Harry Reid is no Thomas Jefferson…In fact, it’s embarrassing to have his name in the same sentence as Thomas Jefferson.

This was said during a debate on a bill to give an admiral’s widow a pension. The bill was voted down.

I wouldn’t cross the street to pee on Reid’s head if his hair was on fire.

I don’t think anybody’s working on recall. Another tidbit of disheartening information- Nevada’s junior senator, Ensign, is a Republican and chair of the NRSC. I don’t know what they really think of each other, but more than one report notes that Ensign and Reid have a good working relationship and work together on “Nevada issues.”

Think we can get rid of a Dem Senate leader whose Republican state counterpart seems to get along with?

I would really love to see our NRSC chair assist with knocking off Reid (e.g., Daschle) but I just don’t think it’s gonna happen at this time.

I thought they had recall in Nevada. Isn’t anyone trying it?

PORK
Hot Air
by Ed Morrissey
If Harry Reid didn’t exist, Republicans would have to invent him. His latest hilarity comes in response to the effort by DeMint to win a one-year moratorium on earkmarking. Reid objected this evening, claiming that the F…

I think it was Voltaire who once said that once the governed learn how to empty the treasury through voting, all is lost… adamsmith on March 13, 2008 at 9:16 AM

Actually, it was Alexis de Tocqueville in “Democracy in America”, but your point is valid. How is it that the leader of the US Senate and a democrat can try to totally subvert the clear meaning of his party’s founding father, and not be called on it by everyone?

Part of the issue with Senators is that they are supposed to be statesmen (I know, I know…) serving 6 year terms. Reid was elected in 2004, I think he feels a lot of freedom in the middle years of his term to spout off, and he is in a uniquely powerful position as a Nevada senator who is leading the Senate. That don’t happen so often for Nevada, and as long as he keeps funneling pork, blocking Yucca Mt., etc. he’s probably pretty safe.

I do think he’ll have to make some amends after the ’08 Presidential election to prepare himself for his next Senate election in 2010. Between now & ’08, however, he can say pretty much whatever he wants.

I just hope his idiocy is clear enough to prevent the Democratic candidate from appointing him to a higher position if they win in ’08. If Hillary wins, and appoints him to a position in the federal govt., he doesn’t have to worry about the Senate campaign.

Senator John McCain has been a porkbuster for a long time. Recently, he and Senator Jim DeMint of South Carolina crafted a bill that would place a one year moratorium on earmarks; otherwise known as pork. Recent converts to porkbusting…

This is what we have for congress. Interpretive goon squad fulfilling their own agenda Disgusting.

My Representative Wayne Gilchest lost in the primary after 19 years in office. I had been a supporter and significant contributor of his since the first time he ran and lost. He is a nice man, but had become a professional politician caught up in the latest political PC ideology. I wrote him many letters trying to get him to see what I believed was wrong about his representation of our district. I finally concluded that it was time for him to go as did many of my friends and a significant number of voters.

Note that former very liberal Senator McGovern and presidential candidate has now decided that through the nanny state policies of our government, we are harming our country and the individual strength of our citizens. That he had “come to realize that protecting freedom of choice in our everyday lives is essential to maintaining a healthy civil society.”

Good for Mr. McGovern; now it is time for all Americans to wake up to what has now become so obvious to one of our most liberal modern senators and presidential candidates.

boundless patronage to the executive, jobbing to members of Congress & their friends, and a bottomless abyss of public money.

Thomas Jefferson was a soothsayer.

He hasn’t had his second cup of coffee yet…..I hope.

Senator Hoek says, “My pectoral implants!”

THE CHOSEN ONE on March 13, 2008 at 7:03 AM

Hi, troll. Bye, troll.

winemkr on March 13, 2008 at 1:05 AM

Mccain said he was grateful for the pathetic brown nosing Romenee performed on Hannity Wednedsday night and said there will be “a place in the party” for Mitt. Ouch. That’s political speak for an Ambassador appointment. Mav will never let that guy near the white house. He has too much love and respect for the character of the USA to do that.