Another Harry Reid snit fit: No recess, no recess appointments
So, they can’t–make that won’t–get it together to provide funding for the troops, but they’re going to pretend to work over the weekend in order to stomp their feet over Democrat appointments. My four-year-old is more mature than Harry Reid:
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., will keep the U.S. Senate in session over the Thanksgiving break because he wants to block President Bush from making any recess appointments.
Roll Call is reporting that Sen. Reid inserted a statement into the record Friday stating that he will “hold the Senate in a series of pro forma or nonvoting sessions” to prevent Bush from exercising his appointment power.
Reid said, “While an election year looms, significant progress can still be made on nominations. I am committed to making that progress if the President will meet me halfway.
“But that progress can’t be made if the President seeks controversial recess appointments and fails to make Democratic appointments to important commissions.
The elevator is going down, down, down.
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Turkeys for Thanksgiving - with apologies to the native American bird.
I believe I already said it, but it bears repeating. This time with feeling: Jerk. Pompous, arrogant SOB!
I’ve always said that Dems get older, but they never mature past the age of five.
Good picture of Reid. He looks like he needs a good proctologist.
Here’s a good visual of Reid…
Standing, fists clinched, arms held tightly by his sides, stamping his left foot, holding his breath, and face turning red, after screaming the Democrat’s mantra, ““It’s not fair!!!”
It is a ploy to distract the netroots so that they do not notice what miserable failures their Congressional leaders are. Just another example of the soft bigotry of low expectations on the left.
why would he expect a Republican President to appoint Democrats? Would we expect that from say a Clinton President?
Harry’s power has gone to his head. He is heady drunk with his position’s supposed power. Will the people of Nevada, please wake up and fire this guy!!
Actually, he is probably afraid to go home to Nevada, cause he knows he may face some angry constituents.
I thought that picture looked like the WWII era picture of Il Duce.
Dingy Harry is the King of All Crapweasels.
Same enigmatic Mona Lisa smile.
Reid truly makes me want to puke.
Are they shooting for a zero on those approval ratings?
I’ve figured it out. Harry Reid is the basis for Dr. Suess’ Grinch. And all you have to do below is to substitute “Reid” for “Grinch” - not much work at all!
You’re a mean one, Mr. Grinch.
You really are a heel.
You’re as cuddly as a cactus,
You’re as charming as an eel.
Mr. Grinch.
You’re a bad banana
With a greasy black peel.
You’re a monster, Mr. Grinch.
Your heart’s an empty hole.
Your brain is full of spiders,
You’ve got garlic in your soul.
Mr. Grinch.
I wouldn’t touch you, with a
thirty-nine-and-a-half foot pole.
You’re a vile one, Mr. Grinch.
You have termites in your smile.
You have all the tender sweetness
Of a seasick crocodile.
Mr. Grinch.
Given the choice between the two of you
I’d take the seasick crockodile.
You’re a foul one, Mr. Grinch.
You’re a nasty, wasty skunk.
Your heart is full of unwashed socks
Your soul is full of gunk.
Mr. Grinch.
The three words that best describe you,
are, and I quote: “Stink. Stank. Stunk.”
You’re a rotter, Mr. Grinch.
You’re the king of sinful sots.
Your heart’s a dead tomato splot
With moldy purple spots,
Mr. Grinch.
Your soul is an apalling dump heap overflowing
with the most disgraceful assortment of deplorable
rubbish imaginable,
Mangled up in tangled up knots.
You nauseate me, Mr. Grinch.
With a nauseaus super-naus.
You’re a crooked jerky jockey
And you drive a crooked horse.
Mr. Grinch.
You’re a three decker saurkraut and toadstool
sandwich
With arsenic sauce.
Copyright © 1957, Dr. Seuss.
I swear this idiot is going to explode one if these days because he just can’t get his way on anything. How much fun would that be to watch? Then again, is it possible for him to anymore unglued mentally than he already is?
Ok, it’s Friday, and with apologies to Nat King Cole, one chorus to the tune of “Mona Lisa”…
Do you smile to tempt a lover, Harry Re-id?
Or is this your way to hide a broken heart?
Many pipe-dreams have been brought to your doorstep
They just lie there and they die there
Are you warm, are you real, Harry Re-id?
Or just a cold and lonely moonbat work of art?
I bet Reid’s buddies really appreciate having to work the holiday. I can’t help but wonder how much longer Reid will remain the Senate leader considering the embarrassment he’s caused his party.
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BTW, any idea what Reid is going to do for Christmas?
Oh goodie….maybe another pajama party. Who brings the cookies?
If by ‘meet him half-way’ he means ‘fold to my will,’ then yes, I see why President Bush is so “defiant.” What a total jerk Reid can be…
They are already there and are grabbing their shovels to start digging.
Proof positive that negative numbers do exist.
He’s a liberal Walldog…you meant to say the HOLIDAY season, didn’t you? Socialists (athough I believe Reid is LDS) don’t recognize reigious holidays, do they?
I would like to offer a proposal for a theme song for the Nancy and Harry Congress …
Garth Brooks “Friends in Low Places” … and lower places … and lower places … and …
What a sleeze…he gives men a bad name.
“I’m sorry if you have been offended by that.”
That’s my non-apology apology of the day.
My hubris meter AND my idiot meter just broke as they were aimed at Harrybrained Reid. These are devices that survived the hillary debate, yet didn’t stand a chance once pointed toward the seditious one, reid.
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A real question for anyone here…
Can anyone remember a congress so full of themselves (and crap, which might be one and the same) ever before?
Pelosi and Reid are mindnumbingly narcissistic and just plain stupid.
Has it EVER been this bad before?
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We need to be more concerned with the next generation, not the next election.
Hey LC, you are spot-on!
This is much like the gun control issue. You CANNOT give an inch to the left, because once they get a concession on any issue, they will always think they can get more (and they usually do!)
In the liberal lexicon, “conpromise” means only the other side ever has to give up their position to make things “work.”
On November 16th, 2007 at 2:28 pm, Walldog said:
BTW, any idea what Reid is going to do for Christmas?
LOL, He’s going to celebrate “winter holiday”. Christmas is banned in liberal world.
“Stupid is as stupid does.”
- Forrest Gump
Harry Reid has never met anyone half way.
What a bad joke on Us.
I wonder if Reid is going to make a trip to Iraq to serve our brave Turkey for Thanksgiving? Maybe he’ll get one troop to eat with him. That would be one more than Jun Caray got.
Yep…the 40 years they held Congressional power! Never fixed the socio-economic problems, educational problems, race relation problems, but always managed to blame the Republicans for those problems. They used those issues to campaign for office even though they did nothing to correct those real or imagined problems while they held the majorities.
shooter #24
No and No.
davenp #3: The dems have much experience. They have one year experience 100 times.
Since getting a good idea of Reids manipulation of the Amnesty(s) debate I have come to realize there is democracy and then there is Reids version of democracy. To what extent is this detrimental to American democracy: to the extent that we have a representative form of government and to the extent Reid subverts this process is the extent of the damages done to all of us. Has any terrorist done worse to America than Reid and has any high treason he has committed done worse damage to our war effort than any terrorist.
uhangtight:
Now the real reason comes out.
Harry Reid better get it out of his system because his
personal approval rating among his constituents is
in the toilet. At one time it was (and perhaps still is,
I haven’t read what it is this week ) lower than Charles
Manson’s approval rating. Now that is bad!! I wonder
how Nancy Pelosi spins that to get him to do her
“bidding!”
TXRose
Actually I think they are both on the same morning conference calls with MoveOn.org and Kos and Soros … so they get the same marching orders
Jim M-that was the funniest thing, I loved it!
30 pcs-Reid gives sleezes a bad name.
Yes, DL I think they are on conference calls daily and according to something I heard on Rush one day, they also have super secret meetings. I bet it’s in a neato cool liberal clubhouse.
I just had a little bit of Thanksgiving turkey and some great fellowship with the folks of my Squadron and now I get to see even a bigger Turkey. Harry Reid how low can you go everybody limbo!
I’m beginning to see why so many are opposed to WMR’s hopes of moving into the White House and are making an issue of his religion. It’s got the same name — at least — as Hairy Harry’s and that ain’t good for any of us who claim to be members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Some ain’t near Sainthood.
ich dien
Mr. Reid’s idea of halfway is 100%.
I figure in honor of their queen bee it’s a 2-story Arkansas outhouse …
Maybe if there is no recess, Congress will actually put in a 5-day week!!!
The amount of attention a senator pays to his/her constituents is based pretty directly on how long it’s been since the last election. My senator, Jon Kyl, ran as a conservative in 2006. In 2007 he lead the fight for Shamnesty. Go figger!
I think Reid was just reelected also, but I could be wrong. Five years is a long time politically speaking; eons for a Lib.
This jerk has really stepped in a pile of excrement this time. I heard on Rush last hour that Reid says SecDef Gates told him the Army and Marines will be just fine until March with the last incomplete funding Democrats grudgingly passed. There is one little problem. That is not what SecDef Gates said with CJCS Adm. Mullen at a Pentagon presser just yesterday. Reid thinks that Bush is too unpopular to correct the record with the public.
Michelle, we need anti-Shamnesty tactics. We need an anti-Dingy surge here.
MAKE THEM PAY!
Not one person has noted what recess confirmation Senator Reid is trying to prevent.
Dr. James Holsinger, President Bush’s nominee for Surgeon General, has published medically inaccurate papers in the name of homophobia. This paper is based on incredibly simplistic, and inaccurate assumptions like that heterosexual couples don’t engage in anal sex and that all homosexual male couples do. This is so far from the truth that’s it’s laughable.
Holsinger has shown in the past that he’s willing to put ideology over science. That’s unacceptable. I applaud Senator Reid and I urge President Bush to find a nominee who doesn’t think homosexuality can be “cured.”
Harry Reid’s outside shows clearly what is on the inside. Small minded, mean spirited and selfish. What a guy. And how loudly he’d be screaming if the situation was reversed with a Republican leader and a Democratic president! Even my Democratic friends passionately dislike him.
#43 Brian72, How do we make them pay when the LameStreamMedia will not report their inconsistancies? The American people understood Shamnesty, the choices were clear.
Unless Reid’s lies are prominently displayed for all to see, the general public will not get it.
All that being said Brian72, it’s still a fight worth having. GO FOR IT!
When Ben Franklin wanted to have the turkey declared our national bird, he must have had Harry Reid in mind. The turkey is among the stupidest animals on the planet (sounds like Harry). The idea that turkeys drown in a rainstorm has been heard for generations (yup, that’s Harry). The turkey’s brain accounts for only 2% of its body-weight putting it among the lowest of the bird brains (Harry, nuf said). So when Harry wants to stomp and scratch around his Congressional barnyard at Thanksgiving, it should come as no great surprise.
BTW when Harry says he will “hold the Senate in a series of pro forma or nonvoting sessions,” how it that any different than every other thing he has done while in charge?
The media was for Shamnesty. We killed it.
Our military is highly respected across the board. It’s an 85% issue.
Michelle can get this going, then Rush, Hannity, Levin, and Ingraham can really turn up the heat, then FOX News will pick it up. It can be done, and it must be done.
What are medically inaccurate papers? Are they the same as politically uncorrect opinions? I’ve seen it reported that homosexuality may be genetic. May be is a long way from iron clad positively is.
Methinks some here may want to make medically inaccurate as socially stigmatized as Political Uncorrectness.
BTW if homosexuality is in fact genetic, according to evolutionary theory, those having this trait could not pass it on unless they CHOOSE to engage in procreation. Nature, nurture, or more PC BS?
Brian72, I agree that the American people overwhelmingly dislike congress. Unfortunately this seldom translates into action at the polls. Most people who claim to hate congress vote as if their congressman/senator were not at fault, only those evil rascals from other districts/states.
Only the people of Nevada can vote Dingy Harry out of office. Unfortunately he is as adept at pork spreading as Murtha.
That is because I don’t see the importance in relation to what Harry “the body” Reid is doing to our military forces in the field. Frankly, Rusty the objection you raised doesn’t matter that much right now. Our forces have to be supported in killing this enemy or all the homosexuals will be killed by AQ anyway. Priorities, man, priorities!
You have a point about that. I’m saying that despite the factor you raised, we all shamed the Congress into dropping the Shamnesty scam, then the DREAM Act.
The same model of public outrage melting the phones and faxes, and beating them over the head until they cave in and pass a clean Defense appropriation bill for our soldiers.
I’m not talking about the elections. That is a year away. I’m talking about getting our troops what they need before Christmas of this year. Shame the Democrats into capitulation. It worked on the wiretapping issue as well. When it comes to obvious national security matters, the people at large do not go along with these political games. They resent it like I do. If they hear enough noise in Washington, DC they will break.
They deserve to hear it from us all.
Paging Senators Sessions, DeMint and Coburn!!!!
Reminds me of the old joke that ends:
“Oh my! Where’d I leave my pen?”
Those of you who know it can laugh.
Everybody needs a turkey for Thanksgiving, this year its Reid.
Man am I confused….
And I thought the lib’s hero was the president of Iran and last I checked, they had a 100% cure for homosexuality. There are no repeat outbreaks.
Sometimes you libs just have all the answers.
Touche #37
I have never read anything saying that homosexuality was genetic. Many argue that it’s biological. But certainly not genetic for the reason you cite.
I consider myself a huge gay rights supporter, but I admit the science on the issue is still very much up in the air.
That doesn’t mean that Holsinger’s 1991 paper isn’t total crap though. He bases his views on homosexuality being unnatural because anal sex is unnatural. This is crazy because many gay male couples don’t practice anal sex and many heterosexual couples do. And I guess lesbians are just chopped liver.
The problem is that Holsinger used his title as a medical doctor to promote something with no medical evidence. It was his opinion based personal beliefs instead of medical studies. That’s a problem because it means, at least in this case, Holsinger values ideology more than science. That’s not ok for the #1 doctor in the land.
That’s a load of crap. Every liberal I know hates Iran (and our “ally” Saudia Arabia for that matter) for their treatment of women, treatment of gays and their stifling of dissent.
Just because most of us don’t want to turn Iran into a glass parking lot and just because most of us could care less if an Iranian figurehead gets to speak at Columbia… that doesn’t mean that we consider Iran an ally.
Is this the same ‘most of us’ that includes those who won’t let people like Ann Coulter or the founder of the Minutemen say their peace on a college campus without riotous disruption and pie-throwing?
You know - the “tolerant” ones?
Are you trying to cover for Dingy Harry, Rusty? What does the science of gayness have to do with the treason that the Democrat leadership is engaged in, holding the Pentagon hostage to their political agenda?
I’m high-octane pi$$ed off about this! This crap is unacceptable to 70-80% of the American people. Even you should be angry that our troops in harm’s way are not being backed up by our Congress!
That’s not just the troops in “Bush’s War” as you guys like to say. That’s Afghanistan, the Horn of Africa, the Phillipines, Republic of Korea, Germany, Okinawa and even right here in the United States for crying out loud!!!
Harry “the body” Reid can’t bring himself to support the troops in the field with funding, but he’ll stay in session through Thanksgiving to prevent a recess appointment of the Surgeon General? WHO GIVES A CRAP?!?!?
Fund our troops or you will pay!!!
I forgot Kosovo, AKA Bubba’s War
gee … sounds amazingly like Gore publishing inaccurate papers in the name of Global Warming …
Nominate him for a Nobel Prize then.
Hey Rusty, who in the world has the worst record on gay rights?
Answer: Radical Islam
Solution: Fund the troops. Kill the terrorists. Win the war. Protect America.
Side effect: no more hangings or brick wall crushings of gays.
There we both agree, and everyone is a winner, except Radical Islam.
So, have you asked the homosexuals how they feel about you being a huge “supporter”?
I do believe the ground troops Bubba sent there were supposed to be home by Christmas 1999 … there are still over 10,000 American military personnel in Kosovo and Bosnia … 8 years later … how come the leftist loons aren’t yelling about bringing those troops home … oh yeah … my bad … Bubba and Shrillary
Can I call Harry a b*tch?
I wonder how he feels about aiding and abetting this news out of Afghanistan?
“Taliban Murder Teenage Boy for Teaching English”– over at LGF.
Hairy “Mr. Potato Head” Reid has spoken!
That whole Somalia thing worked out great for the Clinton legacy too, didn’t it?
American pilot dragged through the street dead and naked, Clinton cut and ran. Showed his true grit.
You know, at the risk of raising red flags: Being from Nevada, I can actually remember when Harry Red was willing to come on conservative talk shows and answer for his actions. I remember the last time I heard him on the Reno station he hemmed and hawed about changing his position (After “Coming into power”) and he never looked back. So much for Battle Born in his case, more like chicken little now. Just sad.
As those of us have pointed out: Reid is an embicle, and frankly his conduct is the issue.
Not at issue is the Presidents Executive Right to choose his appointments. Most likely he has a better grasp than you do on this candidates qualifications. Never has a Democrat President had to put up with this type of political game playing. At least not in Recent History. However, I dare say, if we Republicans win the houses back and Shrillary is appointed, you can bet the base is going to phone, fax and email our representatives to make sure she doesn’t get her appointments without a really strong fight and push for her to ’select’ Republicans and be ‘fair’ and select a more moderate and not so liberal candidate.
Paging Senator McCain.. gang of 14..
Now the reference to the book and the so called homophobic attitudes of the candidate, can you affirm by science that he is not accurate? If you have the scientific facts to prove him wrong, then please right a book countering his claim. Otherwise, until they find the DNA for Homosexuality, I must concur that it is ‘psychological’ attitude and not a biological or physical attitude. The science does not exist for your opinion either.
I wish I had the sense that the American people get what it is to be a Democrat these days. It used to be an honorable party, but no longer. I am afraid we no longer have the cooporate understanding to reject this dangerous, socialist, appeasing, defeatest party. If the Hill wins and Congress becomes more Democrat we will see permainant changes in the way this country works that will ruin us. Scarry!
After looking at reid’s picture. i have but one name which comes to mind, MEEPER from The Muppet Show.
feebie — I know I’m probably being an insufferable nerd by saying this, but wasn’t it BEAKER?
IT WAS!!!! IT WAS BEAKER!!!! .. LMAO.
OK FOLKS - No more coffee for moi!
BEAKER!!!!
Image: Bear1909 tosses feebie some “vertical hold”
whew….I feel way less insufferable now
Brian72 in #70
Yep … Somalia … where when they said show some true grit Billy Boy thought they said “grits” and he wasn’t hungry …
what else did the people that elected that two-faced idiot expect from a draft-dodger? …
gutless then … still is … just another abusive manipulator extraordinaire …
b-but, he’s handsome …gag…, and he’s young, and he plays the SAXOPHONE for crying out loud….what more do you want in the leader of the free world??
Harry Reid is a disgrace to the world’s most deliberative body, the United States Senate. His actions dishonor our country day after day.
Harry, why are you so hateful?
Common now Brian…you know Bill Clinton was
gettin’busy in the Oval Office at the time, and couldn’t beinterruptus, er, interupted!/sarc off
Personally I rather like the name Meeper and it goes so well with Reid.
Sort of off topic…can you just imagine the cat fight
should HC become president? I mean Pelosi already
thinks and acts as if she is pres not Pres Bush.
Back on topic..how is Reid going to keep these self
serving and self indulgent senators from going home
over the holidays? They never ever do anything for
nothing.
And i, more so!!!!
Thanks AlohaGuy. This is priceless. I’m going to sing to my guests on Thanksgiving Dad.
Re: #48 CharlieT:
Your post reminded me of that great movie, Sergeant York with Gary Cooper. My favorite scene is when he tells the story of shooting turkeys. He says when turkeys walk in a row, you just pick off the last turkey. He said turkeys are so stupid they don’t even notice.
P.S. Rush asked a caller (Veteran) what his thoughts were of Harry and Nancy and he said, Harry’s the dirtiest of them all and Nancy is the dirtiest of the dirty. They ought to get married and have a dirty baby.
Reid is the most dim-witted Senate majority leader ever. Voters have decoded what he means by the “president must meet us half way”, ie., surrender to our demands.
W is doing a good job frustrating Harry-O.
You know, we all expect this of Reid and the rest of the nutroots, and we’re always aware of when it’s happening and for what purpose. Preaching to the choir here again. I only wonder why the republicans aren’t standing out on the Capital’s steps every hour complaining about the liberal tactics so the rest of the country’s “not very smart” liberal voters are force fed what their leaders are really like. I’m convinced the vast majority of the liberal voting base are just plain stupid, can’t read, and don’t actually learn their representative’s philosophies, and vote for whoever looks prettiest. What could possibly explain even the slightest support for silky?
Someone better start making some noise before these idiots end up with control of everything.
Someone correct me if I am wrong, but doesn’t the president get to choose whom he wants for appointments and commissions?
Considering the Democrat’s behavior since 2000, what sort of cooperation do they expect if they take over the White House in 2008?
What goes around, comes around.
Like Bill and Hill nominated a lot of Republican Conservative to anything important. Bad Smell.