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Published Monday, Aug. 24, 2009 | 9:56 a.m.
Updated Monday, Aug. 24, 2009 | 9:56 a.m.
WASHINGTON -- Greetings, Early Liners. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid’s approval rating at home remains low, Sen. John Ensign’s is lower and Republican senatorial hopeful Danny Tarkanian is the sleeper candidate of the summer, according to polling results released over the weekend.
The latest numbers out of Nevada got a little attention here and there with the moral of the story tending to go along these lines:
Reid is in trouble for his re-election bid in 2010, but his promise of $25 million in campaign fundraising helps.
Let the TV campaign begin.
Reid is in Pahrump today, with a few other events in Nevada later this week that are likely to draw the anti-health care protesters that have been shouting down Democrats in the state. (Republicans are already planning to attend one of the Reid events.)
Democratic Rep. Dina Titus is the latest pol to be barraged by the shouters at her Congress on the Corner session Saturday in Henderson.
No one seems to be protesting at the events hosted by Republicans, Ensign or Rep. Dean Heller.
Congress remains on recess this week and next, but the health care debate continues.
Democrats are trying to ignite the grass-roots campaigners that lodged President Barack Obama into office, hoping to catch up with Republican messaging that has overpowered the debate and shifted popular opinion against the congressional plan.
One anti-abortion group is using the health care debate to raise money for an ad to run against Reid, saying he is not anti-abortion enough.
On another note, one head-turner in this morning’s papers: Both Reid and Democratic Rep. Shelley Berkley make cameo appearances in today’s Washington Post Style section profile of It-Girl lobbyist Heather Podesta.
Podesta is the wife of Democratic pol Tony Podesta, sister-in-law of former Clinton staffer and President Barack Obama’s transition leader John Podesta.
Reid has long allied with John Podesta on policy initiatives, including this month's energy summit in Las Vegas, and that Heather Podesta would host a fundraiser for him goes with the territory.
But who knew Berkley was a Podesta guest at their family place in Venice?
Other good reads in the weekend papers:
Sun colleague J. Patrick Coolican trips to Mesquite to talk economic development policy: Is Nevada really ready to promote sports over gaming as the entertainment of choice?
Speaking of economic development, those solar plants may be great new industry for Nevada, so long as they’re not installed anywhere near anything, the Sun reports after talking to Amargosa Valley residents challenging a new development.
That’s all for now. Check back later for all the political news in Nevada.
Why should anyone protest at Republican meetings. Say no to no? They aren't changing their priorities, which are anything which stops Democrats from being successful. They are irrelevant for voting as they a rump voting block. So why would anyone protest? They are right where they want to be and no one cares.
The only effective long-term solution to health care reform is preventative health care. We must take our health into our own hands. Luckily, there are several tools, such as Holosfitness.com, that can help you to get in shape, stay in shape, and lead a healthy lifestyle.
People are seeing greater truth from many places. Barack Obama is proving accusations against himself. Those who support in spite of this information are suspect in themselves.
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In a twist of fate, Senator Edward Kennedy proved the failure of a health care reform he and others worked so hard for. Senator Kennedy's money could not save him. No insurance or technology could save him. The whole health care system he fought for is wrong. Who pays for it is not the issue. He and others champion a health care reform that helps the medical field and investors most. They have not realized there is a final solution that could benefit all mankind, making it truly universal.
The employment lifestyle created the world problems and made us diseased, young and old. The garden paradise lifestyle would solve the world problems we created quickly, fairly, inexpensively and beautifully. It is the only sustainable lifestyle.
Opportunities to abuse health care reform and more about how the way we produce our food changes the ph of our blood making us susceptible to disease are at http://www.divine-way.com See: WRONG WAY tab for Dr. DC Jarvis' warning in 1960 that we refused to hear. He is proven to be true by our state of health now. Those who fought for this health care system were deceived by the deceitfulness of riches.
Proverbs 14:12 "There is a way which seems right to a man, but the ends thereof are the ways of death." He championed many good sounding and good intentioned causes but as a Liberal he did not stay close to the secular wisdom in the word of God. That put the nation and world in the wrong direction. It is time for REAL CHANGE WE CAN BELIEVE IN.
Harry Reid will star this year in a movie about his declining approval ratings. It's a remake of the 1987 classic, "Less Than Zero."
sport'S!
I heard Reid say, he would not approve of a plan that would raise cost.
THIS IS COMPLETELY ABSURD! The president has said, 'Of course it will cost more if we add 47,000,000 more people to the plan!'
Reid has said illegal aliens would not be included. BS! The figure Fox News likes it 15,000,000 uninsured, and so the larger figure includes illegal aliens.
It seems to me that all that is going on with Reid is to say something, to say ANYTHING that will help the plan along regardless if it has any truth in it or not. Or possibly, in the formative phase, nobody has any real idea about it, including the President, who shifs his position everyday.
Just a month ago, Obama asked congress to vote on a 1000 page statement of health care without giving them time to read it. It might be added, why would it matter if Congress did read it? In all likelhood they would fail to understand it anyway. Their speciality is winning votes, not understanding health care plans.)
I frankly think Obama saw it that way, Congress is actually incapable of judging the plan--eventually everything will be turned over to administrative czars.)
It has been observed that many, at least at Fox News, think that this is a plan to take from Seniors and give to younger people. No wonder Seniors are upset, and even Obama had to demonize the protestors, like they are agents of evil insurance companies. BS! Obama lost a tremendous amount of middle class support talking like the did about the protestors.
His star is clearly fading, and very possibly the blue dogs will refuse to approve anything anyway. Bi-partisan support? What that really means is that when they raise taxes the Democrats will claim it was also the fault of the Republicans. That's why Las Vegas calls the Governor of the State a "moron," after all he is against rasing taxes. How stupid can you get? He is failing to give the Democrats cover.
I've never seen a Replublican town hall meeting on health care, except for John McCain. They are too busy sending guns to boy scouts while showing off their guns in front of Presidential Town halls. Republicans, get off your ass and give an "option to the government option" instead of interuptions of ideas that actually look better than no options at all.
In 1994 Sen Reid co-sponsored the lst comprehensive immigration REDUCTION bill but leaders did not even bring it up for a vote.
In 1996 Sen. Reid voted to end chain migration which was known as the Simpson Amendment, but this failed; Again in 1996 he voted for the Feinstein Amendment which would have reduced the annual admission of spouses & minor children of citizens, but this was defeated.
In 1998 he helped the Senate pass S.1723 nearly doubling H-1B foreign high-tech workers and also voted for a foreign worker bill with no anti-fraud measures in 2000. In 2005 he voted in favor of increasing foreign worker importation. Since, he has taken no action to reduce the rewarding of illegal immigration by giving citizenship to anchor babies and in 2005-06 co-sponsored a bill (called the Dream Act) to reward illegal aliens with in-state tuition and amnesty. In 2005 he voted against funding for additional Border Patrol agents, voted in favor of amnesty for agricultural workers.
Now he is in favor of this Obamanation called the Health Insurance bill. Thru these years, I have watched him become more and more partisan and only interested in winning the next election. He has run away with himself. His change of tune in the last few years is a result of his quest for power, just like the rest of the government holding down jobs in Washington. Until the American people STOP THE MONEY FLOW to Washington by mass refusal to pay taxes, nothing is going to change. Congress doesn't want this Health Care Bill for themselves (Reid voted against this amendment), and they receive automatic raises while stopping the 2010 Soc. Sec. increase for those on fixed incomes. Do you honestly think Reid is going to take care of us? No wonder he's slipping in the Polls. And Ensign just about always goes along with him. Only Dean Heller manages to care and vote with concern for the American citizen in spite of all the tremendous pressure put upon him.