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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You forgot to mention “p*ssy” too.
thirteen28 on July 1, 2008 at 3:10 PM
From the Ausra website:here
HE SAID HIS STUPID COMMENTS AT A FACTORY! One that is being powered by the energy sources he is poo-pooing.
He is just talking up the solar field as this company is in NV. If it was a new Coal to Oil factory that had opened up in NV instead of a factory making solar system part he would never had said the gibberish that just spewed out of his mouth.
I genuinely hate Harry Reid. He has done nothing of worth for this country, his religion, or humanity at large since becoming the majority leader. It could be true even before that, but was a non-entity until he got the spot.
this about sums up my thoughts on the matter
Voidseeker on July 1, 2008 at 3:14 PM
Hey Ed,
Now Dingy Harry has compared coal companies to Hitler!
Reid comes unhinged
rockmom on July 1, 2008 at 3:14 PM
Harry Reid suffers of Perpetual Whinilitis.
Entelechy on July 1, 2008 at 3:16 PM
What about solar? Solar is killing the Mojave Ground Squirrels.
Well, maybe. They’re definitely stopping new solar plants while researching the squirrel.
So no solar power plants in the desert, you might upset the desert ecology and stuff.
I’m pretty sure Wind farms kill birds, maybe endangered birds too.
But we’re still on track for fairy dust and unicorns to provide all our energy needs. Just as soon as we can find a way to humanely locate these mysterious creatures.
gekkobear on July 1, 2008 at 3:16 PM
It is just simply delightful that we have enemies of the United States in congress. Traitors like Reid get way too much air time to spew their filth
Foreign enemies are not the real danger to America, the soft-willed and weak-minded liberals that invite them in and support their goals are.
Grafted on July 1, 2008 at 3:23 PM
Reminds me of something my mother used to say:
“Well why don’t I just lay down and die?!”
Brat on July 1, 2008 at 3:27 PM
you would be doing your part to save the planet…it would reduce your carbon footprint…
and make the environmentalist/democrats happy…(you’d switch from voting republican to democratic after you’re deceased)
right4life on July 1, 2008 at 3:34 PM
Hey Harry
OIL MAKING ‘OVERNIGHT MILLIONAIRES’ IN NORTH DAKOTA
Brat on July 1, 2008 at 3:35 PM
In the not so distant past if the majority leader of the Senate (Reid) entered into the Congresssional Record that the US had lost the war while Americans were dying on the battlefield, it would’ve been called treason. Now it is called being a democrat.
volsense on July 1, 2008 at 3:37 PM
“We’ve got to stop using fossil fuel.”–Reid
Harry Reid: practice what you preach;
do as you say, not as you do.
Quit air travel unless by hot-air balloons using solar heat and wind power. Quit driving all together, ride a bike, a horse, or paddle a boat, because whether your car or boat are electric or not, it took some fossil fuel to create the electricity. It takes fossil fuel to produce food for the nation, so quit eating anything that you did not grow by YOUR hand alone, no transportation allowed. Harry Reid wants us all chained indoors at home where he will protect us with his feeding tube so long as we keep strictly to ourselves and mind meld with him. He loves to be mesmerized.
maverick muse on July 1, 2008 at 3:38 PM
What they’re not telling you is that they are supplying mass quantities of oil to the Decepticons.
- The Cat
MirCat on July 1, 2008 at 3:38 PM
No, we’ve got to stop using fossils for senators.
CurtZHP on July 1, 2008 at 3:44 PM
From my brother:
If we can’t convince John McCain to repent of his belief in the false god of ‘Global Warming’, Obambi will lead us into the wasteland.
****AMERICAN ENERGY FOR AMERICAN GROWTH!*****
MrLynn on July 1, 2008 at 3:50 PM
Has anyone read Lileks’ latest Bleat on Harry Reid?
INC on July 1, 2008 at 3:51 PM
Official Congressional Bio:
Harry Reid wrote that he was born in a poor mining town. When he arrived in Utah for his education when he experience religion for the first time, of his conversion that he was mesmerized by the way the Mormon bishop spoke. He worked his way through law school as a police officer. Note well that he CHAIRED the crooked Nevada Gaming Commission from 1978-1981. Now he serves on the ethics committee, just like bobama did in Illinois. Reid is always placing himself in the way of windfall profits.
maverick muse on July 1, 2008 at 3:54 PM
pure poetry.
JiangxiDad on July 1, 2008 at 4:09 PM
Yeah, well just wait until people can’t afford to heat their homes this winter or next. Being cold and/or hungry tends to concentrate the mind greatly. When he starts feeling the “heat” from angry voters around the country maybe this goofball will wise up.
Jill1066 on July 1, 2008 at 4:10 PM
“Coal is making us sick”
China is opening a new coal plant every 4 days +/-.
Is Harry Reid saying that China is making us sick?
Is this a deliberate insult so close to the Bejing games?
Harry Reid is causing us to lose face in the world community!
How could you do it, Senator, after promising to repair our world image?!
Waaaaah!
/Dem
eeyore on July 1, 2008 at 4:26 PM
If we want to see the back of Reid and Pelosi, we have to reduce the influence that their seniority gives them. Nevada will continue to elect Reid for the same reason Pelosi’s district will continue to elect her: she can get things done–or stop them from being done. The rest of the nation has no control over this, and the Constitional provision that the houses of the legislature shall set their own procedural rules means that it will take an Amendment to pass it. Who has to vote on those Amendments? The only way they’ll get past Congress is if they suit the needs of a filibuster-proof lame-duck majority … two conditions not likely to occur.
The rest of the country has only one power: make them into the minority leaders so that their influence will wane. They must surely have made a lot of enemies who would be glad to scatter caltrops before them.
It’s time for the Republican Party to go on a state-by-state, district-by-district press against a pettifogging, obstructive Congress that spends money to create monuments to themselves, but refuses to do the jobs the Constitution allots to them.
njcommuter on July 1, 2008 at 4:42 PM
Harry there are a thousand wildfires going on in California right now that will probably put more CO2 into the air than all of America’s coal-fired plants would in a year, and the earth is stll COOLING and not warming in spite of all that CO2.
By the way, CO2 in the air is a GOOD THING, it makes crops grow faster and does NOT cause global warming. If we would build more coal fired plants maybe we could decrease the price of energy and increased crops yeilds via the extra CO2 in that air at the same time. Which would in turn bring food prices down!!
But Democrats only like creating problems, not fixing them.
Maxx on July 1, 2008 at 4:53 PM
I just can’t wait until I can walk off into the woods, plug my CaesarChaveChainsaw into a windmill, and cut down my holiday tree (with a carbon credit license for the tree).
Gonna be a bummer dragging it back to the house though. It is a long was between me and the nearest pine.
Limerick on July 1, 2008 at 5:01 PM
JiangxiDad,
When Lileks is on a roll he is terrific!
INC on July 1, 2008 at 5:06 PM
Maxx, I told my 9 and 11-year-olds that today. We have a generation lost to the mind-control of liberalism. They are putty in the hands of the democrats.
In the meantime, I wish someone would sue California and force them to buy carbon credits for these fires. We don’t have wildfires where I live, so I’d be happy to sell them some of my credits.
JiangxiDad on July 1, 2008 at 5:07 PM
And the severity of the wildfires are caused by what? Environmentalists not wanting us to come in and cut out the dead trees, clear out the brush. They will advocate “controlled” burn (wher 1 out of every 20 become uncontrolled), but won’t allow forests to be thinned. They would rather burn the trees, then use them.
Meanwhile, their policies destroy national parks, and wilderness areas.
right2bright on July 1, 2008 at 5:21 PM
To add, one “controlled” burn is probably equal to a years worth of pollutants from autos.
right2bright on July 1, 2008 at 5:22 PM
The dems energy plans are starting to impact liberals.
Starbucks to close 600 stores and layoff 12,000 employees.
that’s 12,000 liberals out of work due to the democratic congress.
will the liberals say drill when they can’t get their morning cup of moca low fat or whatever its called. Oh my god they might have to go to a burger king or mcdonalds to get their caffinee. I’m sure the democrates in Congress will pass some type of bailout for Starbucks to avoid the anger of their voting block.
unseen on July 1, 2008 at 5:26 PM
Harry used to be a boxer, he must be punch drunk. I’m sure he had a glass chin too. What a disgrace.
Lunkinator on July 1, 2008 at 5:31 PM
Yeah well . . . dumb ass Harry makes me sick.
rplat on July 1, 2008 at 5:33 PM
i say put
ClarkReid on the VP ticket for Obama.custer on July 1, 2008 at 5:34 PM
As a boy, I used to hear of the economic pain in Seattle when Boeing was doing badly. Now I suppose much of Seattle and Portland will soon be out of work. I haven’t had a Starbucks yet, so I will have to accept some of the blame.
JiangxiDad on July 1, 2008 at 5:35 PM
Note to Harry Reid:
Thanks for being such a witless bastard that oil guys like me are making a fortune because of morons like you and all the zombie-like worthless crap who keep on voting for you.
Oh, and please drink some oil with a chaser of bituminous macerals.
It couldn’t happen to a nicer guy..
TexasJew on July 1, 2008 at 5:36 PM
Freaking great idea. Older white male. For that matter, what’s wrong with Pelosi. Barry’s not guaranteed California. He should do it!
JiangxiDad on July 1, 2008 at 5:37 PM
Harry used to be a boxer, he must be punch drunk.
Lunkinator on July 1, 2008 at 5:31 PM
Boxer, my ass - he sounds like a clinically depressed mincing eunuch.
TexasJew on July 1, 2008 at 5:41 PM
That’s 12,000 more to help in the oil fields…
right2bright on July 1, 2008 at 5:48 PM
After awhile, words escape me…
Hawkins1701 on July 1, 2008 at 5:50 PM
That’s 12,000 more to help in the oil fields…
right2bright on July 1, 2008 at 5:48 PM
we are talking about liberals here. Maybe 12,000 more to help in the tofu fields?
unseen on July 1, 2008 at 5:53 PM
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid isn’t necessarily known as a multimedia sensation, but thanks to his “coal makes us sick” comment, Reid has rocketed to the top of YouTube.
This video of Reid on Fox Business News now sits atop YouTube’s “most viewed” list, with nearly 215,000 views, thanks in large part to a link on the Drudge Report.
Senate Republicans are sending around the video as part of an effort to make Democrats appear out of touch on the need to produce more energy and drill more oil wells. But Reid may get the last laugh, since he controls the Senate schedule and may force the GOP to take some difficult votes on energy policy in the coming weeks.
http://www.politico.com/blogs/thecrypt/0708/Harry_Reid_No_1_on_YouTube_today.html
what difficult votes are they talking about? the reps need to vote for every energy bill. give the dems plan 1005 support and when gas is $5.00/gal then they can say well we tried their way…
unseen on July 1, 2008 at 5:55 PM
Far be it for me to ever defend Reid, but as a native Las Vegan, who knew people on the gaming commission (older brother’s friends) at that time, I wasn’t aware that they were crooked. I always thought they did a great job getting rid of the mob in the Casinos.
Ann NY on July 1, 2008 at 5:55 PM
What a terrible thing to have lost one’s mind. Or not to have a mind at all. How true that is.
- Dan Quayle
MB4 on July 1, 2008 at 6:02 PM
Same here.
Want to know why? Come on, sure you do.
I refuse to go there because it’s a liberal icon. It’s to the point that a couple of times my wife has bought coffee there and I sat in the car refusing to even go into the store. Silly of me isn’t it?
jmarcure on July 1, 2008 at 6:10 PM
Too bad, Harry!!!
No hospital is available to make you well without ENERGY!!! …and ENERGY comes from OIL, GAS, and COAL…with a little NUCLEAR thrown in!!!
So even if you cover the earth with windmills and paper it over with solar cells, you won’t get enough watts to power the MRI machine to find out WTF is wrong with your brain!!!
landlines on July 1, 2008 at 6:16 PM
PS -
Harry Reid is a prime example of a guy which gets sent to Washington simply because his neighbors are voting him out of the neighborhood for 6 years!!!
landlines on July 1, 2008 at 6:20 PM
OK Harry…………
Begin by example.
Immediately stop using the following Products Made From Oil
Clothing Ink
Heart Valves
Crayons
Parachutes
Telephones
Enamel
Transparent tape
Antiseptics
Vacuum bottles
Deodorant
Pantyhose
Rubbing Alcohol
Carpets
Epoxy paint
Oil filters
Upholstery
Hearing Aids
Car sound insulation
Cassettes
Motorcycle helmets
Pillows
Shower doors
Shoes
Refrigerator linings
Electrical tape
Safety glass
Awnings
Salad bowl
Rubber cement
Nylon rope
Ice buckets
Fertilizers
Hair coloring
Toilet seats
Denture adhesive
Loudspeakers
Movie film
Fishing boots
Candles
Water pipes
Car enamel
Shower curtains
Credit cards
Aspirin
Golf balls
Detergents
Sunglasses
Glue
Fishing rods
Linoleum
Plastic wood
Soft contact lenses
Trash bags
Hand lotion
Shampoo
Shaving cream
Footballs
Paint brushes
Balloons
Fan belts
Umbrellas
Paint Rollers
Luggage
Antifreeze
Model cars
Floor wax
Sports car bodies
Tires
Dishwashing liquids
Unbreakable dishes
Toothbrushes
Toothpaste
Combs
Tents
Hair curlers
Lipstick
Ice cube trays
Electric blankets
Tennis rackets
Drinking cups
House paint
Rollerskates wheels
Guitar strings
Ammonia
Eyeglasses
Ice chests
Life jackets
TV cabinets
Car battery cases
Insect repellent
Refrigerants
Typewriter ribbons
Cold cream
Glycerin
Plywood adhesive
Cameras
Anesthetics
Artificial turf
Artificial Limbs
Bandages
Dentures
Mops
Beach Umbrellas
Ballpoint pens
Boats
Nail polish
Golf bags
Caulking
Tape recorders
Curtains
Vitamin capsules
Dashboards
Putty
Percolators
Skis
Insecticides
Fishing lures
Perfumes
Shoe polish
Petroleum jelly
Faucet washers
Food preservatives
Antihistamines
Cortisone
Dyes
LP records
Solvents
Roofing
Seven Percent Solution on July 1, 2008 at 6:27 PM
Umm..ok. So what’s our alternative? So far I’ve heard:
1. Cap and trade.
2. No drilling in ANWR
3. McCain is ok with drilling in the states as long as someone else makes the decision..or something. Except for Alaska; they’re making the wrong decision so he made the right one for them.
4. Build Nuke plants- Not sold on this one. Yeah, McCAin promises to do this, but think about it; he wont’ drill in a polar moonscape for oil because it would be like ‘drilling in the Grand Canyon.’ Do you really think he’s going to build a Nuke Plant in one of our fair states? I’ll believe that when he breaks ground on one.
I know this a ‘pig pile on Harry Reid’ thread with a side of ‘kickem inna fork’ but McCain, as on so many issues, has been fairly uninspiring on this one. I wish I could see half of his enthusiasm to pandering to Latino groups over immigration on finding solutions to our energy problems. Yeah, Reid is moron, and he would be more than happy to let the economy rot on high gas prices, but I’m not seeing much out of the GOP to feel like there’s any calvary on the way on this issue.
austinnelly on July 1, 2008 at 6:39 PM
Great post.
drjohn on July 1, 2008 at 6:39 PM
Harry Reid make me sick.
drjohn on July 1, 2008 at 6:40 PM
LMAO! I thought I was alone in the world. Not only do I want to keep away from the types that go in there, I’m old enough and smart enough to know not to piss away my hard earned money on something I can make at home or get for $.50 elsewhere.
JiangxiDad on July 1, 2008 at 6:40 PM
Ray? Ray Nagin? Barack Hussein here! Could you send me a couple hundred of those busses you have no use for I’m runnin out fast and have a bunch of senators and congress critters I need em for. Hurry please, These fools won’t shut there mouths so’s I can win the ‘lection.
dhunter on July 1, 2008 at 6:51 PM
JiangxiDad on July 1, 2008 at 6:40 PM
No not alone. I too have never bought a starbucks coffee. in fact, in the last month I gave up caffine entirely and I feel better than I have in 20 yrs. More energy, no crashing during the day. easy getting moving in the morning. etc.
unseen on July 1, 2008 at 6:51 PM
seven percent, out of all those things you listed the only thing “Dingy Harry” won’t give up for sure is his “water pipe”
Cause he must have some darn good stuff hes’ smokin in that and I think he must be sharin it with his fellow dumbs
dhunter on July 1, 2008 at 7:08 PM
Thanks.
Now combine the list to make even more products……… like computer keyboards.
Harry Reid has no clue to how many products we use on a daily basis that keep us from eating grass and living in caves that are made from oil. The world’s ENTIRE economy is based on oil, and no amount of wind power is going to change that any time soon.
A##-CLOWN!
Does he not realize that we have more oil and natural gas in the United States and off our shores that WE could be telling the King of Saudi Arabia to go fornicate with himself? We could be the one’s not only energy independent, but maybe, just maybe, every single LEGAL American Citizen might just share in oil revenues?
How is that for a campaign add?
Seven Percent Solution on July 1, 2008 at 7:11 PM
It would be easy to make bumper stickers pinning High Gas and Energy prices on the Democrats and NO Drilling, No Refineries, No Nuclear etc..
Chakra Hammer on July 1, 2008 at 7:26 PM
Why you fill-up your gas tank blame the Democrats.
Chakra Hammer on July 1, 2008 at 7:27 PM
Hmmmmmm, does that mean that we’ll start seeing a lot more nuclear plants in his state?
scottm on July 1, 2008 at 7:30 PM
Here we stand
Like an Adam and an Eve
Waterfalls
The Garden of Eden
Two fools in love
So beautiful and strong
The birds in the trees
Are smiling upon them
From the age of the dinosaurs
Cars have run on gasoline
Where, where have they gone?
Now, it’s nothing but flowers
There was a factory
Now there are mountains and rivers
you got it, you got it
We caught a rattlesnake
Now we got something for dinner
we got it, we got it
There was a shopping mall
Now it’s all covered with flowers
you’ve got it, you’ve got it
If this is paradise
I wish I had a lawnmower
you’ve got it, you’ve got it
Years ago
I was an angry young man
I’d pretend
That I was a billboard
Standing tall
By the side of the road
I fell in love
With a beautiful highway
This used to be real estate
Now it’s only fields and trees
Where, where is the town
Now, it’s nothing but flowers
The highways and cars
Were sacrificed for agriculture
I thought that we’d start over
But I guess I was wrong
Once there were parking lots
Now it’s a peaceful oasis
you got it, you got it
This was a Pizza Hut
Now it’s all covered with daisies
you got it, you got it
I miss the honky tonks,
Dairy Queens, and 7-Elevens
you got it, you got it
And as things fell apart
Nobody paid much attention
you got it, you got it
I dream of cherry pies,
Candy bars, and chocolate chip cookies
you got it, you got it
We used to microwave
Now we just eat nuts and berries
you got it, you got it
This was a discount store,
Now it’s turned into a cornfield
you got it, you got it
Don’t leave me stranded here
I can’t get used to this lifestyle
Ferris on July 1, 2008 at 7:49 PM
I found this clip last night - it was at about 200 views on YouTube.
Today? It’s at around 215,000 views - over 2,000 comments - almost all negative.
America is waking up.
Dorvillian on July 1, 2008 at 7:50 PM
Talking Heads and/or Guster, (Nothing But) Flowers
Pretty appropriate, I thought — if not now, maybe as an anthem if the Dem energy policies win out…
Ferris on July 1, 2008 at 7:50 PM
austinnelly on July 1, 2008 at 6:39 PM
McCain has been pimping for the greenies since W cleaned his clock in 2000.
As a cover, McCain came up with some idiotic story about being converted in 2000 by a kid who was protesting him during the primary while wearing a polar bear outfit.
Rememeber: McCain was THE deciding vote against drilling in ANWR.
So, to summarize: the millions of people in this country, now desperately losing their jobs, industries and grappling with a falling dollar due to a growing energy trade imbalance, are denied the ability to produce over 25% of their nation’s total oil production (over 60 billion dollars per year now sailing overseas) because a low-IQ Senator got an epiphany from a weird kid in a polar bear suit.
Yeah, I’m gonna go vote for that crazy dipshit in November. Sure.
TexasJew on July 1, 2008 at 8:09 PM
No.
As I have said before, they will hand by-then-eighteen-year-old “Baby Alex” a rifle, point him at another country which has energy industries, and tell him to go get them.
“Progressives” are, at heart, not merely egotistical boobs, but thieves. They are incapable of actually producing anything meaningful or useful themselves, as they have never bothered to learn any useful skills.
(As a former member of the profession myself, the idea of Harry Reid as a sworn peace officer makes me cringe mentally. I’d have hated to have been partnered in a cruiser with a moral coward like him. The first armed robbery we handled would probably have been my last; that’s what happens when the No. 2 in the car folds on you when the lead starts flying.)
“Progressives”, like Reid, care nothing for anyone but themselves. They want to force the world to adhere to their vision of “perfection” so that they can feel powerful, and important. For the most part, they are fantasy-prone individuals trying to live out adolescent power fantasies; the kind most of us outgrew about the time we graduated from high school and had to face the real world. You may notice, “progressives” gravitate toward “professions” in which they can insulate themselves from the real world, even if they have to go to great lengths to do so.
(Yes, they define “going to Tibet to seek my guru” as a “profession”. I suspect most here would disagree, defining it more as “arrant nonsense”.)
As a result, they are almost totally unfamiliar with; pain, rejection, failure, and even not being the center of attention at all times. (The technical term for this is “Histrionic Affective Disorder” in DSM-IV.) They believe that their weltanschaunng* should define reality.
(*from C.G Jung; not readily translatable into English; “worldview” is the closest you can get, but it’s not exact.)
When reality doesn’t agree, they throw tantrums like two-year-olds.
And when reality gets too unpleasant for them, they look for scapegoats.
When that doesn’t improve things, they fall back on their penultimate gambit; Who Has What I Want, And How Can I Force Them To Give It To Me For Free?
Which is where Baby Alex gets handed the rifle- along with a uniform and a demand for obedience, as W.H.B. Smith once observed about the only time a European is ever allowed to touch a firearm.
I predict that in twenty years, under the existing conditions, most of us will be living in yurts heated with dung.
While our children are fighting in some foreign land. Not for freedom, or against terrorism- but so Reid and his ilk can have warm beds, hot food, and chauffeur-driven limousines.
At which point, they will conclude
As for the rest of us, they’ll thank us for our “sacrifices”.
And demand yet more.
Forever, and ever, amen.
After all, like the guy in the bran cereal commercial used to say,
clear ether
eon
eon on July 1, 2008 at 8:14 PM
seven percent,
I’m all for sharing let the drilling and sharing begin!
Unfortunately, I’m afraid the federal govment has no intention of letting any citizens share.
That would be strictly the perview of the govment and its A##-HAT CLOWNS.
dhunter on July 1, 2008 at 8:17 PM
Yes windmills do kill birds the serria club is fighting it self over this. half want the wind farms the other half wants to save the birds. I say if a bird is stupid and flies into a windmill thats natural selection.
and what about sun stroke and skin cancer I guess those don’t count do they fairy Reed
Mojack420 on July 1, 2008 at 8:29 PM
Does Harry have the slightest idea how many US citizens are employed in the exploration, production, engineering, refinement, sales, transportation, distribution, and so on of fossil fuels? Or how the termination of fossil fuel production would cripple the industries that support energy producers? There’s not that many corporate CEOs who would be hurt, but there’s a heckuvalotta roustabouts, factory workers and accounting clerks who’d be unemployed.
Then there’s the slight matter of our individual investment portfolios and our pension plans– of course, we’ll also need to scrap our fossil fuel burning cars and subsidize the newly-unemployed in the purchase of their new windmill-powered cars, and tolerate rolling blackouts to accommodate the loss of the coal-burning power plants…
Yeah, solar power’s the way of the future. About that waning solar cycle…
obladioblada on July 1, 2008 at 8:38 PM
Wind and solar, would those fit on the real estate he swindled the government out of?
burt on July 1, 2008 at 8:47 PM
Just in case no one has posted it yet, remember this kodak moment?
chasdal on July 1, 2008 at 9:23 PM
You just have to believe that enemies of the United States feel emboldened everytime this walking condem dispensor is on the television.
Hog Wild on July 1, 2008 at 10:04 PM
Cue Mean Girls!
Karen: [fakes cough] I’m sick.
Regina: Boo, you whore.
MB007 on July 1, 2008 at 10:05 PM
$4 gas makes US Sick.
Chakra Hammer on July 1, 2008 at 11:47 PM
If Dirty Harry would check out the scientific research at http://www.co2science.com, he would find out that all that carbon dioxide we’re putting into the air makes plants grow faster and increases crop yields.
What’s wrong with feeding the people, Harry? It’s green!
Steve Z on July 2, 2008 at 1:05 AM
I agree with the clinically depressed idiot eunuch Senator..Las Vegas is wasting too much oil and coal on their billions of lights and ridiculous hedonistic shlockiness!
We’re also wasting precious jet fuel and gasoline in traveling across a godforsaken desert to take a dip in one of those eco-disasterous hotel pools. And think of how much petroleum products are being used each night by all the teenage runaway prostitutes down at those sleazy Las Vegas motels owned by Harry Reid’s former business partners!
Let’s all stop going to Vegas and just shut that damn energy and tourist dollar sinkhole down!
TexasJew on July 2, 2008 at 1:43 AM
What is it about our society that pushes these POSs to the top of government decision making poisition ? Are most of us just corrupt ? I really don’t understand what is going on. There is not a state that doesn’t produce at least one starke raving lunatic. I believe we are really getting what we deserive.
JonRoss on July 2, 2008 at 1:49 AM
Thank God for the invention of smokeless gun powder. Otherwise, he would only approve a military budget to by bows, arrows and spears.
How about mothballing all Navy ships except the USS Constitution? Ain’t wind power wonderful?
Yup, I’m looking forward to the Army getting those new electric powered tanks. Then we can assure any country we need to attack that we will leave the electrical grid functioning so we can charge our tanks every mile or two.
Can’t wait to see those new F-22 Solar Raptors. I’m sure the Air Force, Navy and Marines will love those new solar powered Strike Fighters.
Oh yes, those new solar powered submarines will do great. Just think, after 10 or 12 hrs. on the surface charging the batteries they can submerge when it gets dark so our enemies won’t know where they are.
And how about those new solar powered Apache Attack Helicopters with their solar powered Hellfire missles. At least our enemies will die assured they did not breath Jet Fuel and rocket exhaust.
Don’t you just love having leaders that want to take us “Back to the Future”?
Helloyawl on July 2, 2008 at 6:01 AM
Just how quickly does that idiot think this country can shift it’s millions and millions of home heating systems away from fuel oil?
Cars can change faster.
Taxing oil companies will only worsen the burden on those who use home heating oil.
He’s a complete idiot.
drjohn on July 2, 2008 at 6:52 AM
Your post implies that the dems want us to have a military and I think you may be mistaken about that. They want two things, supreme power over the peasants of the land and leftist countries too love and adore them. Raising taxes and wrecking the economy gives them the first and disbanding the military gives them the second. It’s a win win for them.
jmarcure on July 2, 2008 at 8:03 AM
Obviously we should all stop going to Las Vegas. Las Vegas is the epitome of wasteful American culture - flying everywhere, huge air conditioned spaces, vast urbanization, destruction of precious habitat, ultra high consumer consumption, all the bad large carbon footprint things Reid hates. And the Hoover dam must go as well.
hunter on July 2, 2008 at 8:10 AM
Thing is with these libtards, is about the time we start shutting down coal plants and stop using oil, they will take up the position that Wind/Solar Farms take up valuable farm land and/or harm the environment.
The key isn’t getting America to stop using fossil fuels, it’s reducing America to a 2nd or 3rd world country.
So, once Obama is Prez, you may as well go out and buy a donkey and an out-house, and learn to hunt.
cntrlfrk on July 2, 2008 at 8:23 AM
I F*^&%^ hate that guy.
Dr. Manhattan on July 2, 2008 at 8:39 AM
A few simple Google search shows they are already doing that.
Wind turbines taking toll on birds of prey
and
US halts solar energy projects over environment fears
It’s all about taking us back to the good old days when there were fewer humans and they lived in harmony with nature. Grubing for worms with your filty naked kids in tow was good enough then and it’s good enough now.
jmarcure on July 2, 2008 at 8:51 AM
Didn’t Gore write a book where he wanted gas to be at $5 per gallon? He felt that would actually help the economy by forcing us to conserve.
Well, he got what he wished for, and look at our economy. Strong in some areas, but teetering in others, and God help the people in the north come fall.
His $5 per gallon gas will cause some to stay home, and some to suffer through a winter they can’t afford, my God, how can the Democrats live with themselves, hoping people suffer or die, just to prove a point.
right2bright on July 2, 2008 at 9:29 AM
TexasJew on July 2, 2008 at 1:43 AM
“Come to Atlantic City. Hey, no pressure.”
ZK on July 2, 2008 at 9:30 AM
Stop flying into Vegas…. See how that affects him.
roux on July 2, 2008 at 9:58 AM
Learn to hunt with a bow and arrow, since the judges Obama appoints will take away our guns by judicial fiat.
aero on July 2, 2008 at 10:13 AM
Harry rode to the presser in an SUV. Get him a bicycle fast.
JAW on July 2, 2008 at 10:34 AM
SOMEONE in a prominent position has got to start educating the American people:
• There is no ‘global warming’, except for natural cycles.
• Carbon dioxide is GOOD for the planet.
• ‘Climate change’ is NOT a problem, unless the current interglacial period comes to an end.
• Fossil fuels are our friends.
• America’s future DEPENDS upon CHEAP AND ABUNDANT ENERGY!
We’ve got to start teaching our kids and reversing the decades of ‘global warming’ hysteria. The policians like Reid are just responding to what they are told. Since (except for Sen. Inhofe) none of them have the intellectual curiosity to review the scientific facts, SOMEONE (or some many) has got to stand up and tell them, in a way that the brainwashed media can’t ignore.
WHO is it going to be?
MrLynn on July 2, 2008 at 11:20 AM
As a Nevadan I’m ashamed for my Senator whom I didn’t vote for. He tried to surrender in Iraq and failed so he needs to surrender to the “economy” whatever the hell that means.
Mojave Mark on July 2, 2008 at 11:28 AM
*sigh*
Cheap energy, regardless of the source, allows for hospitals, public works and the myriad ways that we can guarantee public health.
Remove abundant, cheap energy, and we will be as sick as Africa and Asia are. Simple as that.
Reid, you are an idiot. You’re going to get us all killed.
spmat on July 2, 2008 at 12:16 PM
Remove abundant, cheap energy, and we will be as sick, oppressed and controllable as Africa and Asia are.
A very simple plan that has taken 40 years to complete and they are very near completion.
The other day my dad who is 76 and pretty much a life long democrat shocked me when he said that he thought that the democrats wanted to destroy the country. He carried on that this was the greatest country on earth and that he just didn’t understand why they were doing it. Surprisingly he also carried on about the MSM and what a pack of liars they were and that he was sick of hearing about how bad Bush was supposed to be. He doesn’t think Bush is great but he thinks that the democrats and the MSM have gone to far with their continued lies about him.
jmarcure on July 2, 2008 at 1:46 PM
Hey Harry, maybe its Volcanoes making you sick. Seems that there are huge underwater volcanoes under the Arctic that may be eruption and spewing huge amounts of carbon dioxide (CO2). And the press and global warming alarmist are telling us the ice is melting in the summertime in the Arctic.
Thankfully this article clears up the misconception that heat could melt ice. While the scientist acknowledge there is a lot of heat, they are sure it could not be melting the ice. I guess that’s logical, that would almost be as dumb as thinking fire could melt steel.
But anyway if CO2 makes you sick, maybe its the volcanoes that are to blame and you don’t have to tax the pants off the public after all. What do you think Harry?
Maxx on July 2, 2008 at 3:35 PM
Congress is making us all sick! Sick of stupidity and rampant addiction to moronity… Reid and Pelosi are simply the leaders of 500+ idiots that have zero to contribute to the national debate or to our daily lives! They no longer matter! They need to go home and shut the hell up! They are irrelevant to the daily lives of Americans!
sabbott on July 2, 2008 at 5:01 PM
Harry Reid makes me sick. Congress makes me sick. Pelossi makes me sick. B. Hussein makes me sick. The direction my country is taking makes me sick. The uncertain future for my children makes me sick. The uncertain future for my grandchildren makes me sick. The uncertain future for my old age and demise makes me sick.
UnEasyRider on July 2, 2008 at 6:49 PM
Seven Percent Solution on July 1, 2008 at 6:27 PM:
Great post! I think there should be a second list of products made with the use of oil, or maybe it would be easier to make a list of things that are made without using oil in any stage of production including transportation.
Ann NY on July 2, 2008 at 7:06 PM
Think_b4_speaking
I have reread “Atlas Shrugged,” “1984″ and “Harrison Bergeron” all in the last month because they are so dead on in predicting the mess we are in now. Rand, Orwell and Vonnegut were geniuses of the highest order.
noblejones on July 2, 2008 at 11:13 PM
How exactly did this amazing clown get to be the majority leader?
Oh yeah, the GOP thought it would be cool to..reach cross the isle.
Speakup on July 3, 2008 at 1:02 AM
The chorus:
HARRY REID MAKES US SICK! Harry Reid pollutes our world. Mother Nature longs for Reid’s corruption to return to dust. We must overcome any dependency on Harry Reid and turn to alternative and RELIABLE SOURCES of intelligence that do not corrupt our Constitution.
maverick muse on July 3, 2008 at 12:36 PM
On the oil issue, note the article linked from Drudge today re: American oil investor interest in Iraq.
International Herald Tribune
“U.S State Dept. role in Iraq oil deal questioned”
By James Glanz and Richard A. Oppel Jr. Published: July 3, 2008
Given, our State Department SHOULD have had a policy already. But as the State Department declined to specify any policy AT THAT MOMENT by stating “that there was no policy, neither for nor against” then this story is weaving some whole cloth. Note well the next thought projected, “The ENCOURAGEMENT by State Department officials did not end … documents SUGGEST.”
maverick muse on July 3, 2008 at 12:44 PM
I assume this means he’s volunteering to shovel my driveway come winter? I’m sure he wouldn’t want me using that nasty old snowblower. . .
plum on July 3, 2008 at 3:20 PM
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