Liars, Lying Liars, and Harry Reid

Special to FreeRepublic ^ | 5 February 2005 | John Armor (Congressman Billybob)

[Congressman Billybob]

I’ve never before used a long quote from anyone who has, in Dave Barry’s words, the IQ of a kumquat. But there are exceptions to every rule.

The following appeared on an exceptionally paranoid website known as the Democratic Underground. See for yourselves that this quote is typical of DU.

"The Iraq vote is making me sick this morning

"All the media keeps talking about is how happy the Iraqis are, how high turnout was, and how ‘freedom’ has spread to Iraq. I had to turn off CNN because they kept focusing on the so-called ‘voters’ and barely mentioned the resistance movements at all. Where are the freedom fighters today? Are their voices silenced because some American puppets cast a few ballots?

“I can't believe the Iraqis are buying into this ‘democracy’ bullsh*t. They have to know that the Americans don't want them to have power, because they know that Bush is in this for the oil, and now that he finally has it he's not going to let it go. This election is a charade. The fact is that the Iraqis have suffered during the past two years more than any people on earth at the hands of the American gestapo. Maybe they're afraid and felt they had to vote. That's the only way I can explain it to myself.

“OR... maybe they're smiling because they're using the Americans own game to defeat them. They're voting in candidates who they know will widen the resistance, take the fight to the streets, and finally drive the occupying forces out of their country. Perhaps they're smiling because--right under the American's noses--they're planting the seeds of a bigger and more effective resistance movement....

“... if the Iraq vote is seen as a success that spread ‘freedom’--the world is screwed. Bush's inaugural speech left little doubt that he has other countries on his list to spread ‘freedom’ to. They will be his next targets, and the world will burn because of it.

“Let's hope the resistance got voted in, or if not, they only increase the fight and take down those who betrayed their country today by voting in this fraud election.”

The scary part is that there are maybe a few million Americans who are just this ignorant about American ideas about government. There are hints of this aggressive ignorance in comments by Senator Ted Kennedy before the Iraqi vote. And in the comments made by Senator John Kerry the day AFTER that extraordinary vote.

Have these people never read Aristotle, John Locke, Montesquieu, Thomas Jefferson, or Abraham Lincoln? Dictatorships are the most common government in history and are still a majority of the United Nations. But do these Democrats really think human beings prefer to live under dictatorships, rather than have elections and a free press?

The political future of the human race does not lie in dictatorships, religious or secular. Neither does the future of transportation lie in better horses. Nor the future of communications lie in words printed on paper. Add your own examples, ad nauseam.

While we’re talking about boneheaded foolishness, let’s look at Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid. In his Democrat rebuttal to the President’s State of the Union, he talked about the “one trillion dollars in additional debt” for the “initial costs” of the Bush plan to save Social Security.

Now, the President’s plan will include the sale of US bonds to make up for the changeover, when younger workers choose to put a some retirement contributions into private accounts, rather than into the Social Security. But is this “additional debt”?

The citizens are already alive, who will eventually receive Social Security. The law which defines their benefits are already on the books. Based on anticipated life spans, it adds up to at least $10 billion dollars. That unfunded liability IS THERE, TODAY.

So the bonds for the changeover do not represent “new” debt. Even Harry Reid is not dumb enough to miss this point. So I conclude that he, and others peddling the “new debt” claim, are bald-faced liars.

While we’re taking about Harry Reid’s lies, add this. Today, he claims that allowing younger workers to put some of their money into private accounts will “destroy” the system. But on Fox News Sunday, on 14 February, 1999, Reid said “Most of us have no problem with taking a small amount of the social security proceeds and putting them into the private sector.”

Either Harry (“My father was a hard-rock miner in Search Light”) Reid was lying then, or he is lying now. He should pick one and explain the other.

About the Author: John Armor is a First Amendment attorney and author who lives in the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina. CongressmanBillybob@earthlink.net

[sweetiepiezer]

"I think Harry Reid may soon be joining Tom Daschle on the has beens list"


Harry,( Mr. Rogers), Reid is an embarassment to the state of NV and the country.
I sure hope he goes the way of Daschle.

But, he is from Searchlight, don't ya know, lol.

[Uncledave]

Here's where Harry was born:

Source: http://www.reviewjournal.com/lvrj_home/1998/Jan-06-Tue-1998/photos/searchlight.html

[FastCoyote]

"I think it's mandatory that Harry Reid join Daschle in retirement."

I'm here in Nevada and do some behind the scenes political stuff. As always, follow the money. I think the dirt lies with the contributions of a developer named Jim Rhodes, possibly Harry's home in searchlight, and other crooks like Erin Kenny. Any Freepers out there who have eid stories? I'm sure there are quite a few.

Also, I did a bunch of Yucca Mountain stuff (which Harry opposes), but some of that is corrupt as well.


Harry (“My father was a hard-rock miner in Search Light”) Reid

[satchmodog9]

bump

[investigateworld]

Great article. Has anyone crunched the numbers of how many millions of people are drawing SS, without ever putting a penny in to it?

[Congressman Billybob]

Because of the welfare programs that have been grafted onto SS when it was fat with cash, there are some widows, widowers, and children who did not contribute much (or anything) into the system. But the key to problem is workers who are living much longer than the estimates planned for, and the declining number of remaining workers compared to rising numbers of retirees.

John / Billybob

[Howlin]

bump for the facts.