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By Kyle B. Hansen (contact) 
Thursday, Feb. 18, 2010 | 1:46 p.m.
President-elect Barack Obama walks with Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid on Capitol Hill on Jan. 5, 2008, to a meeting with Congressional Republican and Democratic leaders.
Sun Coverage
Sen. Harry Reid defended the Democratic Party’s agenda and President Obama at two events this morning hours before Obama’s arrival in Las Vegas.
Reid spoke to more than 150 people at a Latino Summit held at UNLV and then rushed to North Las Vegas to speak at a campaign rally at Southern Nevada Paving.
At both events, Reid focused on the major issues he hopes to address in the Senate: heath care reform, job creation and economic recovery.
He said Hispanics are more likely to be uninsured than other groups and even those who are insured are sometimes out to dry by insurance companies.
“We need to do something about health care reform and we are going to do something about heath care reform,” he said.
He defended last year’s stimulus package and said more action is needed.
“We created lots of jobs here in Nevada, but not nearly enough,” he said. “It’s really difficult to explain to someone today that what we did stopped things from getting worse. That’s hard to explain to someone who lost their job or is afraid they’re going to lose their job or their home is going to be taken away.”
The next set of bills will help address that problem, he said, by encouraging companies to hire and creating more construction jobs, without raising taxes.
“This package of bills that we’re going to vote on Monday night at 5:30 doesn’t cost a penny. It cuts taxes and creates jobs,” he said. “How do you beat a deal like that?”
The proposed highway bill alone would provide a million jobs across the country, he estimated, with about 20,000 of those jobs in Nevada.
Reid only briefly touched on immigration reform, saying he thinks it is needed, but after his speech he told reporters that his party has been active in trying to pass immigration reform.
“I have, as the leader, spent more time on immigration reform in the Senate during the last Congress than on any other issue,” he said. “We’ve done our job. We’re just waiting for a little help from the Republicans and that’s why all the public opinion polls all around the country show that about 75 percent of Hispanics support Democrats, because the Republicans have turned their backs on them.”
Reid also took advantage of opportunities to defend Obama, while others – most vocally, Las Vegas Mayor Oscar Goodman – have called for Obama to apologize for his remarks about Las Vegas.
“The president loves Las Vegas, he has written me a letter saying he is sorry he said things,” Reid said. “We all say things that don’t turn out just right, I can vouch for that. But the fact is, he loves Las Vegas, his staff loves Las Vegas and I think the fact that he is meeting with the Chamber of Commerce and the convention authority speaks well of how they feel about a visit from him.”
Obama is scheduled to arrive at McCarran International Airport about 6 p.m. to attend a fundraiser this evening for the Democratic National Committee, a public event Friday at Green Valley High School and a private meeting at Aria before leaving Friday afternoon.
No one is listening to your lies anymore Harry Reid. Stop the spinning and step aside..
created what??? Jobs? where? really? boy is the B.S. getting deep....call in the bulldozers scrape up obama and harry and get them outta here....
vote the liar reid out in 2010!
vote the biggest liar out in 2012...goodbye to both of you....
Harry just doesn't get it. Send him a copy of the Constitution, he seems to have forgot about it.
http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.vie...
Obama lied.
Reid lied.
How many and where in Nevada were these jobs created?
What planet is this guy on? Better yet, 'what is he on?'
How does he lie with such a straight face? I think he may be some long lost relative of obummer's. I hope to see news of two plane crashes today
The only liars here are you greedy republican
crooks. You right-wing nuts ruined this economy
and you know it. 8 years of republican lies.
Harry Reid and President Obama are the best
thing that ever happened to this country.
You republican crooks should cower in shame
for what you have done to this country.
Don"t forget Gibbons the Govenor, he's no better in this mess with Obama and Reid. Your right were are the jobs and were, were they put and to whom are the lucky ones hired. Hello they should get a clue. they'll lie about everything.
teamster :
Your a brainwashed idiot! don't forget Harry, Nancy, Barney, Chris, ALL DEMOCRATS who pushed through the Real Estate boom and blow out!! DON'T FORGET THIS AS YOU RANT AWAY YOUR BS!!!!!!!!
Teamster has to be on some sort of Government assistance program.
environprotector-
You're a brain dead fool. You right-wing nut-
jobs ruined our economy from top to bottom.
George Bush and his right-wing crew lowered
regulations that caused the housing mess.
You republican fools lied us into Iraq.
YOU FOOLS CAUSED THIS MESS.
Why am I then still having to work out of state away from my family?
I would like to take time to thank Harry Reid for his years of service. Unfortunately while other Dems are piggybacking bills to health care and other ridiculous bills, Mr Reid has totally failed to take care of Nevada. My only hope is for a canidate, irregardless of party, will take over and help us. The country has ignored us, and it is time for action and not BS politicking.
I have emailed Mr Reid multiple times in the prior 3 years and have received a response every time. For this I thank him, but I also addressed issues such as credit card abuse, HVCC, etc, 2 years ago and he gave me the I don't like that response. Never action, just responses. While Mr Cuomo in New York was busy destroying my business, Harry was doing nothing for Nevadans. Pretty sad that he let an AG from New York make deals that ruined my dreams.
All the issues I brought up were eventually proposed as bills by senators in other states. Sad, that my man ignored me, but other states cared enough about their constituents to do something about it. I am a Rep, but have voted Dem on many canidates. Dina Titus has taken action on issues, while Reid worries about Reid. Times up. Thanks and goodbye.
Senator Reid,
please please please...represent your constituerncy, not just the Party. We can NOT afford the Party line any further.
You are leaving. Please don't use us to feather your way into a fat cushy lobbyist or consulting job next year.
Sorry go_rebels- If you think an unknown
republican will do better than Harry Reid,
I have a bridge in Alaska to sell you.
This isn't a Rep or Dem thing... This is a Harry Reid thing. It will all work out come November when he too will be circulating his resume along with the countless others who he has not helped. Bye Bye pal.
Sorry I'm working outside the state or I would be there holding a placard protesting the shame Reid and Obama have brought to Nevada.
cadaver-
Our Teamster crew is the hardest working group
that I have ever seen. You wouldn't last 4 -
hours. Like I said, you republicans ruined
this economy. You are the failure.
Lmao, SNP hosting Reid, They can't stand the idiot yet he's sucking up to them. What a joke, no jobs were saved or created as a result of the stimulus plan, they've let most of their staff go and retained a few Frehner employee's when they merged into their new office. Many people are now unemployed and have no hopes of getting their jobs back there. Reid is a liar just like Obama. OneBadAssMistakeAmerica as I see it.
Go figure, hosting a Latino meeting, these aren't legal citizens otherwise they'd be Americans, not segregated as a special group of people wanting for handouts from our taxes we pay. We're broke and America can't afford to give money to people only because of their race.
How about a white person holiday? Imagine the lawsuits that would be filed claiming racism if the white person received special privileges or token money.
No Teamster name says it all, he a truck driver. Every day is a new education for truck drivers, work with many of them and most are brain dead people, they have no clue yet they claim to know it all. Watch them on projects dumping or loading materials, they can be doing the same thing every day yet they have no clue from load to load.
its2hot- You're another republican fool who
doesn't have a clue what hard work is.
All of the Latinos that I have worked with have
been the hardest working people that I have
ever known.
We threw the republican crooks out of office
for a reason, they ruined our economy.
BOTH Reps and Dems helped push the economy into the sh*# storm we are in. If you disagree, you are simply wrong. From the thousands of Dems and Reps who flipped and reflipped and flipped more houses and took out loans they couldn't afford and greem lit projects they couldn't pay for and made labor agreements that would break the bank and on and on... and these are just the "regular people." Take a look at the Dems and Reps in government. None of them are hurting in the packetbook... Some of you are in denial. Sorry, it's true. Try taking off the blinders of political party because both are to blame as are the lazy Americans who bit*# and whine instead of trying to make change. We are not entitled to everything. We must work for it.
teamster...I bet Palin can see Russia from that bridge also!
You are also right that the Republicans ruined this economy. Don't worry, Obama will fix it over the next year or two. History shows the economy always does better under the Democrats.
What do you expect Harry to say?
He will never say that it didn't work. I hope everyone heard the great news that GM is wanting more money!!!!
Isn't it great teamster!
Hope and Change.... Hope and Change.
Put the blame where it belongs.
George Bush and Dick Cheney sent our country
to hell in a hand basket.
It will take President Obama and Harry Reid
many years to fix.
You republican cry-babies caused this mess and
you know it.
The good guys run this country now.
jr99- You republicans ruined this economy and
don't have a clue on how to fix it.
We threw you bums out, remember?
Uh oh. Now the Dummocrats have the tricke down, voodoo, fuzzy math ecomomic approach.
Tell the 13% who don't have your $15 million to campaign on how good things are, Harry.
Tell them from your Ritz-Carlton suite and lobbyist jets how much you feel their pain, Harry.
The you better run like hell!
Now now Teamster, look in the mirror and be honest with what really occurred and why America is broke. The liberal base spends trillions upon trillions on racists programs that has never produced anything useful let alone meaningful. The liberals have desecrated America and have only one goal, take my money and give it their freeloading welfare recepitants who have no desire to work let alone produce anything useful or meaningful and programs that feed their lunatic environmentalists who seek nothing more than desecrate America. If the liberals really cared they'd wouldn't have a price tag on their morals, they have a price for anything and everything as long it lines their pocket books in some fashions or another. Show me an honest liberal, I'll show you a liar every time.
If you haven't noticed the people are angry and their boiling points are near, a person flew his plane into the IRS building and many others are nearing their end. Liberals are running scared and will stop at nothing to get reelected so they can suck more from us that choose to work and we're letting it be known, liberals are worthless and have no right to be in office, they're a bunch of liars, pricks, and heathens.
I sure hope The President can fix it, but he can't. You see there is this thing called the Congress and this other thing called the Senate. The President doesn't have autonomy over doing "anything" he wants - Republican or Democrat. They must get these things called "bills" passed by a vote which then can become these things called "laws." And, as for H Reid, he can't fix it either, he doesn't have enough time... he'll be gone come November. Sorry.
teamster:
your really a hard core conservative spouting liberal rants to get measured responses from everyone on this discussion board. Ha! you almost had us fooled into thinking you were for real! LOL!!
BTW, you didn't throw any "Republican Crooks" out of office. You see, after 8 years (or 2 four year terms) as President you no longer may be Preseident. The man and woman who ran on the Republican ticket stayed in office after they did not get elected President and VP. One of them is still in office in AZ while the other one stepped down. Sorry.
The laws of mathematics are a bit of a gray area when it comes to politicians. The economy loses 80,000 jobs in January, but the unemployment rate drops 3 tenths of a percent. We don't count those who have given up, I guess they are no longer important to Washington.
The economy loses over two million jobs last year, yet they claim they saved or created 2.4 million jobs. Reid is right, that is hard to explain and make someone believe you.
I know many many many (hundreds) of republicans and democrats here in LV who have taken pay cuts... both salaried and hourly. I myself have taken pay cuts of close to 45%. What concessions have the Teamsters made over the last year to 18 months in terms of lowering their wages and benefits? What have they come to the table with to help keep businesses open and people employed? There may have been some, but I haven't read about it?
its2hot-
You are the perfect example of why we threw
the republican crooks out of the White House.
Obama will be in for 8 years. Thank you.
BTW, you didn't throw any "Republican Crooks" out of office. You see, after 8 years (or 2 four year terms) as President you no longer may be Preseident. The man and woman who ran on the Republican ticket stayed in office after they did not get elected President and VP. One of them is still in office in AZ while the other one stepped down. I'm just saying. Sorry.
Yet another blood sucking liberal lying, whining and complaining about what really occurred. No wonder America is so screwed up!
Sitting here shaking my head - "The next set of bills will help address that problem, he said, by encouraging companies to hire and creating more construction jobs, without raising taxes."
Construction jobs are created by either private enterprise or the government. If private enterprise is going to create jobs here, it is because people have money to spend on the strip which in turn creates demand for new buildings and highways. High taxes prevent people from spending, and companies from growing (which produces construction jobs). If Harry doesn't move his thinking to reduce taxes on all people (especially the wealthy as that is where the real money comes from that funds Nevada) and the private enterprise, the math doesn't compute as to where these jobs and construction will come from. Harry has typically supported increasing taxes on companies and the "wealthy" - but as we are seeing in CA, with the revenues of both companies and the "wealthy" dropping quickly, the taxes collected drop as well. Raising the tax rates only expedites the predicaments of both companies and "wealthy" alike. Harry has got to support a reduction in federal spending so that the ball can get rolling again - this is the same ball that does create jobs via tourism and demand for the products and services of Nevada.
Clinton gave Bush the tech. bubble,Bush gave Obama the houseing bubble, Obama has printed to much money to try to fix this mess. All they are doing is putting bandaids on this mess.We need less Gov. And politicians that listen to the people,and above all Honor the Constitution.
its2hot rants;
"Yet another blood sucking liberal lying, whining and complaining about what really occurred. No wonder America is so screwed up!"
This comment typifies the mysterious right-wing NutJob mentality that lingers here in 2010.
What ARE they smokin'?
Is that was Sarah says?
The goofy Neo-Nuts have no memory of the ruination of their own country by the puppet George W. Bush and his loony-toon
puppetmasters Rove/Cheney/Rummy, and their rich-but-wreckless relatives over on Wall Street.
Come November Harry will be unemployed, but due to his bulls--- in office he will have full salary and full benifits till he dies. I wish the millions of unemployed Americans could get a "sweetheart deal" like that.
Isn't this about the time when teamster says that Obama has a high IQ and the republican got booted?
HARRY REID IS THE MAJORITY LEADER.
republicans can eat crow.
Hey Searchlight Harry! Words are cheap now present the facts on paper where the jobs that were created by the throwing of money at the problem. Just the facts.
***Reid Jobs Bill Gives Tax Breaks for Hiring Illegal Workers
The Federation for American Immigration
February 16, 2010
"Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) unveiled his jobs bill last week that proposes tax exemptions and tax credits for employers who hire and retain workers-----regardless of their immigration status."
Cont'd............
http://www.fairus.org/site/News2?page=Ne...
http://www.numbersusa.com
"Tax Breaks for Hiring Illegal Workers"
Oh what a joke of a talking point this is, folks.
The federal government already outlaws illegal immigrants, making this moot. You know what else this bill doesn't ban? Murder, rape and polygamy. Does that mean murder rape and polygamy are suddenly legal? No.
Teamster,
Nothing lasts forever.
Of course the stimulus created jobs, it also saved jobs. Before the stimulus we were losing 700,000 jobs a month, now it's only 70,000 a months.
It's gonna take awhile for us to dig out of the hole that idiot Republicans put us in, but I know that Obama and Reid can do it.
Very interesting hatred here. You must support the U.S. senator who's too busy paying off his mistress. We are blessed to have a U.S. senator who cares about Nevada and his country enough to try to help them. At least he's doing something to try to make things better. What are those of you who are spewing your hatred doing, other than showing that you don't believe in the Ten Commandments?
Wait a minute. What happened to the age old tenet that unemployment is a function of a free enterprise market system amd that only time can correct the sytematic downward fluctuation?
Only Marxists make statements like Harry "Pinky" Greid.
So there have been lots of jobs created in Nevada? Where are they, Harry? And it took over a year to vote on a jobs bill because you were too busy bailing out GM and the banks and pushing Obamacare behind closed doors; something you have continued to do.
Glad you let us all know how you have spent more time on immigration than any other issue. You didn't have the time to concern yourself with Americans. Guess you also forgot to tell them how Bush tried to get immigration reform, but of course he was a republican.
The part I like best is how Obama and his staff really love Las Vegas. Obama's words didn't turn out right. That part nearly made me barf.
Harry, you're a stinking weasel and you're done in November!
Michael Green: are you the little (small of stature as in poor protoplasm) professor of history at Nevada State College who writes nonsensical articles for Seven Magazine?
Of course the stimulus did not create many jobs, it also did not save many jobs. Before the stimulus, the unemployment rate was 7%. Now its over 10% and still going strong.
This administration would take credit for a job saved even if it was Harry's...
The republicans loons lost more jobs than any
party in history.
Keep spinning,larry, you must be very dizzy.
haha...ya, all those jobs from those districts that don't exist, huh?
dumbama.
Harry Reid:
YOU LIE!
http://aBadReid.com
Bad Reid
Bad Senator
My personal experience is that the stimulus did not create any new jobs for our small school district in California. It simply provided one year's notice for all of the employees that we will terminate at the end of this school year. To those employees who were able to keep their jobs one year longer, I'm sure the stimulus was well worth it and they wish we had more funds. The State of California is sinking hard and fast financially and we will end up laying off more workers because the State will be cutting education more and more. We now have 25% less funding than two years ago. Bigger class sizes and no administrative staff of any type.
There goes Harry again, talking out both sides of his mouth like he always does. Tell up plain and simple just what jobs were created? Your pal obama says millions coming to Vegas is nothing more then an attempt to buy you votes, it won't work Harry.
republican idiots ruined this economy.
They can't stop lying.
Greg: Marco Rubio is coming here for a fundraiser in May. Would you like to attend as my specail guest?
Be careful what you ask for, Mike!
Greg: don't worry, I'm a lawyer and I'll expect you to abide by the rules of decorum. Otherwise, I'll revert to my primordal state and shoot you. The invitation is serious (mike.gino@yahoo.com)
MichelGreen,
Disagreement is not hatred, it is disagreement. Instead of calling people haters, prove their arguments wrong.
"You must support the U.S. senator who's too busy paying off his mistress." That is pure speculation.
Ensign makes mistakes and has lost a lot of support for it but that does not make some of his ideas wrong. How often do people live up to their ideals or to the ideals of others. There are plenty of democrats are notorious for not giving to the poor and drive gas guzzles and have knock boots with people other than there spouses. Bill Clinton lied under oath and John Edwards is still trying to get on his feet. Ted Kennedy killed a woman (I don't think he meant to) and then didn't say anything for hours. Barrack Obama gave far less than 1% in charitable contributions between 2000 and 2004. In 2005 he finally upped the number to 4% when he knew he was being watched more closely. That is still much less than the biblical 10% tithe.
Let's not pretend people are perfect and that they can't disappoint you. I want Washington to have less power because people are flawed and they will disappoint you. I would rather be responsible for my own choices and not for those of everyone else.
Don't get caught up in the game of Democrats and Republicans.