Posted on 11/24/2007 1:32:49 AM PST by JohnHuang2
WASHINGTON -- After Congress recessed for Thanksgiving with urgent unfinished business that included facilitating income tax refunds and providing veterans benefits, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid left on an eight-day government-financed trip through Latin America.
Reid was scheduled to leave the Sunday after Thanksgiving and return the following Sunday. His itinerary included Mexico, Brazil, Colombia, Guatemala and Paraguay. His staff told this column Reid made the trip because of "stagnant" U.S. policy in Latin America under the Bush administration.
Although congressional recesses supposedly are "home work periods" enabling lawmakers to deal with constituents, many travel abroad on "codels" (congressional delegations). Reid's office described his post-Thanksgiving codel as "bipartisan." He is accompanied by Republican Sens. Thad Cochran of Mississippi and Mike Crapo of Idaho, plus Democratic Sens. Jeff Bingaman of New Mexico, Kent Conrad and Byron Dorgan of North Dakota and Robert Menendez of New Jersey.
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Still, you must admit people in NV really believe in Reid. They have kept him around for more than a generation now.
How about loading up a Plt from the 82d on a C-130 with Dingy for the return trip. Let him hang with the troops on the return trip as they fly NOE for a jump. All in the name of “supporting the troops” of course.
P.S. What are the odds of dingy making the jump sans parachute when some GWOT vets get ahold of him?
So...now Latin America is more important to Dingy than our troops?
Is there anything that is LESS important to him than our troops?
Has he been to Iraq yet?
Thanks for posting, JH2.
It’s always nice to see you, and your threads. ;o)
What ever happened to Mrs. Pelosi's request for such a plane for weekly trips across the country. There was such a flap at first. She probably got her was since nothing more is being said. Pubbies give up so easily.
Tom Daschle got the boot, and Harry Reid is just about a perfect clone of him.
I am confounded by Democrats. Do they think that these kinds of personalities are actually likable in leadership positions to most Americans?
By the way, it is so very excellent to see your name on a post here again. Thank you!
She gets a Gulfstream 3 or 5, not to sure which, but they are very nice 12 to 14 passenger bizjets. She didnot get the Big Iron she felt entitled too. Bugeyes lost there as well as on so many of her other escapades.
Where are the surface to air missiles when you need them? LOL
Perhaps some Sandinista, Castroite, or Maoist will kidnap him!
Another Common Tator homerun.
Tom Daschle was not booted for taking junkets. He was booted because he was a lot more liberal than his district Daschele was a lot more liberal than he lead his dictrict to believe he was.
The Campaign against Daschle merely pointed out what he told the folks back home at election time compared to how he actually voted when he was in Washington. That is what cost him his seat.
I don't think Harry Reid tries in any way to make the folks in his home district think he is moderate when he is a far out liberal. Reid had not made the same mistake that cost Daschle his job.
Reid could not be defeated by telling his voters that he is in fact a very liberal liberal. They know it and they elect him anyway.
But if you paint him as a man who is out to feather his own nest long before he would stoop to feather his constituants nests, then he could be defeated.
what a pipsqueak loser
I never thought I'd hear that and I wonder how many other lifelong Democrats feel the same way.
Thanks for the ping.
That has to be one of the most pompous political poses I have ever seen.
Thanks for the ping. I occasionally disagree with Novak, but not on this one. He’s painted the emperor without his clothes.
Back in '66, I caught a couple of military hops on the C-141 Starlifter. Then one night out of Travis to Charleston, we were diverted by weather having to land in Dover.
Well that became the wrong way back to GA, so took a bus to DC and on to Andrews and caught a T-39 ride to Shaw in SC. Then another bus ride back to the unit. I think the T-39 pilot was an officer out of the Pentagon keeping his flight hours up. That was a nice ride.
Looking back there were probably a lot of junkets on those T-39 Sabreliners.
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