Souvenirs, anyone?
Posted on 12/02/2008 8:36:23 AM PST by rabscuttle385
The Capitol Visitors Center, which opened this morning, may have tripled its original budget and fallen years behind schedule, but Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid found a silver lining for members of Congress: tourists won't offend them with their B.O. anymore.
"My staff tells me not to say this, but I'm going to say it anyway," said Reid in his remarks. "In the summer because of the heat and high humidity, you could literally smell the tourists coming into the Capitol. It may be descriptive but it's true."
But it's no longer going to be true, noted Reid, thanks to the air conditioned, indoor space.
And that's not all. "We have many bathrooms here, as you can see," Reid continued. "Souvenirs are available."
$621 million well spent.
Souvenirs, anyone?
Well, Harry, we can still smell you!
Harry Reid to Americans: You stink!
“Keep unwashed little people away from us while we decide what to take away from them — for the common good of course.
The peasants smell, apparently.
The BO, of, by and for the people.
He is an arrogant a$$.
What an @$$hole thing to say!This from the man who always looks like he is in need of a bath?
This is why, in the olden days, the Congress would never convene in the summertime months before air conditioning came to Washington. :)
With a 9 percent approval rating, Congress doesn’t have “tourists”, they have oversight from the public.
Yeah. And that’s when they actually WORKED and accomplished things.
Actually, it’s a good thing. Ever since the Capitol has been closed down to independent tours (unless you know people who work on the Hill *smiles*), the only way to get in is to show up and wait in line. And wait. And wait. In DC summer temperatures (95 degrees with 95% humidity).
The visitor center will at least let the tourists wait in air conditioned comfort, rather than in DC’s heatstroke-inducing summers.
How can you not like Harry? After all, he’s the only politician I know of who says federal income taxes are voluntary. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R7mRSI8yWwg) Evidently, it’s okay now not to pay your federal income taxes, thanks to Harry.
That smell comes from Chuck Schumer who’s attached to your
behind!
This jack@ss doesn’t understand that these “tourist” are the people who pay his @#$%* salary. Besides doesn’t congress take all summer off? If not, they should. It would help the economy and maybe they’re approval rating.
“You know what I noticed about the proletariat? They’ve all got that same ‘funny’ smell.”
-Reid
He must be smelling Barney Frank’s panties draped over his head.
Not very politically correct of you Mr. Reid....tourists stink????
LOL
What an arrogant SOB! Why does Nevada keep electing him?
“My staff tells me not to say this, but I’m going to say it anyway,” said Reid in his remarks.
You should have listened to your staff STUPID.
(Santini)
I don't think I want to smell my boss either. Just sayin'
Actually, there is a lot of truth to this. In pre-air conditioning times, a lot of indoor activities were avoided because large groups of people just smelled horrible.
I had a colonoscopy a few days ago and right after it, we hear from Harry Reid. Coincidence??? You decide.
For the supposed party of the ‘working man’, they sure do forget that working people sweat.
bttt
"I smell peasants"
Ol' Harry's just funnin' wit' yous!
Watch the video. Harry looks serious and dumb as a box of rocks.
Another village that is missing an IDIOT!
LOL “Its good to be the King”
The prep is worse than the procedure!
Excuse me for being a little harsh here, But we have a crisis on our hands and he is worried about “B.O”? This is the reasons why our Great Country is in the mess it is in. Democrats are always fighting for the wrong reasons. Besides, I thought they were trying to push Reid out of his post, what is he still doing there?
Count De Money!
I guess it’s hard for him to remember that he works for us, and that we the people are not mere peasants. Shoot, why didn’t they install showers and bathtubs? And while they were at it, have little bottles of deoderant for the masses.
http://www.leftjustified.org/leftjust/lib/sc/ht/const/index.html
“So the convention met, on May 25, 1787, at the onset of summer heat in Philadelphia....The Convention worked in absolute secrecy, by vote of a majority of it’s members. Sentries were posted around the building and windows and doors were shut up tight.”
Yes, I know—comparing Reid & Co. to the Framers is like comparing roosting hens to eagles.
I can’t figure out whether this guy just ran out of the limited things he has to say or he is just plain stupid. Probably both.
Makes you wonder what kind of voters put him in office?
I guess they used union labor...
Well, they aren’t called “the great unwashed” for nothin’...
We’ve only been to DC once, and we didn’t tour anything there except to just drive by it and see it from the outside. I’m glad we didn’t now, since we “Great Unwashed” offend Harry.
Harry Reid = Hardy Err I
There’s a far worse stench originating in the halls of power. I smell corruption and treason.
Come on Nancy lets go to the mint and snort some cash always makes me feel better.
Maybe we should all mail him ripe gym socks.
Count E. Fitter
It would appear Reid's staff is a lot brighter than he.
So I guess it’s no longer “the people’s house”?
How tone deaf can this leftist elitist be to publicly complain about how he hates the smell of Americans? You just know Harry has that “old man smell”.
Hey, Senator! Smell my “Harry Reid.”
Looks like “We the People” have been relegated to “we the Great Unwashed”...
And he says this on the day of the unveiling of the visitor’s center, which now truly separates the masses from the a$$es.
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