragedy and record profits for your companies, are American’s [sic] paying 50% more at the pump than they [shouldn’t that be “we”] did one year ago?”
This is the problem w/Dems’ lay-down-and-roll-over attitude. The oil mega-corporations aren’t going to cut their profits voluntarily. The only way we’ll get $$ from them is by taxing those profits and moving that tax money back into the economy, infrastructure, new alternative energy initiatives. . .
I came to this site hoping to see some initiative and new ideas. Yet, I see instead, the most pathetic question.
[whine] Please, Mr. Oilman, don’t charge so much because it isn’t fair. [/whine]
While I admire the tough stands Sen. Reid has taken since becoming leader, most recently on Roberts’ nomination, this front page question is just more of the same by which the Dem Party expects others to act due to ethics or moral values. Oil mega-corporations don’t operate according to ethics or moral values. They operate according to profit.
The Dems need to re-educate Americans about the “public welfare”—the need for taxes, public education, the relationship of the three branches of government, and, finally, clean up the disaster that is our current voting “system.”
It will take leadership to succeed. Given the failure that Bushco is, I cannot believe the Dems can’t come up with someone to fill that leadership void. There must be someone who can do it.
— IowaChick Sep 29, 08:45 AM # - Harry you are definitely not the same man as The Real Harry (Truman)
he was of much better stock and a real American !
PS: I am still waiting for some heavy hitter(s) to back The 1% Solution.
If no one steps forward by the end of October I will simply shut the site down.
Hello Howard Dean? It’s yours if you want it.
— megimoo Sep 29, 08:51 AM # - And Chris, I demand an investigation of President Bush, because given the incompetent and corrupt administration he’s running, that stench has got to reach the top, doncha think?
How many billions “lost” in Iraq? That’s some kind of grant program Bushco has going.
What, I stamped my little feets down and nobody did nuthin? Hmmph. [shuffles away, wondering why the world’s not paying more attention to meeee]
— IowaChick Sep 29, 08:56 AM # - Give em hell harry! Help the Democrats keep telling us that John Kerry spent Christmas in Cambodia courtesy of Presdent elect Nixon. Help Dan Rather tell us that George was a deserter using forged documents. Help Chuck Schumer protect our private data from his staff. Help us get more late term abortions. You say you are pro-life but prove it with support for one Supreme Court nominee that has a record against abortion. You claim to believe in God. Reconcile your beliefs with your actions or are those in a separate compartment?
Yeb, you’re giving us hell all right.
— GeorgeD Sep 29, 09:05 AM # - I did not know that George Bush used forged documents to desert.
I thought he simply failed to show up to perform his required service to our nation.
— IowaChick Sep 29, 09:13 AM # - IowaChick
You mean like
Whitewater
Filegate
Travelgate
Cattle futures
Selling nuclear secrets to Communists
Illegal campaign contributions from Monks
Perjury
Obstruction of justice
Waco
Ruby Ridge
Elian Gonzales
Rose Law firm
Marc Rich
— Capitalist Infidel Sep 29, 09:14 AM # - Harry,
Since I have been told that you are a member of the LDS Church, why is it that everything that you are for or give tacit approval for (abortion, gay marriage, etc), is against everything that the LDS Church teaches it’s members? Are you only a mormon in name only when it comes time for campaign contributions?
— El-ahrairah Sep 29, 09:14 AM # - After reading the below, I’d say you are the one who will be receiving a little hell rather than giving it.
The money that led to the indictment this week of two Las Vegas pastors and the wife of one of them came from federal grants arranged by Sen. Harry Reid in September 2001, a Reid spokeswoman said Wednesday.
Moving to distance Reid from a possible scandal, aide Tessa Hafen said the senator sought the money on behalf of a nonprofit social services agency and not for the churches or persons who have been accused of mishandling the money.
“The money was administered by the Department of Justice, and it went to the agency in Nevada (Alliance Collegiums Association of Nevada),” Hafen said.
The Rev. Willie Davis, the longtime pastor of Second Baptist Church, and his wife, Emma, were indicted Tuesday on fraud charges with an associate minister, the Rev. McTheron Jones.
They are accused of spending $330,000 from federal grants on themselves although the money was intended for halfway houses for prison inmates in Southern Nevada.
The indictment identifies Willie Davis as president of the Alliance Collegiums Association of Nevada board of directors.
In late 2002, Emma Davis became executive director, and Jones was assistant director.
According to the indictment, a grant of $423,000 was approved for the alliance in September 2002.
The indictment charges the defendants of using the grant money to benefit themselves.
This comes from the The Las Vegas Review Journal.
— Tony Niles Sep 29, 09:15 AM # - $330,000 ripped off from prison half-way houses? Well, at least you can rightfully claim that this is not as bad as Air America embezzling $850,000 from Gloria Wise. But still, it makes you wonder whether or not Tom Delay really deserved to be indicted by a Democrat partisan prosecutor.
— 84rules Sep 29, 09:23 AM # - I’ve got to say… I don’t agree with any of your politics, but this is definately a beautifully designed blog. You really did this up nice. Too bad more Conservative bloggers don’t have a layout this cool. They’ve got the substance to keep me coming back, but eye popping design seems to be lost on many of them.
— John Sep 29, 09:28 AM # - No, it doesn’t make me wonder that, 84rules. Because I can believe that Republicans can be incompetent and corrupt. It’s called reality.
Man, this blog filled up with astroturf so fast I can see the the cheetoh dust flying. Lies about AAR, whines about faux Clinton scandals—all trying to distract from what is clear:
President Bush is incompetent and his administration is corrupt.
How do I know? Because none of these responses try to validate Bush’s presidency, they just whine about the past. Boo hoo hoo.
— IowaChick Sep 29, 09:29 AM # - Still no defense of President Bush,
and still fluffing up faux outrage over multi-million $$ investigation that cleared the Clintons.
George Bush—on his watch, the US gov’t has grown at a more rapid pace than under LBJ!!
No wonder there is no defense of him being offered. He’s incompetent.
— IowaChick Sep 29, 09:37 AM # - Why should conservatives “justify” the Bush administration? Because you say it is incompetent and corrupt?
Where is your proof? Oh, wait I’m sorry, I forgot, your a liberal and it is true because you say so, and besides you repeated it, like, three times in 6 posts, so it must be true!!!!!!
If you want detailed discussions correcting your beliefs read a few conservative or neutral blogs.
BTW, this is Reid’s website, so I thing the discussion should be about Mr. Reid’s incompetent and corrupt dealings.
— cstmbuild Sep 29, 09:41 AM # - “George Bush—on his watch, the US gov’t has grown at a more rapid pace than under LBJ!!”
Wouldn’t that make a far left winger such as yourself happy???
— Capitalist Infidel Sep 29, 09:42 AM # - Just because I despise ignorance:
Ruby Ridge—August 1992.
Now, who was president in August 1992?
I’ll give you a hint—it wasn’t Bill Clinton.
Better commentators, please.
— IowaChick Sep 29, 09:48 AM # - I read FreeRepublic every day, thank you very much.
— IowaChick Sep 29, 09:54 AM # - know why i love w? he never fights back. losers like harry reid call him names and denigrate him and bush never says, “Ya’ll are a bunch of weinie losers.” bush just goes about his business and gets things done. bush cleaned you alls clock with roberts, just like he’s done in everything else. democrats have no answers only complainsts. you want to see a real disasater. let sean penn handle the katrina and rita problems. haha.
— zebulon Sep 29, 10:02 AM # - Harry, it is time to light a fire under the Democrats. Most Americans are now repulsed by the naked corruption and venality of the Repubicans, but we must still offer a clear message and commitment.
One way to start is by protecting our living and enduring Constitution. The Democratic party as a whole must make clear to the president that no nominee outside the judicial mainstream is getting on the Supreme Court. And we must be unyielding on this, even if we have to filibuster.
Then we can take our case to the American people, most of whom want balance and moderation in the judiciary, which means keeping loons like Janice Roger Brown and hacks like Priscilla Owen as far from the Supreme Court as possible.
— Ed Mulligan Sep 29, 10:20 AM # - Harry,
I think that you and the 2 wind bags from Mass. and the other 2 from NY are what is choking anyprogress for any form of legislation in the country. You are all obstructionists….and are biased. All of you on the Judicial Comm. and in the Senate Dems…would rather see emergency Fed. Court Seats open rather than filled with a Judge who could preside over the overwhelming case loads that are outstanding. All of you should be ashamed of what you are doing.
It seems that no matter who President Bush nominates He/She will never be good enough.
— David W Sep 29, 10:25 AM # - The money that led to the indictment this week of two Las Vegas pastors and the wife of one of them came from federal grants arranged by Sen. Harry Reid in September 2001, a Reid spokeswoman said Wednesday.
So while the rest of the country was mourning a great American tragedy, you were sneakin’ money out the backdoor? What? Huh? Investigation? Harrygate?
This might just be your calling! You may very well be recognized for the crook you’ve always been. Why are you still in the Senate anyway? Have you ever contributed to any positive message?
— Steven Grizzle Sep 29, 10:26 AM # - The mainstream voted for President Bush. The President campained on nominating judges like Scalia who support keeping the constitution alive and not trying to violate it by pretending it includes things that it does not. The constitution provides a methodology by which it can be amended. That methodology does not include the judical tyranny of judges who rule by fiat. Attempts by Harry Reid to pretend that the democrats won the election will further reduce his relevence.
— USA akbar Sep 29, 10:32 AM # - Can’t scan the headlines without noting the effects of President Bush’s incompetence:
Army faces worst recruiting slump in years
http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/news/12780917.htm
This is what we get for the biggest expenditure of our taxes, ever? A broken Army?
I stand by my characterization.
— IowaChick Sep 29, 10:33 AM # - Hell, Harry is all your party has to offer. You controlled the Congress for over 40 years and you gave the Black community, which had strong nuclear families, despair and hopelessness of single parent households thru the social welfare programs you promoted.
Please don’t try to take credit for civil rights laws, it was Senators from your party who filibustered civil rights legsilation for years and it was Republicans who finally stood fast in the Senate and got those laws passed.
Your party gave us the Vietnam war and the sellout of the Vietnamese people at the alter of the anti-war movement. Your party is responsible for the strategy that allowed Walter Cronkite to declare a great American military victory, that had broken the back of the NVA, a colossal defeat. Your party is responsible for millions of dead Vietnamese and Cambodians when you led the forces that abdicated that part of the world to the Communists.
Your party gave us Jimmy Carter’s policy of appeasement of terrorist regimes.
Your party gave us Bill Clinton who refused to take terrorism seriously, treated it as a law enforcement matter and then handcuffed law enforcement with the Gorlick Wall.
Your party gave us the politics of personal destruction when Senator Kennedy destroyed the reputation of Judge Bork with a campaign of lies and innuendo that you carry on to this day. It failed with Judge Thomas, it has had a lasting impact on political appointments in DC since then. You tried the same thing with Judge Roberts and you will try again with the President’s next appointment. Hopefully, we will see you fail again.
So, Harry, give us Hell. You have nothing else to give. You’ve given us 60 years of failed social engineering. You’ve worked tirelessly to destroy the fabric of America thru social engineering in schools with the help of the NEA. You’ve supported the ACLU’s efforts to remove faith from our society at every turn. You’ve supported the Michael Moore/Cindy Sheehan wing of your party in their efforts to destroy our military readiness and the morale of our troops fighting in war zones.
Harry, you and your party are pathetic. You can’t win at the ballot box and if it weren’t for the NYT, CBS, etal, you would have no standing at all. Give us Hell. It’s all you’ve got.
— MIchael Becker Sep 29, 10:35 AM # - Yeah,
What he said, Harry. Shouldn’t you be out dividing the country by race instead of typing on your little blog, Senator?
Besides, my Blog is better than yours.
The Therapist
— The Therapist Sep 29, 10:43 AM # - Folks just aren’t getting it.
George Bush is the biggest spender, ever.
Who benefits? The Halliburton Club.
At least the Dems tried to use tax money in programs to aid the weakest, poorest, and most disfranchised among us.
In stark contrast, the Bush admin has basically set up a slush fund through its policies so the “haves” can become the “have-mores.”
— IowaChick Sep 29, 10:48 AM # - iowatick
This blog won’t last the year unless dims do what they do best. Choke out contra opinions.
Tom D will be lighting his cigars by scratching his matches across Earle’s head while harry the poser twirls in hell. THEN harry can give.
— Ray Evans Sep 29, 10:52 AM # - Hi Harry, Thank God someone is stepping up to the plate? I am so disgusted with the Democratic party and ready to be an Independent. I wish that the Democrats would STICK TOGETHER, maybe we could accomplish something, like get the Republicans out of power.
Liebermann and previous president Clinton make me gag. They might as well switch sides for all the good they are doing for our party.
The Democrats need a good looking,brilliant minded very well spoken candidate. Someone who can dish it out as well as take it! Since the Republicans can only hide behind their poo-poo ing of anything they are confronted by, we need to pin them down on many of the dark dealings they are so famous for. “Don’t back down” should be our thought process. Thanks for taking the time to read this. Sincerely, A. Davies A.D.
— A. Davies Sep 29, 10:53 AM # - ClearChannel – the first thing I noticed. For shame for advertising with these people.
— Erik Sep 29, 10:59 AM # - Bu$hco is in its final throes. The neocons are melting down fast. You can sense their desperation in their posts on this site. After these loonies are banished from our government we need to have a restoration of American values. I say, Impeach Bush Now!
— mikalinphilly Sep 29, 11:02 AM # - Hey Moonbat, can you say Willie and Emma Davis?
— Paul Gabel Sep 29, 11:05 AM # - Harry-
As the current Minority Leader, wouldn’t you want to become Majority Leader?
Why is it that there is no viable Democrat running against the incumbent Republican Sen. John Ensign in Nevada?
I would think the Democratic Caucus would want to pick up every seat possible.
— Clocknova Sep 29, 11:07 AM # - Hey, mikal. Are you ever correct about the desperation.
I’m wondering how long it will take Blunt to fall? And Dreier to wake up?
— IowaChick Sep 29, 11:10 AM # - Sen Reid,
given the number of detractors you seem to be attracting to your brand new blog I would venture a guess that YOU are now on the freeper “hit list”
welcome to the blogosphere Senator and give em hell for us Sir.
— KnotIookin Sep 29, 11:18 AM # - What about this story Harry?????
http://www.reviewjournal.com/lvrj_home/2005/Sep-29-Thu-2005/news/3594772.html
— LJS Sep 29, 11:21 AM # - Excellent site and initiative, Sen. Reid. Quickly and proudly linked from our blog. Getting the Senate out of the hands of the neocons and back on a progressive track will only be accomplished if campaign efforts are organized on a state by state basis and progressive candidates and incumbents can offer a clearly stated, concise plan to improve matters in this country. Simply saying, “Bush and the Republicans are wrong” won’t do it. You have to outline how you will do it right. The energy independence initiative is an excellent start.
One question… last year, Hillary Clinton (among others) was sponsoring a bill to require verifiable voting machines that have a solid paper trail in time for the 2006 or 2008 elections to prevent any more of the GOP vote fraud we witnessed last time. What ever became of that bill? When will we see real vote reform? This should be another of the specific issues you champion with a solid plan that can be implemented quickly and responsibly.
— Jazz Sep 29, 11:44 AM # - Iowastick, #72
Marine, Navy and Air Force recruiting are all above their recruiting goals.
So, 3 out of 4 are above ….... hmmmm…..must… not… let… the… facts… get.. in… the …...........way.
— cstmbuild Sep 29, 11:45 AM # - I wrote that * the Army is being broken by the Bush administration*—I did not reference the other military branches.
Please read carefully before making silly insults, ctsmbuilds. If you don’t, you just discredit yourself.
— IowaChick Sep 29, 12:04 PM # - Harry—I’d also like to know what the deal is w Schumer and the DNCSS.
did they really steal the social security number of the Lt. Gov in Maryland? It sounds kinda shady to me.
was it becouse the DNCSS doesn’t like black Republicans? or is it becuse the DNCSS does not like blacks in general?
pls advise
— your public Sep 29, 12:06 PM # - iowaschtick
Confusing calm, cool steely nerves with desperation is a weakness. If one is unable to accurately assess one’s position, one can never change. In today’s climate of deep partisanship, thoughts and ideas are raised to an enhanced position of importance.
The “modern” or “progressive” dem party has been reduced to a reactionary tribe, empty of ideas and high on nerve grating rhetoric (Bushitler, neocon, etc. God when will you pansies grow up?) And I don’t mean it grates on my nerves as a conservative. Can’t you see what others see when the NYT refers to the moonbats at cindy’s answer party as progressives?
You lost. You pay. You reorganize and try to appeal to a wider base. That makes sense. But not to you folks.
One last thing. For all you whiners who can’t get over the fact that a majority voted you out, TWICE (reality besed?), I have a question? How can you gain any sympathy for voting irregularities when your party stands for allowing people to vote without proper idnetification? You cash checks? You drive cars? Rent apartments? I’ll stack up the known and prosecuted faults of your party to mine any day of the week.
You dweebs better get a grip. You’re losing worse than you think.
— Ray Evans Sep 29, 12:15 PM # - iowatrick
This from radioblogger, courtesy of Hugh Hewitt and Mark Steyn. A good read
HH: But I think there’s…AOL right now is running a double box with pictures of Delay and Frist, that says it’s a bad week for Republicans. I’m laughing because John Roberts just got confirmed 78-22, and Chuck Schumer is knee deep in trying to rifle the files of a black Lt. Governor in Maryland.
MS: Yeah.
HH: I live on a different planet than these people.
MS: That’s a great example of the media group think, because they essentially buy into…what we saw in the vote today is that there’s actually 22 votes for abortion absolutism in the United States Congress, that in fact, that is the losing side. And yet, when Chuck Schumer says oh, we require the president to nominate a judge who’s in the mainstream, nobody in the media stops to think, well, heck what he means by mainstream. It’s the side that keeps losing elections. It’s a preposterous definition of mainstream.
HH: And 22. It’s less than a quarter of the Senate believes this. And yet, their influence on their caucus is predominant.
MS: Yes, and if you look at that 22, they’re tightly confined to a very limited geographic fringe of the country. Basically, the part of the country that are near large bodies of waters, like oceans and great lakes.
You guys are going nowhere until you rectify your schitzoid tendencies about the military, national security and rampant anti-Americanism. The funny thing is, we can lay all the clues right under your poboscis and you won’t change a bit. Fine. Lose again!
— Ray Evans Sep 29, 12:59 PM # - Harry, as you read a lot of the nasty nonsense on this blog, you must be very satisfied to know that you will be majority leader of the Senate within the next 2 election cycles.
Tom Delay is history, W has been revealed to stand only for ``witless’’, and most of the Republican establishment has been demonstrated to be more corrupt than Tammany Hall. What is left of the national Republican party is simply a bizarre and unnatural fusion of social Darwinists and wingnut fundamentalists. The moderates have no voice there.
Most of America knows the country is going in the wrong direction. We have to point them to a better future.
— Ed Mulligan Sep 29, 01:53 PM # - How prescient we were upstairs:
Pentagon still not reimbursing troops who buy own body armor
Nearly a year after Congress demanded action, the Pentagon still hasn’t figured out a way to reimburse U.S. troops for body armor and equipment they purchased to better protect themselves while serving in Iraq.
For Marine Sgt. Todd Bowers that extra equipment — a high-tech rifle scope bought by his father for $600 and a $100 pair of goggles — turned out to be a life-or-death purchase. And he has never been reimbursed. . . .
No doubt about it:
George Bush = Incompetence.
— IowaChick Sep 29, 02:02 PM # - Isn’t the problem here Christians. Christians import morals that are incompatible with a free market. What are you going to do about the Christian Right encrouching on business via “morals”?
— Jim Goan Sep 29, 02:03 PM # - So, my question is…
Why is Michael Malkin suck, err..such a whore, and why would she invite her readers to leave harrassing comments here WHEN SHE WON’T ALLOW COMMENTS ON HER BLOG?
Mrs Kettle, meet Mr Black…
— Sean from Seattle Sep 29, 02:06 PM #
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