Archive for 'Harry Reid'

Wednesday, July 18th, 2007

Dirty Harry The Self-Indulgent

One of the signs of either (a) the delusional true believer, or (b) the complete hack is the unwillingness to accept reality as it is. Many have accused our Commander-in-Chief of this flaw, but it certainly applies to his opponents. Witness the reaction from the lefty blogosphere’s leading lights to the latest Republican […]

15 Comments » - Posted in Harry Reid, Elephants, Donkeys, Iraq, Progressive Nonsense / Nutroots® by Mark

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Wednesday, June 13th, 2007

We’ll Mark You Down As “Not A Fan”

George Will on Harry Reid’s transparently phony excuse for pulling the immigration bill:
Harry Reid, the Senate’s majority leader and resident Uriah Heep, affected ‘umble and syrupy sadness about the Senate’s inability to pass the immigration bill that he pulled from the floor last Thursday evening for a transparently meretricious reason. Saying the Senate’s time was […]

5 Comments » - Posted in Domestic Affairs, Harry Reid, Donkeys, Iraq, Progressive Nonsense / Nutroots® by Mark

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Saturday, April 21st, 2007

Is Partition The Answer?

There of those of us who still believe in the idea of a united, democratic Iraq, though our hopes have been dashed time and time again and the remnants are fading.  I never thought the idea of a partitioned Iraq was worth fighting and dying over.  You can understand, then, my disappointment that it has come […]

22 Comments » - Posted in Harry Reid, POTUS, Elephants, Donkeys, Iraq by Mark

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Sunday, April 8th, 2007

Senator Levin: We Will Not Stop Funding The War

A Democratic senator with big-time influence and authority is quite publicly sending a message to Harry Reid and other Democrats who have thrown their lot in with the Nutroots®, and the message is this: we won’t stop funding for the war.
The Senate will not stop paying for the Iraq war nor relent from insisting that […]

9 Comments » - Posted in Harry Reid, POTUS, Donkeys, Iraq, Progressive Nonsense / Nutroots® by Mark

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Wednesday, March 14th, 2007

Nutroots® Rule The Democratic Roost

Ryan Grim details a scenario that should be cause for concern for all moderate, non-’progressive’ liberals: the complete domination of Harry Reid by the likes of Matt Stoller and Kos.
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid had been under weeks of pressure from liberal bloggers and MoveOn.org members angry about a scheduled Democratic debate co-sponsored by Fox […]

13 Comments » - Posted in John Edwards, Harry Reid, Joe Lieberman, Progressive Nonsense / Nutroots® by Mark

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Tuesday, February 27th, 2007

AP: Democrats In ‘Disarray’ On Iraq

What’s that noise all across Washington? Why, it’s the furious backpedaling of Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi, as they ‘cut and run’ from the political mess they’ve made:
Democratic leaders backed away from aggressive plans to limit President Bush’s war authority, the latest sign of divisions within their ranks over how to proceed.
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, […]

8 Comments » - Posted in Harry Reid, Domestic Affairs, POTUS, Donkeys, Iraq, Progressive Nonsense / Nutroots® by Mark

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Sunday, February 18th, 2007

The Democrats’ Obsession With Vietnam

Harry Reid says Iraq is worse than Vietnam:
After months of heated rhetoric slamming President Bush’s Iraq policy, the Senate’s top Democrat moved into new terrain by declaring the Iraq war a worse blunder than Vietnam.
“This war is a serious situation. It involves the worst foreign policy mistake in the history of this country,” Sen. Harry […]

32 Comments » - Posted in Harry Reid, POTUS, Iraq by Mark

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Thursday, February 15th, 2007

“Dirty” Harry Reid Is Killing Earmark Reform…With The Assistance Of Cowardly Senate Republicans

Robert Novak has the details:
The Senate Republican leadership met behind closed doors this week to ponder Majority Leader Harry Reid’s audacious power grab on the massive catchall appropriations bill. They decided they could not filibuster the bill for fear of being blamed for closing down the government, but they still wanted enough votes opposing cloture […]

No Comments » - Posted in Domestic Affairs, Harry Reid, Elephants, Donkeys by Mark

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Tuesday, January 30th, 2007

More On Dirty Harry Reid’s Latest Land Grab

Dennis Byrne:
Instead of talking in sweeping platitudes about “ethics reform,” Senate Democrats might want to prove they mean it by dumping their ethically challenged majority leader, Harry Reid.
The Nevada lawmaker has been implicated in yet another land scheme that this time could net him a tidy $50,000 to $290,000. Los Angeles Times investigative reporters Chuck […]

4 Comments » - Posted in Harry Reid, Donkeys by Mark

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Sunday, January 28th, 2007

“Dirty” Harry Reid Strikes Again

If Democrats seriously wanted to do anything about the culture of corruption, they’d start with the Senate Majority Leader:
It’s hard to buy undeveloped land in booming northern Arizona for $166 an acre. But now-Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid effectively did just that when a longtime friend decided to sell property owned by the employee pension […]

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Friday, January 12th, 2007

Ethically Challenged Reid Fails To Block Earmark Transparency Measure

Capitol Hill staffers recently voted Harry Reid the second most ‘ethically challenged’ man in the Senate, and not for nothing, either. Yet despite Reid’s best efforts, a piece of ethical reform that should be welcomed by both parties appears to be one step closer to passage:
After campaigning for months on a promise to tighten ethics […]

2 Comments » - Posted in Domestic Affairs, Harry Reid by Mark

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Wednesday, November 15th, 2006

The Culture Of Corruption: Abramoff Probe Focuses On The New Senate Majority Leader

Harry Reid is once again in the news, but for less welcome reasons than yesterday:
As convicted lobbyist Jack Abramoff reported to federal prison today, a source close to the investigation surrounding his activities told ABC News that Sen. Harry Reid (D-Nev.) was one of the members of Congress Abramoff had allegedly implicated in his cooperation […]

7 Comments » - Posted in Domestic Affairs, Election 2006, Harry Reid, Elephants, Donkeys, Democratic Candidates by Mark

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Friday, November 10th, 2006

Another Call For Pelosi To Do The Right Thing

It’s not only Alcee Hastings that should give us pause, says Radley Balko, as he calls for Pelosi to live up to her pledge to ‘drain the swamp’:
Here’s the challenge:  [Rep. Alan B.] Mollahan is, to say the least, “ethically challenged.”  There’s no sensible reason for him to retain his seat on the most powerful […]

6 Comments » - Posted in Election 2006, Harry Reid, Donkeys by Mark

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Tuesday, October 17th, 2006

The Media Matters Modus Operandi

You know Media Matters, right? The George Soros-funded, Duncan ‘Atrios’ Black (aka The World’s Laziest Blogger, aka Open Thread)-employing home for hackery? If you’re not familiar with it, you should correct that, because it’s one of the most surefire addresses for hilarity on the Net.
A perfect example of how Media Matters catches ‘bias’ is […]

21 Comments » - Posted in Harry Reid, Progressive Nonsense / Nutroots®, Democratic Candidates by Mark

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Tuesday, October 17th, 2006

The Culture Of Corruption: Dirty Harry Edition

Another day, another Harry Reid financial impropriety:
Senate Democratic leader Harry Reid has been using campaign donations instead of his personal money to pay Christmas bonuses for the support staff at the Ritz-Carlton where he lives in an upscale condominium. Federal election law bars candidates from converting political donations for personal use.
Questioned about the campaign expenditures […]

2 Comments » - Posted in Harry Reid, Democratic Candidates by Mark

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Friday, October 13th, 2006

The Culture Of Corruption: Taking Harry Reid To The Woodshed

The Washington Post has some harsh words for the Senate Minority Leader:
THE BEST CASE for Senate Minority Leader Harry M. Reid (D-Nev.) is that he was sloppy about financial disclosure rules in accounting for a real estate deal on which he made a $700,000 profit. The more unattractive case is that the senator’s inaccurate description […]

11 Comments » - Posted in Harry Reid, Democratic Candidates by Mark

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Monday, July 24th, 2006

The Democrat-Nutroots® Divide

Dean Barnett takes a look at the Kossack reaction to Israel’s war with Hezbollah, and he sees still more trouble ahead for candidates who seek to pander to the progressive blogosphere. Barnett first notes the silence of the front-pagers:
THE CONFLAGRATION in Lebanon has provided an example of the people-powered movement’s potential to be a […]

No Comments » - Posted in Harry Reid, Mark Warner, John Kerry, Radical Islam / GWOT, Progressive Nonsense / Nutroots®, Foreign Affairs, Democratic Candidates by Mark

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Thursday, June 1st, 2006

Harry Reid And The Fine Art Of LawyerBall

The defense of Harry Reid regarding his latest ethical lapses is so plainly flimsy that it’s no wonder he has already decided he’d better give in and try to move on. Let’s break it down:
1. John Solomon is biased. Need I spend any time on this? Blaming the messenger is surely not […]

15 Comments » - Posted in Harry Reid, Progressive Nonsense / Nutroots®, Democratic Candidates by Mark

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Tuesday, May 30th, 2006

The Culture of Corruption: Reid KO’d

Put another nail in the coffin of the ‘Culture of Corruption’ talking point:

Senate Democratic leader Harry Reid, who has criticized Republican ethics, accepted free ringside tickets to three professional boxing matches from Nevada officials who were trying to influence his federal legislation regulating the sport.
Reid, D-Nev., took the free seats for […]

23 Comments » - Posted in Harry Reid, Democratic Candidates by Mark

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Tuesday, March 21st, 2006

From The Interesting Rumor Department

Want another reason the Democrats aren’t rushing to endorse the Feingold censure proposal? Try this on for size:
On the Senate side, Sen. Harry Reid and his chairman of the DSCC, Sen. Chuck Schumer, continue to press the anti-war rhetoric as key to their success. On Thursday afternoon, Reid took heat from some members for his […]

No Comments » - Posted in Domestic Affairs, Harry Reid, Donkeys, Democratic Candidates by Mark

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