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StumblePublished Wednesday, Sept. 1, 2010 | 3:38 p.m.
Updated Wednesday, Sept. 1, 2010 | 4:08 p.m.
That's what Sen. John Ensign said when he taped Bob Fisher's "Observations" program, heard on 26 radio stations, before he want on Alan Stock’s talk show this week and distanced himself from Sharron Angle on CityCenter jobs. Ensign spent a half-hour with Fisher, who helms the Nevada Broadcasters Association. I have listened to the tape of the program, which airs next week.
Fisher asked Ensign about the ads and whether it was fair to pinpoint Reid for blame: "Is Harry Reid to blame all by hmself?"
Ensign: “It is a philosophy in Washington….there is a lot of blame to go around... I just have a different economic approach."
On Fisher’s program, we also learned:
----Ensign: “I pride myself on being one of the least partisan people in the U.S. Senate.” That’s him, all right. He went on to talk about Harry Ensign and what a great team it is despite “opposite voting records.” Indeed, his comments about Reid not being alone in the blame for the economy and his words about CityCenter jobs show what a great team he and Reid make.
----Ensign is distressed by the state of journalism, saying the rise in cable networks is because “people see so much bias in the media.” Ensign lamented how the mainstream media are “almost running editorials through the way they report.
And: “You look through and find so many errors in the reporting,” Ensign told Fisher. “There really seems to be a lot of bias in reporting these days.” (I hope the RJ is not offended.)
So, the rise of cable shows is to answer bias in reporting? Really? Trenchant.
----Ensign still believes President Obama’s remarks about Las Vegas caused convention business to be “devastated” and fall “off a cliff” the day after the comments. He said: “The next day their phones stopped ringing…except for cancellations...It’s not my facts and figures; it’s what I was being told up and down the Strip.”
Q.E.D.
----Despite what Harry Reid and many Democrats have said about the stimulus, Ensign says it's not too early to bring back the jury: “The results are in; the stimulus didn’t work.”
What would he have done? Cut corporate tax rates because the country’s are so high. When Fisher pressed and asked about the stimulus helping to avert depression: “I’ll be fair. It did save some government jobs. It didn’t do what could have been done with the private sector.”
----Finally, Ensign sounded a cautionary note after he refused to signal who he might support for president. He suggested President Obama "will be a very strong candidate" and that the Republicans don't have the 2010 balloting cinched.
He did not, however, indicate any interest in an Iowa trip.
Senator John Ensign is bad for all of Nevada. Ensign fails his pledges too help constituents. Senator John Ensign/Office staff are less than honest dealing constituent services.
Senator John Ensign was asked too help with a federal oversight mining problem. Ensign dropped the ball and stuffed his pockets with the very industry he was asked to look into.
There is too much YUK on Senator Ensign that industrial cleaner can't begin to remove.
Senator John Ensign (R) is a disgrace for all Nevadan Constituents and is beneath the Honor and Dignity of the Great State of Nevada and The U.S. Senate.
Senator Ensign, RESIGN!
PRUPP B125 SP NV 89047
Imagine the horror if bride of Frankenstein Angle joins Ensign as Nevada's US Senate delegation.
Dumb and dumber goes to Washington.
John Ensign is a laughable, pitiful farce of a politician that should go back to his vet science. He is better at squeezing dog anal glans, dealing with ticks and fleas than politics. He is morally corrupt and ineffective politically. Call it quits John you are doing no good for anyone in Nevada. Even the die hard Republicans hate your guts!!!!
Obama's commens about Las Vegas cost the convention business millions of last revenue. That is a proven fact. To stimulate the economy we need to go back to investment tax credits...not more talk. Both parties must push for tax credits for economic stimulus packages that help promote business expansion. Blaming this politician or that politician does not solve the problem.
The incredible stupidity of the man without ethics who is soon to be slapped in handcuffs Senator...
"It is a philosophy in Washington".there is a lot of blame to go around... I just have a different economic approach."
No, he doesn't. How dare he say he thinks for himself?!?!?! He thinks in lockstep with the Republican Party. Before he votes, he looks over at his colleagues, they point at the no button, he presses it. He voted no on just about every bill there is...unemployment, jobs, health care reform, financial reform, aid for the 9/11 first responders...YOU NAME IT! That's his "different economic approach." Slash and burn and destroy, Nevada voters are not a priority, keep with party politics only is his mantra.
"The next day their phones stopped ringing"except for cancellations...It's not my facts and figures; it's what I was being told up and down the Strip."
Senator Ensign is selective in his remarks. President Obama said things about Las Vegas a few times...and he basically apologized for these remarks.
But Senator Ensign doesn't seem to look at what Governor Jan Brewer of Arizona set into motion with SB 1070. The moment she signed that bill, conventions bailed out of going to Phoenix and moved to Las Vegas. A member of his own party and her draconian immigration laws destroyed their livelihood and helped Las Vegas. But Senator Ensign conveniently don't mention that.
"I'll be fair. It (the stimulus) did save some government jobs. It didn't do what could have been done with the private sector."
Senator Ensign just confirmed that he is an idiot and knows nothing of what he is talking about.
I invite his Most Stupidness to come down in my neighborhood on the stretch of street of East Sahara Avenue between Nellis Boulevard and Sloan Avenue. As I am typing this, I am watching extensive work being done. And this street was in horrible condition.
It is being fixed with stimulus dollars.
But then again, it's totally understandable. Because Senator Ensign is totally out of touch with his constituents. Because he don't represent us, he represents the Republican Party only.
And lastly... "He suggested President Obama 'will be a very strong candidate' and that the Republicans don't have the 2010 balloting cinched."
Senator Ensign finally outlines the truth. And that is basically the Republican Party has NOBODY worth anything of a consistency above camel dung that is worth voting for. And this is clearly the case in Nevada.
Hey Harry -- Here is your next commercial.
Hi, I am HARRY REID and I no longer have anything to offer the state of Nevada except $25 Million of character assassination attack ads against my opponent. I am a TOTAL INCOMPETENT THAT SHOULD BE FIRED IMMEDIATELY !!! Check out my miserable record since I took complete control of the Senate of United States in the fall elections of 2006.
Unemployment Rate
When We Democrats took over the whole Congress in January 2007 = 4.6%
When We Democrats still controlled Congress by a huge majority July 2010 = 9.6%
Nevada Unemployment rate today when we Democrats still controlled Congress by a huge majority 14.3%
Federal Annual Deficit
When We Democrats took over the whole Congress in January 2007 = Deficit for FY 2006 was $247 Billion
When We Democrats still controlled Congress by a huge majority July 2010 = Projected $1.3 Trillion for FY ending Sept 30, 2010
Federal Debt
When We Democrats took over the whole Congress in January 2007 = $8,7 Trillion
When We Democrats still controlled Congress by a huge majority July 2010 = $13.2 Trillion
I am the incompetent Harry Reid and I approve this message. Vote for Sharron Angle before I, Harry REID, completely destroy this country.
That Ensign is still out there trying to conduct business as usual and be seen as a relevant player speaks to his incredible arrogance - or incredible stupidity.
Harry Reid Memoirs.
Chapter 1 (The Coward I was). How I spent $25 Million on character assassination advertisements against my opponent because I did not want anyone to know what my miserable record was as a Senator.
Here is Harry the Coward himself mangling his words as usual. Good God, what an embarrassment.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jyDOAmJYF...
ColinFromLasVegas: "Senator Ensign finally outlines the truth. And that is basically the Republican Party has NOBODY worth anything of a consistency above camel dung that is worth voting for. And this is clearly the case in Nevada."
You are so right. Gov. Jan Brewer (R-Arizona) called out for lying during debate Weds. about beheadings in the desert. She lied about balancing the budget - there's a huge shortfall for 2011.
Dan Maes, tea party-Repub. nominee for Governor of Colorado, lied on his resume, now the Republicans and Tea Partiers are trying to strip him of the nomination. Meanwhile, Maes is warning voters that Denver Mayor John Hickenlooper's policies, particularly his efforts to boost bike riding, are "converting Denver into a United Nations community." Hickenlooper has praised the program so Maes is trying to make the case that it's a UN plot to deprive people of "freedom." Tom Tancredo (R) is jumping into the race, now running for the American Constitution Party, and he's accusing Michelle Obama of banning Christmas at the White House, insinuating that she's secretly a Muslim.
"Sell crazy someplace else, we're all stocked up here." (Jack Nicholson in As Good As It Gets.)
Harry Reid has been majority leader for 4 years and along with Polosi they have had control of every facit of the economy, who else could at fault?
"Harry Reid has been majority leader for 4 years and along with Polosi they have had control of every facit [sic] of the economy, who else could at fault?"
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Having marginal procedural legislative "control" of the Senate and House does not axiomatically equate to having direct causal control of every "facet" (spelled correctly) of the economy. Get serious.
@nex212 -- Now you are starting to understand the real issue at hand. Keep the focus on Harry Reid's record. Whether or not the "extremist" Sharron Angle did not give her children allowance or not is not the issue here no matter how badly Reid tries these miserable character assassination attempts against Angle they won't work.
The Harry Reid Unemployment Rate
When Democrats took over the whole Congress in January 2007 = 4.6%
When Democrats still controlled Congress by a huge majority August 2010 = 9.8% and RISING !!!
Nevada Unemployment rate today when Democrats still controlled Congress by a huge majority 14.8% and RISING !!
Ensign: The stimulus did not save jobs? Tell that to the auto industry. Agreed, it hasn't done much here. Gee, I wonder what the "republican" state gov't is doing to help get money. OH, Gibbons is too busy fighting the new health care program and having his 7year itch. Don't apply for that money because if we do the democrats will win. Also what has Ensign done for us? He's too busy in Uganda helping the black gov't kill gays. And of course, broke the law here at home and to his wife. Did he get the wind plant here? Did he get the new VA hospital here being built now? Only one phone call to help save 22,000 jobs at City Center? How many did Harry Reid make? I bet just a few more. And we have to thank Sharron Angle for keeping Nevada's education system at the bottom of the list for her terms in the state gov't. 14.8% unemployment is not because of Harry Reid. It is because our education system does not train for tech jobs. The state controls this. We need to train in green industries and others now. All the tech jobs here are being hired outside of this state right now. No one seems to be qualified here in Nevada. Nevada's economy is based on low skill jobs. Hospitality, construction, and mining as well as what little amount of jobs are in farming and ranching. All physical low skilled jobs. Technology is putting us out of business. Ticketing is proof of this. ATM's and auto checkouts are others. This state will be one of the last states to recover because we are not educated. This state hardly can read. We need to diverse into manufacturing and fast. This is the problem not Harry Reid. Oh yes, when President Obama made the gaff about Las Vegas, we know Harry Reid went to him and was not nice. What did Ensign do? Does anyone know? Also, was on Harry's side? Like saying "no" to every bill and making a fillibuster call to do nothing. He is Mitch McConnell's lacky. Remember Nevada have 3 electoral votes. No power in DC. With Ensign in a mess, even less. It's Senator Reid that can get whatever federal money we can get now. Not Ensign, Not Angle, If the voters want nothing done for this state, vote Angle. But, if this state wants to pick up the pieces and have money to do so. Democrats and others need to vote in November for Harry Reid.
If you listen to the comments and speeches from Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi, it is very obvious that both of these people have some serious mental problems.
nez212: Harry Reid has been majority leader for 4 years and along with Polosi they have had control of every facit of the economy, who else could at fault?
nez212, were you one of Mrs. Angle's students? Just wondering.
What was the unemployment rate when Harry Reid and the Democrats took over the Senate? Wasn't it about a little under 5%. And when George Bush became President no one remembers the "Dot.Com" recession much do they. 9-11 did hurt a little, didn't it? There are Republican and Democratic finger prints all over the current recession. But the unbelievable wasteful spending and huge debt by Barrack Hussein Obama, Harry Reid and company is the sole reason the country hasn't recovered.
Ensign made the statement "I heard this up and down the strip" What?????? I live 1/4 of a mile from the strip. HEY, Johnnie, boy, I don't visit the strip. Do you go there to have your affairs with your girlfriends behind your wifes' back? You are not only a complete failure as a Senator for Nevada, you are immoral as well! You have no power, you are treated as a pariah in the Senate, as everyone who follows politics knows! GET OUT! Take care of your puppies and your girlfriends.
"When Democrats took over the whole Congress in January 2007 = 4.6%
When Democrats still controlled Congress by a huge majority August 2010 = 9.8% and RISING !!!"
Statements like this remind me of the old Bugs Bunny cartoons... work with me here, folks.
The scene is the plane diving straight down so fast the wings are burning off. In the cockpit, G. W. Elmer is trying to pull up and can't. Finally Elmer rips the wheel out, hands it to Bugs, straps on a parachute and jumps out of the plane. Panic ensues. From the long shot we see the plane rocketing to earth, but at the last second there is a screech of a breaking noise and the plane stops in mid-air a few feet from the ground. Bugs hops out and leans up against the plane smiling... "Ha ha, air-breaks!"
This country was in the nosedive more than a year before Pres. Obama took office, it's just that the Bush administration refused to acknowledge we were in a recession. In hindsight, most economists agree the recession officially started around Jan. 2007, if not before, and the root causes had been going on for years. Let me think... who was in charge before 2007. Hmmm...
What about the fact that Harry Reid became Senator at a time when Las Vegas was on the verge of going under and during his time as Senator, Las Vegas was one of the fastest growing cities in the US for several years running. If you're going to blame him for the bad times you need to give him credit for the good times as well.
Sen. Reid was in office when Michael Jackson and Farrah Fawcett died. Are you going to try to blame their deaths on him too?
Why does this State bother to even ask this serial porn king anything at all? He really should change his name to "Toast" because that is exactly what his political career has become. AND....who cares what he thinks?
I wonder, how many Republicans have actually come out and endorsed Angle? Ensign has not and Dawn Gibbons has not (and they are apparently friends). The NRA is not endorsing her either. If her own party (well, the Repubs not tea baggers) won't endorse her - well, that speaks volumes.
Senator John Ensign is bad for all of Nevada. Ensign fails his pledges too help constituents. Senator John Ensign/Office staff are less than honest dealing constituent services.
Senator John Ensign was asked too help with a federal oversight mining problem. Ensign dropped the ball and stuffed his pockets with the very industry he was asked to look into.
There is too much YUK on Senator Ensign that industrial cleaner can't begin to remove.
Senator John Ensign (R) is a disgrace for all Nevadan Constituents and is beneath the Honor and Dignity of the Great State of Nevada and The U.S. Senate.
Senator Ensign, RESIGN!
PRUPP B125 SP NV 89047