Monday, December 07, 2009 11:53:43 PM · by Syncro · 25 replies · 923+ views
CNN ^ | December 7, 2009 1:27 p.m. EST | Ed Hornick
It's well worth it to read the whole article at the link.
I particularly liked the subtitle:
How could such a thoroughly unappealing man have gotten so far in politics?
What’s so mysterious? In government scum tends to rise to the top.
Harry's poll numbers for reelection are tanking but he just keeps trying to ram Obamacare through the Senate.
Tea Party movement threatened by internal rifts (That the leftists are promoting)
He was the Mobs boy when he was on the gaming commission in Nevada.
Harry Reid is such a nothing as a human being that it’s even hard to think of silly pictures to make of him. He just doesn’t.... I don’t even know what. He just doesn’t.
What a wretched piece of filth.
It’s not just Harry Reid.
Thanks to the post-obama deluge and obvious scorn for the people and Constitution by the oligarchy, we are all getting to know up close the likes of Arlen Specter, Olympia Snowe, Susan Collins, Nan Pelosi, Steny Hoyer, Babs Boxer, Barney Frank, Henry Waxman... I could go on.
How could such miserable stupid arrogant people be elected time and time again?
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History is a bummy Harry - It was the democrats who were for slavery. They even filibustered the Civil Rights Bill.
I think we’d be joining you on the wrong side of history again, were we to go with your generational theft plan. It amounts to the economic enslavement of subsequent generations of Americans.
There are eggs in the ovaries of grandchildren that are going to owe close to $100K as soon as they are born.
As such, I’d have to vote ‘no’.
“How could such a thoroughly unappealing man have gotten so far in politics?”
At times this puzzles me as well. On the other hand, the Harpy, the Crypt Keeper and the Empty Suit perfectly defines and represents the modern Democrat Party.
Yes Harry Reid is correct on this but he forgot to mention that those senators were democrats not republican. The civil rights act passed with a majority of the Republicans in a Congress that was controlled by the Democrats. Few Republicans voted against the act. Many Democrats did vote against the act.
Obviously, Syphillus that he probably caught getting Free SEX fromall of the Nevada Prostitues has now destroyed what Brain he ever might have been in possession of! Dinghy Harry Reid is truly a Dispicable Whiner and Hater of AMERICA with absolutely No Morals or Character!! Outside of that, Dinghy Harry is what One expects from a typical DEMORAT!!
Obviously, Syphillus that he probably caught getting Free SEX fromall of the Nevada Prostitues has now destroyed what Brain he ever might have been in possession of! Dinghy Harry Reid is truly a Dispicable Whiner and Hater of AMERICA with absolutely No Morals or Character!! Outside of that, Dinghy Harry is what One expects from a typical DEMORAT!!
How could such a thoroughly unappealing man have gotten so far in politics?uuummmmm... the PeterPrincipal???
That's easy---voter fraud.
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LA TIMES SERIES In Nevada, the Name to Know is Reid; Members of Reid's family represent nearly every major industry in Nevada;their clients rely on Reid's goodwill. Series: Second of two parts; Chuck Neubauer and Richard T. Cooper. Los Angeles Times. Los Angeles, Calif.: Jun 23, 2003. pg. A.1
Reid helped the University of Nevada at Reno secure millions of dollars in specially earmarked funds in his work on the Senate Appropriations Committee. How much family members' firms have been paid*: $10,000 a month to the Lionel Sawyer firm for lobbying by his son Key Reid and former Sen. Richard Bryan
The special interest: Kerr-McGee Corp. What Sen. Reid has done: Helped the oil and chemical company get federal funds to help pay to clean up radioactive waste at a company plant near Chicago. How much family members' firms have been paid*: Undisclosed amount to the Lionel Sawyer firm for Rory Reid and others to lobby in Nevada
The special interest: Heli USA Airways, a leading Grand Canyon tour operator What Sen. Reid has done: Opposed federal attempts to restrict Grand Canyon tours. How much family members' firms have been paid*: $20,000 to the Dickstein firm for Barringer and others to lobby
The special interest: Air Products & Chemicals Inc. What Sen. Reid has done: Backed a $10.8-million, public-private partnership between the company and federal government to build a hydrogen filling station for buses. How much family members' firms have been paid*: undisclosed amount to the Lionel Sawyer firm for Rory Reid and others to lobby in Nevada
The special interest: Nevada Test Development Site Corp. What Sen. Reid has done: Helped funnel millions of dollars in federal funds to develop the test site. How much family members' firms have been paid*: $20,000 to the McClure firm for Barringer and others to lobby federal agencies.
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Nevada senator's family excels in lucrative ties
By Chuck Neubauer and Richard Cooper
LA TIMES SERIES, Part One, Jul 6, 2003, pg. 4.A
FAMILY TIES: Abstract (Document Summary) Reid's sons -- Rory, 40, Leif, 35, Josh, 31, and Key, 28 -- work for Nevada's largest law firm, Lionel Sawyer Collins. Rory Reid is a partner in the firm and was a Nevada lobbyist before his election to the Clark County Board of Commissioners in November. Leif Reid is a litigator who has represented mining and resort industry associations in Nevada.
Key Reid was hired to open the firm's Washington office in 2002 and help lead its federal lobbying effort with former Sen. Richard H. Bryan, D-Nev., who splits his time between the capital and Nevada. [Steven Barringer], 47, and married to the senator's daughter, Lana, is a lawyer, federal lobbyist and partner in the small Washington-based lobbying firm of McClure, Gerard and Neuenschwander.
Rory Reid is a partner in the firm and was a Nevada lobbyist before his election to the Clark County Board of Commissioners in November.
Leif Reid is a litigator who has represented mining and resort industry associations in Nevada. Key Reid was hired to open the firm's Washington office in 2002 and help lead its federal lobbying effort with former Sen. Richard H. Bryan, D-Nev., who splits his time between the capital and Nevada. Barringer, 47, and married to the senator's daughter, Lana, is a lawyer, federal lobbyist and partner in the small Washington-based lobbying firm of McClure, Gerard and Neuenschwander. Barringer and Reid's sons declined to be interviewed by the Los Angeles Times.
Washington lobbying firms must file reports twice a year that disclose their clients and the names of the people representing them. Those reports show that, between them, Barringer and Key Reid have represented nearly every major industry in Nevada, from mining and real estate evelopment to tourism and gambling to the city of Las Vegas. All of those clients rely on the senator's goodwill on Capitol Hill.
Reid is the Senate's minority whip, the chamber's second-highest Democratic leader. He is also a senior member of the Appropriations Committee and the Environment and Public Works Committee.
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CIRCA 2003 Los Angeles Times series on Reid; Harry’s Henchman, his son Rory Reid: Harry Reid’s Mob Money, Part 2.....
Sources: Federal lobbyist forms filed with the House and Senate by his son, Key Reid, for 2002 and Steven Barringer for 1999 through 2002; state lobbyist forms filed by his son Rory Reid for 2002 with the Nevada Legislative Reference Office; congressional bills, news releases and documents; legal records; interview with Sen. Harry Reid; interviews with clients of the Reid family.)
GAMING: The American Gaming Assn. Honored Sen. Reid as one of "America's Gaming Greats" and hired his son-in-law to lobby in Washington;
MINING: Mines such as Barrick Goldstrike have benefited from Sen. [Harry Reid]'s advocacy in the Senate. The Nevada Mining Assn., gave him a lifetime achievement award. Industry leaders have paid his son- in-law's firms nearly $1 million for lobbying.;
TOURISM: Sen. Reid fought Grand Canyon flight restrictions. One operator was a client of his son-in- law.; The firm that, with Sen. Reid's aid, traded hilly land for federal parcels near Las Vegas also hired his son-in-law;
LAND DEVELOPMENT: Sen. Reid tried and failed to move a right-of-way for power lines to aid Nevada developers led by a friend who is a partner at the firm where Reid's sons work;
REID IS UNTROUBLED: "It is not as if a lot of cash is changing hands," Sen. Harry Reid says.
"When this body was on the verge of guaranteeing equal civil rights to everyone regardless of the color of their skin, some senators resorted to the same filibuster threats that we hear today."
Yes, Senator Reid - those @$$holes were DEMOCRATS, you ahistoric POS.
How could such a MANLY state elect such a GIRLIE MAN as the Harry Reid???
...when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor...
I think Reid is getting his history lessons from Bluto