"Now listen to me, Mr. Harry Reid. There will be NO panty raid on the House of Representatives. Do I make myself clear?"
Posted on 07/19/2007 2:10:26 PM PDT by jazusamo
July 19, 2007
By Jennifer Harper - The tidy cots, the earnest speeches, the candlelight vigil. After staging a 21-hour debate over the war in Iraq on Tuesday night, Sen. Harry Reid pined for drama, publicity and pundit chatter. Did the Nevada Democrat's dream of buzz and popular appeal come true?
Well, not exactly.
"It was a smoke screen. Senators talk all night of ending the war and bringing our troops home, and they still give Bush billions," peace activist Cindy Sheehan said yesterday.
"This was a buzzless venture if I ever saw one," writer Lucianne Goldberg said. "I think Reid just made people mad."
Her well-traveled blog (www.lucianne.com) featured a photo of the bespectacled lawmaker in full filibuster mode, sporting the caption: "Harry Reid gets word his nurse will not let him stay up all night."
Meanwhile, Mrs. Goldberg had her eye on public approval numbers.
"There's a new Reuters/Zogby poll out showing President Bush up to 34 percent and Congress at 14 percent," she said. "Maybe it's beginning to turn around. The race is to the tortoise."
Indeed, the national survey of 1,012 likely voters, taken last Thursday through Saturday, revealed that Mr. Bush's approval rating was up four points since March, while the Democrat-controlled Congress garnered its worst ratings in Zogby's history.
Gleeful press reports made sport of it all yesterday. Mr. Reid's debate was called a slumber party, a publicity stunt and an all-nighter complete with a "panty raid," among other things.
Though Mr. Reid took the risk of "seeming sophomoric," he did generate coverage for better or worse, said Ron Elving, political director of National Public Radio.
"Pulling an all-nighter? What would be next for the Senate, a toga party? The jokes about slumber parties and panty raids were inevitable, and...
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ...
Hopefully Dingy Harry keeps up the good work and the Repubs will take back the Senate next year.
An expensive political theatre.
Yes it is and these antics are going to bury Reid, IMO.
I saw at least 30 seconds of those cots on every freakin news cast, and every 1/2 hour on CNN headline news. Talk about free pub for Dems.
I didn’t see any of it, but if the cots were shown to the public, maybe the public will realize the dems are asleep on the job. Which is really good, because the less these elected servants can do the more money is kept in our pockets, not for some trumped up program.
"Now listen to me, Mr. Harry Reid. There will be NO panty raid on the House of Representatives. Do I make myself clear?"
LOL! She puts a new perspective on panty raids.
Save some of the pics of the roll-away beds for future!!!!...
LOL! That’s a beauty, permission to rip it off?
What relationship with Iraq do the Dims envision after America surrenders to al-Qaeda? How could any American President establish a diplomatic relationship with Iraq after America just bailed on them, stood by while a massacre occurs, and allows a staging area for for thugs to attack other “allies” in the region? The Dim game needs to end.
It came off of Rush’s web page. Capture it now or it’ll be gone by tomorrow...
Thanks, I got it.
More like Depends raid. EWWW!
EWWW is right but you’re right. :-)
“...while the Democrat-controlled Congress garnered its worst ratings in Zogby’s history.”
Keep it comin’, Harry! Keep up the good work, Nancy! :)
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