Harry Reid's high-stakes China gamble

Washington Post ^ | April 21, 2011 | Al Kamen

[NorwegianViking]

Details are slowly trickling out about Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid’s secret, week-long trip to China with nine other senators. The lawmakers have given out minimal information about their itinerary because of supposed “security concerns.”...The Senate group included six other Democrats and three Republicans: Richard Shelby R-Ala.), Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.), Dick Durbin (D-Ill.), Mike Enzi (R-Wyo.), Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.), Frank Lautenberg (D-N.J.) , Johnny Isakson (R-Ga.), Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.) and Michael Bennet (D-Colo.).

[NorwegianViking]

They are also visiting Steve Wynn's Macau Casino. Wynn is a Reid backer. Other American investors have also profited from having casinos in Macau.

[Paladin2]

"Richard Shelby R-Ala.), Mike Enzi (R-Wyo.), Johnny Isakson (R-Ga.)."

RINO targets.

[parisa]

Wynn is a Reid backer.

Huh? Steve Wynn is an feisty obama hater!

[NWFLConservative]

It sure would be a crying shame if Reid, Boxer, Durbin, Schumer, Lautenberg, Merkley and Bennet each got caught with 2 kilos of uncut heroin in their bags before they left China, wouldn't it?

The Chicoms don't take too kindly to round-eye drug smugglers in their country, do they?

[Balding_Eagle]

I’d rather send Trump.

I’ll bet he’s going to raise hell about this.

[JoanneSD]

No mention of what this worth less junket cost the tax payers, and they brought their spouses along as well..and the three RINOs need phone calls, asking what the trip accomplished....

[FunkyZero]

Wynn is a Reid supporter?

That sounds the exact polar opposite of him. He's had nothing but blistering criticism for Obama and liberals in general.
Are you certain about this?

[NorwegianViking]

According to the article: . . . Macau, a tiny former Portuguese enclave where major Reid backer and Las Vegas gambling impresario Steve Wynn and other American casino operators have invested big-time — and profited enormously.

[UCFRoadWarrior]

Sounds like more Free Trade with Communist China headed America’s way

Whoever said Free Trade is a conservative idea needs a lobotomy.....if Harry Reid and Dick Durbin support something....it aint conservative

[ncfool]

Reid is part of the Obummer surrender team on giving the USA to China in exchange for our debt.

Harry reports that the will be sending us free of charge 400,000,000 million copies of chairman Mao’s little red book. Updated to 2011 by Chairman Wu.

[Golden Eagle]

Please see comment #8 taken from the article.

Actually, take a look at ALL the comments. Unbelievable that Washington Post hasn't scrubbed them off there, they are hammering Reid and his clan harder than people do here on FR!

[BobP]

Sounds like more Free Trade with Communist China headed America’s way.

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Where are the jobs Harry?

Senator Harry Reid is the symbol of everything that's wrong with Washington.

He's a promoter of of big, wasteful government (if it works, break it). The man is a socialist. He can not be trusted - ever.

''The mean-spirited bill, H.R. 1, eliminates National Public Broadcasting," said Reid in a floor speech. "It eliminates the National Endowment of the Humanities, National Endowment of the Arts. These programs create jobs. The National Endowment of the Humanities is the reason we have in northern Nevada every January a cowboy poetry festival. Had that program not been around, the tens of thousands of people who come there every year would not exist.''

Does the Senator honestly believe that a Cowboy Poet Festival is so vital to our nation that we should add to our debt to fund it?

Time to put Harry in a home.

Here's what we get working with outlier Harry:

It's every bit as bad as it seems,
The Tea Party cranks have gone to extremes!
But don't hem and haw,
We're givin' them the stall,
Because last year we had no budget bill at all.

[freekitty]

I lived in Vegas. Wynn is a Reid backer. Reid was on the gaming board at one time.

[neverbluffer]

Wynn is only a Reid backer because of political necessity. His businesses are located in Reid’s territory.

Just like Trump supports Schumer, because that is his business territory.

Other than that, Wynn is a STAUNCH CONSERVATIVE!

[Joe Boucher]

Reid is backed by the vegas mob

how do you think such a shat got re elected???

[NVDave]

As someone who is intimately familiar with Nevada politics, yes, Wynn is a Reid backer. Wynn is, in general, disposed towards Democrats in Nevada politics, but will cross to support Republicans when it suits his business purposes.

[Flag_This]

"Harry Reid's high-stakes China gamble"

Reid was probably just attending a chi-com cowboy poetry festival.

[baiamonte]

The “slow leaks” of the Senate are at work to help us all. God help us.

[FunkyZero]

hmph.
Well, he had me fooled. I liked the guy and about everything I've ever heard him say... apparently I had a small picture.

I guess a worm is a worm