Harry "Tin Ear" Reid Eases the Countries Fears

Words pretty much fail to describe the elitist a-holes piehole today on news that unemployment remained at 9.7% and another midsize town's worth of Americans lost their jobs:



I'm sure that the 8 million without jobs are feeling really good about that Speaker Douchebag.

Obama to America: Go To Hell

The American people have said in no uncertain terms that they don't want any healthcare legislation or at the very least for them to start over and come up with a better idea. But Obama, Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid know better than us what we want. We want to pay higher taxes, we want to burden our kids with massive debt and we want an enormous entitlement program that will destroy the greatest healthcare system ever seen. Liberalism writ large. They are smarter than us, just ask them.

In spite of every poll, they are gonna ram this piece of shit through and we can't do a damn thing about it:

Sen. Tom Harkin told POLITICO that Senate Democratic leaders have decided to go the reconciliation route. The House, he said, will first pass the Senate bill after Senate leaders demonstrate to House leaders that they have the votes to pass reconciliation in the Senate.

Harkin made the comments after a meeting in Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid's office including Harkin and Sens. Baucus, Dodd, Durbin, Schumer and Murray.

When asked whether the leaders had made the decision, Durbin said: "We are moving ahead with a version of the health care reform bill that we believe has a good chance of passing both the House and the Senate."

He then put the onus on House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to signal whether she can provide enough votes to pass the Senate bill, followed by a package of fixes through reconciliation.

"The first step is with Speaker Pelosi and so I will let her decide what it takes in the House," Durbin said.

Reconciliation "has always been an option. But she has to make her own decision on what it takes to enact this in the House," he added.

The Dem's have all but assured the GOP the House and probably the Senate. Republicans will run ads showing the solipsistic bastards subverting the system in an endless loop and every, single douchebag who voted for it will be hammered in the elections come November. It's not the Tea Party movement anymore, it's the left-centrist guy saying enough. The GOP has to make this viral and pound home the point that you will not have access to basic, quality care like we've become accustomed. Instead it will be rationed care on a scale that will make Canada and Britain look absolutely advanced in comparison.

This is not ramming through some garbage earmark, this is a death sentence for free market capitalism. They've taken the auto industry, beat the utilities into submission, are poised to regulate the banking system in ways that will make them red-headed step-children in world markets and sold our future to a future enemy in China. In other words; Obama has destroyed what it took 250-years to build in a single year.

It's time for a revolution the likes of which haven't been seen since 1776. The Tea Partiers have lit the fuse but if this bill is rammed down our throats I see serious repercussions I don't even want to consider. Mass civilian unrest could shake us in ways not witnessed since the 1960's.

Update: Let's take a ride in the way back machine and watch as The One says that he's never, ever gonna use the nuclear option he's about to use. Every thing Obama says has a sell by date:

Return of the Dixiecrats

You may remember the bigoted men of the Senate collectively known as Dixiecrats. They did everything possible to keep blacks "in their place" including filibustering the voting and civil right legislation LBJ was trying to pass. They included Bill Clinton mentor William Fulbright, Al Gore, Sr. and ex-KKK leader Robert Byrd. I had assumed they were gone but their spirit lives on:

Senate Majority Leader Harry M. Reid (D-Nev.) apologized Saturday for referring to President Obama in private conversations during the 2008 presidential campaign as "light-skinned" and as having "no Negro dialect."

Who the hell uses "Negro" anymore except old school bigots? Reid is a national disgrace and watching him lose his seat in November will be even sweeter.

But wait, it's not only the Senate Majority Leader but an ex-president:

[A]s Hillary bungled Caroline, Bill’s handling of Ted was even worse. The day after Iowa, he phoned Kennedy and pressed for an endorsement, making the case for his wife. But Bill then went on, belittling Obama in a manner that deeply offended Kennedy. Recounting the conversation later to a friend, Teddy fumed that Clinton had said, A few years ago, this guy would have been getting us coffee.

We all knew Bubba was a philanderer but he always played the part of the new-Southerner who was post-racial. Note as I said before, his mentor was a raging racist as was the father of his VP.

This is nothing new, the Democrats have been using African-Americans for decades. They have done nothing to help them, in fact they've instituted policies that have destroyed once proud black families and laid waste to inner cities. Democrats talk about what they will do to make life better for them every four years and then forget them until the next election.

Anyway, this is essentially what we all knew but it's interesting that we will now have two major politicians groveling to The One.

Senator Reid Just Making Shit Up

The Obama administration and Senate Democrats have been jerking off the public by talking about the largest entitlement program ever being "deficit neutral". This from the same regime that lost a ton on the Cash for Clunkers program (and didn't help the environment or the US worker) and just about every other scheme they've gotten their grubby hands on. Shockingly, they were lying in this one as well:

To describe the full amount of HI trust fund savings as both improving the government’s ability to pay future Medicare benefits and financing new spending outside of Medicare would essentially double-count a large share of those savings and thus overstate the improvement in the government’s fiscal position.

More here.

I know every administration cooks the books and plays with numbers but dude, the 0 administration has taken it to unseen heights. Ken Lay would have been embarrassed to try to pull something like this.

It's probably a done deal but there's always hope that the morons in the majority will snatch defeat from the jaws of victory.

Will Harry Reid Give Up His Seat To Pass Obamacare?

It's becoming more and more clear that Senate Majority Leader Reid is going to lose unless he changes his course quickly. Dropping his ravenous support of Obamacare would be the smart starting point to revive his sagging numbers:

"When you look at the entire poll, it's clear the voters of Nevada do not want this bill to pass," said Brad Coker, managing partner of Washington, D.C.-based Mason-Dixon Polling & Research Inc., which conducted the poll Monday through Wednesday. "When you break it all down, it appears that Nevadans would just as soon throw this bill out and start over."

The poll carries a margin of error of plus or minus 4 percentage points.

Coker said the poll results aren't good news for U.S. Sen. Harry Reid, D-Nev., chief architect of the Obama supported plan. Only 39 percent of the poll respondents approve of Reid's efforts to get a bill through the U.S. Senate at a time when he's running for re-election.

Though 70 percent of Democrats support Reid's efforts, Coker said that probably isn't enough to outweigh the disapproval of 53 percent of independents and 87 percent of Republicans.

"Reid is going to be front and center carrying the flag for this reform that few people like and that's not going to help him in his re-election," Coker said. "You remember what happened historically to flag bearers in war. The flag bearer gets shot first."

Speaker Nancy Pelosi is in the clear and she could pass the strictest and widest health care reform plan and still win. Her cheer leading only burnishes her credentials but not so much for Reid.

Is Harry Reid such an ideologue that he would risk his seat, his career and the power he's amassed to pass a bill that the majority of Americans as a whole and Nevadans in particular hate? I'm guessing no but he has been pushing hard so we'll take a wait and see approach.

Harry Reid Tanking in Reelection Bid

There's alot to look forward to in 2010 if the GOP can get their collective asses in gear. Chief among them would be Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid going down with the socialized medicine ship.

Reid should have been jettisoned as soon as he said this anyway but the Democrats hate the military so it didn't even register on their outrage meter one iota:



He turned out to be spectacularly wrong in a way few politicians have ever been.

He's run the most corrupt Senate of anyone in recent memory and he's about to lose his seat in the coming (hopefully) Democrat bloodbath.

JWF has more.

Friday Night News & Notes

How y'all doing?

Here's what's new:

-I knew that if I stuck to my ways science would eventually catch up with me:

Drinking alcohol every day cuts the risk of heart disease in men by more than a third, a major study suggests.

The Spanish research involving more than 15,500 men and 26,000 women found large quantities of alcohol could be even more beneficial for men.

Hey, the liver might fall out but I'll be healthier. Via Instapundit.

-The leading global warming swindle purveyors have been busted fudging the data.

-Irony. It took the most liberal administration with the most socialist economic policies in years to get Berkeley radicals to take over buildings again.

-Obama alienates another long-time ally. Is there anyone we want to be friends with he hasn't pissed off?

-It's fish in a barrel easy but busting on Harry Reid is always fun:

Wednesday Afternoon News & Notes

The Phillies can hopefully put the Dodgers away tonight after breaking their hearts on Monday. Manny seems to have washed his hands of this series, as well as his arms, hair, back...

Here's what's news:

-Brit Hume smacks the hell out of the Obama Administration's war against Fox News:



-It's official: The umpiring in the MLB playoffs has been horrid.

-Countrywide fallout: Dems terrified about their shady deals with the loan company becoming public.

-Senator Reid get played again. You're an idiot, Harry, it's a wonder that you still know how to breathe. My apologies to Bob Dylan.

-Another war Obama can't keep from losing.

-Shocker! We won't be getting that TARP money back. Who could've seen that coming?

-Update: Media Matters idiot sets out to smear Hot Air writer and beclowns self by typing the following headline:

I'm don't think "quarantine" means what right-wing blogger Allah Pundit thinks it does

Evidently Eric Boehlert is a fine example of what our public schools have to offer. Even his own commenters are busting on him.

Harry Reid Is a Bigger Idiot Than You Thought

No, really. Harry Reid is a buffoon extraordinaire but not even close to the moron you actually thought he was:

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said Friday that John Roberts misled the Senate during his confirmation hearings by pretending to be a moderate — and that the United States is now “stuck” with him as chief justice.

Hmmm...who else in recent memory lied to us about being a moderate? Give me a minute since I'm working on my fourth or thirteenth beer but I'll take a shot...Barack Obama? Middle-class tax cuts? Uh, no. Getting bin-Laden, er, no.

Unfortunately the United States is now stuck with him as well. Thanks God, unlike Roberts, it's not for life.

Is Reid the single biggest intellectually-challenged (as well as ethically) individual to ever hold the office of Majority Leader? I mean, we've had some serious dimwits but this guy is a Class-A Moron.

Read the entire piece if you can stomach it but we are being led by a San Francisco lib who hasn't a clue and a Vegas scumbag who are all seeking the approval of a Chicago-machine ideologue who doesn't know what the hell he's doing.

On that thought I can just say have a good weekend.

Democrats Overplaying Hand on Stimulus

The Obama administration in conjunction with the unholy alliance of Pelosi and Reid were pushing gloom and doom if we didn't pass the first stimulus package. It worked and they immediately went on to the optimistic agenda.

But a funny thing happened; the American people saw what was in the bill and noticed that it wasn't quite all that was advertised. The administration was embarrassed yesterday by backing down on the estimates of jobs created or saved rhetoric knocking that number down by a million.

The average American generally doesn't pay attention to politics and the daily minutiae like you or I do but they suddenly started paying attention when the stimulus bill was passed because people are genuinely scared. Talk to anyone and they'll tell you how panic is slowly setting in and they have a friend or relative who had just lost their job or had to sell their house because they just can't survive in this economy. People started asking each other how this supposed stimulus bill was going to help them. They have to pay for food, their car and their house now and nothing in the bill will have an immediate effect.

So now we have Pelosi intimating that stimulus 2 might be called for. And in the most stinging indictment of Obama's ability to handle the crisis, the good folks of this nation are saying the hell with that:

Just 27% of voters nationwide favor passage of a second economic stimulus package. The latest Rasmussen Reports nationwide telephone survey found that 55% are opposed and 19% are not sure.

Despite the public opposition, 74% say it’s likely that Congress will try to pass another stimulus plan before the year is out. That figure includes 45% who say it’s Very Likely that Congress will do so.

It seems unless the next bill includes a substantial tax cut or a huge check for every American, it won't pass.

What a huge chance the Dems lost when they rammed through the first bill. If they would have just given everyone a check for $20,000, they could have locked up the House, Senate and White House for a decade and actually given the economy a short-term jolt. I wouldn't have supported it but a great many would have. Instead they chose to placate their lobbyist friends and gave us a pork-filled monstrosity that won't stimulate a damn thing.

Via Allahpundit who notes that it may not get close to the support the Dems hope for.

Beware the next one as it will even worse.

Harry Reid Wins Talk Up the Economy Award

I was wondering who would be the first to come out and say the economy was improving less than two weeks after we were told of dire consequences and less than one week after the stimulus debacle was passed. We have our answer and I should have called my shot:

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) said on Monday that the banking industry is “very close” to being stabilized and the nation's economy is starting to rebound.

“We tend to talk about the negative. ... Things are beginning to turn and I think the American people are going to feel that very soon,” Reid said during an appearance on MSNBC's “Morning Joe” show.

Now, I didn't expect Reid to harp about the stimulus saving everything right away--since the scare tactics were working and he could have proposed another trillion in a month or so to fund a complete makeover of the Las Vegas airport or a monorail running between Vegas and Reno. But this is absolute chutzpah for the Senate Majority Leader. We are in a new paradigm since The One won so maybe we can see instant results when he blesses a bill...or not.

There's nothing but dismal news concerning the economy and Reid knows it but he also senses that if this fails, so do the Dems since every Republican save the three traitor RINO's voted against. It's in his best interest that he talk it up and we do need some positive talk but do we really need it from the man who said at the start of the surge that we had already lost?

His track record on predictions is horrifically bad and I have actually lost confidence now that he is talking improvement. Look for the markets to retreat to 1979 by this time tomorrow.

Harry Reid Loses Again

Harry Reid is the Detroit Lions of politics. The dude somehow weaseled his way into the Senate leadership chair and has proven to be the most ineffective leader in decades. Now he gets outsmarted by a politically impotent, impeached, corrupt governor who for all intents and purposes shouldn't even still be in office

The Roland Burris saga is over, as Democratic Senate leaders have accepted his credentials, clearing the way for him to be sworn in as the junior senator from Illinois by the end of this week.

The decision ends an embarrassing chapter in Democratic politics and allows the Senate to move on after the Burris spectacle dominated the opening week of the 111th Congress

In a statement issued after a 45-minute meeting between Senate officials and Burris’ lawyers, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) and Senate Majority Whip Richard J. Durbin (D-Ill.) said Burris is the senator-designate from Illinois now that the secretary of the Senate has approved his latest credentials.

Congratulations Senator Reid, you've now proven that even a complete imbecile can become a Senator if they play the shady game well. You've also once again proven that no matter how much of a moron one is, the Democrats will make him their leader.

Blago Gives Dems the Finger

One thing you can always count on is this: whenever the Democrats win, they will instantly fall into disarray and get nothing done. Think Nancy Pelosi's Congress or Harry Reid's Senate.

The latest incident involves the Blagojevich Senate selection to replace Obama. Here we are, less than three weeks from the inauguration and all anyone is talking about is the Blago scandal and Illinois politics--well, that's the grownups who are actually covering politics, the "big media" (I.E. The Washington Post) are embarrassingly salivating (and that's the dudes) over Obama's pecs or printing clear Palestinian propaganda so they really don't count.

Blago selected a man who has has some success in elections, is a black man and seems to be qualified to succeed The One. He did this after Harry Reid and the Senate told him not to. Of course, no one cares what Harry Reid says so I didn't expect Blago to cede his authority to the shady man from Vegas. Instead, Blago not only selected Roland Burris but played the race card in the process:

Taking to the podium at the end of a bizarre, shambolic press conference in which Governor Rod Blagojevich sought to appoint Roland Burris to the US Senate, Congressman Bobby Rush dared white Democratic senators to block a black man from joining their ranks.

He urged people "not to hang or lynch the appointee as you try to castigate the appointer" and, after saying repeatedly that Burris would be the only African-American in the Senate, said that he believed no senator would want "to go on record to deny one African-American from being seated in the US Senate".

...As he left the room, Blagojevich echoed Rush, saying: "Feel free to castigate the appointer but don't lynch the appointee."

Live by the race card, die by the race card but I digress.

So now, Reid will have to either accept the legal nomination of Burris or fight a battle to keep Burris out--a nice racial skirmish that Dems have been loathe to nut up on before. Blago looked around and saw that he was quickly shunned by the party establishment so he decided to telling them to screw themselves and go about his duties. They want him gone and the bad press to end, he says "hell no" and the scandal continues. Blago is the best thing to happen to conservative commentators since the primaries.

As I said before, every time the Dems get ahead, they end up looking stupid. Obama wins, gays slur Blacks for their support of Prop 8. Obama wins, Rahm Emanuel gets caught up in the Blago scandal. Obama wins, liberals are pissed at his selection of Rick Warren to give the invocation and his choices for his cabinet. Obama wins, a Black man is about to be vilified by his own party and the racism charges are already flying.

It's awesome, isn't it?

Chambliss Win Looking Probable

One of the last two undecided Senate elections will finish tonight (hopefully):

Republican Senatorial Committee Chairman John Ensign (Nev.) said he believed incumbent Georgia Sen. Saxby Chambliss would defeat Democrat Jim Martin by five or six points in today's run-off election.

"The Barack Obama magic on Election Day has not carried over to the run-off," Ensign said.

Polls are scheduled to close at 7pm EST. Polling stations across the Peach State reported low voter turnout Tuesday, which would likely hurt Martin who was bolstered by the high-voter turnout inspired by Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama last month.

If Chambliss wins, he will shatter the Democrats hopes of attaining a 60-seat supermajority. A run-off was triggered after the November 4 election because neither candidate secured the majority of the votes, Chambliss won 49.8 percent to Martin's 46.8 percent. Libertarian candidate Allen Buckely took 3.8 percent of votes.

Good news in an election year where Conservatives will take any. Chambliss is a good Senator and just seeing Harry Reid's face when he finds out that he doesn't have a veto-proof majority will be golden. Old Harry didn't exactly ingratiate himself to the great unwashed (literally in Harry's eyes) today so this will be kind of pouring salt in the wound, which is always nice.

In the other race, incumbent Norm Coleman is inching closer to a win while Al Franken is inventing ballots and inching towards a another lawsuit or worse, allowing the Senate to decide.