Posted on 05/16/2005 10:01:43 PM PDT by CHARLITE
He's like a cheap whore pretending to be a queen.
Other than my own brilliant self :-), Dr. Sowell is the first I have seen recognize the true purpose of the Democrats - to prevent the Republicans for getting meaningful legislation passed on SS, tax reform, more tort reform, etc., as well as the judicial nominees passed.
What they are really defending is the right tyranny of the minority of those who lost an election to prevent those who won from governing.
Right. Up until now, we have allowed them to do it effectively. RINOs and spineless Republicans have let this happen. Frist is finally stepping forward and making a move to twart this crap. Let's see what kind of support he gets.
I thought everybody knew that obstructionism is now the Dems' sole reason for existence.
Thomas Sowell is indespensible. He's a pure gem and such a genius!
He and Walter Williams prove affirmative action is bunk sicne they obviously didn't need it!
If luck works in our favor, Sowell calls in to the Rush show when Williams is guest hosting. They could talk for hours and I'd never be bored!
I once caught them going on a full hour on Rush's show and it was nirvana.
Yup...the Dems are in trouble.
And Reid has just never struck me as bright/capable enough to pull them out of their nosedive. HAW!
Maybe I have been living in a cave or maybe everyone just knew and didn't have to say it. Regardless, I am glad.
"He's like a cheap whore pretending to be a queen."
I keep telling Freepers, as a Nevadan, Harry is vicious but inept, he will be the gift that keeps giving by being so over the top.
Thomas Sowel, brilliant as ever. Great article!
REALLY? MY NOMINATION FOR THE “LEAKER”: SENATOR (sadly from my state—but only for 10 more days) “DEPENDS”?
WOULDN'T YOU JUST LIKE TO WIPE THAT SMIRK (NOT NICE TO SAY "BITCH-SLAP, IS IT LOL) OFF HIS SUPERCILIOUS, SHALLOW, SELF-OBSESSED, EGOCENTRIC, RIGHTEOUS, FACE?
HAS THE REPUTATION OF BEING THE "MEANEST, NASTIEST, BACK-STABBING, RECALCITRANT, SOB-SENATOR IN CONGRESS--BY BOTH REPUBLICANS & DEMOCRATS!
Actually, Bush has beaten Reid's party four times in a row, twice in Texas and twice nationally. If you count his coat-tails in the last off-year congressional election, that would be 5 times in a row. What would Bush have to do to be considered a "winner" by Reid -- nuke them?
The judge should demand that Reid state specifically what it is that is in his FBI file...
Either way, Reid would be screwed... If he says he was just bluffing, then he's shown as nothing more than a lying character assasin. If he answers that he can't say, since the information is confidential, then he opens himself up to legal action, since he didn't have legal access to the files. Plus, I believe that leaking the confidential information from an FBI file is a crime itself.
Not that it would matter, since the MSM won't say a word about this.
Mark
No, just unconditionally surrender to them... According to dems and the MSM, the only good republican is a RINO, or one who's gone over to "the dark side." Look at how quickly the MSM switched from lauding Jeffords as "a man of conviction" to completely ignoring him, once he was no longer needed by the dems. And then compare the MSM's treatment of him to Zell Miller. Talk about character assasination!
Mark
Reid and the Dem's promise to "shut down the Senate" is all the more reason to excercise the nuclear option. If they do it, the Dems will catch hell from ordinary voters. If it's a bluff, they'll look like fools and catch hell from their leftist base.
a Representative and a Senator from Oregon; born in Wichita, Sedgwick County, Kans., May 3, 1949; attended the public schools of Palo Alto, Calif.; A.B., Stanford University 1971; J.D., University of Oregon Law School in Eugene 1974; director, Oregon Legal Services for the Elderly 1977-1979; public member, Oregon State Board of Examiners of Nursing Home Administrators 1977-1979; elected as a Democrat to the Ninety-seventh and to the seven succeeding Congresses, and served from January 3, 1981, to February 5, 1996, when he resigned, having been elected to the Senate; elected to the Senate in a special election on January 30, 1996, to fill the unexpired portion of the term ending January 3, 1999, left vacant by the resignation of Robert W. Packwood, and took the oath of office on February 6, 1996; reelected in 1998 and in 2004 for the term ending January 3, 2011.
http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=W000779
Bob Packwood was hounded from office and replaced by a Democrat Ron Wyden, still the incumbent in that senate seat. Bob Packwood's "crime" was being a boorish lout who aggressively kissed women in his office.
Harry Reid is guilty of insinuating that he committed a felony. He has no business knowing what's in a judge's FBI file, and his speech indicates that he has looked at one. That is on its face grounds for expulsion from the Senate - and if Nevada fills that senate seat with a Republican (the governor is a Repubican), why then that is just too bad.
But of course we know that nothing will come of this. We know that because Reid is a Democrat, just like Bill Clinton. And Bill Clinton's White House illegally accessed 2000 FBI files - 2000 counts of the same felony that put Chuck Colson in the slammer for a year and helped force Nixon out of the White House - without so much as having to finger an aide for having hired Craig Livingstone - and without his Justice Department's even having to prosecute Mr. Livingstone himself.
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