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Published Wednesday, May 27, 2009 | 6:49 p.m.
Updated Wednesday, May 27, 2009 | 6:53 p.m.
WASHINGTON — Let the backlash begin.
One day after the extravaganza at Caesars Palace for Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, the Republican campaign arm in the Senate posted a web-only video today criticizing the fundraising largess in these recessionary times.
Republicans are betting that Reid’s assertion that he will raise $25 million for his 2010 reelection will turnoff Nevadans who may frown at such a hefty sum. The Tuesday night event at Caesars brought in almost $2 million.
But Reid’s opponents are not wilting in the dollars race.
Republicans plan to raise $20 million for a yet-to-be-named challenger to the senator.
Reid, it should be remembered, promised an "aggressive" campaign.
And such endeavors cost.
You can watch the "Caesar" ad here.
Oh the Republicans have the nerve especially after getting us trillions of dollars in debt and two wars with no end.
Thank you Grand OLD Party... Emphasis on the OLD...
You forgot all the giveaway programs which the dumocrats passed and put us into the quagmire. Want a hint???? Checkout the Pelosi, Reid and Obamination contributions to the debt and you won't think that a few trillion matters much. But hey once a programed lemming gets on his way to the sea nothing will stop him.
THE HYPOCRISY OF THE COMMUNIST OBAMA REGIME by now is well-known around the world. First he, this Hussein Obama guy, tells businesses not to have their conventions in Las Vegas and over 111,000 visitors have cancelled their trip to Las Vegas since, and his comments have caused damages of around $250 million to the Las Vegas economy. And now just weeks later this Obama guy jets with his vast entourage to Las Vegas himself, but at the expense of U.S. taxpayers wasting millions on this trip alone.
But as history has demonstrated, it's always the same in every communist regime, the "elite" lives in splendor at the expense of the "common" people. But Americans are not dumb, other than the ones who voted for Obama of course, and Americans will see through the hypocrisy of this short-lived "presidency."
While under the honorable President George W. Bush we had an extremely prosperous America with the highest level of homeownership and wealth and prosperity incl. a raging bull market that lastet for 5 years, now the arrogant Obama guy who isn't even qualified to be "President" of the U.S. has destroyed the country's wealth within just a few months. Obama is spending trillions of taxpayer money we don't even have for unnecessary and even stupid projects and programs, and he, Obama, has no economic education and no professional economic experience, ... I wouldn't even put him in charge of a hot dog stand.
Well, now it should be obvious to even the folks who voted for Obama that it was the greatest mistake in U.S. history.
Hopefully we have all learned to ignore the GOP.
After Las Vegas Obama went to Hollywood to declare the economic Crisis over and collect money.
LOS ANGELES -- On May 27, 2009, President Barack painted an upbeat vision of the economy Wednesday as he addressed major Hollywood elitist donors to the Democratic Party in Beverly Hills.
"It's safe to say we have stepped back from the brink, that there is some calm that didn't exist before," Obama told donors and celebrities at the Beverly Hilton Hotel. He said the stimulus bill that Congress passed three months ago has improved the economy. This is what Obama's PR guys have been telling the the Sunday talk shows for the last 3 weeks.
Just 100 days after the $787 billion Stimulus bill was passed Obama has declared the 1930s like crisis over. Obama said the crisis is over even though only $4 billion dollars of stimulus contracts have been awarded none of that going to high unemployment areas.
Obama is claiming that the stimulus has created 150,000 jobs. He gets that number by using his crack team of experts to speculation or conjecture what should have been the number of job losses each week and compare that with the reported number.
Initial jobless claims were 623,000 in the week ended May 23, 2009. Continuing claims rose to 6.788 million, an increase of 110,000 from the prior week. But apparently the Hollywood starlets are still working.
The Commerce Department said 5-28-2009,that new-home sales (a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 352,000) were flat April, while industry reports show that a record 12% of homeowners with a mortgage are behind on their payments or in foreclosure., indicating that the housing market's recovery will likely be a slow and gradual process. The median sales price fell to $209,700, a 14.9% drop from a year earlier. Sales were down 34% from April 2008.
Somebody explain why Obama flew into McCarren. Presidents normally use Air Force bases Of course not every city has an Air Force base nearby, but Nellis is right there. By flying into a commercial airport, many thousands of passengers were inconvenienced and more than likely many folks leaving Las Vegas missed their connecting flights because of Obama's ego. He later went to Nellis to make a speech so he could charge the trip to the taxpayers rather than Dirty Harry's campaign account.
specialfriends.....
You have a very short memory. George W. Bush often did what Obama just did....he always worked it out so he could charge the American tax payers for a campaign/fund raising trip instead of paying it out of a campaign fund.....
It appears to me that you and your right-wing friends are having to stay up very late at night in order to find something to trash the Obama administration about....
I think your effort could be better spent by actually working to rebuild your fast disappearing GOP. The "Grand Old Party" (with an emphasis on "OLD") is lost in the political wildeness.
Any political party that has Newt Gingrich, Rush Limbaugh, Karl Rove & Sarah Palin as its leaders, has major problems.
El Lobo, please list the official titles that the people you just named as leaders of the Republician Party hold in the party. I assume that you can give us titles, salaries and when they started. Thanks.
El Lobo. So you're saying that if Bush did it, Obama has the right to do it? This administration of change and hope and transparency???
You threw your man under the bus by comparing his actions directly to those of Bush. I'm hoping you'll run his next campaign.
One minute the local hate-talk radio station is mad at Obama for saying tax payer dollars should not be spent on trips to vegas, then when he comes to vegas they don't like it...why don't they make up there mind?
Unemployment was higher two years into Reagun's first term than it is now. Was that Raygun's fault? or Carters? yet Bush can do no wrong...like he never went to any fund-raisers or went to his leased ranch to cut weeds...now he lives in Dallas...I thought he was a cowboy who lived on a ranch?