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Published Friday, Sept. 3, 2010 | 10:33 a.m.
Updated Friday, Sept. 3, 2010 | 10:39 a.m.
In her latest ad, Republican Senate candidate Sharron Angle works to soften the extremist image she's been tarred with and blames Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid for the economic crisis. We put her claims through the Truth Test.
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The truth is that no one politician has had more power or done more damage than Harry Reid. Those sad numbers represent his record and he can't deny it or escape it, no matter how many millions he spends.
First, as to the comment about Reid, Daniel Patrick Moynihan was thinking about it and Sharron Mangle when he said that we are entitled to our own opinions but not our own facts--but, if the Republican party relied solely on the facts, no one with an IQ above 10 would vote for it. Second, the idea that someone who advocates "Second Amendment remedies" and destroying Social Security and education, while feeding at the federal trough through her husband's "hard-earned" pension, can "soften her image" is a bit like suggesting that next week, Lindsay Lohan will be elected to the College of Cardinals.
@michaelgreen The problem with what you posted is, it's a lie. Sharron doesn't advocate destroying social security or education. The left has to resort to name-calling and lies and smears when they know they have lost the debate. Notice how michael and beatthewolfpack can't refute one thing in my post?
Angle is a joke! Nevada will become the laughingstock of the country if she's elected! lol
go through to the elimination" of the Education Dept.
how about the department of energy also.
Carter started these useless departments..
trash can the EPA and the SEC while you are at it.
either disband these agencies or get me a job there because
from what I understand as stated in the NYT the SEC has been very busy
putting in 10 hours a day on porn sites ( during an eight hour day? )
for 175 to 225k p/y .
our gov't is run by a holes.
oh and I want to thank Reid and our Commander in Chump for their
"service" to our country to the tune of 300k to 1 Million per year
in salary/benefits and perks.
( who voted for these people ? )
He didn't use her words. Phasing out social security in its present form is not the same as "destroying". She wants to protect the funds, and you guys want to claim she's going to rob all the old people.Doing away with the Dept. of Education is not the same thing as "destroying education"...The dept. of education is giant government program that wastes millions of dollars. Shouldn't that money go to schools and teachers instead? @bobby g, citing them isn't a smear if you quote her correctly, which is rarely ever done by Reid or people like you. Twisting her quotes and using them out of context to confuse people IS a smear. The voters can see through it. It's a perfect example of it in Michael Green's post. She never said anything like that. But keep up the smear, you guys. It's back-firing and you don't even know it! :)
Angle/Palin 2012!
Angles famous excuse: "that's not what I said". BS, lady, that's exactly what you said, you just don't have the guts to try to explain your radical comments to people who called you out on them. Such as her comments that certain popular, longstanding Federal entitlement programs were in violation of the Ten Commandments, which she tried to explain were comments that were given "in the language that her audience wanted to hear." So that means she only meant those comments for that particular audience, and the rest of us should know that she really didn't mean what she said. What a phony.
Darenodawg and Fumiko, if Angle manages to pull the wool over thinking Nevadan's eyes and succeeds in getting elected, I hope you are happy with one more right-wing nutjob in Congress. She will fit right in with Michelle Bachmann, et.al.
Name-calling is all ya got? Go back to the first post in this thread and try and refute any of it.
I can understand the anti-Reid sentiment and acknowledge those who will vote for anyone, but Reid... I don't agree but do understand.
That said, are you folks really Sharron Angle "supporters", do you believe in your candidate and her message... both the original and cleaned-up for prime time version? Do you proudly support her? Or is it just a case of "I hate the other guy?"
Having watched her in the Nevada Legislature, it's beyond my comprehension that she actually has supporters and believers.
I guess the TP folks are out today because their fave pollster didn't have good news for them today.
http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_c...
No matter how much Sharrontology lies, she can't make us forget everything she's said. She has said herself that she wanted to "phase out" Social Security and abolish education. She has said herself that she doesn't think it's her job to care about our jobs. Just today, she said she doesn't see any use in unemployment insurance.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/09/03...
No matter how much soft lighting and smooth talking she tries, she can't make us forget who she really is.
@ darenodawk - have you seen the interviews where she speaks of using Second Amendment remedies and her stance on social security and how the unemloyed are spoiled and lazy? Probably not since you watch Fox News. These are her OWN words - there's no distortion. And what I find amazing is that it's right in your face and your still denying it. People like you have no backbone - you'll vote for "anyone" as long as it's not a Democrat. Blame your party for not putting someone in place that isn't a WHACK JOB! You only have yourself, tea baggers, and Republicans to blame for her!
HARRY REID IS A JOKE!!! He has done billions of dollars of damage to this country!
Hey Harry, how about you weighing in on Obama's report to the UN? Do you support it! Let's hear it, Harry!!! Do you support it like you support Obama suing Arizona?
The administration's report, the first ever submitted to the United Nations Human Rights Council made of Cuba, Libya and other countries with the worst violations possible, offers Obama's self-aggrandizing statements while blasting America.
It comes down to WHAT do people want out of THEIR government? Angle sometimes sticks her foot in her mouth, so does Harry. But Harry Reid has used his power to loot this Nation of BILLIONS and through his corruption forced unwanted policies into law!
He didn't use her words. Phasing out social security in its present form is not the same as "destroying". She wants to protect the funds, and you guys want to claim she's going to rob all the old people.Doing away with the Dept. of Education is not the same thing as "destroying education"...The dept. of education is giant government program that wastes millions of dollars. Shouldn't that money go to schools and teachers instead? @bobby g, citing them isn't a smear if you quote her correctly, which is rarely ever done by Reid or people like you. Twisting her quotes and using them out of context to confuse people IS a smear. The voters can see through it. It's a perfect example of it in Michael Green's post. She never said anything like that. But keep up the smear, you guys. It's back-firing and you don't even know it! :)
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@ darendawg - where were you when the Republicans were saying that President Obama wanted to kill grandma? Yeah, I thought so.
Again Vice President Dick Cheney had a "back-door closed meeting" in 2004 with several top Energy CEO's from around the world. We are definitely feeling the effects today, would you say?
Also, if America is for Deregulations of Government. Great, let's deregulate everything starting with:
Dept of Agriculture; Dept of Commerce; Dept of Defense; Dept of Energy; Dept of Health and Humans Services; Dept of Technology, Dept of Justice; Dept of Veterans Affairs;
Dept of (EPA) Environment Protection Agency
FAA-Federal Aviation Administration
FDA-Food and Drug Administration
FCC-Federal Communication Commission.
The list goes on. Let's De-REGULATE everything. Then we will have NO Government involvement and everyone will live happily-ever-after.
Nevada this is the formula for horrific Disaster!
Sharron Angel / Tea Party+Palin+ Bush+ Beck =Schizophrenia- is a serious mental illness characterized by a disintegration of the process of thinking and of emotional responsiveness.[1] It most commonly manifests as auditory hallucinations, paranoid or bizarre delusions, or disorganized speech and thinking with significant social or occupational dysfunction.
No matter how much the Obtuse One tries to tone down her extremism, it will still leave her so far OUT THERE that she remains scary.
Angle is simply too extreme for Nevada. Don't listen to the lies spewed by the likes of gogo and bigsie. They are paid for their efforts.
Give 'em hell, Harry Reid! Good luck in November vs. the tea Bag Lady and "None of the Above."
Yep, this ad has Angle trying to look and sound like a compassionate human being. Young rape victims needing to make lemonade from lemons is real compassionate.... Taking social security away is real compassionate..... Not voting for unemployment benefits is real compassionate.....The woman doesn't have an ounce of humanity in her. I feel for her children and grandchildren.
darenodawg, drink the kool aid baby, if jim jones was still alive you tea buggers would be great followers. are you people as stupid as you might look if we could see you.
A lobotomy is the only way Crazy Angle could soften her image.
How do you know Angle's words are not a Karl Rove script written to fool and confuse?
Is this the real Angle or the new improved Karl Rove Angle?
The GOP are hell bent on giving your Social Security money to Wall Street for play money to gamble with.
No one can refute the thread's first post!
adtleft; Just curious, is this you?
http://www.swingstateproject.com/user/at...
I was going to put my two cents in-but you're all doing a fine job today in what I call "whacking the whacko's".
We can not let the baggers prevail like they did in the townhalls last summer.
With all the coverage it got-people started to think it was a legitimate political movement instead of a bunch of bigoted sore losers.
We have to hammer them back into their bunkers in Nov., and leave them with nothing except their stupid little "patriot" outfits and the racist posters they are so fond of.
The only way for Angle to soften her image is for them to start using that hazy opaque TV camera lense they use on Barbara Walters.
As for those who claim she's not softening anything (gbigs)...why isn't she sticking to her hardline approach to social security? Why is is that for 6 months she never said anything about keeping Reid from "raiding" social security (which by the way, has been done by both republicans and democrats since the birth of social security)and only claimed to want to END social security? Oh...we should have just inferred that by "phasing out" social security she meant something completely different!
darrendawg says "The truth is that no one politician has had more power or done more damage than Harry Reid. Those sad numbers represent his record and he can't deny it or escape it, no matter how many millions he spends"
Harry has been Senate Majority Leader for 3 1/2 years since January of 2007 (more than half of which he had the other party in the white house) while Senator Bill Frist was Majority Leader for 4 years from 2003 to 2007 with his party controlling the white house and while the damage was being done that caused the housing bubble, Bush was president for 8 years.
The recession was caused by the housing bubble not by legislation passed or rejected after January 2007 (if you disagree, please cite me to the specific legislation). The housing bubble was caused in principle part by HUD regulations imposed by the Bush adminsitration that caused Fannie and Freddie to triple funding for subprime mortgages in 2005 and 2006 compared to the last 5 years of the Clinton administration, as part of Bush's universal home ownership policy through zero/low downpayment financing that in turn led to runaway inflation in the housing market. For those of you who have trouble reading, Reid had nothing to do with that and it was fully in place prior to January of 2007.
CBO, which the right likes when it agrees with the data and ignore when it doesn't, has said that the Stimulus Bill, credit to Senator Reid, Speaker Pelosi and President Obama, was responsible for 4,000,000 jobs and for substantial growth in GDP. ANd for those of you on the right that want to blame Democrats for slow rebound in employment, compare the unemployment decline under Obama to those under Reagan and you'll see that they are actually slightly better. But then you on the right much prefer your "supply side" mythology to actual facts.
Did darrendawg leave before anyone accepted his challenge to refute his nonsense.
Twisting her words?
Name calling?
Smear campaign?
Come on guys! Every Reid ad so far has used taped recordings of her saying all of this crazy stuff. How is playing those tapes for the public a smear campaign? Get real.
Sharron was obviously playing up the crazy talk to her core Tea Party supporters, in order to win the Primary. Unfortunately for her, she is not a very seasoned politician, and probably didn't realize that REAL politicians have people watching their opponent's every move, waiting for exactly these types of moments. She should have known better. Her handlers should have definitely known better.
Angle has no one to blame but herself for her current image amongst independent thinkers/voters. All the backtracking and double talk in the world isn't going to change that for her.
gbigs:
"How long will it be before the Reid hacks make death threats on Angle?"
You mean like if someone started talking about "second amendment remedies" regarding Angle. Or, maybe if they referred to her as a "domestic enemy." Is that the type of threats you're referring to gbigs?
Okay NEVADA, here is the formula for Disaster!
Sharron Angel *(/) + Tea Party + Palin+ Bush+ Beck =Schizophrenia- is a serious mental illness characterized by a disintegration of the process of thinking and of emotional responsiveness.[1] It most commonly manifests as auditory hallucinations, paranoid or bizarre delusions, or disorganized speech and thinking with significant social or occupational dysfunction
How can any working or unemployed person logically and reasonably vote for a Republican? Your are RIGHT! they have never lied to you. They are telling you what they will do:
Extend BUSH 10 Year Tax cut for the 2% of Americans who make over 1,000,000,000,000.00 per year = to Bill Gates, Oprah, Blumberg and Paris Hilton's parents money.
Terminate the -ARTS
Terminate the - THE HOMELESS SHELTER (Careful, many of you and myself may need one. I saw the Movie, "THE PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS."
Terminate - YOUR Legal hardworking Unemployment Benefits that YOU pay for while employed under FICA!
Terminate the DEPT OF EDUCATION, Your kids have no Education.
Terminate the DEPT OF ENERGY - We need more oil spills
Apologize to BIG OIL & GAS CO. BP "We are sorry that the President is making you PAY for your negligence and damages.
WIPE OUT SOCIAL SECURITY,
So American you will not only be HOMELESS, BROKE, UN-EDUCATED, But, the 2% will benefit from your lack of knowledge and intellect.
How long will it be BEFORE Sharron Angle gets a Brain? And what is up with those EYES of her??? She is too weird!
Too late. It would be the same as a zebra changing stripes. Can't happen.
To soften her image, it's going to take a battalion of Republican wingnuts, wire brushes, fabric softener and meat tenderizer.
I say the best thing the Republicans need to do is buy Sharron Angle an airplane flight to Timbuktu with a return date of November 3rd.
You can fix mistakes, but you can't fix crazy.
I would be safe to say that even if she did win, the Republican Party Senators probably cringe at the idea of trying to work with her. Because, just in Nevada politics, she has a horrific record of voting no on EVERYTHING and talking to death everything else she doesn't vote no on. They wouldn't even be able to corral her even with a lasso. She creates drama, not fixes it. She also causes problems, not solve them.
She came out against extending unemployment again. All over the TV.
Harry Reid is too extreme. Thanks to his failed policies, we have an employment rate of 14.4% and the highest forclosure in the country. Harry Reid's ideas are bad for Nevada and bad for our country.
VOTE NO ON HARRY REID!!
It's too late for Angle, we already know the
truth.
VOTE HARRY REID.
gbigs you are really becoming paranoid. You are truely a wingnut. You & Angle & the other wingnuts are the reason Nevada is the laughing stock of this nation. The more I look at these comments from the right, the more I see ingnorance, intolerance, paranoia, cruelty, and injustice all in the name of the Constitution and God. We do not need to make death threats. It is the wingnuts in this country who make the death threats at the sites of mosques and building of them. It is the wingnuts who are the militia having guns at rallies and preparing for war here. It is the Bible toteing wingnuts burning the Koran on 9/11. Harry Reid or the supporters do not need to make death threats. They have lots of money, support, and are informed on the issues and are above this. And now with Scott A. challenging the primary, it will split the republican vote and Senator Reid will win. This shows that you believe we would be as nuts as you? Don't think so. I am not that ignorant nor that unfeeling towards people. Fear = False Evidence Appearing Real. And you are proving that as truth.
what I find funny is that the PEOPLE of Nevada including all of you, probably VOTED for Angle in the PRIMARY!!! YOU picked her, quit Bi%$^%ng about her cuz you picked her to run against Reid, you could've elected Lowden or Tarkanian but you didn't, you elected Sharron Angle. This is what we have, if you don't like it TOO BADDDDD!!!!
Anjeanette I never knew what you looked like, not bad on the eyes. ;-) You are a mean journalist, too bad you are so left...
I still believe that Reid is not the wisest choice and Angle has the correct approach which is accountability, limits, freedom from government. Angle might be too morally conservative for me, but Reid's fiscal liberalisim is nothing but a disaster for the entire country and Las Vegas and Nevada are doomed if this country doesn't get back on track. The only way that happens is if Reid is gone, the Bush tax cuts are renewed and the cost of business is lowered nation wide. This isn't about Nevada; it's about the U.S.A. and disposable income; Reid is reducing disposable income and Angle will increase it. Want real change vote for Angle and less money going to Washington and more into travel and tourisim and NV.
Our country failed under the Bush tax cuts.
Republicans caused this mess.
NO, we are not going to put republican crooks
and thieves back in power.
NO WAY, NO HOW.
SAVE SOCIAL SECURITY AND OUR COUNTRY,
VOTE HARRY REID.
poop dawg, you keep referring to your first post. Where are the facts? "As your U.S. Senator, I'm not in the business of creating jobs", Angle said, remember? Where was substitute teacher Angle, when the economy started taking a dive? Angle is implying that Gibbons, Ensign and herself, of course, have nothing to to with Navada's crisis.
I just can't imagine sending Angel to D.C. for just voting along party line and getting paid $174,000. Angle is a waste. Angle, first, give your and your husbands gov. entitlements back; then we'll believe you.
ANGLE IS THE WRONG ANGLE FOR NEVADA.
VOTE NO ON SHARON ANGLE!!
http://www.thewrongangle.com/jobs.html
dawg, bring the toy poodle in from the heat, oh i mean your brain
Sharron Angle needs to go full bore extreme, this only makes her look weak to the desert crazies.
More guns and American flags and Bibles Sharron Angle!
Your welcome..
darenodawg, Your either a liar or dumber then a box of rocks. Angle along with quite a few other of these new Republicans, do in deed want to eliminate Social Security. Angle's spew is that its going broke, and people are healthy and living longer, and if they don't have their money to retire, well they can get a job. How do they plan on pulling it off you say? Well first step is to get elected . Once elected the propaganda machine will kick in. They will promise not to touch people already on SSI, but that if they don't do something the money will run out in a few years. In masses older Americans will go along with the program, out of fear. So go ahead vote this bunch in, and keep telling yourself that its alll a lie.
Harry will look good on his cactus farm. This 30+ plus year politican may have his son retiring with him. Rory is behind double digits according to recent polls and hiding from his relationship with daddy . If anyone thinks Harry Reid isn't going to lose then they deserve the economic disaster he helped bring them and this state.
I really enjoy watching the Republicants throwing their money away on these Karl Rove driven ads. The philosophies these people spout are proven failures, just like Angle and Gibbons. Republicants spend, spend, spend the media needs the money, and it will help disgust the people with the Republicant stupidity.
The collective stupidity of America is on display here. I don't disagree that Harry has picked a few losers in his day. No politician is immune from this.
What amazes me is that a candidate displaying clear -- easily seen -- traits of moderate mental retardation, in her speech patterns, in her incontinence of verbal mishaps, has guys like darenodawg drooling over her as if she is a good candidate for the USA.
You reap what you sow. You reap what you sow.
Has anyone noticed how closely Sharron Angle resembles Charles Manson ? Especially the eyes !
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Yes, when will Sharron Angle stand up and ask for the elimination of the Bureau of Land Management? The GOVERNMENT AGENCY, where her husband has worked their whole married life to support her and her children. From which he will draw government retirement (should we phase that out?)From which they have always had government paid insurance. It is always easier to take away from other people. Let's see her propose something that will affect her and her family.
gbigs again your paranoia is showing. You have been listening to Fox Lies too long. And Angle isn't running smear campaign? She is so above that? Dums--t! They are both doing it. At least, Reid's ads have alot of truth and Angles has none. As for Angle, she is saying the unemployment and housing market is all Senator Reid's fault. It's not. Again for the thousandth time, this was the banks and what keeps us in this mess is the low education. Angle served 6or7 years in the state gov't and was involved heavily in education. In Carson City, she took away football uniforms because they were black in color and that's EVIL. NUTS! And she keeps teen pregnecy on the rise because teens are to make "lemonade". Puts women in the poorhouse. In the meantime, our kid's education goes down the tubes by eliminating it as much as possible. She did this. She also went on Jon Ralston's show and I quote: "Social Security needs to be terminated. IT'S BROKEN!" These are her words and no matter how the RNC DC spin doctors "soften" her, it cannot work. This is the main reason Scott A. is being placed in again. Smart tea party voters know they are in trouble and cannot win. Sharron Angle is the laughing stock of this nation. Many are saying she beats Palin in nutsville. It's hard to beat Bachmann but, she might. It's time to stop being paranoid and ignorant. It's time to wake up at the poor choice the tea party & republicans have made. If you do not, then that makes the tea party stupid, They now know better and are no longer ignorant of the facts. It's time to let go.
hilarious
** Sharron Angle works to soften her image in latest ad **
It's not like a lunatic can just wake up one morning and decide she's not going to be a lunatic any longer, then expect everyone she knows to accept the sanity makeover.
A tiger can't change it's stripes and Crazy Angle can't suddenly become mentally stable. Won't happen, case closed.
@gbigs Sept. 4, 2010 9:17 a.m.
"yesterday i had a Reid supporter admit..."
Feeble attempt at lying, are you rehearsing for Fox news? That was some fine investigative work on the revenue stream to the "terror mosque" by the Fox rabble-rousing team.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/yblog_upshot/201...
"The truth will make you free." Jesus Christ, John 8:31-32
Such Hate from the supporters of Harry Reid. Unbelieveable how they attack Sharron Angle who's only sin has been to question a thirty year veteran politician and his mid-nite raids on the U.S. Treasury. The voters of Nevada have already won. They have voted for good change in government. Reid with all his powers is hanging by a thread. I hope Harry loses by ONE VOTE (his sons RORY ) who is going to lose his race by double digits thanks to daddy.
Yeah sure. All Nevadans need is a US Senator representing us who -
1. Doesn't believe it's her job to help the unemployed find work.
2. Try to stop the out-of-work from receiving unemployment benefits.
3. Wants to eliminate the Education Dept.
4. Privatize Social Security and Medicare.
5. Reopen Yucca Mtn.
6. Go all 'Second Amendment remedy' when she loses a vote.
7. Scream "You lie!" from the peanut gallery when the president is speaking on anional television.
8. Make Nevada the national laughingstock after being paired with soon-to-be-indicted John Ensign.
This is not the plan Nevadans need to get our state moving forward again. GOPers Crazy Angle and John the Baptist in cahoots with their own righteous Jesus? Oh. please.
MichaelGreen...If you are against Sharron Angle let me give you some advice: You don't have to hype her words. Her exact words are horrible enough. If you say Sharron Angle wants to destroy Social Security it gives an Angle fan a chance to type a rare true sentence. Something like, "Sharron Angle never said she wants to destroy Social Security." That would be parsing words and misleading of course, that's what Angle supporters do. So why not use her exact words of "phase out" or "transition out of" Social Security if possible. Angle supporters will then flatly lie and say she never said that either, that's what they do. But then there is this little thing called video or audio tape.
Sharron Angle is a religious fanatic, a pathological liar, and a person of extremely limited intelligence who would be more than a mere embarrassment to Nevada. She wants to eliminate social security, make the state guardian of the womb of a raped incest victim, introduce prohibition, and create a Taliban style theocracy. She is unfit to hold the office of dog catcher or mattress tester, let alone high federal office. Send her back to the looney bin from which she no doubt escaped.
Why would Harry Reid with 24 years in office tell us out of his twenty five million dollar fund all about this little person, AND SAY NOTHING ABOUT HIS ACCOMPLISHMENTS?
Wake up! He has accomplishments to talk about, she is just a new comer to national politics, give her a chance to EXPLAIN HER VIEWS. Harry isn't going to set the story straight, you know.
Do politicians win elections by throwing mud at the opponent and ignoring what they personally do? IF SO THE PROCESS IS UTTERLY CORRUPT. (In fact that's where is sometimes seems to be. The person with the most money throws the most mud and so WINS!)
sbob2u......
It sounds like you never heard any of
Sharron Angles crazy statements.
The woman is a nut, it's over.
Do your homework.
The problem here is uneducated voters.
crazy lady is living off her husbands GOVERMENT PENSION. can't you tea buggers realize your being HAD. no wonder nevada is hurting more than any other state, your bigshots that run the place have you over a barrell.
Anyone think about looking at the facts.
Not what the candidates & their supporters are spinning.
Unemployment over 14%. Number 1 in the nation.
Foreclosures Number 1 in the nation.
Bankrupcy Number 1 in the nation
Education last in the nation.
I do not blame Reid for not running on any of this.
Give the man a little credit. He is not an idiot.
So his best statergy is to spend his $25 million, bashing his opponent in any way he can.
Let's face it this tactic has worked well in the past. As a lot of voters believe what they are told. Without checking if any of the info is factual or distorted.
Angle is probably not the best candidate out there. But she is the one the Republican voters of Nevada selected to run for the Senate.
Will she do a good job? Only time will tell.
Has Reid done a good job?
If you like the numbers above. (They are factual & have no spin attached)
Then by all means vote for Reid again.
But remember what they say about insanity.
It is when you do the same thing over & over.
Then expect different results!!!!
Read Sharron Angle's no votes in the state legislator is the cause for much of this trouble. This is not Senator Reid's faust this economy is in mess. The banks did this with subprimes and high credit fees. The reason we are still in this mess is low education. We will not improve until the country and the world gets back on it's feet so they can come to Vegas and spend. This city built itself on luxury not necessity. Until this changes, Las Vegas will always be the first to go and the last to recover. In the meantime, Vegas has to diversify or find other ways to servive bad times. Sharron Angle did this to us with her votes in the state legislator and on the school boards. And if it is true, her husband worked for the gov't and she is collecting a pension from it, then she needs to give it up like she wants us to give up our rights to safety nets. But, she won't, only showing another cut in her armor. She needs to go. She is wrong for Nevada.
@ sky888
"Extend BUSH 10 Year Tax cut for the 2% of Americans who make over 1,000,000,000,000.00 per year = to Bill Gates, Oprah, Blumberg and Paris Hilton's parents money."
I do hope that you've made a typo here, unless you personally know something that all of us do not know.
Sharron Angle might begin by answering or having her staff answer her emails when a registered voter that is trying to make an unbiased decision on which candidate deserves his or her vote. I sent the email roughly a month ago and not draw a conclusion in the mud slinging campaign ads on tv, never even got a response. I sincerely wanted to know what she actually stands for rather than her views changing on a daily basis. All I can say is thanks Sharron for making my decision for me,good luck on your next endeavor.
I know a way to decrease the US population----how about a Palin/Angle presidential ticket, it doesn't matter that they are of different parties, Angle can change her viewpoints on a daily basis-lol
Reid was elected to Nevada senate in 1987... Since 1990, the highest unemployment ever was in Nevada (Up to 2007) was 7.8%.
Things were pretty good while he was a senator. How is Reid to blame? Like people above have noticed, Las Vegas is built on throw away money... So if things are bad in your home state, you're not going to come and blow money in Las Vegas. When the US economy got bad, our economy got bad. Our state economy is mining and tourism... We need to diversify.
to gbigs:
"What a terrible thing to have lost one's mind. Or not to have a mind at all. How true that is."
Dan Quayle (Republican), 44th U.S. V.P. (1989--1993)
to gbigs:DITTO! "A mind is a terrible thing to lose" pretty much sums up the teabags!
gbigs look in the mirror. Your statement that democrats are ... is what you see inside yourself. It is fear for the future. I don't understand why you cannot see this. I am none of the statements you make, least of all a USA hater. This is a diversified America and it is getting more different everyday. Times are hard and they are changeing and the Sharron Angle supporters are scared of this. This statement is proof and again you are proofing that fear is false evidence appearing real. To the right wingnuts: Stop fearing the change. And Bush's Presidency did cause most of the deficit and the Banks caused the money colapse and it is no tech skills in this state that keeps us this way.
BUSH, CHENEY AND REPUBLICAN POLICY MADE THIS
MESS.
Democratic policy is fixing the Bush mess.
These desperate, lying republicans already lost.
Jurassicprinc: You're right, like President Obama said" don't go to Las Vegas to blow your money". Sinister Reid use to be a pretty good Senator. Now he has sold Nevada down the toilet, I am voting for Angle, she will surprise Harry, and his supporters come November.
Sharron Fraud Angle trying to soften image to fool voters. Well Sharron, not many people are moving to NV lately because there are not many jobs out there. Since it is not your responsibility to create jobs then changing your image to fool new voters is worthless, hehehehe.
As far as the SANE voters of Nevada, we know who to vote for and it is NOT you!! Hahahaha!!!
Bravo Repukeblicans!!!!!
How do we choose between Harry Reid and Sharron Angle? Not much of a choice either way. How does Sharron Angle change her image? The same way a spitting cobra changes its image...impossible to do. Both alleged US senate candidates are dinks and a joke for Nevada. Jay Leno should have a field day with either senate candidate winner in November.
There are people out there who watch Jay Leno, hahaha???
We can't wait to get registered. Just moving to Nevada and priority #1 is helping make sure that wingbat Sharon Angle doesn't get into office. We may not like Harry the best, but honestly, given the alternative? Whoo, easy choice!
Speaking of WingNuts and DingBats - She MUST GO !!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LC211h9AY...
Hey Reid, are you going to help Odumbo spend more money we don't have so he can give it to his cronies the unions while we struggle???? Obama announced it this morning.
Reid, are you going to force cap and trade like you have said you are going to during the lame duck session, so it will cost those of us struggling $2,000 more a year in taxes?
Vote for angle to stop Reid, if for no other reason!!!
These stupid republicans want to lower
American wages EVEN MORE.
KEEP THESE LYING REPUBLICAN THIEVES AND
CROOKS OUT OF OFFICE.
The low wage republicans, who post on this site,
are the dumbest republicans of all.
They vote against their own best interest.
Sharron Angel & Tea Party, including Palin+ Bush+ Beck =Schizophrenia- is a serious mental illness characterized by a disintegration of the process of thinking and of emotional responsiveness.[1] It most commonly manifests as auditory hallucinations, paranoid or bizarre delusions, or disorganized speech and thinking with significant social or occupational dysfunction.
I knew that the Obama policies would be taking the country in a new and different direction. I also knew that he would have to take the country kicking and screaming like a child having a temper tantrum. All I have read and all I have been reading proves this is happening. I pray we make it out of this mess.We need him and anyone who supports him. He promised change and he's giving it.
I have some questions to all the Democrats on this board.
How come Obama, Pelosi & Reid & their Socialist Goverment are on the wrong side of the majority of Americans. On every major issue. This would also include a lot of Democrats.
Arizona law. The majority people for it. Obama sues the state. (Over 20 more states have since filed for their own version)
Health care. Against it by a 2-1 margin
Cap & Tax. Same thing.
Stimilus bill. Same thing.
The Mosque. Same thing.
And on & on it goes.
Now I am sure the 48% of people who paid zero income tax last year, are happy with being a nanny state.
The other 52% though, might get a little tired of carrying the load!
Fact: Bush passed a $152 billion stimulus in 2008. We're you Republicans complaining then?
Fact: On March 7, 2003, Hans Blix told the UN that there were no Weapons of Mass Destruction in Iraq... Yet we still went anyway, and still can find no Weapons of Mass Destruction in Iraq, to this day, according to the CIA
Fact: Reagan never had a budget surplus. George H.W. Bush never had a surplus. Clinton worked the deficit from Reagan and Bush into a surplus, starting in 1998 and leaving with a surplus in 2001. Immediately after Clinton left office, Bush put us back into a deficit and left with a deficit. http://www.cbo.gov/budget/data/historica... & http://blog.rebeltraders.net/2009/07/13/...
Fact: Clinton created 23.1 million jobs in his eight years, Bush created 3.0 million in his eight years. http://blogs.wsj.com/economics/2009/01/0...
Fact: The Bush tax cuts for the wealthy combined with the recession, wars, recovery measures, and others are the reasons why the deficit has reached over $1.5 trillion today. http://www.perrspectives.com/images/cbpp...
gsmall is just another republican
psycho-talker.
END REPUBLICAN CORRUPTION.
LIVE BETTER,WORK UNION.
gbigs...So unions are also to blame for everything along with the Democrats? Everything you say about them is untrue. But this is true: Union representation among the workforce is a tiny percentage of what it was years ago--thanks to the Republicans. The Republicans killed the unions and sent American jobs overseas. However, they do still have strong union representation in England, Germany, France, Scandanavia and Europe generally. Maybe you can go to work on those unions after you take over the world. And then (oh, boy!) you can kill the evil of universal health care that all those countries have (like you've already done in our country).
I continue to be stumped...and amused...that Sharron is still a viable candidate in this race.
As an aside, how could this person have been a teacher of others?!?
Sharron is confused about the issues and the facts. This is a recipe for legislative disaster.
Angle's latest ads remind me of President Bush. He used to dumb-down his speech (content and cadence) when he was trying to explain things.
Angel doesn't realize everyone else watching is smarter than she...
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@gbigs - You forgot Race Pimps who constantly stir up racial divisions on purpose solely for financial or political reasons. These are the lowest of low life pond scum in the Democrat party.
Damon is a left wing HACK! The ad was first class. Jon Ralston and staff are so left with there slant on anything Angle does. Damon gives her ad a C. Get real. You can keep trying to hurt Angle, but she will win.
Again Vice President Dick Cheney had a "back-door closed meeting" in 2004 with several top Energy CEO's from around the world. We are definitely feeling the effects today, would you say?
Also, if America is for Deregulations of Government. Great, let's deregulate everything starting with:
Dept of Agriculture; Dept of Commerce; Dept of Defense; Dept of Energy; Dept of Health and Humans Services; Dept of Technology, Dept of Justice; Dept of Veterans Affairs;
Dept of (EPA) Environment Protection Agency
FAA-Federal Aviation Administration
FDA-Food and Drug Administration
FCC-Federal Communication Commission.
The list goes on. Let's De-REGULATE everything. Then we will have NO Government involvement and everyone will live happily-ever-after.
The Bush Administration consisted of the following members/individuals who had a direct involvement to this "GREAT 2ND DEPRESSION of 2009/2010:
Jim Nussle, Director of Finance 2003-2007
Stephen McMillin & Clay Johnson -Deputy Director of Finance 2003-2008.
The two Republicans in the top ten are banking heir Peter Fitzgerald of Illinois at $26.1 million and majority leader Bill Frist of Tennessee at $15.1 million. Frist's family founded HCA, which has become the largest for-profit hospital chain in the country, with annual revenues of nearly $20 billion last year. Frist reported blind trusts valued at between $6.5 million and $31 million.
This social layer of millionaires and near-millionaires in the US House and Senate pushed through the Bush administration's massive tax cut for the rich, while somehow dropping the much touted per-child tax credit for families with incomes less than $20,000. (Please see U.S. Senate.gov., to confirm)
Bill Frist, served as Chairman for the Finance and Banking Committee from 2002-2007.
Please people before you send e-mails read your history! It's FREE on the Internet. Please take a look at: U..S. Senate 2004 Bill H.R.3289 under legislative history! If you want to know the truth, and what happen to the U.S. Financial meltdown LONG before Obama took office please READ!
But the truth might scare you? Dare to learn what vote each member of the U.S. Congress and Senate did on your behave.
Have a good night.
i live in south carolina and have watched harry reid be an embarasment to nevada for years-how can anyone there vote for this guy-there are not enough people in nevada on the public dole to reelect this loser(i hope)
These folks are really starting to scare me, they just seem so delusional, or at least so easily fooled by fear-mongers like Beck, Rush, etc. They have also developed some bizarre form of amnesia, totally eradicating the George W. Bush's two terms and all that came out of them, two wars in Iraq that have cost this country trillions with our mostly civilian forces there for 9+ years already, outrageous pharmaceutical deal for cost of medicines, tax cuts for the wealthy. They've also forgotten that it was George W. Bush $700 billion bailout proposal that went before Congress. They have found a way to erase the fact that the economy was bad with high unemployment when Bush was in office. The facts are meaningless to these folks.
It is one thing to have different views and opinions, most of us have always appreciated and celebrated that about America but I don't know how we as a nation bring these folks back to some form of reality, because this bizarreness just can't go unaddressed any longer - I believe they are truly harming this nation.
Harry Reid has not accomplished anything but line his own pockets. If he has done so much good why is Nevada getting so little, why is education in Nevada so poor, why did all those Nevada union workers get laid off. Harry Reid is already being laughed at by the other senators.
Since all the Republicans and Tea Parties HATE Government, why don't they do the following:
1. Do not accept any Social Security (if entitled)
2. Do not accept Medicare (if entitled)
3. Their children CAN NOT APPLY FOR FEDERAL LOANS FOR COLLEGE ( I forgot, they don't read)
4. Do not accept any FHA Loans
5. Do not accept any Unemployment Beneifts.
6. Do not fly on FAA Planes ( travel only in their cars or by horses) Like the "good-old-days" Remember?
7. Do not send your CHILDREN to public schools. (Enroll them with Rush, Hannity's and Beck's kids) after all, you guys can AFFORD the tuition???
Do not accept ANYTHING from the Federal Government. If you are a GOP or a Tea Party voters and are receiving ANY of the above Government Entitlement Programs. Give it UP. Send the MONEY BACK!
After all, that is what you want RIGHT???
Sharron Angle needs to put out another ad quick. This column is getting old. As soon as she does, the Sun and its left wing nut jobs can attack. This will give us all some new material to throw at each other, while Reid steals another election.
@ bookofdoubt & gbigs
Enough already ! Both of you know Angle doesn't have a chance...
As a real conservative Republican, I remember that Bush started a misguided war, failed to get Bin Laden, recorded record spending and deficits, the recession started under Bush, the collapse of the housing sector, the fall of Wall Street and the major banks, and the bailouts all commenced under Bush. It's called the Bush Legacy, some of my fellow Republicans fail to remember that. Crazy Sharron Angle is just another tax and spend Republican make no mistake about it. Sharron wants to be impose her twisted version of Biblical law upon others. That's not less government that's just an evil form of government that tries to impose its morality on everyone else.
Seniors, women, environmentalist, nature lovers, gays and lesbians together with the great workers of Nevada will show Sharron Fraud Angle the way home up north where she belong.
NO SANE person will vote for this whacked out individual!!!She does not belong in the Senate and no amount of backtracking and softening of her image can change the fact that she is one loser candidate.
Bravo Repukeblicans for the dropping the ball!!!!Hahahaha!!!
Republican clowns like gcrazy are in complete
denial.
Angle is toast and everyone knows it.
Our great Harry Reid will win by a landslide.
Keep the republican liars, thieves and crooks
out of power.
Politicians are like diapers. They both need changing regularly and for the same reason. Rework the image all you want Angle won't do any good you both stink.
lastword
Tax and spend republicans?? You outed yourself. The economy was already slowing down when Bush took office. Then came 9/11, hellow, that crushed our economy. Make no mistake, the USA was in no-mans land after 9/11. Bush did make some bad choices, but invading Iraq wasn't one of them. The Dem's have controlled congress for 4 years and their Tax and Spend doesn't work. Obama, Reid, and company do not have a clue on how to fix our economy. Its time for real change. Just what may I ask has Reid done for us. Having closed door secret meetings? Passing bills that haven't even been read? If Republicans did this the media would have crucified them. Obama, the most transparent presidency. What a joke.
Angle/Palin/Beck 2012!
A MIRACLE IS COMING IN NOVEMBER! OBAMA/CLINTON 2012!!!!
I would love to see Hillary debate either Angle or Palin. Then the GOP and Tea Party people would finally realize that they elect JOKES! to represent them.
Former President George W. Bush said after his re-election in 2004 on Wednesday November 3, 2004. "The American PEOPLE have given me a BLANK CHECK and I intend on SPENDING IT"
Please go to www.us.gov.
Please pull up the Presidential archives for November 3, 2004. For all of you delusional Angle-zombies is that Reid and Obama's fault? Did they put those WORDS in Bush's mouth???
Please get some mental help FAST!
Math 101
The "GREAT DEPRESSION OF 2007-2010"
1. [Problem #1] Take your home, job, retirement, pension (investments in the Stock Market) and your car.
2. [Problem #2] Give them to the GOP (Since Bush "...had a CHECK from the American People and Intend on SPENDING IT." *(4) x /2
3. The GOP & Bush take a Caterpillar Trailer and DUMP [Problem #1 & #2 into the Grand Canyon. =
4. *(8) x = 2 The GOP & Bush De-regulate EVERYTHING....Medicine for Senior increase, Planes fall from the sky; Recall on Food; Recall on Toys, Wall Street Executives laugh all the way to the BANK.=
5. Bush leaves and says to the American who voted for him "Thanks for joining my Stupid Club."
6. =Mid Term Election 2010. GOP "It's Reid and Obama's FAULT.
I am sorry "Stupid Club" the numbers do not add up.