Harry Reid: Americans Love Government!
**Written by Doug Powers
Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi must drink their lunch from the same jar of delusion:
On the first day of the new Congress, the Nevada Democrat lamented in his opening remarks what he referred to as obstruction from Senate Republicans over the past few years, accusing them of using stalling tactics to score political points on some legislation.
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“The American people love government, but they don’t like too much politics in government,” he said.
Wrong, and wrong. Reid should have walked over to the House today and witnessed for himself how a whole bunch of Americans felt about big, overbearing, overreaching government a couple of months ago.
If Reid didn’t have such a perverted understanding of the Constitution, he’d realize that America was originally designed to have the minimum amount of government containing the maximum amount of politics. Governments devoid of politics are totalitarian. No thanks, Harry:
Not somebody I want in charge of whether or not to put a crimp in my oxygen hose at the hospital, that’s for sure.
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Just imagine the stupid chit that would come out of the mouth of a baby whose parents were harry reid and nancy pelosi.
Lowest rated Congress evah! Keep licking those frogs you kids!
Considering in excess of 90% of what is done in D.C. can not be found in the Constitution, and the fact that most Americans pull only two different levers in the Voting Booth, and we keep getting unconstitutional Agencies, Programs, and Policies, Harry does have a point!
Thank God there’s Freedom Watch!
Have a good day!
Love my country, hate my government.
When they start taking their responsibilties seriously, secure the border, enforce the laws on illegal aliens, restrict Fedzilla to what is in the Constitution, I’ll probably have a change of heart. But not before.
Harry Reid: Americans Love Government!
I read this and my first thought was exactly the same thing. They are, indeed, the wonder-nanny-twins.
“They laugh alike, they walk alike, At times they even talk alike — You can lose your mind, When nannys are two of a kind”.
How can you have a perverted understanding when he hasn’t read the document? Give him a break…
The Republicans held such a small minority (relative to power), that they could have voted NO in unison on every bill without affecting the outcome if the Democrats had voted YES in unison. So, as usual, the Democrats still accuse republicans of being the obstructionists. Republicans could have stayed home and the results would have been the same.
Lie, Lie, Lie. I am sooooo sick of the lies. So much so, that I believe it should be a criminal act for any congress member or sitting president to purposefully mislead our citizens. (i.e. tell us its blue when we KNOW and can PROVE it is red – GO TO JAIL).
Reid, don’t look now but you, Botox Pelosi, and ‘Bambi have destroyed the demwit party. Not that I mind, but my liberal friends are shaking their heads and sending out e-mails how they’ll never vote in triple control of House/Senate/Prez in govn’t again.
Hopefully, we’ll also see the same results in the Senate in 2012, that is, if so-called conservatives quit making excuses for their feel-good liberal friends.
This was the case for how long? Franken wasn’t sworn in until July of 2009. And Kennedy was effectively out by April or so of 2009. Kirkpatrick wasn’t appointed until the end of September and Scott Brown was sworn in in the beginning of February. So that was, what? 3 and a half months? A good chunk of which Congress in in recess for the holidays.
Let’s see…Dream Act, no. Cap and Tax, no. Omnibus spending, no. So many others thankfully. But what was so important?
ObamaCare for 16 months, gays in the military in the lame duck, Lilly Ledbetter when no one was watching on his first day and increased financial oversight. Dem priorities since forever.
….in a root canal kind of way.
HOW in the world can Harry look at himself in the mirror? For each lie he tells, his jowls sag more! What makes him THAT delusional?
Being that Nancy has the same ailment, it must be in the Democrat genes!
If I started pimp-slapping that sorry S.O.B., I don’t know if I could stop before I needed bandages.
What’s to love after this gov has inflicted so much on us already. It ruined the economy, home buying, health insurance, created a steady string of bubbles, took over companies and is destroying the dollar. Bombing DC would have done less damage.
You hae to admit, from his point of view he’s right, at least about the Nevada chapter of the SEIU.
Harry is partially correct, Nevada voters love government, they reelected him didn’t they?
You do know that Democrats held the majority without the seats you mentioned right? Sure, they did not have a filibuster proof and VETO proof majority the entire time, but since they had control of all 3 branches of government, they could have passed anything they wanted with a simple majority if all 3 branches had worked together in unison.
However, many Democrats defected on individual house and Senate votes and the agenda in each branch differed slightly. But had they worked in unison, the bills would not have needed modification and would not have bounced between each other causing the required super majority, therefore only a simple majority would have been required.
See? The Democrats didn’t even need the Republicans. They only needed each other
but yet they put ALL the blame on the Republicans.
Well that was the premise of your post, no?
The only way that this happens is if Dems have a filibuster proof majority.
Huh? This makes zero sense.
Uh, yeah, that’s right Dingy! We do!
Now, go ride your unicorn back to Jolly Land and play with your pink donkeys and purple bunnies and slide down the rainbow.
smelly little brained creature
Gas is at $3.23 a gallon in SoCal and rising. The rest of you can get ready for it.
We love QE2, the national debt, declining dollar, no drilling….
We love ya, Harry.
And yet these freaks, these delusionoids stomped us, kicked our butts, beat the opposition into the ground. A temporary setback is all 2010 was. They will be back. They know it because the dems think long term and the republicans don’t think at all
You may have noticed that the country has shifted markedly to the Left over the years. Reid and Pulosi, well, their personal styles of Gollum and the Sea Hag are off-putting, but their programs are what the country wanted. Yes, folks, the country wanted government universal, national, low-cost, no-cost health care. Too bad all they got was more government. Much more. So all the democrats have to do next time is say they will do better and proceed as before. The democrat party is a popular front. They don’t care what you think.
To understand what has happened since the 60′s, that Obama is not the cause but the culmination, I cannot recommend a better book than Stanley Kurtz’s Radical-in-Chief. It’s so good people over at National Review are afraid to read it (Lowry, Goldberg, et. al. are caught in the fantasy of moderate, “triangulating,” reaching-out Obama). What we see around us now is what the Left has wanted and planned for decades. And now we get to watch the catastrophe unfold. They have achieved their goal and guess what? The Republicans haven’t got a clue. Something we all can, even the trolls, agree on.
The thoughtful American people like the constitutional foundation of government. They do not like runaway, irresponsible, arrogant, elitist government. And since the power hungry control freak politicians are responsible for the government being the way it is, the American people don’t like the politicians.
Chap:
A final vote can only be taken if 60 Senators agree; this is called a vote of cloture (vote to end the filibuster of 41 Senators). You are partially correct if it ended there. However, if they use the nuclear option to break the filibuster, only a majority is needed. I do not recommend this path, but Democrats and Republicans have threatened to use it in the past.
Question: If only the Republicans are to blame and being labled as “obstructionists”, then how many bills were halted in the Senate by a Republican filibuster and how many bills passed the senate (I am only focusing on the Senate since that was the ONLY chance Republicans had to block anything and then only for a short time)?
I am not aware of ANY bills blocked by a REPUBLICAN ONLY filibuster, so how can they be called obstructionists?.
Let me decode.
You know how Reid is always calling those who disagree with him “un-American”? What he is saying is that people who agree with him love government.
So you are claiming that the Republicans can avoid the “obstructionist” tag because the Dems could, theoretically, change the fundamental rules of the game in the middle of the game?
Change what rules? Both parties have threatened to use the nuclear option using existing procedures. Rule changing is NOT a part of it; maybe a questionable use of the existing rules since it has never been done before, but not a change of rules.
No, I am saying in order to label them as “obstructionist”, one must first “obstruct” and then continue to obstruct. And since this did not occur (not even once by republicans only to my knowledge), it is at least a invalid characterization of those whose disagree and at worst a lie.
Obviously this moron never views his own polls which are so low they are nearing 0!
Using existing procedure to change the rules. Or are you denying that the rule of the Senate is currently that 60 votes are needed to invoke cloture?
First, you are confusing the standard. So long as all Republicans voted against cloture, it doesn’t matter how many Dems agree because the Republicans have enough votes to block the bill in any case. If it makes you feel better, I am willing to call the Dems in those instances obstructionist as well. But that does nothing to change the label conferred on the Repubs. And by that correct standard, Republicans last session (along with a few Dems) obstructed dozens of bills and nominations from getting final vote. That is not to even count the dozens of examples of bills or nominations withdrawn because Republicans were lockstep in opposition.
But even if you are unwilling to accept that premise, there were several straight up all-republican filibusters. For example, the nomination of David Hayes as Deputy Interior Secretary, an Act to amend the Federal Elections Campaign Act and the Small Business Lending Fund Act.
Yeah seriously, Doug; I wouldn’t put this guy in charge of emptying a dumpster!
Only AFTER Brown was seated, giving Republicans a vote of 41. However, I can not call Republicans “Obstructionists” when they did not vote unilaterally against every Democrat initiated bill and when they did, some Democrats voted with them. I call it honoring their convictions.
I also do not call those who voted with them “obstructionists” for the same reason.
Thank you for the presenting the information on specific bills that were successfully blocked as the result of Republicans voting in unison against the Democrat agenda. So much activity has occurred since Brown was seated that these escaped my memory. I concede that I was incorrect on stating that none has occurred, albeit only after Brown was seated (correct me if I am wrong).
But to call them obstructionists is incorrect. A better example of an obstructionist is when the Democrats in Texas left the state just to avoid letting a vote come to the floor when they knew they did not have enough votes. That is obstruction.
To use this term to describe Republicans of the 111th Congress is childish and (in my opinion) a lie.
On January 5th, 2011 at 5:35 pm, chapoutier said:
I’m glad you brought up Kennedy/Kirkpatrick.
Kirkpatrick should never have been seated in the first place, and he continued to participate in votes even after Brown was elected! Kirkpatrick was a total disgrace, and his participation in the December 2009 Obamacare votes played a HUGE role in Brown winning the election for that seat in January 2010.
Kennedy lobbied to change MA’s law for repacing Senators back in 2004 when Kerry (D) was running for President and Romney (R) was the Governor who would have had the authority to nominate Kerry’s replacement. Kennedy said the replacement should only be done by a special election, to represent the will of the people.
So, what did the Demonrats do when Kennedy died? They lobbied to change the law again to give the Demonrat Governor the authority to seat a replacement until the election.
Without that “We were against it before we were for it” move, Kirkpatrick would not have been seated, and the Demonrats would not have had the 60th vote for cloture and passage of Obamacare on Christmas Eve 2009.
Without this highly questionable law change, Obamacare would not have passed.
And without a stolen election in MN to seat Franken, Obamacare would not have passed.
And without relying on a senile and near death-bed Robert Byrd, and completely disregarding his strong, adamant refusal to use the reconciliation process to pass sweeping Healthcare changes (back during the Clinton adminstration, when he still had his mental capabilities and long before he went senile), Obamacare would not have passed because the House would not pass the Senate bill without a corresponding bill of “fixes” (which would not have overcome a Senate filibuster… thanks to Scott Brown… and could have only been passed using Reconciliation).
So it took all of that…
1) A stolen election…
2) A change to MA law to allow a Demonrat Governor to seat a Demonrat replacement for Kennedy… and
3) Use of the reconciliation process against the wishes of the formerly-sane Robert Byrd…
It took all of that to pass the Abomination (Obamanation) known as Obamacare.
Correction. It wasn’t Kirkpatrick (I took your word for it initially, but then went back and checked).
It was Paul Kirk who was chosen by Governor Deval Patrick to restore the Demonrats’ 60th seat to break the filibuster of Obamacare.
However, “Kirkpatrick” is what you get from concatenating
(Paul) “Kirk” and (Deval) “Patrick“.
Freudian slip there, Chap?
3 1/2 months, the “reconciliation” process and several notorious bribes. That’s all it took for Obamcare.
Yeep, we luv govmint.
Back before he went senile,
On January 5th, 2011 at 10:20 pm, happy2behere said:
A Stolen MN election,
A change to MA law for purely partisan purposes,
Several notorious bribes,
A betrayal of pro-life voters by “blue dog” Demonrats, and
Misuse of the “reconciliation” process.
That’s all it took to pass Obamcare.
And that is why Nancy Pelosi is no longer Speaker of the House,
and why Reid will no longer be Senate Majority leader in 2 years,
and why Obama and Biden will be replaced in 2 years.
These insane people are soooooo used to lying, they dont even know they are doing it anymore. Please… the Senate and the WH in 2012.
Barbarically senile.
It was BARBARIC!!! that Harry Reid and the rest of the Demonrats used a senile Robert Byrd to pass Obamacare using the reconcilliation process, after Byrd had made it absolutely crystal clear in 2001 that he had been adamantly against using the reconcilliation process to pass sweeping healthcare legislation.
Well, Nevada, you re-elected him.
Hope the Yucca Mountain crap was worth trading for the near 15% unemployment.
On January 5th, 2011 at 10:52 pm, Straight_Talk_Luigi said:
I don’t believe they did. I believe the election was stolen with fraud.
I think fraud (including illegal alien voting) explains a lot of what Rasmussen is struggling to explain:
Harry Reid in ’06: Raising debt limit last thing we should do,
will weaken country, hurt economy
Listen to how partisan he was, and now use his own words against him!
After 4 years of Democratic Congresses, they have increased our debt far past the $9 Trillion Harry Reid was so adamantly against.
Now, less than 5 years later, the debt is $5 Trillion higher (at $14 Trillion!)
How is Harry Reid going to explain that he was against raising the debt ceiling to $9 Trillion, but now that it is $14 Trillion he is in favor of raising it even higher?!?!
He was against it before he was for it.
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that is great, we love government according to the Worm.
I hate government, especially this one, hijacked as it is by vicious lying marxists and other assorted gutter slime who can’t stand our constitution.
hate. that’s the opposite of love. and we can start with this fraud of a senator from the defrauded state of NV.
I like mine roasted, in November, served with tea.
Is this the same guy who said he was happy to be able to join with Rush Limbaugh to raise 4.2 million dollars for the Marine Corps-Law Enforcement Foundation? I thought so…
And here is a further walk down memory lane staring the Sock Puppet:
“The fact that we are here today to debate raising America’s debt limit is a sign of leadership failure. It is a sign that the U.S. Government can’t pay its own bills. It is a sign that we now depend on ongoing financial assistance from foreign countries to finance our Government’s reckless fiscal policies.
Over the past 5 years, our federal debt has increased by $3.5 trillion to $8.6 trillion.That is “trillion” with a “T.” That is money that we have borrowed from the Social Security trust fund, borrowed from China and Japan, borrowed from American taxpayers. And over the next 5 years, between now and 2011, the President’s budget will increase the debt by almost another $3.5 trillion…”
Senator Barack Obama
Senate Floor Speech on Public Debt
March 16, 2006
This is precisely why this is the time to spotlight the Marxist policies as we begin to dissolve large sectors of the bureaucracy. Simultaneous to that we dissolve entitlements. I don’t care how it’s done but a line has to be drawn in the sand, goals set… 15% max GDP budget etc. Pick a date…. “Anyone born after 1985 is responsible for their own retirement….”
The government should no longer be in the nanny business, that is why healthcare is so befouled. They threw so much free money at it that the market became an unmanageable, corrupted, command-and-control disaster. “Insurance” is not supposed to cover routine expenses. As far as I know Blue Cross won’t pay for my auto repairs.
On January 6th, 2011 at 9:17 am, stillontheroad said:
Or how about this…
The guy who:
complained about someone else not releasing documentation,
is the same guy who:
ran on “transparency”,
and committed to making his administration:
“the most open and transparent in history“,
yet…
… he won’t release his own records!
I do like government. One that is small, and limited to its Constitutional authority and one without career politicians.
Harry’s and Nancy’s constituents DO love gubmint. They all suck at that trough be they teachers unions, ACLU, welfare queens, or “farmers who don’t farm”. This is the problem. Ben Franklin once said that when the citizenry figure out that they can rob the treasury, the republic is lost. Houston, that eagle has landed.
Just as with those hooked on illicit drugs, the only Americans who “love government” are the ones addicted to government.
And frankly, I suspect Reid may be taking hallucinogens.
Colin Powell Quote:
The GOP party must realize that the country has changed, he said. “Americans do want to pay taxes for services,” he said. “Americans are looking for more government in their life, not less.”
Huh, I can’t figure out why the Democrats lost so many seats in the Federal, and State Governments in November/SNARK.
Like lemmings, the progressives marched the Democrat Party off the cliff. Here we have Harry Reid – progressive extraordinaire, singing their theme song.
Yeah, we love government and we love you, too, Harry… Don’t want to offend any of my fellow travelers on the right, but we didn’t field a credible candidate against Reid, I’m sorry to say. She was just a little too flaky on occasion. That and union thuggery got him re-elected. Bah!
I don’t know about love, but I’m starting to like it more with every liberal booted out of office.
I’d like to know why there is never an investigation into voter fraud when it results in the election of a democrat. Somebody in Nevada (like the AG?) should be investigating and heads should roll. Harry Reid should NEVER be allowed to hold elective office gain! Damn, I’m mad.
Of course! How could we forget the Small Business Funding Act?! Ok, so the Repubs held up some judicial appointments, like that hasn’t happened before. Yet, the Reconciliation Process, which gave us Obamacare, takes 51 votes. Oh, those evil obstructionist Republican doorstoppers!
These days, Americans love government about as much as Harry Reid loves being told to stick it.