Video: Harry Reid says energy makes him sick
posted at 12:15 pm on July 1, 2008 by Ed Morrissey
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Harry Reid declared surrender for our economy last night. If anyone has any doubts about the Democratic direction on energy policy, this should dispel them for all time:
This isn’t some fringe character, some crazy uncle that one has in the attic. This is one of the Democratic Party’s leadership explaining why he and his party will never allow for extensive increases in domestic supply for coal and oil, the two leading sources of energy in the US, along with natural gas. “Coal makes us sick. Oil makes us sick. It’s global warming. It’s ruining our country, it’s ruining our world. We’ve got to stop using fossil fuel.”
That would be great, except that no other mass-market solutions exist. Even nuclear power would take several years to implement, and Reid opposes nuclear. He wants wind and solar, even though neither have mass-production capabilities and we still haven’t solved the storage problem for alternative-sourced electricity. He thinks that we’d be better off without energy at all, rather than “making us sick” by producing coal and oil to meet current demands.
Feel like surrendering and having our economy redeploy over an event horizon to satisfy this Luddite? Vote Democratic and watch your energy bills keep skyrocketing — or vote Republican and get a sane energy policy instead.
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It’s ok now to pull the plug on Las Vegas?
mred on July 1, 2008 at 12:17 PM
Harry Reid makes me sick.
Dollayo on July 1, 2008 at 12:18 PM
Disgrace. Find the stocks and rotten veggies. Words fail.
Flyover Country on July 1, 2008 at 12:18 PM
The economy (energy) makes Harry Reid sick? That’s O.K., he makes me sick!
TooTall on July 1, 2008 at 12:19 PM
Will somebody please ask this douchebag how America’s farmers are supposed to use solar power to get food to the American people? What do they eat in Nevada? They sure don’t grow anything there.
rockmom on July 1, 2008 at 12:20 PM
Energy makes you sick, Harry?
Try living without it some time.
cntrlfrk on July 1, 2008 at 12:20 PM
Good I’m glad energy makes him sick and I hope many other things make him sick because Harry “the war is lost” Reid makes me SICK everytime I see that losers ugly mug!
Liberty or Death on July 1, 2008 at 12:20 PM
How tall will our garages have to be to pull in with the giant windmill atop our car?
bopbottle on July 1, 2008 at 12:21 PM
This will go over well in the fall with PA and WV voters. You know, the bitter God and guns miners who don’t know the price of arugula. Obama can hardly throw Harry under the bus.
Wethal on July 1, 2008 at 12:21 PM
Reading by candlelight gives me headaches. And horse poo on the streets will make us all sick, too, when we start riding horses to work again. A lot sicker than car exhaust, actually, if the history books I’ve read are accurate. Y’know, like plague-sick from the ankle-deep raw manure in the streets. That kind of sick.
aero on July 1, 2008 at 12:21 PM
I hate that dude.
CP on July 1, 2008 at 12:23 PM
The thing that galls me the most is libs’ attitute that we are HELPLESS against the rising oil prices.
Sure, there are rough waters ahead, extraordinary measures need to be made. But how are we ‘helpless’?
Dems are in charge since Jan 07, what have they addressed so far? The more ‘helplessness’ Reid/Pelosi dolled out, the more it looks like Carter’s malaise speech to me.
Sir Napsalot on July 1, 2008 at 12:23 PM
After you, Harry.
flenser on July 1, 2008 at 12:24 PM
So there are no coal mines or oil wells in NV? Or the miners and oilworkers votes don’t count because Harry has the casinos in his pocket? Or they have him in theirs?
Wethal on July 1, 2008 at 12:24 PM
Mental Disorder.
Brat on July 1, 2008 at 12:25 PM
“This is not the Harry Reid I know” in 5.. 4.. 3.. 2..
crazy_legs on July 1, 2008 at 12:25 PM
“Dingy” Harry Reid is living proof that there is a third gender among homo sapiens - neuter.
LimeyGeek on July 1, 2008 at 12:26 PM
I swear, the more I look at this sorry excuse for a Senator and realize the power that has been handed to him, the angrier I get. This misanthropic dinosaur is totally clueless to the fact that the very people he is supposed to be representing are getting economically hurt by not just his own insane views, but by the views of the political party that he bows in homage to. Just watching this video should be enough to make the average person either pick up their phone, grab a pen and paper or hit their email and send this clown and the rest of Congress a message that says in so many words ENOUGH IS ENOUGH! Get off the damned party rhetoric and fix this energy problem now, starting with lifting the restrictions on drilling and the building of new oil refineries, not to mention dragging in the speculators on Wall Street who are bidding the price of oil into the stratosphere and asking them, NOT THE OIL EXECUTIVES, how stinking rich the current oil prices are making THEM! Get an earful of that, Harry, and see how much THAT makes you sick!
pilamaye on July 1, 2008 at 12:27 PM
Harry Reid is sick? no sh*t!
normsrevenge on July 1, 2008 at 12:28 PM
Remember the letter that Sarah Palin sent. I have heard a rumor (remember rumors are like….) but he threw it away.
upinak on July 1, 2008 at 12:29 PM
I would say that Harry Reid makes me sick and that I hate him but four people already beat me to it. I counted three “makes me sick” one “I hate him” and one that said that Harry Reid is a mental disorder….well…. it actually said that he HAS a mental disorder but I honestly believe that he is a mental disorder too.
Once again, just my humble opinion though….
Vntnrse on July 1, 2008 at 12:30 PM
Not anytime soon.
wise_man on July 1, 2008 at 12:31 PM
I think what galls me about this the most is that it’s just so rediculous it’s simply beyond words. However, there is approximately half the country that (at least in principle) agrees with that sort of crap.
I think most, when they really think about it, will realize that would totally devastate the economy first, and many many people’s lives after that.
I seem to recall back in the day there was a group of people that used a few resources as possible, grew their own food, took care of the land, recycled (compost, metals, lumber, even baling wire). Those of us that did that were called “conservative.”
JamesLee on July 1, 2008 at 12:32 PM
Yeah. Right about now Barry is holding two handfuls of juicy, foul smelling goop that Reid just handed him, frowning, and saying”WTF??” Decision time, Barry. Whatcha gonna do? You sick of it too?
a capella on July 1, 2008 at 12:32 PM
James Lileks has a modest proposal for ol’ Harry: shut down Vegas, the carbon-spewing jewel of Reid’s home state.
vonspringer on July 1, 2008 at 12:33 PM
hahaha this was in the related videos:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=miXAZj-tcGI
apollyonbob on July 1, 2008 at 12:35 PM
“Coal makes us sick”?
Coal makes me electricity!
drjohn on July 1, 2008 at 12:35 PM
Harry Reid is a puke.
(Dry retching is all he does when his mouth opens.)
profitsbeard on July 1, 2008 at 12:35 PM
If you tied Congress pay to the amount of oil that is pumped out of our ground, you would see the largest budget for oil drilling you could imagine. ANWR would be one large oil field.
I say start a proposition that congress pay is subject to energy independence…in five years we would be independent.
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But, this is what we want the Dems to be saying publicly…screw you middle America, lose your jobs, raise the cost of food, make travel prohibitive…but congress won’t suffer. The elitists are coming out of their holes.
right2bright on July 1, 2008 at 12:35 PM
It’s a bit of a stretch to call McCain’s energy policy sane.
It ain’t sick, but it’s a far sight short of being adequate.
MarkTheGreat on July 1, 2008 at 12:36 PM
Funny!
drjohn on July 1, 2008 at 12:37 PM
I am in favor of shutting down Vegas too. Heck, it will be great for my state of Utah–all the water Vegas drinks could be profitably sent back to Utah.
Reid is a huge tool–I can’t stand the guy. The man needs to reread the scriptures, since he’s of my faith. In theory. I in particular would like to refer him to one that states “For the earth is full,and there is enough and to spare; yea, I prepared all things, and have given unto the children of men to be agents unto themselves.”
I.E. there is enough oil, coal, etc. to go around.
But if he wants us to go back to horses and buggys, man–forget that. Him first!
Vanceone on July 1, 2008 at 12:38 PM
Sen. Harry Reid, a true hero for… well, not Americans. Or even those from the State of Nevada. Oh yeah, a true hero for the wacked-out fringe mentality that is so popular in the modern Democratic Party.
I say have him spend his summers touring his state without the benefit of SUVs, A/C, and non-local perishables, and let him find out what feeling sick is really like.
Wineaholic on July 1, 2008 at 12:39 PM
I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again.
The biggest reason why these people want to curtail travel, is they are sick and tired of big crowds at their favorite vacation spots.
MarkTheGreat on July 1, 2008 at 12:41 PM
I’ve been saying we’re heading for 1979 again, but if this guy and Rangel and Pelosi get their way (ie if Obama wins), it’s going to be even worse than the Carter era. Even a McCain win will only help to impede down the madness a little.
I’m normally pretty optimistic, but this doesn’t look good at all.
forest on July 1, 2008 at 12:42 PM
Is there no one in the whole State of Nevada that can run against this guy?
ChrisM on July 1, 2008 at 12:44 PM
The two things that leftists in government fear most are: an armed population, and a mobile population. They lost a big battle last week over the former, and are clinging to their policies to restrict the latter.
Think_b4_speaking on July 1, 2008 at 12:47 PM
Yeah, I think that there will really be a Depression soon. I don’t foresee McCain winning, alas, and the Democrats want to send us into the stone age (except for our betters, i.e. them) to control global warming. Just as the depression wasn’t bad for EVERYONE, just ninety percent of the world, the Dems really want to bring that back–with them on the ten percent who isn’t affected.
I need to work on my food storage so when I get laid off, along with everyone else because evil corporations will be shut down to “provide fairness,” I can eat for a while.
Vanceone on July 1, 2008 at 12:47 PM
He seems to have made all of us sick. How much energy can we get out of vomit? ugh!
becki51758 on July 1, 2008 at 12:51 PM
But are they bitterly clinging to their leftist policies?
JamesLee on July 1, 2008 at 12:53 PM
Funny,
how I get severely chastised, whenever I tell someone I blindly pull the lever on a straight Republican ticket,
isn’t it.
franksalterego on July 1, 2008 at 12:53 PM
.
He sure sounds bitter, lol
Think_b4_speaking on July 1, 2008 at 12:56 PM
anyone from the Chicken Ranch would have more morality.
Wade on July 1, 2008 at 12:57 PM
The Dems are handing Congress to the Republicans on a palladium platter!
FIGHT DAMNIT!
Iblis on July 1, 2008 at 1:00 PM
Reid obviously has never been sick, taken medication, or been to a hospital, because if he had, he would have seen the miracle of plastics - everything from the sterile coverings and bags to IV bags are made of plastic.
Plastics that are made from petroleum.
Dolt.
lawhawk on July 1, 2008 at 1:00 PM
Democrats don’t want you to have energy, its that simple.
Maxx on July 1, 2008 at 1:00 PM
It’s a good thing Democrats haven’t figured out how to turn-off our air.
Maxx on July 1, 2008 at 1:02 PM
Did anyone else read the Clancy book (I can’t remember which one it was since they are all good) where the enviromentalists decide to wipe out mankind to ’save the Earth’?
Thats’s the 1st thing that popped into my head when I saw this buffoon say ‘coal makes us sick’. Dude, coal is powering America!? You are world leaders in coal reserves if I am not mistaken. What is with this culture of surrender sweeping the western world. No one even says sustainable development anymore, now it is just full on surrender.
saus on July 1, 2008 at 1:03 PM
Harry “The Body” Reid is in full form in that clip. He must have heard the Algore’s “The Earth Has a Fever” speech before he gave that interview.
Dr.Cwac.Cwac on July 1, 2008 at 1:05 PM
Not to worry. We will have universal health care.
davidk on July 1, 2008 at 1:09 PM
.
Who is John Galt?
Think_b4_speaking on July 1, 2008 at 1:09 PM
How is McVain any better on this issue?
Cap and Trade. No thank you. Liberty instead.
Reid needs to stay in Nev. and stop embarrassing this nation as a “leader.” John Adams is screaming somewhere!
Branch Rickey on July 1, 2008 at 1:10 PM
Troll alert
Branch Rickey on July 1, 2008 at 1:11 PM
I’ve been thinking about writing to the heads of the various casinos, asking them just how much money they expect to make once the masses can no longer afford to drive to Vegas, and once air travel is severly curtailed.
Then asking them why they still support this bozo.
MarkTheGreat on July 1, 2008 at 1:14 PM
Translation: I, Harry Reid, being among the most powerful people in the world, have no solution to the energy problem. I speak for the Democratic majority in the Senate. (No solution that the american people would approve, anyway.)
Weebork on July 1, 2008 at 1:19 PM
Branch,
Me thinks he was being sarcastic.
Weebork on July 1, 2008 at 1:20 PM
Reid isn’t REALLY worried, he knows that he and his family will still have energy while the rest of us huddle in our huts.
After all, the Politburo members need to have at least a few privileges for the suffering they endure having to rule the masses.
Bishop on July 1, 2008 at 1:23 PM
Which political party is doing the fear-mongering?
If you breath, you’re going to get sick according to Harry.
swami on July 1, 2008 at 1:23 PM
Rainbow Six. It took me a minute of flipping through my Clancy books.
Anna on July 1, 2008 at 1:23 PM
The sad irony is that, after their inaction causes the price of oil to rise above the average person’s ability to buy it, and energy usage plummets as a result, the Dems will be able to point to the fact that the oceans have in fact NOT risen to drown the coastal cities and will claim that they saved us all. I’m sure we’ll all be so grateful to them for saving us from global warming as we suffer hunger pangs in our dark hovels and ride our horses to work (if any of us even still have jobs in the absence of our ability to commute to work or even power our computers so we can telecommute).
Maybe I’ll become a horse breeder. Or start manufacturing manure shovels. Should be an increasing demand for those things soon.
aero on July 1, 2008 at 1:29 PM
does harry own a car
does harry own a house
does harry fly on airplanes
does harry eat food
does harry sleep
does harry use air conditioning/heat
does harry wear clothes
does harry use a bathroom when he takes a crap
do as harry says not as harry does
hypocrite
custer on July 1, 2008 at 1:32 PM
Here in the US, our enemies are still too hypothetical to make most people wake up. Life is still far too good and easy. (Even in Israel, some people remain in the dark).
Lack of faith is another reason. Europeans feel belief didn’t save them from their bloody 20th century. This idea of a crisis of confidence crossed the Atlantic.
How could worship of ones self, youth, beauty, wealth, or an element of nature, satisfactorily substitute for yesterday’s worship of a sophisticated religious ideology.
Ergo, people give in and give up. Mass nihilism. Social exhaustion. A remnant will remain, and it will revive potent again somewhere, sometime–maybe in China, maybe even back in Europe.
JiangxiDad on July 1, 2008 at 1:35 PM
What a great opportunity for the Republican presidential candidate!
“I don’t agree with Senator Reid. Fossil fuel isn’t making us sick. It doesn’t cause ‘global warming’. It means freedom and prosperity for America. We need not just energy independence, but energy abundance!”
The problem is, John McCain thinks the same thing as Harry Reid.
Time for a new candidate!
MrLynn on July 1, 2008 at 1:36 PM
So oil and coal two things that have given us our modern world with all the benefits that come from that. Including advance medicine (which saves lives) Life flights, plastics, microchips, air travel, the best military in the world and in history, A/C, refrigration, heating, etc makes us sick?
Harry “the war is lost” Reid has no idea what oil and coal does for this world. Is there some problems with these energy sources sure but the benifits outway the negatives by a country mile.
The more I see our “leaders” the more sure I become that a revolution is coming. when people are poor, have no job, can’t go anywhere no entertainment then the political beat starts to get real attractive.
In all my years I have never seen so many useless people in Washington. D.C I have no respect for any of the bums in Washington. Harry “the war is lost” Reid and Nancy “most ethical congress ever” Polesi lest of all.
It is time that Washington hears the rightous anger of America loud and clear.
unseen on July 1, 2008 at 1:36 PM
This guy was left behind when Heavens Gate cult made their trip to . . . .utopia ?
Texyank on July 1, 2008 at 1:40 PM
I hate this guy. He is stupid AND crooked. I know my comments are less than witty here but honestly this guy just pisses me off so much that words fail me.
HawaiiLwyr on July 1, 2008 at 1:41 PM
Harry Reid….leader. Hahahahahahahahahaha!!!!!!!
GarandFan on July 1, 2008 at 1:42 PM
Good point. His “fossil fuels make us sick” premise is belied by the fact that the people of the industrialized nations (which depend most heavily on fossil fuel usage) have by far - BY FAR - the longest average lifespans of any countries in the world, or in the history of the world. The more energy we use, the longer we live. Hmmmmm. Seems Harry’s logic has a few holes in it. Silly facts, always getting in the way.
aero on July 1, 2008 at 1:42 PM
What “global warming” are you talking about Harry? The temperature data does not show anything out of the ordinary for the past 200 years. If we look at ice-core data we find the earth has been much warmer than it is today, so what global warming are you talking about Harry?
Maxx on July 1, 2008 at 1:42 PM
need to work on my food storage so when I get laid off, along with everyone else because evil corporations will be shut down to “provide fairness,” I can eat for a while.
Vanceone on July 1, 2008 at 12:47 PM
actually from an investment Return on investment. the best place you can put you money right now is food. The return will beat any type of investment if you stock up now. Food is expected to increase by about 20% over the next year. So by buying now you get a 20% return on your money.
Same for gas and heating oil. Buy now, it might not be there next year.
Oh yeah learn how to farm too.
unseen on July 1, 2008 at 1:43 PM
Spinless Harry Reid.
I HATE this man sorry but that is how I feel.
TroubledMonkey on July 1, 2008 at 1:45 PM
Let’s do what Harry says, and stop sending any fossil-fuel or nuclear-generated electricity to Las Vegas, and see how glittery Sin City looks at night with the lights out, and tell everyone there this is what Harry Reid wants for the country. Then send him to Amish country and let him breathe the sweet country air perfumed with horse manure and cow-patties.
Meanwhile, the GOP should get every Senator and Representative up for re-election, and Republican challenger for Democrat-held seats, to sign a pledge to vote for offshore drilling, open the Rockies to shale oil extraction, and build McCain’s proposed 100 nuclear plants, in a new Energy from America platform, similar to the Contract for America from 1994.
If they did this, Dingy Harry might have to trade offices with Mitch McConnell, and Nancy Pelosi would have to trade with John Boehner.
Steve Z on July 1, 2008 at 1:47 PM
To Troubled Monkey: That was probably a typo, but Harry Reid is spinEless. He is decidedly not spinless!
Steve Z on July 1, 2008 at 1:49 PM
aero on July 1, 2008 at 1:42 PM
damn facts tend to always get in the way….there are so many other benifits of oil and gas they can not all be listed..
how many heartattacks victims have been saved by a speedy trip to the hospital? Have many children have been saved by the telephone that needs energy to make the telephone lines, the towers, place the poles, make the recievers, make the switches etc.
how many mothers have been saved with quick trips to the emergency rooms to give birth?
How many people don’t starve or have good nutrition due to transportation of fruits and vegtables that would rot on there journey to the market if not for oil?
Oil and coal impacts our lives every minute of everyday. We need oil NOW
If the bird flu does cause a pandemic how lives can be saved with quick reactions teams FLOWN into the epicenter. How many victims of earthquakes, floods, hurricanes have been saved due to oil.
how many people where pulled off rooftops by helicoptors during Kitrina?
unseen on July 1, 2008 at 1:50 PM
Hey, lay off my home town! But you’re point is correct, Las Vegas would not exist without oil (with Boulder Dam they may survive without coal, but most of the power from there is exported, or used to be). What really galls me is that there are so many idiots who have no idea how the world works and some of the get elected to national office. I guess the alternative was better http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/06/09/when-horses-posed-a-public-health-hazard/
I know, it’s a NY Times link, but it is a good story…
Ann NY on July 1, 2008 at 1:52 PM
for the life of me I can not understand why we can not do EVERYTHING to become energy independent including drilling now, oil shales, nuclear, solar, wind, geothermal, tide, ethanol, coal to liquid, hydrogen, etc
Why must it be one or the other. IMO I think it is the central planning mindset that is keeping us screwed. It like the Soviet Union’s 5 year plans. They never worked but….it was the thought that counted. Our spinless leaders are doing the same thing.
Just open it up, fund solar, wind etc to make it cost competitive with oil, open up the oil drilling to bring the price of oil down and then when the price of everything is close to the same on the market let the people choose. Some will choose solar, some wind, some nuclear, and some caol and oil etc. That way we will never be at the mercy of one commodity
unseen on July 1, 2008 at 2:00 PM
Help! Dems suck all my enery. (And I can’t get up.)
Sir Napsalot on July 1, 2008 at 2:00 PM
The results of the dems energy policy….how many blue collar workers in OHIO, MO and MI are going to lose their jobs because of this….
General Motors Corp. on Tuesday reported an 18.2% decline in June U.S. light vehicle sales to 262,329 cars and trucks from 320,668 in June 2007. Sales of cars slid 21.1% while trucks declined 16%.
http://www.marketwatch.com/News/Story/Story.aspx?guid=%7b0FA720D9-930E-4774-A7A5-661FBA1E2F1E%7d&siteid=yhoof2
unseen on July 1, 2008 at 2:04 PM
If our economy and our way of life is to survive and prosper, securing enough affordable energy must take precedence over alternative energy sources. Alternatives should certainly be pursued for the future, but realistically speaking, it is foolish to think that we can just quit using fossil fuels.
It is the pinnacle of idiocy to think that increasing fuel costs is the answer, to punish consumers into compliance with some magical green behavior that requires no energy consumption. All that lies down this path is a wrecked economy and plenty of misery to go around.
hillbillyjim on July 1, 2008 at 2:05 PM
just for the math challanged GM sold ~60,000 less cars and trucks from a year ago. Ford also reported a 25% drop in sells.
Can we stop the “what recession?” nonsense now. the dems are pushing us right past a recession into a depression. Our entire way of life is at stake here people. Bush is an idiot but he is better than the dem congress. I don’t think they make names for them
unseen on July 1, 2008 at 2:07 PM
hillbillyjim on July 1, 2008 at 2:05 PM
agreed 150%
unseen on July 1, 2008 at 2:08 PM
Yeah, it didn’t work out too well for the perps at the end. Left naked and unarmed in a Brazilian rain forest to communicate with nature. If only,..the thought of Nancy and Harry, sans clothes, staff, and weapons, hugging each other in terrified silence amongst all the trees, snakes, and jaguars is probably something I shouldn’t enjoy,…but, there ya go.
a capella on July 1, 2008 at 2:09 PM
Does Hoover Dam still meet all the energy needs of the ever-expanding Las Vegas, of to they need to rely on that eeeeeeeeeevil fossil fuel to run all those bright lights and ice-cold casinos?
gridlock2 on July 1, 2008 at 2:10 PM
Thank you Anna! Now I remember Chavez & Rainbow six :)
JiangxiDad -
I didn’t want to say anything about religions & faith because people can get offended, I have no doubt personally nihilism and lack of faith are having ruinous consequences. Extremism in all its forms can be unhealthy, I think there is no doubt that many have replaced a void in their life with all new vogue social causes & pursue them as if in the crusades. I believe in the importance of the environment strongly, but this is just stupidity already.
saus on July 1, 2008 at 2:14 PM
and to anyone thinking the car sales are just SUV and trucks not selling think again:
High gasoline prices and a weak economy took a toll on U.S. sales of Toyota Motor Co. and Ford Motor Co. vehicles in June, with Toyota reporting a 21.4 percent decline and Ford dropping 27.9 percent.
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Industry analysts had predicted June auto sales could drop by double-digits to their lowest monthly rate in 16 years.
Toyota, however, had been expected to fare better because it has a lineup more tilted toward small fuel-efficient cars and crossover vehicles.
But it didn’t. Toyota said Tuesday its car sales dropped 9.4 percent for the month, while its truck sales slipped 38.9 percent. For the first half of the year, Toyota sales were down 6.8 percent.
http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/080701/auto_sales.html
unseen on July 1, 2008 at 2:14 PM
With any luck, this will make Harry so sick he’ll be forced to step down.
Hey, a guy can dream, can’t he??
CurtZHP on July 1, 2008 at 2:15 PM
HARRY, WE KNOW YOU’RE SICK!
Thanks for telling us you babbling, effing moron.
byteshredder on July 1, 2008 at 2:24 PM
Umm, Harry? You’re not supposed to eat it.
Frankly, the fact that the Republicans aren’t all over the energy issue like a wet t-shirt is a little scary. Hit it hard, hit it often, the Dem’s defeatism can’t win except by default.
Merovign on July 1, 2008 at 2:25 PM
Coal and other fossel fuels may be making Harry sick, but Harry is making me sick.
Mark
http://mark24609.blogspot.com/
There is no subtler, no surer means of overturning the existing basis of society than to debauch the currency. John Maynard Keynes
“No hay forma más sutil y segura de volcar la base existente de la sociedad que el de corromper la moneda” John Maynard Keynes
mark24609 on July 1, 2008 at 2:31 PM
wait there was more to the interview now the coal companies are Nazis.
He accused the coal industry of using “the old Hitler lie — when you say things long enough people start believing them.”
The comparison of the coal industry to Nazis came before his keynote speech, which began and ended with references to “the Jewish sages of yesteryear.”
Reid also said that because more than 85 percent of land in Nevada is controlled by the federal government the state could play an important role in the country’s renewable energy future if the process of locating clean energy plants on federal land is streamlined.
He said the first fight, though, is to get one more Republican senator to support the renewal of federal tax credits for renewable energy producers.
“We’ve got 59 (votes). We need 60. We have only eight Republicans to help us. We need one more,” Reid said, adding that he would like to see the tax credits extended.
http://www.lasvegassun.com/blogs/news/2008/feb/19/sen-reid-accuses-coal-industry-using-old-hitler-li/
unseen on July 1, 2008 at 2:32 PM
Can someone tell McCain to grap a hold of the energy issue instead of pussy footing around. Maybe we will let the states decide except for Anwar, but I am opening to changing my mind. If McCain doesn’t come out forcefully on this issue and ram it down the Dems throats including the drilling in Anwar, he is going to lose. The Democrats are trying to give the election to McCain, and McCain is trying to give it back. This entire election is freaking unbelievable. Here is what you should do with your stocks should Obama win this election, sell everything and hold cash and wait out the four years of the Obama presidency because you will see the market decline preciptously like it did in the Carter years. Then after four years (assuming this nation survives) when Obama is out of office after taking this country down, there will be a lot of opportunities to buy.
Mark
http://mark24609.blogspot.com/
mark24609 on July 1, 2008 at 2:38 PM
Exactly. Put up or shut up.
maverick muse on July 1, 2008 at 2:41 PM
DRILL EVERYTHING NOW !!!
Maxx on July 1, 2008 at 2:42 PM
It makes him sick because it highlights just another broken promise from the Democrat lead Congress. To paraphrase, “We, the Democrat Party, refuse to acknowledge that the cost of fuel is an issue for the American people, and that, while we have our thumbs buried up our arses, will block all efforts to help the United States achieve energy independence. (Do you think anyone remembers our 100 day plan when we took control of Congress?)”
(Oh, and pay no attention to the man behind the curtain. Thats just Uncle Mahmoud Imayneedajob building refineries while America falls into financial ruin.)
PatriotPete on July 1, 2008 at 2:42 PM
Always remember that a vote for a a democratic Congress is a vote for Harry Reid.
volsense on July 1, 2008 at 2:46 PM
Clueless. Clueless. Clueless.
carbon_footprint on July 1, 2008 at 2:51 PM
bad news for reid…when your policies start affect the oldest profession in the world you know you are in trouble…
Nevada’s legal brothels are having to offer gas cards and other promotions to lure customers. Geoffrey Arnold, president of the Nevada Brothel Owners’ Association, said truckers are about 75 percent of the patrons at the state’s rural “houses.”….
….The Moonlite BunnyRanch is offering “a double your stimulus” promotion. Customers who bring in their IRS economic stimulus checks will get double the services
http://www.foxcarolina.com/money/16745493/detail.html
unseen on July 1, 2008 at 2:52 PM
Anything that proves FATAL to Harry Reid must be very GOOD for America. Bring it on!
old trooper on July 1, 2008 at 2:54 PM
look the democratic leadership could tell their voters they just want to see them all dead…
and the leftist lemmings would still vote them into office.
right4life on July 1, 2008 at 3:00 PM
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