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Robert D. Novak: Harry Reid's Junket
TownHall.com ^ | 11/24/2007 | Robert D. Novak

Posted on 11/24/2007 1:32:49 AM PST by JohnHuang2

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To: jwparkerjr

Still, you must admit people in NV really believe in Reid. They have kept him around for more than a generation now.


41 posted on 11/24/2007 9:28:14 AM PST by Theodore R. ( Cowardice is still forever!)
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To: Ann Archy

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?


42 posted on 11/24/2007 10:06:29 AM PST by redlegplanner
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To: SkyPilot

43 posted on 11/24/2007 10:13:22 AM PST by dighton
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To: JohnHuang2

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)


44 posted on 11/24/2007 2:14:37 PM PST by dixiechick2000 (There ought to be one day-- just one-- when there is open season on senators. ~~ Will Rogers)
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To: True Republican Patriot
Remember that Boeing delivered a brand spanking new 767 Executive Congressional jet to the Air Force on Thanksgiving Day!

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.

45 posted on 11/24/2007 2:28:02 PM PST by Freee-dame
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To: dighton
Yup.


46 posted on 11/24/2007 2:43:49 PM PST by SkyPilot
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To: Common Tator
"Once that person is defeated for reelection others start to think that it could happen to them."

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!

47 posted on 11/24/2007 3:14:34 PM PST by Radix (If your outgo exceeds your income, your upkeep will be your downfall.)
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To: Freee-dame

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.


48 posted on 11/24/2007 4:00:17 PM PST by True Republican Patriot (God Bless America and The Republicans)
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To: JohnHuang2

Where are the surface to air missiles when you need them? LOL


49 posted on 11/24/2007 6:31:44 PM PST by NRA2BFree
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To: JohnLongIsland

Perhaps some Sandinista, Castroite, or Maoist will kidnap him!


50 posted on 11/24/2007 7:23:01 PM PST by phillyfanatic
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To: JohnHuang2
After Congress recessed for Thanksgiving

Ha, I knew they wouldn't stay like Harry wanted. And what the hell is he doing in Latin America?! Cohorting with Chavez?
51 posted on 11/24/2007 7:27:44 PM PST by G8 Diplomat (Creatures are divided into 6 kingdoms: Animalia, Plantae, Fungi, Monera, Protista, & Saudi Arabia)
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To: Common Tator
If you really want to change things, then one person who abuses power had to be picked out and his behavior is made an issue. Ir includes his name and along list of abuses and waste. A real organized effort is made to defeat that candidate.

Another Common Tator homerun.

52 posted on 11/24/2007 8:26:42 PM PST by an amused spectator (AGW: If you drag a hundred dollar bill through a research lab, you never know what you'll find)
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To: Radix
Tom Daschle got the boot, and Harry Reid is just about a perfect clone of him.

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.

53 posted on 11/24/2007 8:32:55 PM PST by Common Tator
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To: SkyPilot

what a pipsqueak loser


54 posted on 11/24/2007 10:28:23 PM PST by TenthAmendmentChampion (Global warming is to Revelations as the theory of evolution is to Genesis.)
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To: JohnHuang2
I have a friend who is a lifelong Democrat. I saw him over Thanksgiving and he said to me, "I may soon vote Republican for the first time in my life. When Reid and Pelosi and the like represent my party it's no longer my party."

I never thought I'd hear that and I wonder how many other lifelong Democrats feel the same way.

Thanks for the ping.

55 posted on 11/25/2007 6:36:06 PM PST by Minuteman23
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To: SkyPilot

That has to be one of the most pompous political poses I have ever seen.


56 posted on 11/25/2007 6:40:15 PM PST by torchthemummy ("A Tagline Presidential Endorsement Forfeits A Presumption Of Objectivity")
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To: JohnHuang2

Thanks for the ping. I occasionally disagree with Novak, but not on this one. He’s painted the emperor without his clothes.


57 posted on 11/25/2007 7:20:46 PM PST by SiliconValleyGuy
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To: SkyPilot
I used to fly C-141s before that, and then T-38s before that. I loved it, but the time away from family was terrible.

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.

USAF T-39a

58 posted on 11/26/2007 4:13:09 AM PST by Dustoff45 (A non-posting Freeper produces fewer spelling errors)
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