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“They don’t exist”

**Written by Doug Powers According to President Obama’s friend in the Senate, it sounds like the White House strategy for the upcoming campaign will be a refreshing “accept responsibility” approach where the President will run on his record, not make excuses and maybe even admit that his “fixes” worsened the problems. Did I have you [...]

Obama wanted a vote on the jobs bill NOW. The Senate GOP minority moved for an immediate up-or-down vote tonight. Harry Reid, knowing defeat was imminent and that some Senate Democrats were balking at the bill, jumped up and down like Rumpelstiltskin before Mitch McConnell moved to a procedural vote. The Reid bill included a [...]

Hey, President Obama? How about another press conference tomorrow to condemn those playing politics, putting partisanship over country, changing the rules, and playing games with your jobs bill? No, not Mitch McConnell and the Republicans. Dirty Harry Reid and the Democrats. Here’s a link round-up of all the shenanigans tonight. The GOP brought a knife [...]

Bluff Story

Not going anywhere for a while?

**Written by Doug Powers Privately, DC Democrats like Harry Reid know they need and even depend on the rich, but publicly they reject them like red-heads at Danish sperm banks. That is unless they’re like Warren Buffett and play along in the “wink wink, nudge nudge” sense. Reid spoke earlier about President Obama’s “jobs plan” [...]

Paths to prosperity

**Written by Doug Powers Harry should start sprinkling Zoloft on his pomegranates if he actually still believes this: The days of the Tea Party’s influence on American politics are numbered, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) said this weekend. The Senate’s top Democrat told a home state newspaper that he expects the conservative activist moment’s [...]

Reporting for duty!

A shovel-ready claim

**Written by Doug Powers I let out a hobbit-like laugh just writing the headline — and it’s not an exaggeration, he really said it. Reid also complained today about “behind closed doors” dealings in the Republican leadership offices. Reid’s frustration must stem from the fact that the GOP isn’t being as transparent and open to [...]

**Written by Doug Powers Nancy Pelosi violated a major tenet of comedy, which is “never open with your best joke”: Washington, D.C. – Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi released the following statement on proposals announced today to reduce the deficit and avoid default: “It is clear we must enter an era of austerity; to reduce the [...]

**Written by Doug Powers (Scroll down for updates) Two more debt plans are bouncing around Capitol Hill today — the Boehner and Reid plans (Obama just endorsed the Reid plan). As you read the summaries, note the trick Harry Reid employs to artificially bulk up his “cuts” in order to make them more attractive — [...]

Jilted

Human sacrifice, dogs and cats living together — mass hysteria!

“Nice school your kid goes to… shame if something were to happen to it”

Stoogian incompetence

**Written by Doug Powers File this one under “Romney finally catches a break on the praise from liberals” — not that it seems to bother him a whole lot. First Read: Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, reviled by conservatives for ushering Democratic legislation through Congress during Obama’s first two years in office, told reporters Tuesday [...]

**Written by Doug Powers And this is the thanks Obama gets for campaigning for him? That might be exactly what Harry Reid hears from Obama just as soon as the president hops in his DeLorean and returns from 2008. Politico: The most powerful Democrat in Congress, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.), on Monday night [...]

Ashamed

**Written by Doug Powers Note: Scroll down for updates “Cut it or shut it” Friday has arrived, and there’s still no deal: WASHINGTON (AP) — Uncomfortably close to a deadline, President Barack Obama and top congressional leaders have only hours to avert a Friday midnight government shutdown that all sides say would inconvenience millions of [...]

**Written by Doug Powers If somebody, say, puts a crucifix in a jar of urine and calls it “art,” some on Capitol Hill not only won’t press for hearings, but they might even give it federal funding in spite of how many Christians it might offend. But in this instance free speech seems to be [...]

“Tens of them”

**Written by Doug Powers Basing his opinion on a CNN poll, Harry Reid says the Tea Party is all but kaput: Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) encouraged Republicans to stop listening to the Tea Party, saying the country doesn’t care about the grassroots conservative movement. “The country doesn’t care much about the Tea Party,” [...]

“They’re coming after poor little boys and girls”

**Written by Doug Powers Harry Reid’s love of all-things-cowboy dates back to his great great grandfather Bucky Ried, who, as legend has it, once taxed a man to death just for snorin’ too loud. That trait has stayed with the family, and now the Senate Majority Leader is leading the fight to maintain taxpayer support [...]

**Written by Doug Powers I’m going to side with Seton Motley on Reid wanting to outlaw Nevada prostitution — ol’ Harry just doesn’t want the competition, even if it is merely metaphorical (politics differs greatly in that its practitioners pay for favors with somebody else’s money and full consent of all involved parties isn’t required). [...]

**Written by Doug Powers One frustrating thing about being a liberal in Congress is that if you do happen to accidentally tell the truth, it does nothing but get you into trouble: Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) labeled Chinese President Hu Jintao a “dictator,” just as President Barack Obama prepares to host the Chinese [...]

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