Harry Reid Can’t Understand Why His Colleagues Neglected Their Constitutional Earmark Duties
**Written by Doug Powers
Back in October, Harry Reid reminded voters how tirelessly he’s worked to fulfill his constitutional duty of spending as much taxpayer money as humanly possible. Now Reid’s humble Jeffersonian mission is being slowed and he can’t understand why.
A little frustrated, Harry?
I think Harry’s angry because, hey, he single-handedly saved us from a worldwide depression and this is the thanks he gets?
Tea Party on, everybody.
(h/t Fox Nation)
**Written by Doug Powers
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Nevada is now officially on my sh!t list, not one dime! Electing this toad again was unforgivable.
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And the stupid voters in my ex-state–Nevada–gave this evil clown another 6 years to continue trashing the U.S. economy.
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Enjoy the highest unemployment rate in the country, Nevada. You’ve earned it fair and square.
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John Bibb
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Can someone please show me where in the constitution it says congress MUST create EARMARKS???? I simply don’t remember where that language is……
We can make Nevada regret their vote for Reid. If conservatives refuse to go to Nevada or do business with Nevada companies, unemployment can be made worse in that state.
Those conservative members have had NO POWER to give up.
HHHMMM James Madison seems to have thought they were UNCONSTITUTIONAL!
South Carolina Sen. John C. Calhoun, who, in 1817, got money for construction of a highway westward included in a bill concerning the Second Bank of the United States. President James Madison vetoed it as unconstitutional.
Pure and simple, earmarks are bribes.
Virginia Patriot, I will not go to Nevada. Nor will I support Unions or any buy US campaign that supports unions or Educational bonds that help teacher’s unions.
I’ve been keeping my hard earned dollars out of Nevada since Reid became leader of the Senate…I’d like to do the same for California, but, regretably I live in the state…and will for the next 5 years, if it survives that long.
We conservatives in Nevada are also saddened and dismayed by Dirty Harry’s reelection.
The state will suffer even further because of it.
Sigh, it used to be such a great place to live:(
Harry needs the boot of an unemployed logger or roughneck planted firmly up his a**.
When criminalty is groomed and rewarded, over time it transforms itself into virtue. Sick, disgusting, evil.
Earmarks, lack of term limits, post retirement lobbying, all of it needs to be addressed if we the People are to get government reformed. If not, then we need to rebuild it brick by brick.
What the…. is everyone at lunch? I’m hungry too, wait for me!
More like it. I doubt even criminals would call such a transformation virtuous.
Talking about Mexican food on another thread. Lunch time. Out.
Was it ever determined exactly how Reid got reelected?
A sudden and “uexpected” surge of “defacto” citizens at the polls?
The Rabid Reid Opossum hath spoken. This may explain his nocturnal bill passing and the hissing when he loses his “power.”
He is correct, he “does not understand”…the American people and/or a trillion in debt to China. He does, however, like to spend his pretend money and exert his executive powers (which only he believes he has).
Mexican food: Did you ever see someone who THINKS he knows what hot sauce is and just pours Habanero sauce on their food? They get the DingyHarry look. Could that be the answer?
-Habanero Pepper Sauce: it’s not just for breakfast anymore.
Nevada jobless rate rises to 14.3 percent
Las Vegas Review-Journal
Well done Nevada voters-elect the man who relishes in destruction.
Oh well we have McCain
Ooooh baby!! Habaneros are tasty! If a pepper can’t make me break into a sweat it isn’t hot enough.
hawkeye54#22,
This pepper would probably make you break into a sweat!
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/new-worlds-hottest-pepper-can-strip-paint-could-become-a-weapon/
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Yikes! I think I’ll take a pass on that particular pepper. I do want my sense of taste, and my tongue, left intact when eating heat
This from a leader of a Congress that failed to even pass a regular budget in 2 years.
I don’t think earmarks per se are the problem, it is the process. Some of the projects that taxpayers are asked to fund are probably worthy causes.
Each earmark/project should see the light of day and be voted on for it’s merits. Sneaking them in during the still of the night means they probably wouldn’t get past the smell test when reviewd.
Hey, if Mississippi wants a bicycle or walking path, let Mississippians vote a tax increase to fund their park. Why should someone in North Dakota pay for it.
If the people in Iowa want the stench of their pig farms to go away, let them figure out a solution. The smell doesn’t bother me here my part of the country.
I’ll bet if the locals who are receiving this pork were asked to pay for it, they’d quickly reject it.
It’s always easier to have someone else fund your pet projects.
In fact, that is what a liberal defines as charity – using other people’s money to show their benevolence.
Being senile sucks. If we can’t get term limits, can we at least get a retirement age for congress. Having the country run by the nearly dead is not in our best interest.
True, but I get to wrap my own presents.
My kids have orders to shoot me if I get senile.
You’d better get that term defined a little clearer than “natural born citizen” is.
I THINK I do..when was Christmas?
ArizonaNeanderthal said:
When I was young and foolish, working at a Mexican food-type restaurant, the guys in the kitchen were talking about this new pepper they had. Habanero. I had never heard of one before.
They made some habanero sauce, and everyone who tried just a little of it on something were all dying. To show them what REAL MEN are made of, I had them give me a shot glass of the stuff and drank it.
Ow.
I could feel it burn all the way down. My eyes filled with tears, and my face swelled up. It took more than 15 minutes before I had recovered enough to say, “That… pepper… is… hot…”
The true meaning of Habanero
Just a touch is enough.
If memory serves me right didn’t Harry get mucho dinero from the gambling industry in Nevada? Pay back time and Harry will take care of the High Rollers in Nevada. It’s constituuoootional.
IMHO, NO EARMARKS unless it can be shown that there is an urgent, critical need and not another shoddy, corrupt, payback, backroom deal. Enough already. If We The People give these jackals an inch….they take $1 million dollars per mile.