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Sunday, Oct. 10, 2010 | 2:05 a.m.
The differences between the Democratic and Republican candidates in this year’s U.S. Senate race couldn’t be starker — and it’s difficult to imagine the stakes being any higher for Nevadans.
Harry Reid, a Democrat, is majority leader of the U.S. Senate. No Nevadan has ever held such influence in Washington — and in light of how much help we will continue to need from the nation’s capital in these trying times, we’re fortunate Reid is there, delivering financial assistance to our state. On a personal level, the senator is plain-spoken and someone who occupies the sensible center of American politics.
On the other side of the ledger is Sharron Angle, a Reno Republican who is the picture-perfect symbol of the radical right in American politics today. During her brief career as an assemblywoman in Carson City, she was a loner and even alienated nearly all of her fellow Republicans because her views were so extreme.
In normal times, this wouldn’t be much of a contest, and Reid would be able to count on considerable support in his bid for re-election. But these aren’t normal times. Nevada, without a doubt, has been the state hardest hit by the Great Recession. Many Nevadans are understandably angry and want to take out their frustrations on just about anybody who holds public office.
But the current economic situation is hardly Reid’s fault. If anything, the failed economic policies of the George W. Bush administration were principally responsible for where we find ourselves today. The combination of the Republicans’ massive tax cuts and the huge spending on the Iraq war also has put us in terrible shape.
In many respects, this contest is about values — specifically, which candidate’s values most closely are like those of Nevadans. If one simply looks at the facts, it’s clear that Reid, not Angle, shares the values of an overwhelming majority of Nevadans.
For example, on the issue of extending unemployment insurance, Angle claimed that extending benefits during one of this nation’s worst recessions would be wrong, contending it created “spoiled” Nevadans. In contrast, Reid understood that people were hurting and needed temporary help until the economy improves enough.
Reid has led the state’s fight against federal efforts to bury 77,000 tons of high-level nuclear waste at Yucca Mountain, just 90 miles northwest of Las Vegas. The senator’s dogged determination and influence have paid off, as President Barack Obama this year withdrew the license application for the project. But just because the president listened to Reid, doesn’t mean it ends there. If Reid were defeated, rest assured that the nuclear power industry’s advocates would try to gather enough votes in Congress to pass legislation sending nuclear waste to Nevada. For her part, Angle isn’t opposed to man’s deadliest waste coming to this state. Now is not the time for cowardice and Angle’s call to surrender; now is the time for a leader who will continue the fight and help kill the Yucca Mountain project once and for all.
Angle also has said she wants to phase out Social Security and Medicare, two of the most important safety nets that Nevadans and all Americans rely upon. Angle also wants to eliminate key federal agencies, including the Environmental Protection Agency. She additionally believes the new health care law should be repealed. Of course, while she vilifies the government, she has been receiving government-sponsored health care coverage through the insurance benefits of her husband, a former Bureau of Land Management employee. Talk about hypocrisy. And Angle had a miserable record of defending patients’ rights when she was in the Legislature, voting against bills that would have required health insurance companies to cover the costs of colon cancer screenings and providing coverage for autism.
On abortion, Reid is anti-abortion, but he believes if the mother’s life is in danger or if someone is the victim of rape or incest, it should be allowed. Angle takes an extreme view — she doesn’t believe in exceptions. When asked in an interview what she would say to a young girl who has been raped by her father, Angle said “two wrongs don’t make a right” and that girls who seek alternatives to abortion are turning a “lemon situation into lemonade.” This, apparently, is Angle’s twisted view of compassionate conservatism.
She has an alarming tendency to be reckless in her comments. During the Republican primary she casually talked about the prospect of an armed insurrection involving Second Amendment “remedies” in response to recent actions by Congress.
Angle has sought to distance herself from controversial comments and other positions she took in the primary. She even claims that Reid and those in the media are taking her comments out of context. But that is a lie. Reid’s campaign and news organizations are simply repeating her words — to devastating effect — and it’s only after she is criticized for her comments that she runs away from them as fast as she can. Angle is hardly a profile in courage. Indeed, she is a cynical politician, the very kind of politician that Tea Party activists usually rail against.
It’s obvious Angle thinks Nevadans are a bunch of rubes who won’t realize what’s going on here. Her Washington campaign handlers are working overtime to soften her image. Angle’s advisers — and her sycophants in the right-wing media — will tell you her political philosophy is in the “mainstream,” but that is laughable. Don’t be fooled by her smile. Angle is as radical as it gets in politics today — and that is saying something.
Plenty of voters this year are upset with how things are going — many are independents who want to send a message to Washington. But this isn’t a time to send someone to Washington who represents the radical fringe and doesn’t care about seeking common ground on some of the toughest issues facing our state and country — whether it’s negotiating to get Nevada a larger share of water from the Colorado River or bringing more jobs to the state, particularly those in renewable energy.
And, as Nevadans learn even more about Angle’s dangerous views, is it any wonder why a growing number of Republicans are taking the extraordinary step of publicly backing Reid? Some of the highly regarded Republicans endorsing Reid — and refusing to support the Angle — are state Senate Minority Leader Bill Raggio, former Lt. Gov. Bob Cashell and former Nevada first lady Dema Guinn, who Friday also intimated that her late husband, Gov. Kenny Guinn, who died recently, would have backed Reid as well. These are individuals who Republicans have supported and trusted for decades in Nevada. For Raggio, it is the first time he has endorsed a Democrat in a major race. It may not have been easy for him as a Republican, but, as a Nevadan, he has put the state first as he has always done.
We need someone in Washington in a position of influence who understands what it means to be a leader — and who can shoulder the responsibility that comes with it. For those voters who truly want to send a message, vote for the candidate who shares the values of his fellow Nevadans: Harry Reid. The Las Vegas Sun endorses Harry Reid.
Well said, Sun. Sharron Angle is not fit to be a United States Senator.
While in the Assembly, she regularly voted against the interests of her constituents, casting extreme vote after extreme vote. That's why her disappointed constituents refused to send her to Congress four years ago.
Unfortunately, due to Senate rules like "unanimous consent," Sharron could wield unprecedented power in the United States Senate, placing holds on important legislation or appointments.
Reid is not perfect, no politician is, but no one can deny that his position as Majority leader is a position Nevada should not want to give up, especially to replace him with a extremist backbencher in the minority party.
Sharron's extreme and dangerous views have no place in the United States Senate.
Harry Reid's been there too long. He no longer works for the people of Nevada, he works for Barack Obama and the Democrat Party.
This year the people have a chance to elect Sharron Angle -- she's one of us and will represent the people of Nevade very well.
It's time for a change!
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The Las Vegas Sun States "we're fortunate Reid is there, delivering financial assistance to our state."
I did not realizes that was the purpose of our Central Governmen, bur regardless Harry Reid has FAILED to do that
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The Las Vegas Sun States "On a personal level, the senator ... occupies the sensible center of American politics.
As a footsoldier for Obama's war against the consitution and the war for an intrusive big government Harry Reid is not in the Center
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The Las Vegas Sun States "If Reid were defeated, rest assured that the nuclear power industry's advocates would try to gather enough votes in Congress to pass legislation sending nuclear waste to Nevada.
Just how dumb is that statement. Harry Reid NEVER changed the Nationa Waste Policy Act legislation. So Yucca is still the Law of the Land. One that the Government must enforce.
This is now out of Harry Reids control and will be judged in Federal Court Where Harry has lost at every turn.
A positive Volume 3 of the NRC Safety Evaluation Report will be out next month.
So that's our choice...left or right?
Who do you vote for...if they're BOTH wrong?
I have often wondered if ANY of the great empires knew when their time was up...probably not.
Well, I am tired of the "extreme" label used against Angle and other Tea Party candidates. People, do you know who are the "extremes?" Obama, Pelosi and Reid. These people are extreme and they have given a new name to extremism and they are the most powerful today. And they are damaging America on the ratio of 2T deficit a year (last July deficit was 165.04B - if that ratio continues, the one year deficit will reach 2T and that is after reaching 1.2T on Obama's first year, and on Reid's watch of the Senate for 3 years). So, this is an outrageous endorsement of the Las Vegas Sun. Someone should investigate the deals Reid has with those who benefited by his power.
WOW, I came tho this article through the link on RealClearPolitics. I posted my comment before reading the article. Now I read the article. I have never read a more biased article than this. It seems to be written by the Reid's campaign. Unbelievable they are still blaming Bush. Remember, things got real bad on the very last year of Bush's administration. Prior to that, in spite of 9/11, our country had enjoyed unemployment under 5%. The economy went real bad because of bad policies implemented on the financial market of real state. If you follow the causes of the problem it was due to liberal policies forcing financial organizations to give loans for people who could not afford it. Those policies, by the way, were put in place by the Clinton administration. And today we have this ridiculous claim that it was Bush's fault. How long we are going to buy this bull?
I can understand being deeply disappointed, or more accurately, being OUTRAGED by how INEPT this democratic congress and its president have been.
You look at unemployment, you look at the debt, you look at our international prestige WITHERING, then you look at what's going on in Washington and it makes your blood BOIL.
But as furious as I am at democrats, I still cannot understand voting for the republican party. This is a party whose commitment to reducing the national debt is about as serious as Wild E Coyote's commitment to laying off The Roadrunner. This is the party that GOT US into this mess (where were any of these tea parties when Bush and Boener were signing unpaid for prescription drug plans and indulging in an orgy of federal spending like ridiculous cost plus contracting in Iraq?).
Then you look at Sharon Angle and you see that the Republican party hasn't matured a whit -- it's started this political cycle as a party of cunning fine printers channeling economic growth into the top tax bracket, and devolved even further into a racket mobbed by econ illiterates who think the solution to a national consumer debt crisis is to nix social security and act like Reaganesque Values will somehow sustain the 70 percent of our GDP growth that is based on retail (a percent that is heaven knows higher in the so-called heartland).
This would be a great year for Ross Perot. Or John Anderson. Or heck, I'd even consider voting for Ralph Bloody Nader or some combination of Jesse Ventura and Mick Jagger or what have you, but how can I honestly vote for people who tell voters they'd like to get rid of the Department of Education. If that's what they're saying as CANDIDATES what part of the country do you think they hold too sacred to sell out when the campaign ends?
I support this editorial and so will those that have not been brainwashed by the constant stream of lies being dished out 24/7 by the radical extremist republicans that have no truths to support them, no record of accomplishment, and therefore no political legitimacy.
Their supporter know this but they are still willing to lie to cover up all of their party's miserable failures. The supporters have failed their party by not criticizing them over they years when they were wrong.
The republican party is not a family member that you defend right or wrong. If the republican supporters raise their children the way they support their miserable failure party, heaven help all of us.
Show some maturity--recognize the fact that the party of Eisenhower is dead, taken over by radical extremists that could care less about you and yours. Your party has blinders on and is driving the party machine into destruction. The least you could do is take those blinders off the irresponsible fools and give them a positive attitude adjustment--kick zzz.
I feel the editorial did not go far enough in branding Angle as an isolationist who thinks saying no to everything except for her husbands pension and her government paid health care which if it is not paying for clozapine, loxapine, olanzapine or quetiapine yet, surely will be paying for it at one point in time.
She is a user of users (If I get to say my web address on their shows, I make big bucks) and has redefined hatred by putting a new label on the jar, but hatred and petty jealousy it has listed on the label as ingredient one and two.
It is apparent that some 45% of Nevadan's don't know how to read labels. If they don't wake up soon it may take 6 years to get over the buyer's remorse.
Nevada has the highest unemployment in the nation. Harry Reid has supported every program offered up by the 'progressive' Obama and his cohorts. He helped ram through Obamacare, which was sold as a way of increasing benefits and reducing costs, both of which are patently untrue and the opposite of what is happening. This one program is causing elderly to pay more for decreased coverage because Reid supports the $500 billion being cut out of Medicare.
His biggest supporters are the unions, who have been exempted from this health care fiasco. He has also tried to get Nevada exempted from a program he supported nationally....is this a 'steady' hand, or a heavy hand? It is time to get a person in place who is interested in fiscal and personal responsibility, not one who is married to special interests and patronage. Vote for Angle!!
Note to my fellow Nevadans: John Ensign will still be in power for another two years. If you vote Sharron Angle into power for six years, how many of those years do you expect to spend counting the days until you get the chance to vote her out of power? And when 2016 finally comes around, will you once again find yourself saying, "Anyone but ..."
What an absurd endorsement. Reid has been on the public teat for decades now. His leftist support of the Obama agenda alone makes him unfit for NV or the Senate. NV has a huge unemployment rate which Reid's legislative acumen has only worsened. Some of the comments seem to imply that only Angle will take a govt. pension. Oh pulesze. Harry has been at that game now for many terms. His Lost the War comment shows his instability as a person who wants our military to prosper and he also is against the ballots of our military being counted because of silly absentee rules the Dems passed in the first place. He stands for Cap and Trade, no use of our own domestic energy resources and his Care vote alone should eliminate him from serious contention. The Propaganda from the Left and the Journo-List MSM has made Sharon a cartoon. She is not though the idea-less Left will portray her as that. She will vote against Care, is for secure borders which few Dems think are necessary being of the open borders crowd and is for American energy use.
This editorial is nothing but left wing propaganda & lies. Harry Reid is incompetent and should be kicked out of office. Don't believe me? Check out anywhere on youtube a video interview where he says paying Federal Income taxes is voluntary & you don't have to pay them.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R7mRSI8yW...
Harry Reid's policies have caused the financial meltdown. Look up the facts. Democrats took hold of Congress in 2006 & its been downhill ever since. Harry Reid has been in charge.
What the Sun has conveniently left out is Harry Reid's history of corruption. First there is his taking money from mob pimp Joe Conforte of the Mustang Ranch, as reported by Don Williams his original campaign manager (polygraphed). Then there are Reid's actions on the Gaming Commission, where he was labeled Mr. Cleanface by Kansas City mob conduit Joe Agosto (the Tropicana was conveniently represented by Reid friend Jay Brown, later sanctioned by the SEC for infractions with crook Deil Gustafson). Then there was Rory Reid and Jay Brown's Table Mountain Indian Casino scam in Fresno. Add in Harry mentoring crooked Commisioneers Dario Herrera and Erin Kenny who went to jail in the G-Sting scandal. Who could forget Harry's sweetheart treatment of Harvey Whittemore at Coyote Springs, now defunct but being bailed out by another solar boondoggle. Then there is the payoff to Sig Rogich where Reid conveniently switches his support to a train that can't make the grade past Victorville, just to buy Rogich's creation of Republicans For Reid (a group of insider toadies groveling for cash from Baron VonReid). Then you have City Center, which is headed for bankruptcy but was bailed out by Reid to save his long time buddy and biggest donor Kirk Kerkorian (only the truly dense would believe Reid bailed out the project for Nevadans when there were a dozen other projects that also needed help - what's in it for Harry). Harry Reid is as corrupt as it gets and everyone knows it, he has been taking payoffs for decades. But the Sun just sweeps the truth under the rug, and pretends Harry Reid is some kind of saint when it is common knowlege he has used his poition over the BLM as a piggy bank. If Sun reporters were journalists they would interview some locals and they would find countless stories of money under the table, but the Greenspun's won't allow it.
No surprize here. This rag is a far-left leaning rag. Nevada is worst in the nation in Foreclosures, a 9.6 % unemployment rate in the nation, 14.3% in Nevada, and a whopping 14.8% in Las Vegas and climbing. Reid lives and pampered in a glass house in D.C called The Carlton Ritz while his constieunts back home are literally struggling to seek employment and losing their homes. The dismal performance of Harry Reid goes on and on and The Las Vegas Sun endorses this man. I beleive The Las Vegas Sun is as out of touch with common Nevadans as Harry Reid is.
I further beileve that if objectivity was staring The chief editor of "The Las Vegas Sun" in the face he wouldn't even know what it was. Let's face it The Sun will ALWAYS endorse any knucklehead with a (D) next to their name, period.
"A steady hand," for sure in enabling destruction of the Nevada and national economies. His key role in writing and enacting the Obama/Pelosi/Reid agenda must be stopped and reversed and removal of Reid's 'steady hand' is of paramount imprortance.
Vote Angle, is my recommendation, from a Red State, where, I will vote for a 'Democrat' for re-election, because, he has consistently voted against the Agenda, mentioned above.
The editorial is written fairly, and the Sun has made its preference clear.
I won't deal with Sharron Angle's rather bizarre and extreme personal beliefs or her obvious inexperience being in the media spotlight. She is greatly weakened as a candidate by her personal ideas.
However, she does come with one advantage over Senator Reid. Angle knows how to say no to spending, something Reid, like Obama, is incapable of.
Having more "loners" in Congress might start to turn the orgy of spending around. The incumbents cannot stop spending.
Comment removed by moderator. Name-calling.
I just have to laugh at the comments calling this editorial biased, non-objective, and slanted especially from those who rarely provide a legitimate fact in their opinions.
What is the second word above "Harry Reid for Senate"? Hint: EDITORIAL
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/e...
Palmettohawk, "he [Reid] says paying Federal Income taxes is voluntary & you don't have to pay them."
Of course, that's not what Reid says. But you'll argue that he said we have a voluntary tax system. That is not what you quote him as saying. Reid does not say "paying Federal Income taxes is voluntary & you don't have to pay them." Yet another right-wing lie. Obviously your playbook requires you to make up "facts" because you can't have an honest discussion, but please feel free to change.
The word "voluntary," as used in Flora and in IRS publications, refers to our system of allowing taxpayers to determine the correct amount of tax and complete the appropriate returns, rather than have the government determine tax for them. The requirement to file an income tax return is not voluntary and is clearly set forth in sections 6011(a), 6012(a), et seq., and 6072(a). See also Treas. Reg. 1.6011-1(a). http://hubpages.com/hub/What_the_word_Vo...
The teaparty nuts bash Islam, Scientology, but hold off on Mormonism, till one of them gets close to being President like Romney, then they circle the wagons. Obama condemned Rev. Wright, Angle won't condemn her anti-Mormon preacher.
Schumer would make a better Senate leader anyway.
I can't believe some of you calling Sharon Angle Comrade. Harry Reid has been the biggest supporter of the Administrations Marxist and socialist policies. Maybe the people using the comrade title are too ignorant to know that the term was used by USSR Communists and not conservative Capitalists. If you like Harry Reid better than Sharon Angle so be it, but don't show your ignorance.
GR, if you're familiar with some of the commenters here, you won't be surprised by anything. But since you mention Socialism:
"Socialism? Hardly, Say Socialists" http://www.businessweek.com/bwdaily/dnfl...
Testing, testing...to see if I get banned for nothing. This close to an election most people have already made up their mind. Just dont forget to go and vote.
President Obama, Speaker of the House of Representatives--Nancy Pelosi, Senate Major ity Leader__Harry Reid and the Democrats accomplishments:
Health care reform
Stimulus bill/ARRA
Student loan reform
Lily Ledbetter Fair Pay Act
Credit card regulations
stricter tobacco regulations
National service bill
Nuclear arms deal with Russia
Global non-proliferation treaty
Hate crimes prevention act
Land protection act.
Historical Democratic political accomplishments,
htttp://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&
Republican accomplishments-http://www.republicanoffen.com/ders
Your quote - "No Nevadan has ever held such influence in Washington" - may or may not be true but please do not forget - Paul Laxalt. A former Governor of our state, and US Senator from 1974 to 1987. Truly a close friend of President Ronald Reagan.
Not that it will impact this election - but in the history of Nevada Paul Laxalt should always be remembered for his great work for the state of Nevada (and as the last fellow to beat Harry Reid...)
HOPE AND CHANGE, I got some change in my pocket, Hope it lasts till November, In PA we conservitives will Win, go LOU GO,,,,,,,,,
Federal law already has mandated free health care for anybody, who can dodge the US border Guards, plus education for their children and an overcrowded prison system. Estimates are over a hundred billion dollars a year, with a large proportion spent to support the instant citizenship of babies intentionally born here. None of these massive taxpayer funds cover the draining of public welfare at the State, County and city outpouring of welfare payment in services and cash. IF THE UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT WAS EVER HONEST ABOUT STOPPING THIS UNVOICED INVASION, THEY WOULD HAVE MADE ILLEGAL ENTRY INTO AMERICA A FIRST CLASS FELONY. It's easy to speculate that the majority of illegal aliens who appear here are far from the highly educated, the individual and their families that are not business owners, wealthy or those with any special abilities. This cut throat illegal labor are sought by degenerate employers, for the value of no traditional obligations of offering benefits such as health care. Once again the US taxpayer takes up the slack for these federal obligations of free emergency room visits, free schooling for their kids, that has exploded in billions upon billions of dollars throughout this sovereign land.
The people who flee from south of the border, Latin countries, Asia are people who have no job skills, desperate and penniless. They come to USA with the compliments of their countries officials, since our society has been negligent and a dumping ground with a border easily circumvented. American taxpayers have become unfortunate subservient pushovers by years of our administration in supporting these recipients of our welfare system. They arrive from countries that are overpopulated through religious conviction, dictatorships and our nation has developed into a behemoth relief valve to all other lands woes. Below our border those governments have never placed any restrictions on their people illegally migrating here, explicitly since estimates of 60 billion dollars are transferred from the illegal workers remittances to their foreign banks annually. The newest outrage is that foreign governments and corporations can now lawfully influence Americans, through paying for expensive political ads according to a ruling of the Supreme Court. This is a dangerous presidence as their is no measure to disclose the organization who is spending millions of dollars to alter the course of our people's future?
It's been the obligation of both parties and is they are entirely to blame through the years. This DOJ states they are arresting more illegal aliens than ever before, but what they are silent about--it's only the criminals and for the most part they are releasing average illegals without a criminal history back to our streets. YOU CAME TO THE US WITHOUT BEING INSPECTED, YOUR A CRIMINAL.Democratic Senator Barbara Boxer, who has used the race card and has the same Modus Operandi as Sen. Harry Reid in enacting new laws to maintain illegal immigration. First bill in the next session of the Senate will be another try at Amnesty by Reid, Pelosi and Napolitano. Voting--YES--on funding Sanctuary Cities (March 2008), even when deaths at the hands of illegal alien criminals has spiraled out of control; Voted--YES--on Comprehensive Immigration Reform--Amnesty; Voted--NO--In declaring the English official language of government; that would save millions of dollars in judicial documents in 176 foreign languages and professional translators for court appearances (June 2007).
Voted--YES--on another Guest Worker program (May 2006), resembling the 1986 Immigration Control and Reform Act gave Amnesty that upped the population and in addition voted--YES--on illegal aliens being able to participate in our Social Security system (May 2006), that is on the rocks now and then providing Social Services to non citizens. Heaven help us---Americans have worked all their lives to collect Social Security, to keep them afloat for the rest of their lives. But Barbara Boxer has attracted the people's outrage to join the rest of the Liberal crowd to enact this legislation, allowing foreigners who have never paid into this financial pool access to our Social Security? In my view as a Tea Party advocate--ALL these incumbents should be shown the road out of town, tarred and feathered. Sharron Angle is backed by the Tea Party as the lady isn't a panderer to foreign nationals who have squatted here and every corner of this country. The Tea Party is not connected to the Liberal press fringe, such as The Los Angeles Times and the Huffington Press
Los Angeles County is a prime example is just one haven for illegal aliens where expenditures will keep skyrocketing upwards, if the majority of Democratic Liberals in Sacramento are not removed. California cannot pay its bills, because the amount expended to support the 2.5 million illegal alien households in the county. In the midterm elections watch cautiously illegal aliens violating federal voting laws. Be particularly observant of absentee balloting, as it's not that complicated for foreigners to vote and alter the direction of voting numbers. The whole system of "Honor Voting" has been compromised in the last ten years and may have severe implications in close races in LA and in every other precinct across the country. The Tea Party, moderate Conservatives neither genuflect to either the GOP elites or the Liberal Democrats. Learn who is buying and selling your families future, by allowing this rising incursion into our country.
The all mighty Sun has spoken. Now just do opposite Nevada and things will improve. Reid will continue to hurt Nevada's chances of recovering and regaining the trust and respect of the nation. The sun claims Mr Reid shares our values. Do you accept that because the Sun says it. I didn't think so. Reid is a failure and an embarrassment
Well said LV Sun, well said!
Dear wingnut, Please let us know the record of political accomplishments by the bush/cheney miserable failure mis-administration.
What are the political accomplishments of "Lemons to Lemonade Angle?"
What are the political accomplishments of republican Senator John Ensign? No, not that.
What are the political accomplishments of Jim Gibbons?
What are your political accomplishments?
I am waiting for the answers, and have been for quite a long time. You wingnuts seem so willing to support just about any candidate that wears the tarnished republican label. Why?
If voting for free enterprise, free speech, against big bailouts, against insider back door deals, against more taxes to benifit a few, 2nd amendment rights, smaller government.........is crazy. I'l take crazy anytime.
Harry is a great politician. He can spin a web and get the peasants to believe what he needs em to believe using fear and intimidation. (fear that sharron is crazy, intimidation that he and Nevada are number 1).
I don't want what Harry is selling. But who am I other than the guy that has to pay the tab!
LOL, thank you, Republicants and TeaBaggers, for your gift of June 8th. The Crazy Bagg Lady is truly a gift that keeps on giving. I will continue to treasure your gift through November 2nd. Alas, after then I believe it's shelf-life will have expired. But thank you, again, so much for your gift.
Give 'em hell, Harry Reid! Good luck on Election Day vs. the Wacko "Juice" Lady!
In Jan.,2007, Democrats took over majorities in the U.S. House and Senate, constitutionally assuming control of the "nation's purse strings"
Let us recap the accomplishments of their four years of "crony socialism:"
2007 - Energy crisis & $5/gal gas (Congress sits on their collective hands - Harry Reid defines Democrat's energy policy: "Oil is dirty.")
2007-8 - Financial & Mortgage crisis (Congress passes 1 trillion dollar TARP fund & Obama elected President.)
2009 - Unemployment hits double digits (Congress passes 1 trillion dollar "Stimulus" bill which primarily goes back into more government spending - deficit increases 1.5 trillion dollars)
2010 - Unemployment unaffected by "Stimulus" spending stays at or near 10% (Congress passes 2.6 trillion dollar ObamaCare over objections of 2/3's of Americans - deficit increases another 1.5 trillion dollars or double the amount the Democrats assumed in '07)
Poverty rate hits 20% (44 million Americans), bankruptcies at record level & mortgage defaults at historic highs (2.3 million have lost their homes since Dems took power).
Dems fail to pass budget or extend the Bush tax cuts and as a last grand finale, Zoe Loftgren has Steve Colbert -- the comedian -- "testify" before her committee on "immigration reform" only to be invited to leave when he does what he does -- comedy.
The Sun REALLY wants six more years of The Great Recession?? Well, the rest of America REALLY doesn't. Elect Sharon Angle. Thank you.
"What a fool believes, no wise man has the power to reason away." Michael McDonald
A fool and a philanderer.
That's what you'll have in Angle & Ensign.
And this will benefit Nevada how, exactly???
Gaffe after gaffe after gaffe.
And yet, STILL she has a shot.
Inexplicable, Confounding, defying all logic.
Beyond belief.
Crazy!!!
Juice Box?
I'm having a hard time reconciling this Sun editorial with reality:
"On a personal level, the senator is plain-spoken and someone who occupies the sensible center of American politics." REALLY?!? How many racist and intolerant comments have oozed from his mouth, from his stereotype of Hispanic voters to demonization of anyone who disagrees with him. Sensible, huh?
"But the current economic situation is hardly Reid's fault. If anything, the failed economic policies of the George W. Bush administration were principally responsible for where we find ourselves today. The combination of the Republicans' massive tax cuts and the huge spending on the Iraq war also has put us in terrible shape." REALLY?!? "Bush's Wars" in the Middle East (that Reid supported before he opposed) cost less in total than the Reid/Obama/Pelosi "stimulus" pork that went to unions and government employees, not the economy. And the big non-military driven deficits didn't start until Pelosi/Reid won majorities in 2006. But for the Sun, facts are inconvenient things.
"Now is not the time for cowardice and Angle's call to surrender" REALLY?!? Is the Sun really going to call Reid's opponent a coward when HE cried "the war is lost" in Iraq because he lost his spine before his generals did?
Say what you will about Angle, she certainly has her weirdness about her, supports some positions I never would. But to that ends there'd have to be 60 Senators elected who were just as weird for it to matter, so that's just a distraction from the reality of what Reid's Senate record is responsible for. Where it does matter is getting our economy going by stopping the massive growth of the public dole created under Reid/Obama/Pelosi and the tax burden it's created that drags our economy down and condemns our children to our debt.
The Sun has this much right: "In many respects, this contest is about values". That's true, and on the issues that matter to the majority of Nevadans and Americans that actually stand a chance of becoming public policy I'll take Angle's values over Reid's any day!
Mikeygrr:
OK -- the war is over in Iraq, what did we win there?
A gold medal?
A new trading partner?
More security for Israel?
What did we get Mikeygrr?
Frau Angle's support comes from out-of-state fascist pundits and well fed white social security recipients who show up at her backwoods mini-Nuremberg rallies. Frau Angle is the smiley faced fascist whose votes will come from the christo-fascist and anti-Reid element. Our California transplant neighbor put an "Angle for Senate" sign on his front lawn. He might as well have put a sign up saying "I am an idiot". We, of course, placed a "Reid for Senate" sign right next to our property line, to disturb his "Faux News" view of reality.
HARRY REID IS DOING A GREAT JOB.
Sorry teabaggers, we're keeping him.
Angle seems like a disturbed person. It's interesting to me that she has such a close, evangelical relationship with God, yet the God of biblical times would never have carried a gun or voted Republican.
So, the God of biblical times would have allowed abortions, same sex marriage and Harry Reid you say?
I did not know Las Vegas had a liberal "progressive" newspaper... I visit there twice a year from the Midwest and was surprised to see this article.
Your Sen. Harry Reid is closely aligned with Obama, and Nancy Pelosi, and George Soros. Seems to me that if you vote for Reid, you're supporting Obama and Pelosi. Isn't Obama the one that said "don't come to Las Vegas"? I did not believe him on that one either, but it sure seems like you folks Las Vegas would not support Obama.
It speaks volumes when his campaigning son decides not to use the family name in pursuit of votes. Any pro-Harry supporters care to respond?
Give it your best shot
One can only hope and pray that the people of Nevada will not be stupid enough to send Harry Reid back to the US Senate for another 6 years. Yes, Sharon Angle is a poor candidate. But Bozo the Clown would be a better choice than Harry Reid. He's the poster child for everything that's wrong with Washington today.
Not only that, but in my mind he's a traitor as well, standing up on the Senate floor in 2007 to declare "THE WAR IS LOST!" in order to score political points for himself when our brave troops were fighting and dying in Iraq. (Oh, and it turns out that the war wasn't lost after all, was it, Harry?)
In short, he is pond scum. Please do your country a favor and send him into permanent retirement on November 2nd.
what a flippin flip flopper . she changes her views every day . is it that she can't make up her mind as to what she believes in or does she claim to change her mind when the polls tell her it's a stupid position . or does she not remember what she said 5 minutes ago .
JFV:
Saddam's Iraq:
- Was state sponsor of terrorism (paid $25k to families of suicide murderers, yes in Israel, an important ally, the only truly democratic nation in the Middle East, the only nation in that region that doesn't execute gays and doesn't treat women like dirt. As a liberal those should be values of tolerance you desire and want to see more of in world, or is it only in the US and Europe you care about civil rights? Suppose you're okay with forcing your values on citizens of the western world, but you let your alter ego need to repress and inner racist support the intolerance endemic to the rest of the Middle East)
- Tortured, gassed and executed millions of its own citizens (Kurds, Shi'a, parents of random 12-year old girls that sons Uday and Qusay gang-raped in front of before murdering them)
- Invaded its neighbors, built extensive WMD program that continued to threaten region (yes, WMD's were found in Iraq, though not at the deliverable stage the world's best intelligence agencies believed it to be pre-invasion- many believe moved to Syria during pre-war coalition build up - it was a far worse threat in terms of ramp-up capability according to non-partisan Duelfer Report)
- Destabilized world oil markets, able to spike energy costs for every developed nation (resulting in manipulating production, quality of life for all people)
- Millions of Iraqi's dying from abuse of UN sanction program where "Oil for Food" proceeds were used by Sadam and his Sunni henchmen, abetted by France, Germany, Russia at the cost of the starvation and illness of ordinary Iraqi's
- Sanctuary given to Al-Qaida, convicted and escaped PLO fugitives and other notorious international murdering criminals
Today's Iraq:
- Not a state sponsor of terrorism
- Does not torture, gas, execute rape its own citizens
- Not a threat to neighbors
- No WMD program or capability
- Continues to expand oil production capacity, has capability to offset Iranian manipulation of market
- Food, medicine getting to all Iraqis now, not just corrupt, connected profiteers
- Terrorists, fugitives in Iraq hunted rather than given sanctuary
- Yes, possible new trading partner in Middle East. Though you meant to be snarky and sarcastic history shows region stabilizing effect of trade on previous hostile relations, i.e. Japan, Germany success stories
And just think, JFV, we got all that over the past 7-8 years for a total monetary tab that's less than the combined total of stimulus and bailout Reid/Obama/Pelosi spent the past year and a half! In terms of Return on Investment alone, I'll take Bush's budget priority over Reid's 10% unemployment producing budget any day. In terms of American military lives lost they are all individually tragic. My tears for them are genuine as I honor their sacrifice. Your tears (if any) for them are of crocodile origin, they serve only as props for a political statement you wish to make.
Mikeygrr:
My son served in Iraq, and is now in Afghanistan. He has packed the belongings of his dead brethren for their final trip home. Screw your crocodile tears.
Bush is a war criminal, and has the blood of at least 5,000 American kids on his hands and well over 100,000 Iraqi's including many babies and their mothers. People who voted for the giggling murderer (there's no weapons over there, he joked in the white house) the first time were forgiven for believing his shtick about compassionate conservatism. The people who voted for him the second time have the same blood on their hands.
You go on reading your pet goat and sleep real soundly. We will have generations of Iraqi's who won't bat an eyelash about nuking us if given the chance. Kill my wife and kids and I will do it to you in an instant.
Don't lecture me, you are a propaganda machine. My proof are buried, in the ground, dead. Your proof needs 50,000 babysitters paid by we the people.
Case closed.
@mikeygrr: And torching the oil wells. Well said. And facts to back it up.
@Danram: I agree. Well said.
@BillSanford: There's a lot of commies and Nazis here, too. No other community would put up with them. Thanks for supporting Vegas.
@KeolaGop: Amen!
@Wedo: (I can't remember what I was going to say. Lucky you.)
The whole country is coming together against Harry Reid to support Sharron Angle.
Reid has had 27 years to prove he is an incompetite. Special interest groups love ol' Harry. Time for the un-represented to take back their country. Dump Harry.
I refuse to believe that my fellow Nevadans are stupid enough to vote for Angle.
The first sentence in the "description" of Sharron Angle is what the establishment really thinks:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/mitchell-b...
Obama condemned rev Wright? Bullcrap.only took 20 years,up to then it was ok to hate white people.Reid wants amnesty,cut medicare to seniors only cares about the Reid family. They both hate America.They both suck.
The Las Vegas Sun endorses Harry Reid for United States Senator? Say it ain't so!
How come Louden has not backed Angle? How come Hannity has not come out to Nevada to back Angle.?
"Comedian?" Dennis Miller came out to do a benefit for Angle and only 37 people showed up.
How come Mike Huckleberry of Fox News has not had Angle on his show? Someone as boring as him?
Why has Glen Buck not backed Angle? Is it because he is a Mormon and Angle does not want his support?
How come Angle has stopped coming on the Alan Stock Show? She only goes on the Heidi Harris Show that has 13 listeners. Stock's has a bigger listener-ship with 43.
Holding Harry Reid responsible for the Bush administration's drunken sailor spending and Obama's adminstrations emergency spending to save us from financial ruin is tantamount to saying that because I didn't wear my lucky hat to the Giants game they lost. You can jump on the bandwagon and say that the Health Care Reform package is "going" to cost us money but that is a debate for another day. It has not added anything to our national debt right now.
Sharron Angle is ignorant, crude and frankly a little bit crazy. Nevada is the entertainment capital of the world - sophisticated and edgy. Is she really the face for it? Can we look forward to a ban on showgirls, gambling, drinking and world class entertainment? Atlantic City is getting more and more appealing. My sister and I are checking it out right the first week in November.
JFV:
Typical tactic for radical leftists like you - smear anyone with opinions you disagree with. "War criminal"? You debase and make the term meaningless by trying to apply it to a leader who had the backing 99/100 Senators (including Reid), a coalition of two dozen nations and the overwhelming majority of Americans when we went into Iraq for the reasons stated above. Just because spineless, cowardly, politically opportunistic politicians of mostly one party decided to dream up "I was lied to" when the war was in its difficult stage doesn't make the leadership into that conflict war criminals.
War criminals were the truly hideous and demonic ones tried and convicted from WWII, Hitler and his cronies, the Japanese military empire leaders, leaders of the Rwandan slaughter and the leaders of the ethnic cleansing we saw in the Balkens in the 1990's. Iraq's leaders under Saddam were war criminals against Kurds of northern Iraq and the Marsh Shi'a of southern Iraq when he gassed the Kurds and dried up the marshes to kill the Shi'a by destroying their water supply.
War in and of itself is not criminal, especially when Saddam was operating under a cease fire with no treaty signed following the Gulf War - and violating it daily by shooting missiles at American pilots following overflight rules agreed to in the cease fire and using profits and bribe proceeds they received from Germans, Russians and French to bypass the food-for-oil program, diverting those proceeds to rebuilding their military, WMD programs and fatten their Swiss bank accounts while their people starved.
Your son served, that's a great thing, so did I. I honor and respect all of my comrades willing to put their lives on the line in duty and defense of this nation. But I take it from your comment that you are no veteran, and his heroics are not yours to claim and assert for your own political beliefs. My parents, no most parents and kids don't share all beliefs so don't use his service as your defense.
You do cry crocodile tears, you repeat a lie that disrespects the service of everyone who served in Iraq. Your very words implicate your son, myself and all veterans of aiding and abetting war crimes. You're irredeemably lost to your radical leftist ideology, probably think 911 was a Bush conspiracy coordinated with the Jews and Saudis, and the only case that's closed is the one that's your head.
If you support radical leftism that has no support in this nation other than the voices of a perpetually angry, Hate America First minority then by all means, vote for Reid.
If you want to see jobs come back, our tourist-dependent economy come back in Nevada and your quality of life determined by you, not interests in DC, vote for Angle despite her oddities.
The biggest issue here is getting rid of Reid...both of them. Reid's are bad for Nevada. Our unemployment which is now 14.7 % will keep going up, same with the foreclosure rate until Harry and son are gone from the political scene.
Your unemployment in Nevada is directly due to the fact that the majority of your business is generated from entertainment. The huge growth spurt you had over the last decade or so was generated by tourists. The housing boom brought huge numbers of people unemployed elsewhere to your state. When the housing, office and casino boom stopped so did the related employment. This is a fact of your source of state revenue, not Harry Reid.
Grow up and figure out what other industries you can create in the middle of a desert to sustain yourselves in a downturn. You will always be the first hurt in a downturn because your main industry relies on disposable income. It is not unique. The Napa Valley suffers too. Disneyland suffers too.
Majority of Americans now believe feds are encouraging illegal immigration!
http://www.examiner.com/immigration-refo...
mikeygrr; I find your accusation that JFV's words " implicate your son, myself and all veterans of aiding and abbeting war crimes" to be absolutly appalling. Who appointed you arbiter of what anyone's views are on the Iraq war? So you served. I did thirty years in the military and my son and grandson both served in Iraq. Our views certainly do not agree with your's on the reasons for or the validity of that horrible foreign policy discision made by the Bush/Cheney/Rumsfeld Neocon cabal.
The Iraq invasion was a monumental mistake that has cost over 4,300 American lives and left many thousands of GIs wounded. We spent untold wealth, and who knows how many Iraqis have died? You talk about Saddamm being a dispicable tyrant that had killed many of his own people. If we just wanted to go after tyrants, why didn't North Korea's Dear Leader qualify? Venezuela's Hugo Chavez also comes to mind. The regime in Myanmar is every bit as savage as Saddam's ever was. How about the various African dictators that practice genocide on a continuing basis? Does the word "oil" have any context here?
And what have the last eight years earned for us as a nation? Iraq today is a classic example of a country without a soul. The Iraqi citizenry has no concept of the collective good, and litle sense of national unity. The various ancestral, tribal and religious sects(Kurds, Sunnis, Shiites and the many sub-sects of each) still divide the country into factions that have hated and murdered each other for centuries. Almost eight years after we invaded Iraq as "liberators" according to Dick Cheney, we are still battling Rumsfeld's "few deadenders".
Granted, the Iraqis can now vote, but who can they vote for? The current government is so unstable and corrupt that no one except those who expressly benefit from the corruption expect the government to be able to withstand a takeover by another Saddam -like strongman in the near future. The last election was over six months ago, still the infighting goes on as to who really got elected.
The average Iraqi lives in daily fear of their own policemen and corrupt politicians. The remnants of al-Qaida are regaining strength every day. Car bombs detonate in Bazaars and outside government buildings every day. Local gangsters are running large sections of Baghdad and some entire provinces without interference from the government. While Saddam was in power, political assassinations were commonplace but mass civilian casaualties (except for the ones caused by Saddam himself) were almost unheard of. Sadly, that is not the case today. We are going to leave Iraq someday, but have we won the Iraq War? I think not.
So again I ask, what have we gained for our sacrifice? Is the middle East any more stable than before? I think not. The the entire region is in a constant state of unrest. I am afraid we have wasted much for nothing.
Osama bin Ladin's organization, al-Qaida was the one that attacked us on 9/11, and no matter how hard the Bush folks try to conflate al-Qaida with Saddam Hussain, there is absolutely no proof that Saddam had anything to do with the attack. He was a minor tyrant that was an irritant to Bush and a few countries in the Middle East. What was he capable of doing that might harm us? Nothing, except to hurl empty threats that our professional intelligence people knew were phony. TheWhite House and the Pentagon civilian leadership, however' chose to believe people like the Runsfeld favorite "Curveball", an Iraqi "refugee" that had many colorful stories available for a price. Google "Curveball" to get the truth about how stupid some of our "leadership" was, especially the civilian Pentagon group. Really pitiful that our country was dependent on such ignorance to lead us into war.
Iraq's neighboring countries of Iran, Syria, Turkey, Saudi Arabia and Kuwait (all hostile to his regime) had him completely surrounded and contained. He had lost many thousands of his best trained troops in a long bloody war with Iran. He had lost all of his air power andmost of his armored forces in his disastrous foray into Kuwait in 1991.
Our National Leadership, however considered him to be (based on what they now call faulty intelligence (Curveball, anyone?)) a continuing threat to us and the world. The Bush/Cheney cabal tried to conflate the al-Qaida attack with Saddam's regime, without a shred of proof. They shamlessly preyed on the unreasoning fear and paranoia that had many Americans willing to support anything that they were told would keep them safe. The invasion of Iraq was a disastrous mistake that will take us years to recover from, Bush lover's like mikeygrr notwithstanding.
JacklynD; I must object to your characterization of the Bush administration's spending as "drunken sailor spending". As a former drunken sailor, I may have spent a lot of money (which I most assuredly did), but even while drunk, I knew where my limited funds were going. I spent my money wisely, mostly on wine, women and song, with an occassional burger thrown in, but unlike the Bush administration, I never wasted anything. Again, I must protest. Thank you.
If you want a job, don't vote for Reid.
If you want to keep a job, don't vote for Reid.
If you want a cost of living increase if you are a senior, do not vote for Reid.
If you want a good family life, do not vote for Reid.
Reid has destroyed America. Plain and simple.
Don't vote for this senile chump.
With your Crazy Sharron Angle ideas, why don't you take a hike? If anybody has destroyed America, it's your Republican Tea Party extremists.
Mikeygrr:
Come back and argue when you've grown up. Your arguments are childlike and laced with temper tantrums.
Radical leftist?
Just a huge dose of the truth, and you can't handle it.
I hear they are looking for more mercenaries in Iraq, it pays better than our soldiers get, and "we the people" are footin the bill for this too, maybe you could like, go...
willy:
Yes, the truth of the crocodile tears cried by opponents of the wars in the Middle East are just that, appalling! If you assert a belief that GWB is a war criminal like JFV does then anyone who helps in that cause aids and abets it. "Just following orders" didn't fly for NAZI's or anyone who helped Hitler, a true war criminal. If you oppose the Iraq/Afghan wars for whatever reason you have a right to do so as an American. But to accuse the President of being a war criminal because he reached different conclusions about the wisdom of the war is obscene and implicates everyone who serves now or whoever served in the US military. As a fellow veteran you should have appreciation for that much, whether or not you disagree with GWB about the wars. I'll give you the benefit of the doubt that you didn't read JFV's OP and missed that integral part of the point being made. I make no attempt to be an arbiter of JFV, your or anyone's opinion about the wisdom of the war. However, I do call out and condemn without reservation the outrageous slander that calling the GWB administration war criminals is. They NEVER targeted civilians for murder or bombing, EVER. That's what the term war criminal is rightfully reserved for, lest it become devoid of meaning and true outrage.
That said the points you make are articulate, insightful and demonstrate an understanding of world affairs often lost on political zombies. There is much truth to the wisdom of getting militarily involved everywhere there's a problem of murderous tyrants and WMD proliferation.
The point often lost on opponents and even former supporters of the Iraq invasion was made by GWB at it's onset: Iraq was a nexus of several horrific threats to humanity coming together under one regime. 1) There was an active WMD program that surprisingly lacked actual bombs but more than made up for it with the capacity to produce them on a moments notice as discovered post-invasion. 2) Saddam was the leader of a murderous tyranny where his population was terrorized, neighbors were terrorized, US allies were terrorized and citizens starved in order to keep his thugs in control. 3) Iraq straddles an area vital to the US national energy security interests. Yes, oil was a major consideration, as it should be. Like it or not oil is the lifeblood of our economy, the entire economy of the west. Iraq's threats to the production like his destruction of the wells in Kuwait, his war over the Shat El-Arab ports, etc. posed a national security threat.
The nexus of those three made Iraq more compelling than any of the other regimes you mention; the others have some, but not all of those elements. The immediate post-911 environment where the charge leveled was that we waited to long, were too reactive prompted a proactive stance taken not just by the GWB administration, but by Harry Reid and 98 other Senators who supported it. The "we were lied to" assertion by Reid/Dems was a lie unto itself, for political gain.
JFV:
Typical smarmy snot-nosed radical liberal retort, the only tantrums thrown and growing up needed is from you and your ilk.
I respect the thoughtfulness of willy, with whom a civil disagreement is possible, but you're simply a mental midget angry head case who I'll not respond to again, not worth my time.
mikeygrr......
BUSH LIED AND PEOPLE DIED.
The Iraq war was a complete lie from top to
bottom.
You are one of the last few who believe Bush.
Iraq was never a threat to the U.S. PERIOD.
Thank you Sun, Harry Reid is the best man for
the job.
Sharron Angle is some kind of cruel joke,
played on Nevadans.
It's not funny.
Mikeygrr:
I used to spend hours researching point by point fact based responses to the (well written, but radically inaccurate conclusions) drivel you giggling murderer apologist's write. No more. I just slag you off as unreachable and tell you you have supported a murderer with knowledge and that makes you an accessory after the fact. Hate it or love it, it is what you are.
Outside of Saddam and about 50-60 of his closest aids everyone else we targeted was innocent of the charges you outlined above in your first and second anti Reid rant. As much as it may pain your tea-stained brain, having nuclear weapons is a goal that I can understand ANY country wanting to have. For a large portion of the Iraqi population to fight our occupation does not make THEM the enemy, it makes US the enemy, you CAN'T be the enemy in your own home town, wait, are you in Las Vegas?
In case you have forgotten, or ever knew, we had to get the weapons inspectors out of Iraq in a hurry so we could bomb the joint.
Willy took the time to spoon feed you, and he was brilliant in his analysis, but the salient point remains, did it change one of your brain cells? I didn't think so.
That is why I just tell you you are an out of touch dim bulb in a dusty room. Why waste my time with people still hanging onto the "There were to WMD's" line of thought?
And I am not a liberal.
Delivering for Nevada
Throughout his time in the Senate, Sen. Reid has secured hundreds of millions of dollars for vital Nevada projects that create jobs, improve infrastructure, advance cutting-edge scientific research and medical technology and help make Nevada a better place to live, work and raise a family. Some of the most recent projects funded thanks to Sen. Reid include:
* Agriculture $275,000 for UNR's research initiative on Western crops and livestock through the Food and Agricultural Policy Research Institute
* $211,000 for UNR's Great Basin Environmental Initiative
* $269,000 to help Caron City rehabilitate land destroyed by the 2004 Waterfall Fire
* $235,000 to fight invasive weeds through the Nevada Department of Agriculture's Cooperative Weed Management Program
* Commerce, Justice, Science $750,000 to help the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police purchase police technology and equipment
* $754,000 to help Clark County set up a KidsPeace therapeutic foster care center
* $600,000 for a Regional Law Enforcement Training Facility for the Boulder City Police Department
* $500,000 for a tactical robot and training facility for the Henderson Police Department
* $300,000 for the second phase of North Las Vegas' records management equipment update
* $400,000 to help Las Vegas reduce copper wire theft
* $250,000 to form a substance abuse program for probationers through the Nevada Department of Public Safety
* $200,000 for a foster care center for at-risk youth in Las Vegas
* $200,000 for judicial personnel training at the UNR's Grant Sawyer Center
* $2,720,000 for Reno's Council of Juvenile and Family Court Judges
* Energy Projects $1,189,375 to help Clark County Schools develop a solar thermal system
* $951,000 for energy and water sustainability research at UNLV
* $1,427,250 to help UNLV digitize Nevada Test Site workers' records
* $1,024,167 for biofuel research at UNLV
* $523,325 for hydrogen fuel research at UNLV
* $682,778 for geothermal energy development at the Great Basin Center for Geothermal Energy
* $2,560,410 for the Nevada System of Higher Education to coordinate renewable energy research at Nevada's research institutions
* $475,750 for the Department of Energy to perform renewable energy planning at the Nevada Test Site.
* $1,066,841 for water resources research at the Desert Research Institute
* $713,625 for biodiesel research at the Desert Research Institute
* $475,750 for the Nevada Institute for Renewable Energy Commercialization to accelerate bringing renewable energy research and technologies to the marketplace.
* $380,660 for the Carbon Neutral Green Campus Initiative at Nevada State College
* $142,725 for to help- Las Vegas convert part of its fleet to plug-in hybrid electric vehicles
* $475,750 to help coordinate renewable energy research at the Desert Research Institute
* $761,200 for solar lighting in the Clark County School District
* Water Projects $4,780,000 to reduce flood damage, restore the ecosystem and improve recreation along the Truckee River
* $2,500,000 to help determine how much rehabilitation is needed along the Truckee Canal
* $3,500,000 for the restoration of Lake Tahoe
* $18,000,000 for water quality and infrastructure projects in rural Nevada
* $2,700,000 for the Las Vegas Wash/Lake Mead Program for restoration, habitat enhancement and water quality improvement activities.
* $2,750,000 for the Water Reuse Facility in North Las Vegas
* $300,000 for Walk River Basin water rights research through the Desert Research Institute
* $300,000 for habitat monitoring in central Nevada's lakes
* $92,000 wetlands restoration and development in the Lake Tahoe region
* $15,048,000 for the Water for America Initiative
* Interior Appropriations $1,500,000 for Elko's California Trail Interpretive Center
* $650,000 to conduct a joint mineral assessment of northern Nye County
* $250,000 for Lahontan Cutthroat Trout restoration and habitat work
* $500,000 the EPA's Water Quality Improvement Program in Reno
* $500,000 for a third Lake Mead water intake
* $400,000 for wastewater system improvements in Henderson.
* $300,000 for wastewater treatment facility improvements in Goldfield
* $300,000 to improve the maintain the Reno-to-Tahoe Trail
* Health Projects $571,000 to help the Access to Healthcare Network provide health care services to uninsured Nevadans
* $571,000 to build a new emergency care center at the Boulder City Hospital
* $381,000 to build a mobile mammogram unit for the Nevada Cancer Institute
* $523,000 to help the Southern Nevada Health District respond to the hepatitis C crisis
* $571,000 for UNR's Center for Molecular Medicine
* $381,000 to build a facility at Touro University that will provide preventive treatment and health education to Nevada's senior population
* $951,000 to help the Nevada System of Higher Education for the University of Nevada Health Sciences System bring nurses and other health professionals to the state
* Education Projects $856,000 for dropout prevention and counseling in the Clark County School District
* $856,000 for dropout prevention in the Washoe County School District
* $618,000 to improve distance education in the Elko County School District
* $285,000 to help the Nevada State College equip teachers to participate in distance education programs
* $285,000 to help the Truckee Meadows Community College recruit first-generation, low-income students and provide them with mentoring and tutoring
* $143,000 to help expand career and technical education programs in the Nye County School District
* $24,000 to help expand early education services for low-income students in the Lincoln County School District
* $24,000 to help recruit and train special education teachers through the Nevada Speech and Hearing Association
* Transportation and Development Projects $1,254,000 to Reno for work on the I-580/US395 Meadowood interchange
* $1,187,500 to Henderson for work on for the Starr Road interchange and extension to St. Rose Parkway
* $475,000 for work on the Reno/Sparks Bus Terminal.
* $855,000 for improvements on the Boulder City bypass
* $475,000 for bus facilities in the lake Tahoe area
* $475,000 for the Sloan to Apex interchange on I-15
* $475,000 to Carson City for work on the V&T Railroad
* $237,500 to Henderson for the second phase of Lake Mead Parkway
* $608,000 to Wells for downtown redevelopment after last year's earthquake
* Housing Projects $807,500 to help prevent home foreclosures in Southern Nevada
* $190,000 for the Oliver Montello Affordable Housing Project in Reno
* $190,000 for the Amargosa Valley Community Center in Ny County
Defense Projects
* Defense Projects $3 million for Hawthorne Army Ammunition Depot for the processing and disposal of Multiple Launcher Rocket System munitions
* $1.6 million for the purchase of land mobile radios for the 98th Range Wing at Nellis Air Force Base
* $4 million to upgrade unmanned threat emitters at the Nellis Air Force Base training range complex
* $3.5 million to the Nevada Guard for counterdrug operations
* $800,000 for the Scathe View Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance system for the Nevada Guard
* $2.5 million for UNLV to conduct research into management of wounded servicemembers from initial air evacuation through rehabilitation
* $1.6 million to the Nevada Cancer Institute of Las Vegas for research into novel approaches for reducing the severity of battlefield combined tissue injury
* $3.1 million to University of Nevada School of Medicine for development of high speed blood and fluid transfusion equipment
* $2 million to the Desert Research Institute in Reno, to conduct research on military operating environments
* $240,000 to the University of Nevada, Reno, for research and development of new types of secure, encoded, tamper proof, high density media for use in ID cards, credit cards, and other applications
* Military Construction Projects $30.8 million for the construction of a hangar and aircraft maintenance unit for the F-16 aggressor squadron at Nellis Air Force Base
* $17.5 million for operations facility and infrastructure improvements for the F-16 aggressor squadron at Nellis Air Force Base
* $9.8 million for the construction of an airfield fire rescue station at Nellis Air Force Base
* $5 million for the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter airfield pavements at Nellis Air Force Base
* $16.2 million for the construction of the Unmanned Aerial Systems Operations Facility at Creech Air Force Base
* $9.8 million for the construction of the Unmanned Aerial Systems Flight Simulator and Academics Facility at Creech Air Force Base
* $9 million for the construction of a dining hall at Creech Air Force Base
* $7 million for the construction of a Mission Support Facility at Creech Air Force Base
* $6.5 million for infrastructure improvements at Creech Air Force Base, including the main gate and the sewage transfer facility
* $11.375 million for the construction of a Nevada National Guard readiness center in Elko
* $2.058 million for the completion of the design of Army National Guard Field Maintenance Shop in Las Vegas
* $1.5 million for an OSHA-compliant, energy efficient paint booth at the Nevada Guard facility in Carson City
* $33.9 million for the construction of an Army Reserve Center in Las Vegas
how much will NO get you?
Wedo:
Thank you. Can you link the source of that info?
Unfortunately for the Democrats and Harry Reid in particular the economy is tanking. Businesses are frustrated due to the intense regulatory environment of the Obama administration. Reid has not done a whole lot for Nevada and I will always resent him for doing or saying nothing when Obama made those caustic comments about Las Vegas a couple of years ago. I am a moderate and will be voting for Angle.She may not be perfect but we need some kind of change in Nevada politics.
Pleeese Nevadans, Please don't deliver "Old Harry" back to Washington, our state and our country just cannot afford him.
Well said Mr Swanson-REMOVE Harry Reid !
Good info I was not aware of! Thanks wedo!
mikegrr: let me make one thing perfectly clear, I do not concur with JFV's assertion that Bush is a war criminal. As Commander in Chief he led his country into what I and so many others consider to be an unwise and unnecessary war, but that in itself would not be a criminal act.
The war in Iraq will continue as a low-grade, localized insurrection against whatever government eventually emerges for years to come. There is little we can do about that. The war in Afghanistan is, however, at a turning point. As I mentioned in a post a few days ago, the war started out well, as our Special Forces and a few battallions of Airborne and Ranger troops with the assistance of the Afghan Northern Alliance had dispersed the Taliban and driven al-Qaida from the country.
With the invasion of Iraq, however, the Afghan War was suddenly back burner priority. This is the second thing I fault the Bush administration for. When you are winning one war, it is extremely unwise to suddenly embark on another one. The war fighting materials that were bound for Afghanistan were now shifted to the Iraq theater, leaving the Afghan Commanders without the assets required to maintain the advantage that had been gained. All the manpower, tactical air power, helicopters, armor, vehicles, artillery and all the rest of the bulets and beans needed to fight the war were going to Iraq. Because, I believe, of this neglect on the part of Bush's advisors to make sure he understood the strategic situation, the Taliban have been able to re-constitute their evil organization and re-organize, re-equip, re-train and re-enforce their fighting forces. And here we go again.
The question now is: are we in Afghanistan to find and punish the people who attacked us on 9/11, or are we there to build a nation in our image? I certainly hope it is not to build a nation. I don't want to see our guys bogged down in another VietNam style mess that now, thirty-five years after we lost 58,000 troops over there, American travel agencies are offering guided tours of Ho Chi Minh City (that was Saigon when I was there) If we are there to build a nation, it will take a lot more in men and materials than we now are ready to commit.
The military cannot do it alone. The civilian support elements required to develop and maintain the infrastructure and political systems necessary for a modern society must be put in place and provided with the tools and civil engineering expertise required for an emerging nation to grow and prosper. I don't think we are ready to commit to anything like that.
The British and Russians both attempted to establish governments patterned after their own during their occupations of Afghanistan and both failed miserably. The current Kabul government led by President Karzai (who was also the leader of the above mentioned Northern Alliance) is feckless, unstable and as corrupt as the government in Iraq, if not worse. Nation building is difficult at best with inspiring people to lead the way. With strong-men and tyrants in the positions of power, it is a losing game. I fear that we could fall into the same quagmire as did the Brits and the Russians.
I certainly do not advocate the abandonment of the hunt for bin Ladin. He is a vile man who leads an extremely evil organization and both of them deserve to be hunted down and killed. If that is our reason for being in Afghanistan, then I hope we do it right. We need accurate intelligence from reliable local informants (which was so sorely missing in the run-up to the Iraq War), the proper mix of CIA and Special Forces and the avaiability of dedicated airpower. With adequate material support, and unrelenting pressure on the Pakistani government to aid in the effort, he could be run to ground and eliminated. That should be our mission. I am not sure the current administration is capable of making this happen, but the greatly increased use of armed UAVs is an encouraging sign.
Finally, I want to say, I support the effort to eradicate bin Ladin, al-Qaida and the Taliban. I support the war to that degree, and I want it to come to a successful conclusion with a minimum of American losses. I support fighting a war that has been completely and intelligently planned and funded, as opposed to an under-funded, undermanned "war on the cheap" as was the initial Iraq War planning. I support a war with solid political and national support, with adequate military, diplomatic and civilian technical support and resources, with specific strategies and attainable goals, and most importantly, with an acceptable defination of "Victory".
Willy:
Differences noted, and football field lengths of respect for you.
Here summarizes my feelings on the subject:
"Most Americans firmly believe there is nothing the United States or its political leadership could possibly do that could equate to the crimes of Hitler's Third Reich. The Nazis are our "gold standard of evil," as author John Dolan once put it.
But the truth is that we can, and we have -- most recently and significantly in Iraq. Perhaps no person on the planet is better equipped to identify and describe our crimes in Iraq than Benjamin Ferencz, a former chief prosecutor of the Nuremberg Trials who successfully convicted 22 Nazi officers for their work in orchestrating death squads that killed more than one million people in the famous Einsatzgruppen Case. Ferencz, now 87, has gone on to become a founding father of the basis behind international law regarding war crimes, and his essays and legal work drawing from the Nuremberg trials and later the commission that established the International Criminal Court remain a lasting influence in that realm.
Ferencz's biggest contribution to the war crimes field is his assertion that an unprovoked or "aggressive" war is the highest crime against mankind. It was the decision to invade Iraq in 2003 that made possible the horrors of Abu Ghraib, the destruction of Fallouja and Ramadi, the tens of thousands of Iraqi deaths, civilian massacres like Haditha, and on and on. Ferencz believes that a "prima facie case can be made that the United States is guilty of the supreme crime against humanity, that being an illegal war of aggression against a sovereign nation."
My further assertion is that these guys were hellbent on a scrum with Saddam. He wanted to show his daddy he was more macho than he was. One man, and one man alone asked our support for this war of aggression.
History has shown he has done an unimaginably wrong horror on many people who deserved better.
Wedo: thanks for your brilliant listings of Harry Reid's efforts to provide Nevadans with political and much needed material support. Hey gogo, what you got????
willy:
Time will be the ultimate judge of the wisdom of going into Iraq. It's in our national security interest to do what we can, regardless of party affiliation, to make it a positive outcome. It should never, ever be a "R's win, the US loses" or "D's win, the US loses". The US should win whenever and wherever possible. I believe with every fiber of my being that the US is unique and good and on the side of humanity moreso than any other nation today and than has ever existed on the planet.
I submit for consideration another strategic way to describe the situation in the Middle East as a result of us being in Iraq is now we have Iran in a pincer hold with Afghanistan on the other side. We knocked down the two "easiest" opponents in the region first and can use both areas to stage whatever force we need on Iran's borders to deal with and contain that menace to the free world. If Iran were to ever become so emboldened as to attack us and our allies at a level necessitating a military response we are well-positioned to do so as a result of the foresight of GWB.
Of course you and many others can debate the wisdom of this strategy, you can assert the landscape as you've described, but my point is all of that is debatable, conjecture, and subject to the vagaries of the history yet to be written. It was no war crime, however, and unless this nation truly becomes a house divided where one party's adherents root for the failure of the nation to benefit their own political agenda then a good, decent and better world can still be the result of what you and many Sun readers believe to be a grand misadventure.
Regardless, Harry Reid supported it before he feigned his being "lied to" and displayed the brightest streak of yellow down his back than any other political leader in memory by declaring all was lost while he badgered the generals who were leading our forces to success in their mission (whether you supported it at its onset or not).
Harry is the steady hand doing nothing to help this country's problems. Obamacare, cap and trade, amnesty for illegals.. Electing Dirty Harry will just make things worse!
Mikeygrr: I am willing to concede some of your points, with the caviat that I still consider the Iraq War to be a foolish and unnecessary expenditure of our nations wealth and young servicemen, with little having been gained for their sacrifice. What I do want to point out, however, is the statement you make about one party's adherents rooting for the country to fail to benefit their own political agenda. I would draw your attention to a statement made not long ago by perhaps the most ardent supporter (and who some consider to be the titular leader) of the Republican Party, Rush Limbaugh, when he stated repeatedly that he "hopes Obama fails", by extension apparently hoping that the country, led by Obama would fail. A perfect example of what you say should not happen, and I agree with with you on that sentiment.
Wow - where does the money for all that pork listed below by dollars?
It comes from single moms with babies.
It comes from two young college students
It comes from workers who barely can put food on the table.
It comes from seniors who don't get cost of living.
It comes from people who have trouble heating their houses - although they have a minimum wage job.
It comes from the guy working at McDonalds.
It comes from the tax you pay on the clunker to get to work.
What if - what if - we could have decided what is important to Nevada and keep our taxes lower; what if we did not have to pay for things for other states in the deals crooked Harry made. We would all be better.
Just look at the pork Harry brought us - instead of bringing us jobs.
Harry - Pensions should be cut; your salary should be cut - a bunch of millionaire liberals in congress - including yourself; and you take more tax money from single ladies.
Stupid Harry - Stupid Libs - And Stupid Dollar List.
Dump Harry.
Harry Reid stole your jobs.
He destroyed your home value.
He stole money from seniors.
He raised health insurance premiums.
He hates citizens - loves illegals...
Failed man -failed policies - failed creep.
Dump Reid.
Only a moron would replace Harry Reid with a
lunatic like Sharron Angle.