Harry Reid: Thank god I won’t have to smell D.C. tourists’ reeking ‘pits anymore; Update: Reid’s said it before
posted at 12:45 pm on December 2, 2008 by Allahpundit
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Comedy gold from the unerring political instinct that brought us a Congressional approval rating lower than Bush’s. Behold, the ultimate Kinsleyan gaffe:
“My staff tells me not to say this, but I’m going to say it anyway,” said Reid in his remarks. “In the summer because of the heat and high humidity, you could literally smell the tourists coming into the Capitol. It may be descriptive but it’s true.”
But it’s no longer going to be true, noted Reid, thanks to the air conditioned, indoor space.
The “space” referred to is the new Capitol Visitors Center, paid for by those same sweaty, reeking tourists. I know we have Hill staffers among our readers; tell the truth, is it really this bad? I don’t want to beat up on a guy forced to plot amnesty and precipitous withdrawal from Iraq amid a haze of what smells like dead wombats.
Exit question: What did the Senate chamber smell like before A/C?
Update: Breitbart’s got the clip.
Update: Ed e-mails to remind me that this is a chronic complaint for Dingy. Remember?
Mr. President, someone wanting to visit the Capitol today, there is no place for them to gather. They gather -it used to be out on the East Front – now they gather on the West Front. And the people who work here joke about you can always tell when it’s summertime because you can smell the visitors. And what we mean by that Mr. President – they stand out there in the high humidity, heat, sweating, and it’s really – there’s no place for them to go. The bathrooms in this facility are almost nonexistent. There is one on this side, one on the other side, both very small.
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Lol, I still do.
BadgerHawk on December 2, 2008 at 12:47 PM
Unfortunately, the American people still have to smell Reid in the halls of the senate.
Vashta.Nerada on December 2, 2008 at 12:47 PM
Figures that Reid would blame the stench coming from Congress on the people rather than the carp(sp?) he’s been dishing.
OBQuiet on December 2, 2008 at 12:49 PM
He is a heartless man, with veins filled not with blood, but formaldehyde.
blatantblue on December 2, 2008 at 12:50 PM
Saying Reid is an a**hole isn’t working.
The election is over. Reid and his gang won. He said and did plenty over the years worse and stupider and even more offensive and it seems that it doesn’t matter.
Gotta have a plan B.
JiangxiDad on December 2, 2008 at 12:50 PM
Agreed. That smell was from the senators.
ThackerAgency on December 2, 2008 at 12:50 PM
Ass. Of course.
Multitude of reasons why.
lorien1973 on December 2, 2008 at 12:51 PM
Pssst, Harry? They are not tourists.
They are the BOSS!!!
Try to remember this little equation set Harry,
Voter = Boss
Senator = Employee
Jim708 on December 2, 2008 at 12:52 PM
Smells like mean spirit.
SlimyBill on December 2, 2008 at 12:53 PM
Ah… Nevada. You must be soooooo proud.
Sugar Land on December 2, 2008 at 12:53 PM
Those same sweaty, smelly people You, Sen. Reid, are supposed to serve.
Sir Napsalot on December 2, 2008 at 12:53 PM
The real stink in that building is produced by the Reid/Pelosi congress.
wildcat84 on December 2, 2008 at 12:53 PM
kiss it right in the brown spot Dingy Harry.
Big Orange on December 2, 2008 at 12:54 PM
We could have saved so much money by not having any sessions during the summer.
As originally planned, the senate should only be part time, between “plantings”.
They can meed right after Thanksgiving, till the end of December, one week recess…then meet from Jan to March, then they go home and work.
The less time, the less smell, the less bills, the less money spent, the less problems, the less laws…and we would not have had to pay for A/C.
right2bright on December 2, 2008 at 12:55 PM
Strange. I thought money was the only thing politicians could smell when it walked in the building.
Nethicus on December 2, 2008 at 12:55 PM
Maybe we need foot baths?
abinitioadinfinitum on December 2, 2008 at 12:55 PM
He wasn’t up for reelection this time, but hopefully his next election will get him out of office. He has said So. Many. Stupid. Things. It’s gotta catch up to him eventually.
Doesn’t it?
cs89 on December 2, 2008 at 12:56 PM
Alcohol and contempt.
Dr.Cwac.Cwac on December 2, 2008 at 12:56 PM
How did he get elected in the first place? Must have been the same way that Murtha got reelected after calling his constituents racists and rednecks. Let’s see how much attention his comment gets.
I enjoyed my tour of the Capitol when I was in D.C. It was nice to see what all my hard work is paying for in person.
meltenn on December 2, 2008 at 12:57 PM
+1
CP on December 2, 2008 at 12:57 PM
How could he smell the tourists with that pungent aroma of BS that has been wafting over DC for the last 70+ years.
Tommy_G on December 2, 2008 at 12:57 PM
I wonder how many of those tourists are the Europeans B.O. loves so much?
Y-not on December 2, 2008 at 12:59 PM
“My staff tells me not to say this, but I’m going to say it anyway,”
If he were twice as smart, he would still be stupid!
abinitioadinfinitum on December 2, 2008 at 1:02 PM
Moron. Those people elected you.
Their feeling their oats now. They think they can say anything they please.
Jerk.
itsspideyman on December 2, 2008 at 1:02 PM
I’m pretty sure he eats his boogers.
ronsfi on December 2, 2008 at 1:03 PM
Can the smell be imagined at the National Mall after the ones inauguration. 4 million people; National Park service recommends 1 porta pody for every 300 people. Thats 13000 podies. And the trash? Whose gonna pick it all up? Are the people gonna bhave like they did at Wal-Mart and trample eachother?
gringo69 on December 2, 2008 at 1:03 PM
Which state do we pick to get to secede? I can’t think of one with a strong enough base to do it. montana turned tail and went blue no? Its already been invaded by enough Cali libs who ran from high taxes and liberalism only to try and institute it there as well. SD? ND? Brrrrrr.
Alaska….too far north.
Texas………….I could live there in a heart beat. Everyone pack….we’re moving.
JP1986UM on December 2, 2008 at 1:04 PM
I guess Reid figures if Murtha can win reelection after calling his constituents rednecks and racists….
Kafir on December 2, 2008 at 1:05 PM
Hmmm. Anybody in favor of killing the AC? My hand is raised.
Zetterson on December 2, 2008 at 1:06 PM
Poll: What smells worse, a few tourists on a hot day, or the Democratically controlled Congress with a single digit approval rating? I shouldn’t need to answer because the answer is so obvious.
Harry Reid, Washington eletist, the clueless, Useful Idiot for the Terrorists, a partisan hack who is one of the head nut-cases that is watching the asylum.
DL13 on December 2, 2008 at 1:06 PM
“What’s that foul stench out there?”
“Your constituents, Sen. Reid”
“Build them a visitor center. They stink, the lumpen”
“But, senator…”
“No buts, my fancy nose can’t take that any more. The fools will pay for the center. Make sure it contains lots of toilets”.
Ladies and gentlemen, these are your liberal overlords, the ones who are “for the people”, while they dine on caviar and arugula, and, yes, contemplate 30,000 dollar ring-gifts, until exposed, in this economy (while berating Sarah Palin for buying a few clothes).
Hypocrisy is not only indignant – it vanished from our dictionary. So has independence. The former independents are dead; no, they have joined the foolish sheep on the left.
We are the blind fools – we vote for the Reids, over and over and over, because our representative is always “better” than everyone else’s.
Regain our country. Throw them all out!!! Nevada, start now!!!
Entelechy on December 2, 2008 at 1:07 PM
Do not blame Harry Reid. The man definitively proved a long time ago that the ‘Peter Principle’ is still alive and thriving .The real fault lies with the people who continue to elect and support him.
Yoop on December 2, 2008 at 1:12 PM
Gotta have a plan B.
JiangxiDad on December 2, 2008
Does plan B smell like nitro-cellulose?
SKYFOX on December 2, 2008 at 1:14 PM
I’ll go visit Washington. Then I’ll eat LOTS of baked beans with onions and jalepeno peppers. Go to his office and REALLY let him smell a tourist!
tre on December 2, 2008 at 1:15 PM
Smells Like Senate Spirit!
pilamaye on December 2, 2008 at 1:19 PM
+1
In a perfect world, every pols staff would consist of one record keeper and one to answer the phones. Maybe two phones answering types for Ried. Given his ability to stuff his feet into his mouth the traffic might get a bit high.
Jim708 on December 2, 2008 at 1:21 PM
Well, if the People are stupid enough to vote for this jerk….
He really doesn’t get it, and with his Party in power he figures he doesn’t have to. I just hope that their hubris causes scandal after scandal, thus propelling the GOP back into power.
worlok on December 2, 2008 at 1:25 PM
I just ordered Harry a scented candle for Christmas…er Holidays……
Eu de Rot
Limerick on December 2, 2008 at 1:36 PM
We can only hope. This way ACORN doesn’t have the base they did before for the next election.
Perhaps they will render themselves ESTINKED.
Badger40 on December 2, 2008 at 1:37 PM
Huh, important business on the hill taken care of. Hey Harry, that’s not BO you are smelling, it’s your upper lip!
DJ from MA on December 2, 2008 at 1:39 PM
worlok
And just who do you expect will report on these scandals? The MSM? New York Times? Even Fox News is falling into line and cannot be expected to speak the truth for much longer. Talk radio will soon be silenced. Where do you suggest we go for honest reporting of Democrat crimes? When you own the news, the news is what you decide it is.
SKYFOX on December 2, 2008 at 1:40 PM
Well, if the People are stupid enough to vote for this jerk….
Thats right, the same zombies that elected Obuma. And the same zombies that will re-elect that dope Reid.
LatinRed on December 2, 2008 at 1:40 PM
There’s the beginning of a campaign commercial right there, when the time is right.
This is rich coming from a man that has long believed his own sh*t doesn’t stink.
Anna on December 2, 2008 at 1:45 PM
I propose we build those extra bathrooms Harry says we need. We can put his face on the urinal cakes as a token of recognition.
Tourists indeed. I assume Harry doesn’t direct such language at our “undocumented worker” visitors.
TexasDan on December 2, 2008 at 1:45 PM
In and around Harry’s part of the world, everyone smells like “vanilla”
phreshone on December 2, 2008 at 1:46 PM
The ultimate elitist.
petefrt on December 2, 2008 at 1:46 PM
This is such a rude thing to say in public. Common courtesy would mean keeping your mouth shut about this if it were true. It’s a remark that really reveals Reid’s character. For the mouth speaks out of that which fills the heart.
It’s been a number of years since I was in D.C. in the summer, but I have visited there during at least two summers in the past. I never, ever noticed a smell even in the crush of museums and the Capitol Building.
INC on December 2, 2008 at 1:46 PM
Reid stinks.
dont taze me bro on December 2, 2008 at 1:46 PM
Senator, senator, the peasants are revolting!
Well you don’t smell so good yourself.
rbj on December 2, 2008 at 1:59 PM
In his defense, several years ago I was in DC and had to drop off a letter from an organization I was with at my Senator’s office. This was in June and it was 88 degrees and ‘less humid’.
By the time I got to the Senate office buildings I’d sweated out three times. I don’t think I was actually smelling bad – hit the train back to Philly where we were staying right after that and no one moved away from us on the train. But I was definitely looking a bit… disheveled and could have easily been quite fragrant.
But overall, if Mr. Reid is smelling @ss it’s probably just his own personal stink. His habitual expression seems to indicate that.
KCSteve on December 2, 2008 at 2:00 PM
I guess he thought he was being funny. This kind of Beltway Elitism is in both parties and the MSM. The Repulicans better get rid of it if they want to win another election. What a jerk.
kingsjester on December 2, 2008 at 2:10 PM
No one ever accused Harry of having any class.
GarandFan on December 2, 2008 at 2:13 PM
Of course it isn’t us American’s… It’s the French.
reshas1 on December 2, 2008 at 2:17 PM
He should have said:
“You smell that? . . . I love the smell of tourists in the morning. Smells like…….democracy.”
Mallard T. Drake on December 2, 2008 at 2:24 PM
Dingy Harry might have a point. Washington is the pits.
Wonder what the tourists smell like in Las Vegas when it’s 100 degrees in the shade, if you can find any? Since Dingy Harry needs a “refresher” course, Nevada voters should send him back there, permanently!
Steve Z on December 2, 2008 at 2:26 PM
…at last, an honest socialist politician….
…he refers to the “unwashed masses” by name….
Puritan1648 on December 2, 2008 at 2:27 PM
Thanks for correcting the record, Harry. We thought B.O. meant Barack Obama.
Steve Z on December 2, 2008 at 2:27 PM
“My stinking constituents, my staff told me not to address you like this, but that’s right, you do stink. Just keep sending the money so I can play dead for much longer. I thank you, from the bottom of my
sickdead heart” ~ ~ H. ReidEntelechy on December 2, 2008 at 2:33 PM
Well,
If it’s true that there were only two bathrooms in the Capitol building, then that might explain why Congress is always so full of Sh!t.
Carry a perfumed hanky with you, Harry. It’s more your style and will help you affect that air of elitism you so yearn for.
Now there’s a thought: Prince Harry. The little martinet who wanted to be king. :)
AW1 Tim on December 2, 2008 at 2:33 PM
Should have listened to his staff. Next time, bring a little Right Guard for the mouth.
Steve Z on December 2, 2008 at 2:33 PM
Interesting take from his April gaffe, on topic.
Entelechy on December 2, 2008 at 2:37 PM
So what are you saying, senator?
Hey, tourists, AIM better?
Sir Napsalot on December 2, 2008 at 2:43 PM
Obama thinks you’re “bitter”, Reid believes you stink.
Entelechy on December 2, 2008 at 2:46 PM
This is what the United States Senate Majority Leader thinks of “We the People”.
Is it any wonder that Congress is not about doing what’s best for this nation?
Gohawgs on December 2, 2008 at 2:47 PM
I see that we need to make a little visit to Harry Reid’s office. Collie, why don’t you go out in the back yard and roll around in some of your own dung? I’ll pretend that I’m blind and that you’re my seeing eye dog, okay?
My collie says:
CyberCipher on December 2, 2008 at 2:50 PM
Would be hilarious if ‘tourists’ organize themselves and all wear masks (like in SARS case, not as Jason) when near Reid’s office.
Sir Napsalot on December 2, 2008 at 2:58 PM
“My staff tells me not to say this”
That effectively eliminates the “what the senator meant to say” excuse.
diogenes on December 2, 2008 at 3:05 PM
John and Ken of KFI640 AM, Los Angeles, are famous/infamous for sending all kinds of items to the Mayor of LA, for ex. toilet brushes by the hundreds/thousands.
Let’s have a contest on what item/s to send H. Reid, and do it en masse. S/b smelley things.
Entelechy on December 2, 2008 at 3:06 PM
I live in Arlington across the river and I can smell Reid’s fetid, rotten, rotting corpse stench from here and it doesn’t get any better in the winter.
Having the Gambino’s errand boy as Senate Majority Leader is just one of the millions of disgraces the absolutely worthless Democrat Party has embarrassed themselves with.
WORST – SENATE MAJORITY LEADER – EVER
NoDonkey on December 2, 2008 at 3:07 PM
it gets stuffy in there during the summer, to be sure.
Reid is still an IDIOT though.
gippergal1984 on December 2, 2008 at 3:08 PM
Did he say “tourists”, or was it “rabble”?
stonemeister on December 2, 2008 at 3:19 PM
Is you is, o’ is you ain’t my constituents!
Wyznowski on December 2, 2008 at 3:24 PM
Reid smells like moth balls and Ben Gay. Who the fark is he to talk about stench?
44Magnum on December 2, 2008 at 3:39 PM
“Reid smells like moth balls and Ben Gay.”
He smells more like formaldehyde to me, only his undertaker knows.
NoDonkey on December 2, 2008 at 3:49 PM
This should be a “let them eat cake” moment for Congress. After the government created crisis and the robbery of a bailout while the citizens suffer and lose their future, to hear something like that come out of slime ball Harry’s mouth ought to send the people to the streets crashing the gates of Capitol Hill pitch fork in hand!
Goodeye_Closed on December 2, 2008 at 4:12 PM
That’s not a chill wind blowing is it, Tim?
ttime500 on December 2, 2008 at 4:26 PM
I’m normally a hygenic guy, but I think even I’d skip on the underarm deodorant to counteract the cloying, awful stench of the liberal castratti that has been infecting our Congress since 2006.
Black Adam on December 2, 2008 at 5:00 PM
This is from Glenn Beck’s e-mail letter. he says it all.
Harry Reid is the worst, biggest, jerk in the senate and that’s saying something.
Harry Reid is a piece of crap
Eloquent? No. True? Yes. Harry Reid is a piece of crap. He said the Iraq war was ‘lost’ and the surge wouldn’t work. He said that coal is ‘killing us’. Called President Bush a ‘loser’ (classy, Harry). Called Alan Greenspan a ‘political hack’. He tried to take credit for Rush’s $2 million raised for charity. That said, could this guy be a bigger waste of space? The answer is yes. Despite the budget for the Capital Visitors Center being three times over budget ($621 million) and way behind schedule — Reid said this about the new air conditioning: “My staff tells me not to say this, but I’m going to say it anyway…In the summer because of the heat and high humidity, you could literally smell the tourists coming into the Capitol. It may be descriptive but it’s true.” Hey, Harry, did you ever consider that the foul smell coming from Washington is NOT coming from the tourists?
Bambi on December 2, 2008 at 5:41 PM
While chastising Reed, don’t miss out on the larger story:
BTW, The full text of the script and orientation film is online at heritage.org/leadershipforamerica/upload/CVC.pdf
Paul_in_NJ on December 2, 2008 at 5:45 PM
hehe
Beat me to it.
soundingboard on December 2, 2008 at 5:46 PM
“Tourists? We don’t need no steenkin tourists”!
soundingboard on December 2, 2008 at 5:47 PM
Buffoon said what?
Hog Wild on December 2, 2008 at 6:05 PM
That may once have been true, but really, not anymore.
I mean, really? No one really believes that now. I suppose ‘technically’ it may be true, but practically? voter = mind-numbed halfwit slave.
Midas on December 2, 2008 at 7:20 PM
Not this voter! ;)
Well, ok, there have been numb moments, but it always involved Captain Morgan or some other white rum……..
Jim708 on December 2, 2008 at 7:42 PM
HARRY AND NANCY are starting to remind me of French monarchs. Add Dodd and Frank and the rest and you have their clowns and underlings.
What will happen to these gifts from God if things really start to unravel? Better hope that the economy stabilizes and the SCOTUS finds a way around Berg’s suit. Then we can all continue with the status quo.
IlikedAUH2O on December 2, 2008 at 8:31 PM
What a friggin BUFFOON!!!!!
Winebabe on December 2, 2008 at 10:14 PM
If I could get away with it…I’d kick him in the nuts.
mindhacker on December 2, 2008 at 10:17 PM
Reid still reeks of corruption.
chsw
chsw on December 2, 2008 at 10:33 PM
He looks constipated.
gringo69 on December 2, 2008 at 11:50 PM
BETTER HEADLINE: Harry Reid: I hate it when citizens raise a stink.
Dr. Charles G. Waugh on December 3, 2008 at 12:53 AM
BETTER YET: Harry Reid: “Tourists! We don’t need no stinkin’ tourists!”
Dr. Charles G. Waugh on December 3, 2008 at 1:17 AM
This is why Obama’s going to lose in 2012.
Mr. Wednesday Night on December 3, 2008 at 2:14 AM
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