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Replacing Reid would be a bad move for Nevada
Sunday, Dec. 27, 2009 | 2:03 a.m.
Many Nevadans have very short memories, and they have quickly forgotten how we got into this present state of affairs (bankruptcies, home foreclosures, loss of property values, loss of jobs, etc.).
A second Great Depression was narrowly avoided and yet we hear murmurs of “throw the present bums out.”
Ask yourself what is the alternative. Bring back the Republicans? Have we so quickly forgotten that the eight years before 2009 have been among the worst in our nation’s history?
Also, the Yucca Mountain project is still out there. The small state of Nevada’s current political power is directly tied to Harry Reid being the majority leader of the U.S. Senate.
If he were removed from office, we go back to being almost powerless. Once again there would be a ready mark for the “Screw Nevada” activists in the U.S. Congress.
We must not allow our emotions to control our actions, instead allow our God-given common sense to be our guide. Don’t permit so-called party loyalty to cause you to vote for something that is clearly against your own best interest.
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Yup, replace Reid with Sue Lowden, who led republicans on a tour of Yucca just last December and said we should trade storing nuclear waste in Nevada for cash.
The republican party is running Sue Lowden, the President of the Yucca Mountain fan club, as Reid's replacement.
The republican party has gone off the deep end.
This tour included hate-talk Republican agents from right wing stink tanks and hate-talk radio who back nukes. Tarkcanian wants nukes at Yucca too.
Roger Warrick says "If he [Greid] were removed from office, we go back to being almost powerless...We must not allow our emotions to control our actions.
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So the point Roger Warrick is trying to make is that having a blundering inept Senator Reid who has brought no advantage to Nevada (Failed Stimulus, Failed Energy, Failed small business support) from his lofted position should stay in place....
and continue to pass DESTRUCTIVE IMPERFECT like the health insurance bill which is fashioned by Unions, Special interests (MOVEON.ORG), Insurance Companies, Hospitals, Pharmaceuticals, Trial lawyers, and Lobbyist.
harry Reid has run the Senate for three years. The only ones who might lose when harry is replaced are residents of Nebraska and Louisiana. The residents of Nevada have already lost with this man in the Senate.
Wailer Roger states: "Many Nevadans have very short memories, and they have quickly forgotten how we got into this present state of affairs (bankruptcies, home foreclosures, loss of property values, loss of jobs, etc.)."
Uh... let me think... How long has Harry been a Senator?
Oh... How many years has Harry ruled the Senate with an iron fist full of cash???
My dog could be better for Nevada than that corrupt moron Harrry Greid. Greid represents everything that is evil and dishonest in this country. Send him packing in 2010.
Roger,
Crawl out from under that rock and drive around town. We're still in a depression and reid hasen't lifted one finger to help us. He has lost all touch with Nevada voters.
Sorry Mr. Warrick, but Senator Reid is a dumb dink and must be sent packing back to Searchlight. He was a lousy lawyer there and so he will now have plenty of time to improve his courtroom skills that he never honed before when he decided politics was the easiest route big money with little skill.
So long Harry, its been sad knowing you. Your alleged college boxing skills did not translate into much as a senator. In the last skirmish on health care you took a dive, a big dive, a handsome payoff to boot, and with a short count to end the final round of battle; you have cost America more than she will ever realize until long after you are dead.
Our children and grand children will curse your name like our generation cursed Hitler, Mussolini, and ToJo.
I live within 30 miles of Yucca and pray that it opens. With over 900 nuclear detonations on the same property, what are you afraid of? The waste is in sealed containers and in the near future they will come up with a way to reuse/recycle it. 30 years ago did anyone envision a portable phone that is less than a third of the size of your wallet? Technology is always advancing, and Nevada could be the place for all the research facilities and JOBS to create the future. Yucca Mountain would be an economic boom for the state. Reid is too shortsighted to see that and needs to be replaced by someone with vision...not bifocals with blinders. You should visit the Yucca Mountain Info Center in Pahrump. The true story is being told there.
Hey DinoDB:
Cesium and plutonium two of the deadliest nuclear materials contained in these casks have half lives in the tens of thousands of years. Here's a little lesson: one lb of plutonium has a half-life of 10,000 years. That means in 10,000 from now there will be half-a pound of plutonium still existing and just as deadly. Give it another 10,000 and 1/4 lb will still be around and just a deadly. You do the math until there is none of it left....how long would that be?
I know of no man-made structure or material man has build or produced, or could conceivable build that has lasted, or would last 10,000 years; and, man himself has been here for millions of years. The pyramids and similar structures are about 2,000+ years, no where near the 10,000 of this deadly poison.
What makes you think that stainless steel casks, no matter how well built will not be able to corrode and leak or leach the poison into the soil and eventually into the water table at Yucca. Ground water studies show that that water eventually percolates into the Virgin River which feeds into the Colorado.
There is no guarantee that a new fool proof safe method will be found to recycle and use the stored nuclear wastes. In 50 years or so, many, if not most politicians will have forgotten about Yucca Mount Repository just like they have forgotten about World War II and the Nazi Concentration Camps.
Your heart and sentiments are in the right place, but your solution, in my opinon, is hopeful but all wrong and a very dangerous gamble for us in this part of the west. Why risk it ? Close Yucca Mtn or turn it into a federal pen to house dangerous terrorists.
Mr Warrick, nobody needs you telling them how to vote. Especially someone that is obviously as biased as you are.
1st in polls most Nevadans just don't care about Yucca one way or another. Personally, I think it is very safe. It is next to an area that we tested nuclear bombs above and below ground many times. It would bring billions to the state and good high paying jobs.
2nd, Reid was done very little for Nevada. We are ranked on the bottom on getting Federal dollars returned back to the state on a per capita basis. We are ranked on the bottom of getting Federal dollars for k-12 students on a per student basis.
This bottom ranking was true for the "Stimulus" bill even though we have one of the worst unemployement rates.
Does he has power? Yes
Does he use the power for is lib friends in DC? Yes and often. He even abandoned his personal belief against abortion to help his lib friends.
Does he use the power for Nevada? Very, very, very rarely
I remember a story that good ol' Harry told one time, it took place in Searchlite when he was a child. He told me that his daddy had a team of mules that would haul goods in from town in a wagon. It was miles to town and having those mules and wagon saved his daddys time and effort.
One day when his daddy was late from coming back from town, Harry noticed that one of the mules was missing from the team. A bit confused Harry went up to his daddy and asked,"Pa, what happened to the missing mule?"
Harry's daddy told him that mules are very hard working animals. Along with a man being able to appreciate mules for their hard work, a man has got to understand that a mule is a very stubborn creature and there will be times that a mule will frustrate a man to no end.
Harry then asked his daddy again, "Daddy what happened to the mule?"
"He found my end", his daddy replied.
No matter what Harry Reid has done for Nevada in the past, was lost even before he became Senate majority leader and forgot about his constituency.
It's Harrys time for the pasture.
I am sure this is not true but it is a good example of Liberal spin...
"Judy Wallman, a professional genealogy researcher here in southern California, was doing some personal work on her own family tree. She discovered that Harry (senator (D) from Nevada) Reid's great-great uncle, Remus Reid, was hanged for horse stealing and train robbery in Montana in 1889. Both Judy and Harry Reid share this common ancestor.
The only known photograph of Remus shows him standing on the gallows in Montana territory.
Remus Reid
On the back of the picture Judy obtained during her research is this inscription:
'Remus Reid, horse thief, sent to Montana Territorial Prison 1885, escaped 1887, robbed the Montana Flyer six times. Caught by Pinkerton detectives, convicted and hanged in 1889.'
So Judy recently e-mailed Senator Harry Reid for information about their mutual great-great uncle.
Believe it or not, Harry Reid's staff sent back the following biographical sketch for her genealogy research:
'Remus Reid was a famous cowboy in the Montana Territory. His business empire grew to include acquisition of valuable equestrian assets and intimate dealings with the Montana railroad. Beginning in 1883, he devoted several years of his life to government service, finally taking leave to resume his dealings with the railroad. In 1887, he was a key player in a vital investigation run by the renowned Pinkerton Detective Agency. In 1889, Remus passed away during an important civic function held in his honor when the platform upon which he was standing collapsed.'
That's real POLITICAL SPIN! THAT is how it's done folks!"
Good one LV!
and thats how you make sugar out of sh**
Harry Reid will be re-elected next year.
The party of NO is done.
Harry is going to hold his re election party this year over at the teamster's house... Bring your own beer...
Everyone of you are screaming senate. So who is it to handle all problems of nevada slow fox ? Who is the new man/woman. Nevada was mine of gold, where is that gold now.
Was browsing through the new "Clinton Tapes" book yesterday--within the first few pages Clinton says "Harry Reid is the most underrated man in the Senate."
Underrate him at your peril-- he just succeeded in getting a bill passed that no other leader of the Senate has ever been able to. He's going to get health care for 30-plus more Americans. Every big-name Democrat is going to help him in his election next fall, and he WILL be re-elected.
Whoops--"that's 30 million more Americans..."
GIVE EM HELL HARRY.
Harry Reid IS the man.
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It would be a great move for Nevada and an even better one for America to "deep six" Harry "the war is lost" Reid.
I am waiting for Harry's announcement that "the election is lost."
Whithout Reid, Nevada is nowhere.
Give these GOP CREEPS HELL HARRY.
Bozo the clown could do a better job than Harry. Harry and his friends Nancy, Barney, Chris, Charlie and Chuck created the housing mess. They have no idea how to fix it. But you can bet your last dollar they won't admit to having caused it! Harry is a corupt little man and has NO ONES intrests in mind except his own!!F.Y.I. Rory walks in Daddys shoes.
americangirl is spinning right-wing yarns
nobody believes. We're not stupid over here.
George Bush created the housing mess. It will
take Democrats many years to fix.
The lies from the Republicans never end.
girl10, George Bush has an I.Q. OF 91.
Barak Obama has an I.Q. OF 148.
You do the math.
We must not allow our emotions to control our actions, instead allow our God-given common sense to be our guide. Don't permit so-called party loyalty to cause you to vote for something that is clearly against your own best interest.
/s/Bribe em Harry
We Democrats always use common sense.
Teamster must have read "Common Sense" by Glen Beck.
Good read...
Glen Beck is retarded.
Harry Reid, 2010.
My words are the truth, rhooster.
The truth will set you free.
jw456 why would every big Democrat want to jump on a sinking ship?
Teamster , are you trying to tell us that since Barracks IQ is 57 points higher than GWB he's going to scrxw us roughly 1/3 more than Bush?
Love the liberal media.....Here comes the Sun, little darling,....it's allright.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M5Y9X5ggx...
Reid is very popular, a few hate-talkers and their small audience oppose him because they want to bring back the "Mississippi of the west days to Nevada."
An excerpt from an Editorial in yesterdays Las Vegas Review-Journal (GLENN COOK: The taxpayers' worst nightmares come true in 2009):
2. Harry Reid: The scariest thing about the Senate majority leader from Searchlight isn't that he bought off fellow senators with the tax dollars of future generations to get his health care boondoggle passed; it isn't that he wants to finish off our reeling economy with a cap-and-trade scheme to mollify the Democratic Party's global warming cult; and it isn't that he has no intention of ever doing anything to address the crushing unfunded liabilities of Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security.
The scariest thing about the unprincipled Reid is that he doesn't care a whit about the consequences of what he's wrought. Congress screws up everything it touches, and yet he has the gall to include in his health care monstrosity language that says the legislation can never be amended or repealed?
Party politics again, when will we get a clue that it isn't about the party, it is about the ethics of the individual. Show me one thing that Mr. Reid has done that is Right for Nevada and the Country and I will show you a dozen things he has done Wrong for Nevada and the Country. Yes, Mr. Reid will probably be re-elected because he can use your tax dollars to buy more votes than any other candidate. No one wants to talk about the morals (right vs wrong) of the man who came from dirt poor in Searchlight to be the richest man in the US Senate.
Mr. Reid should not be voted out, he should be imprisoned.
Isn't it funny how people who say we shouldn't forget what Harry Reid has done for Nevada and try to blame it all on George Bush, truly show their ignorance. And in print, no less! Harry Reid thinks we're all dirty, smelly people who are lower than he is. I say we string him up by his big ears and waterboard him into telling us how he made his millions. A story that just hasn't been told by a man who never held a job before. As for the author of this article, I hope you NEVER have a catastrophic disease and have to rely on Obamacare. They'll just say you're not worth saving, give you a pill and send you home to die. THAT IS the substance of Obamacare. Except that all the politicos who voted this crap in, won't have to worry, they have the 'cadillac' of health insurance for life.
How wonderful for them - guess we're just the stupid little peasants who don't know any better.
if harry and his cronies tried to pass this bill in the late 1700's,they would have been hanged for high treason!LETS GET THESE BUMS OUT NOW BEFORE THEY TRY TO TAKE ALL OUR RIGHTS AWAY!!!Go back and read what we TRUE AMERICANS still beleive in,and what OUR troops fight for everyday,OUR FREEDOMS!If we continue to let these libs run our country as "THEY" see fit,we are ALL DOOMED!!!
Teamster..the housing mess actually started with Clinton when he decided it was a right of all Americans to own homes even if they can't afford them..thus he forced banks to lend money to people that had no chance of paying their mortgages. Second your wonderful senator Reid has been in office during this whole thing and what has he done to help? NOTHING. What is he doing to help our state right now? NOTHING, he is trying to pass a healthcare bill that a majority of Nevada does not want and he is not even addressing unemployment, the housing crises, or our terrible school system. Only a fool would vote for this bafoon again!
Forgive me but can you please explain to me as to what he has done for Nevada? He did absolutly nothing to help out the Hotel Industry here after the great bashing of business travel by President Obama, he did nothing to protect our interests in Las Vegas. He should have stepped in immediately and said or did something to stop the damage on business travel, but he waited at least 8 months before making any comment or gestures. He has the NERVE to have a commercial telling his voters to call and Thank him? What nonsense was that all about? He does not listen to what we need. If his greatest attribute to his tenure was Yucca Mountain, then he did not create jobs, did not increase the Las Vegas Economy, he actually hurt us recently by costing the city well over a half a million dollars in revenues by not having FEMA conduct their exercises here which cost hotels that bid on the room nights $250,000 in potential room revenue alone. And now he is the self proclaimed champion of CityCenter, give me a break, he called a few banks? come on people wake up, Harry Reid is going down for the count and his mission is to have a legacy left behind, and the only one he can find left is Health Care. And if you look at the health care bill, you can see that the lobbying going on by the Senators to get individual items for their states is not any different then what has been going on for decades. Harry did you get anything for Nevada while you are at it? What a phony, he needs to be voted out like the rest of them, and I don't care what party they are with as long as they continue this trend. Good luck Harry, try not to take the country down with you and please extend the same thoughts to the other politicians like Mr. Franks, and Ms. Pelozi, what a group!!!
Amenm it wouldn't just be a bad move, it would be a catastrophic move.
Sue Lowden is a joke, one minute she claims Reid doesn't deliver for Nevada, and then when proven wrong she claims he's wasting money. She wants to have it both ways. Lowden couldn't even run the state Republican Party, how's she going to come close to the kind of clout Harry Reid has in the Senate?
I always see these casual accusations of corruption about Harry Reid, never any specifics beyond "Shady Land Deal" etc. If you have charges bring 'em, you don't though and you know it. You really think if the insane people who run the Republican Party had something, they wouldn't push it. Meanwhile you right wing tools excuse John Ensign, the hypocrite and Jim Gibbons the boob. Reid delivers, if he didn't he wouldn't be the target of the fools who brought down the economy.
If we the voters are to give Harry Reid another term in the Senate, we MUST put forth a list of propositions that he MUST sign off on with no ability to retract once re-elected. These are the concerns of producing more for the State of Nevada. Things like expediting the High speed train(s) , getting more diversity of businesses attracted to the state by relaxing restrictive taxes etc. Lastly, he MUST work with the Casino companies and work on making the industry more accessible to common folks as it used to be, if the industry expects to recover.
I think the smart response is to never accuse Harry Reid of being corrupt, but it would be great if someone could accurately explain his involvement in our state politics, while he and the other Hollywood grandstanding fools concentrate on Obama's legacy towards personal greatness. I guess unless you are in the Hotel business you will never understand the effect that the "no business travel" approach had on our economy and how OUR Senate majority leader remained silent thoughout.
Harry has plenty of clout in the Senate. He has enough clout to bribe anyone he likes.
"Bribe em Harry" delivers to those who deliver to him.
unless you are in the Hotel business you will never understand the effect that the "no business travel" approach had on our economy and how OUR Senate majority leader remained silent thoughout.
Vegassuite : Particularly good point, people should remember that back in the fifties, Senator Pat McCarran was able to put the kabosh on the McClellan commitee investigation on gambling. He stood up for Nevada and fought for his state unlike the little monkey Reid...
Sen. Reid has successfully done for the state of Nevada and his cohorts during President Obama's time that most politicians dream of when they are lunching at the C Street House to rehabilitate their lovers lost causes including but not limited to Sen. Brownback who is very knowledgeable about Nevada wild horses and wild ...
JW456 says "Underrate him at your peril-- he just succeeded in getting a bill passed that no other leader of the Senate has ever been able to. He's going to get health care for 30-plus more Americans. Every big-name Democrat is going to help him in his election next fall, and he WILL be re-elected."
Sure he succeeded. With bribes coming out of his butt.
I don't get it Teamster and mred, what has Harry done that has helped Nevada? He is the most powerful senator yet Nevada get 45% of their federal funds back. 45 cents on the dollar. That is a terrible investment. Nevada ranks 49 on federal funding. Harry certainly has been working to recover any of of that money. Instead that money goes to other states like Mississippi and Louisiana that over $1.70 for every dollar they put in. I am sure that NV would be in better shape with all that money back.
NV would be better served with a Junior Senator that was interested in the state that elected him. All Harry does is spit out bills on the federal level that do not benefit his state since he doesn't need to bribe himself for a vote.
Get the crooked man out!
Bad for Nevada... Maybe
Great for the Country... Definitely!!
Harry Reid is a Worm and his health care reform will be a Disaster!!
Reamster: I was a Teamster, drove Truck in ILL and WI, Local 43. The Teamsters Union I was in caused more divisions and held back good workers from advancing and protected the ones who should have been fired. To say the least, Unions are anti-growth and destroyed Detroit. They are useless as is the Obama Administration and this Congress.
And Reamster, you are Stupid. The Repeal of the Glass Steagall of 1933 is what caused the collapse of the Housing Market. In 1999 on Bill Clintons watch the Glass Steagall Act was repealed which deregulated Investment Banks and S&L Banks. Since you are a lush rocket scientist you already know this. Fat, drunk and stupid will get you nowhere but in a Union.
Replacing Reid would be a bad move for Nevada Liberals. Who else could they put up on a pedestal and worship?
Liberals think that ignorance is bliss. Liberals don't like to show their ignorance, so they just repeat the same old tired lines that they learn when they feed off each other.
good job harry...we nevadans will now be paying for medicad in nesbraska ...
Maybe if Lowden wins she will have a lot of clout.
We need a lightweight, that way we can be on the back burner and ignored! What a bunch of Morons! The right wing has the idea that they are right, and it doesn't matter who gets hurt. Big business and big banks are their masters. The GOP hates unions, and workers. They think small businesses are going to bring our economy back. Every non-descript country in the world has small businesses. We need a vibrant middle-class. Economic policies started under St. Ronald Reagan destroyed the middle-class. All the right wing can do is complain, whine, lie and spew hate. So they will lead us, just like Karl Rove and his Wonderful President W. did. Well, there you again, living in a fantasy!
Reid will get re-elected, because all the minorities and dis-enfranchised will vote for him.
The dis-enfranchised were dis-enfranchised by the right! They(the GOP) Hate working people! Everybody knows that! Well, working people and minorities will not vote for the GOP.
They are not that stupid. The Right Wing will show their true colors, and the people will re-elect Reid!
You Republicans keep crying,crying,crying.
It won't do you any good. You lost,it's over.
You are in the permanent minority for a good
reason. You're greedy,selfish and mean. You
don't care about the average worker in this
country.
Barack Obama,Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi DO
CARE.
"Bribe em Harry" has been so busy representing the Democrats in D.C. that he has forgotten completely about Nevada for some time now...
From Truth Crusader
"Reamster: I was a Teamster, drove Truck in ILL and WI, Local 43. The Teamsters Union I was in caused more divisions and held back good workers from advancing and protected the ones who should have been fired. To say the least, Unions are anti-growth and destroyed Detroit. They are useless as is the Obama Administration and this Congress.
And Reamster, you are Stupid. The Repeal of the Glass Steagall of 1933 is what caused the collapse of the Housing Market. In 1999 on Bill Clintons watch the Glass Steagall Act was repealed which deregulated Investment Banks and S&L Banks. Since you are a lush rocket scientist you already know this. Fat, drunk and stupid will get you nowhere but in a Union."
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Thanks Truth, I could not have said it any better!! The Democrats have always appealed to the uneducated, lazy, union type people.
Sorry Liberals just look inside you know it's the truth.
Amen Dr, about time an educated person commented on this bs!
Good one Teamster! Neener, neener, neener. We won and you lost and that must mean we were right and that must mean that Obama can't do wrong.
You forget that the dems had power during the collapse. You also forget that dem leaders were watching the housing market and Barney Frank said the the market was sound. My guess is that you never new that since you watch MSN that refers to the same name calling and substance less attacks. I have not heard them break down any argument from fox. The best they have done is report that Glenn beck gets paid by goldline and he tells his views that they should invest in Gold. News flash, that is how advertisements work. MSN anchors get paid by their advertisers.
It is harder to do the research and it is more fun to simply say, Neener, Neener REPUBLICANS LOST!
Hey teamster...
Are you referring to the "three musketeers" or the "three Stooges?"
mrability should copyright his comments. He posts his same rants on so many post.
Kinda like a little top, spinning and wobbling and whistling his special type of hate...
Harry Reid can not be replaced until Bernie Madoff completes his tour of duty in the home for wayward Liberals...
Larry,
You beat me to it. Mr.Ability seems to lack the "ability" to write different comments or to leave comments with any substance other than name calling.
I guess sanity is in the eye of the beholder...
"OBAMA HAS DONE MORE IN ONE YEAR THEN BUSH DID IN 8 YEARS TO DOOM OUR COUNTRY."
Could not have said it better myself...
With supporters like mrability, I am sure Harry will go far...
Mr inability,
It must be nice to name call and then call it a good comment.
Seriously, name one good liberal bill and defend it. Name one thing that Obama has done and defend it. He may be a good man but his policies stink and I KNOW that you are unable to defend them.