BREAKING NEWS: Voters Unseat Harry Reid After 22-Year Career in Senate

posted at 3:01 pm on August 31, 2009 by Howard Portnoy
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Maybe it is just wishful thinking on my part, but I predict that the title of this post is a headline you are likely to see on November 3, 2010. Should Reid indeed by voted out of office, let me be the first to say that it couldn’t happen to a more deserving guy.

I already disliked Reid plenty mainly because he is a sniveling partisan weasel, but especially because of his rather outrageous Tokyo Rose imitation in 2007, just as the surge was getting underway, when he announced for all the world to hear —  including our brave combat troops — that the war in Iraq was lost. And then there’s this, from the Las Vegas Review-Journal (h/t James Taranto) describing an incident involving Reid last week:

On Wednesday, before he addressed a Las Vegas Chamber of Commerce luncheon, Reid joined the chamber’s board members for a meet-’n'-greet and a photo. One of the last in line was the Review-Journal‘s director of advertising, Bob Brown, a hard-working Nevadan who toils every day on behalf of advertisers. He has nothing to do with news coverage or the opinion pages of the Review-Journal.

Yet, as Bob shook hands with our senior U.S. senator in what should have been nothing but a gracious business setting, Reid said: “I hope you go out of business.”

Sherman Frederick, who wrote the article, calls Reid’s ugly remark “a full-on threat perpetrated by a bully who has forgotten that he was elected to office to protect Nevadans, not sound like he’s shaking them down.”

In light of this incident, I hope you will join in extending the same fond bon voyage to the Senate Majority Leader: Harry, I hope you go out of business.

For what it’s worth, Reid is already on track to lose big-time in the midterm election next year. According to an article in the August 23 edition of the aforementioned Review-Journal, Reid trails Republican challenger Danny Tarkanian by double digits (49% to 38%). Could this be why Reid feels so vindictive toward the paper — because they are telling the truth and the truth hurts? Gee, you’d think by age 70, ol’ Harry would have learned to face facts. Then again, that would require knowing a fact when you see one, and for Harry Reid this point is certainly open to debate.

Cross-posted at Zombie Contentions

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