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By Karoun Demirjian (contact) 
Sunday, Oct. 24, 2010 | 2 a.m.
Republican Senate candidate Sharron Angle and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid debated economic and other issues only once, on Oct. 14. Vegas PBS' Mitch Fox, center, moderated.
Sun archives
- Obama presses his influence for Democratic candidates (10-23-2010)
- Democrats play their ace in the hole — Obama (10-20-2010)
- Harry Reid blasts Sharron Angle for not denouncing ‘don’t vote’ ad (10-19-2010)
- Will ad campaign urging Hispanic voters to stay home work? (10-18-10)
- Little new in Harry Reid, Sharron Angle debate to sway undecided voters (10-15-2010)
- Can infusion of cash buy an edge for Sharron Angle in Senate race? (10-14-2010)
- Senate race exposes fractures in Republican Party (10-13-2010)
- Deep-pocket Super PACs pumping cash into Nevada Senate race (10-10-2010)
- Advocates : Sharron Angle ad could increase Hispanic turnout (10-8-2010)
- Harry Reid accentuates the positive in final campaign push (10-7-2010)
- Harry Reid is right at home in a tough fight (10-3-2010)
- Harry Reid inching ahead of Sharron Angle, new poll finds (9-25-2010)
- Voter registration closes Saturday (10-1-2010)
Sun Coverage
With early voting under way in the race that will serve as the nation’s No. 1 referendum on Washington’s response to the recession, the Clintonian adage “It’s the economy, stupid” seems like a gross understatement. Nevadans have been thrust front and center as they decide whether to keep Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid or replace him with Sharron Angle.
Although the candidates may agree on what the problem is, they couldn’t disagree more on how to bring about solutions.
Republican — and Tea Party favorite — Angle and Democrat Reid are about as far apart as you can get on the spectrum of economic philosophies. She’s a free-market purist; he believes the government has to play a direct role in creating jobs, providing services and regulating the type of industry behavior that led to the cataclysmic crash.
That basic difference in approach is at the root of nearly every acerbic fight that has permeated this campaign, often to the point of overshadowing what tangibles each candidate offers to improve Nevadans’ lot.
Perhaps the bitterest barbs have been traded over health care. Angle has stated unequivocally that she wants to “repeal Obamacare,” referring to the health care overhaul that Congress passed, under Reid’s stewardship, this year.
The bill, which Reid says is necessary to protect Nevadans from a runaway industry that dominates about 20 percent of the national economy, would impose a series of mandates on insurance companies, including requirements to cover people regardless of pre-existing conditions. That all comes with a cost, although Reid points out that the cost of Medicare will fall in Nevada.
In their only debate, Angle said she doesn’t think insurance companies should be held to any coverage mandates, and that the free market will weed out the more expensive agencies that operate in bad faith. Reid scoffed at the idea of letting insurance companies go unregulated: “Insurance companies don’t do things out of the goodness of their hearts. They do it out of a profit motive, and they have almost destroyed our economy.”
Angle also promotes a limited government role when it comes to replenishing jobs lost during the recession.
“It’s not your job to create jobs,” she said to Reid during the debate. “It’s your job to create policies that create the confidence for the private sector to create those jobs.”
Reid says he’s tried to do just that through a small-business investment bill that Congress adopted last month, through funding research and development in renewable energy and by creating incentives for those firms to do business in Nevada.
Reid has identified the green jobs wave popularized under the Obama administration as Nevada’s best ticket out of the recession. His plan focuses chiefly on renewables that, in Nevada, mainly means solar power. Reid has said he wants to turn the Silver State into the Silicon Valley for green jobs.
A new renewable energy standard that Congress is expected to at least try to adopt during the lame-duck session — 15 percent renewables by 2021 — would give that industry another push.
Angle’s energy and job-creation plans steer clear of Reid’s renewables, instead promoting domestic oil exploration, coal mining and harvesting natural gas. But she promotes energy-related job creation through a controversial means here in Nevada: Yucca Mountain.
Although Angle maintains she’s against using the area as a dumping ground for the nation’s nuclear waste, she promotes turning Yucca Mountain into a reprocessing facility. That would bring jobs to the state, Angle says, in a cutting-edge industry that would also help the nation keep its energy costs in check.
Although that may address one concern about the Yucca proposal — dumping spent fuel straight into the ground — it doesn’t address what are in some ways the more widespread concerns about safe transportation. The fuel, not yet reprocessed, would still have to be brought to Nevada and once it gets here, Reid says, there “isn’t enough water in the whole state” to guarantee that reprocessing could be effective.
On other local issues of import, the candidates’ stances are less clear. For instance, it’s difficult to pin Angle down on gaming and tourism — long the backbone of the state’s economy — except that she blames Reid’s policies for exacerbating the state’s woes. The centrality of gaming and tourism is also what’s helped precipitate Nevada’s continued free fall through recession, while other states have begun to show signs of recovery.
President Barack Obama signs the tourism bill.
Although our senior senator has made disdainful quips about smelly tourists in the Capitol, he’s eager to bring them to Nevada, backing, along with Sen. John Ensign, a tourism-promotion bill that recently took effect. The measure establishes a national marketing agency for U.S. tourism, paid for by a one-time $14 entry fee for visitors — although that last bit is causing some grumbling from Europeans used to preferred status travel under the U.S.’s various visa-waiver arrangements.
But both Reid and Angle have shied away from endorsing Internet gambling, the fastest-growing gambling market, and a subject of which Nevada’s casinos are of mixed minds. Angle has almost completely avoided the issue; Reid has taken steps to support online poker, although he has also made recent statements that he won’t extend that support to other casino games. The push to legalize Internet gambling seemed set to make bold steps forward next Congress under the stewardship of Financial Services Committee Chairman Barney Frank, D-Mass., but it’s not clear where that momentum will turn if the House flips to a Republican majority.
It’s similarly tough to do a direct comparison between Angle and Reid on high-speed rail. Beyond criticizing Reid for wasting federal dollars on the all-but-run-aground maglev project, Angle hasn’t voiced an opinion about high-speed rail. Reid, meanwhile, now backs the steel-wheel-on-rail DesertXpress.
A rendering shows a DesertXpress train, which is expected to reach a top speed of about 150 miles per hour and travel between Victorville, Calif., and Las Vegas.
When it comes to mining, both want to see the 1872 Mining Law remain intact, although the traditionally conservative industry has come out in vociferous support of Reid, saying he’s the only one who can guarantee that the state arrangement for miners will be preserved.
The heads of these local industry associations — gaming, tourism, mining — have come out in support of Reid.
But except for those directly involved, Nevada’s boutique issues aren’t moving people to the polls. Rather, it is Nevadans’ lot as the nation’s worst-off in areas with national sweep — unemployment and foreclosures.
In its heyday, Nevada floated on the housing bubble; now burst, lawmakers haven’t been able to do much to stem the tide of foreclosures. Reid did push a loan modification program for underwater homeowners through Congress, and under pressure from his office, Bank of America agreed this month to issue a moratorium on foreclosure proceedings. But that was perhaps more because of a national scandal about faulty procedures than congressional pressure in the wake of the housing crisis. (The moratorium has since been lifted for 23 states, but still exists in Nevada.)
Reid has promised that new government regulations on big lenders recently adopted by Congress “will stop these greedy bankers on Wall Street from taking advantage of homeowners,” but he acknowledges, “We have to do more, of course.”
It’s a similar story on unemployment. The Congressional Budget Office has estimated the stimulus saved 3.3 million jobs of the more than 8 million lost in the recession, but that’s still a net drop of almost 5 million jobs. Nevada is also one of those states where unemployment has risen steadily, especially for the long-term unemployed — those who have been out of work so long that they have exhausted their 99 weeks of unemployment checks and are no longer being counted as part of the workforce.
That picture of only partial remedies has made it difficult for Reid to get any rise in the polls because of his work on the stimulus, even if, as independent economists say, it was successful in making a massive economic disaster less destructive.
Angle has been able to capitalize on these statewide frustrations without having to get into specifics on counterproposals. But her calls for “lifting the fog of taxation and regulation” on businesses as a remedy for the economy do fit with her overall message of getting the government out, and things will right themselves.
To bring about that end, she says she has a prescription: privatize, localize and downsize. The first part of that recipe is to keep taxes low. Angle supports an across-the-board extension of the Bush tax cut plan that, without congressional action, will kick up tax rates by 3 percent at all income levels at year’s end (affecting 2011 taxes).
That proposal would add $4 trillion to the national deficit over 10 years. President Barack Obama and Reid back a more limited extension of the same tax cuts, affecting the first $250,000 of every family’s income only, a ceiling that 97 percent of the country falls below. That proposal would add $3 trillion to the deficit over the same time period.
Beyond that, Angle says, we need to start cutting. Cut spending, scale back unemployment insurance, privatize Social Security and get rid of federal institutions such as the Education Department, the Environmental Protection Agency and the National Endowment for the Arts.
Reid doesn’t support those cuts.
But that’s perhaps the best illustration of how in the end, as tangible as Nevada’s problems are, the decision for voters on whom to trust to fix them really will come down to a decision between philosophical opposites. Insider versus outsider. Big versus small. Chisel versus hacksaw. The guiding hand of government versus free market. It’s not exactly Keynes versus Smith, but it’s close.
This story first appeared in the current issue of In Business Las Vegas, a sister publication of the Sun.
"But that's perhaps the best illustration of how in the end, as tangible as Nevada's problems are, the decision for voters on whom to trust to fix them really will come down to a decision between philosophical opposites. Insider versus outsider. Big versus small. Chisel versus hacksaw."
You missed a couple, Karoun Demirjian.
Crazy versus sane.
Nuttiness versus rational thought.
My vote stays with Senator Reid.
If Sharron Angle gets in, we might as well all become homeless panhandlers with tin cups sitting on the pedestrian bridge over Las Vegas Boulevard that connects MGM Grand with New York New York casinos pleading for spare change. That will help her pursue the complete and utter destruction of Nevada.
Simple FACT:
We NEED Harry Reid.
It's very, very basic, the difference in philosophies between Dem's & Repub's...
"I, ME, MINE" Republican mantra...
"We, Us, Ours" Democratic mantra...
WE are ALL in this together.
Don't let Karl Rove & the Koch Bros. BUY OUR ELECTION!
http://www.americancrossroadswatch.org/i...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5gDsBPOkP...
-- The new health care law wasn't supposed to undercut employer plans that have provided most people in the U.S. with coverage for generations.
But last week a leading manufacturer told workers their costs will jump partly because of the law. Also, a Democratic governor laid out a scheme for employers to get out of health care by shifting workers into taxpayer-subsidized insurance markets that open in 2014.
While it's too early to proclaim the demise of job-based coverage, corporate number crunchers are looking at options that could lead to major changes.
"The economics of dropping existing coverage is about to become very attractive to many employers, both public and private," said Gov. Phil Bredesen, D-Tenn.
You can thank Dirty Harry for this one. VOTE ANGLE....
As election day approaches I am struck by how successful Republicans have been
at stoking outrage this political season. Socialism, death panels, government
takeovers, Obamacare are just a a few of the boogie men the GOP have manufactured
in their effort to regain power.
I wonder if the following information is commonly known. Though unemployment
remains stubbornly high, September marked the ninth consecutive month of private
sector job growth. The Bush administration ended with thirteen consecutive months
of private sector employment losses.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average bottomed out at 6500 in early March of 2009, just a
few weeks after President Obama took office. The Dow currently hovers around 11,000,
a nearly 70% increase.
If that's socialism, give me more of that. Of course it's all phony indignation driving
the Tea Party/GOP resurgence. Did they just discover the deficit after the Bush administration
spent 8 years squandering Clinton's surpluses and doubling the National Debt?
I can almost hear their next rallying cry, "I will not be denied my right to be refused
health care due to the presence of a pre existing condition!" Kind of pales in comparison
to "Yes we can!"
When I drive in the area, I see public construction projects under way on the highways. Sometimes it seems that the only construction active in the valley is public because there are only a few active private ones and so many public ones. The State and County are not the source of funding for these. It is the Feds. More specifically, it is the "failed" stimulus money.
Now I have lots of problems with public spending, but, putting that aside for the moment, on the one hand we have observable facts -- actual, ongoing, active federally-funded construction on public projects which I can see with my own eyes, and on the other hand we have constant bombardment of political ads. What am I going to believe? My own eyes or the commercials made elsewhere? Apparently, I'm in the minority because half of Nevadans would rather believe nattering nonsense than their own eyes.
When I go to other states, I see a project here or there, but nothing like the density or extent of public projects here in Nevada. Maybe its an optical illusion but Nevada seems (to my observation) to have a lot of projects for a state with a small population. What am I going to believe? My own eyes or commercials? I don't like Harry Reid, but claims that he has "failed Nevada" are flatly contradicted by observable fact -- all anyone has to do is drive around to see that. Apparently, however, half of all voters in Nevada are shut-ins, connected to the world only by and through electronic devices -- and for them, "reality" is whatever they get through those devices.
If Nevada's unemployment rate is 15% (as measured -- don't get me started on the statistical stupidities of how we measure unemployment) with these federally-funded construction projects, what would it be like without any of that federal spending? Apparently, half of all Nevadans will bet it all to see the next card -- and being law abiding gamblers, they haven't counted cards to see what its value might be. The nattering nabobs keep telling them its the 5th Ace -- and they'd rather believe that than the four they can already see on the table.
I have decided to replace Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid with Sharron Angle.
It is time for Harry Reid to go and a new person with fresh ideas to take his place.
The old car just aint what it used to be...
A VOTE AGAINST Democrats IS A VOTE FOR JOBS .....
Mr Obama is not so much the cause of America's problems as the embodiment of trends set in motion decades ago. One such trend is the gradual relinquishing to an "elite" of left-wing intellectuals the liberty that rightly belongs with individuals. These elites... comprised of liberal politicians, academics, journalists and judges... are infected with the belief that they are better qualified to make decisions for the rest of us. Think about this for a moment; admittedly there's usually only a limited amount of damage that can be done by the dull or stupid people like you and me. For creating a truly monumental disaster, you need the elitists with their "High IQs".
So it is that Mr Obama came to town trying to save the day by pleading the Democratic case all over again. But at the end of the day all the president did was put Nevadans to sleep. Pundits are saying Obama should have spoken up much sooner... But come on, after what seemed like 50 plus speeches on things like his signature healthcare legislation, at some point we have to assume the American people got the message. Only problem for the president and Harry Reid is, the American people... especially Nevadans... didn't like what they heard.
"Welcome to Nevada, Mr. President"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mJ36H9lke...
My favorite Angle clip.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2UxPDZCOu...
Reid and Angle polar opposites with views of economy. Sharron Angle put the economy first on her list. Harry Reid has put the economy... Oh where did Harry put his notes???
If Harry Reid and the Obama administration would have paid attention to the economy instead of spending two years trying to revamp our health care system, unemployment in Las Vegas might be 15% today...
Harry Reid serves Obama and Pelosi. Not the great state of Nevada...The Senate majority leader's home state should NOT be a leader in unemployment... PERIOD... NO EXCUSES..
REID is the most powerful member in the Senate. One could not tell by the inexcusable and staggering 15% unemployment...
Harry Reid has FAILED to represent the people of Nevada...
SEND REID TO THE UNEMPLOYMENT LINE........
A vote against any Democrat is a vote for jobs..
Again, Angle dates back to 17th Century thinking financed by Rove who should be in prison and touted by the nuts in the Tea Party, constant lies by Palin, and Fox.
If voters ignore the facts and vote for anyone other than a Democrat in Nevada or anywhere in America its a vote against their own self interests, against American progress, and will slam the door on the survival of this countries middle class, prospect of any good jobs ever returning to America, and greasing the skids towards our becomming a third world country at the hands of the Republican party who are EVIL.
To expect this President to clean up 30 years of Republican destruction in 2 years is Tea Party talk and it too is insane. Be upset if necessary but don't give the power back to the mindless thugs in the Republican party who drove this great country into the ditch.
Common sense,...if anyone still has any,...dictates a vote for Harry Reid in Nevada, Democratic across the country. No sitting home on your hands watching TV,...not voting is a vote for Republicans,...and they have done enough damage already.
Comment removed by moderator. Name-calling.
"...a new person with fresh ideas to take his place."
Angle is not new, but a perennial candidate who has run for something in every cycle for 15 years. She lost her primaries in 2006 for Congress and 2008 for state senate. This year the Tea Party Express (tainted by racist remarks by its spokesman) and Club for Growth injected out of state money that bought her the GOP primary for US Senate.
Her ideas (imagine air quotes here) are rooted in the John Birch Society, Christian Reconstructionism and Constitutional Party, supplemented by Glenn Beck's rant of the day, hardly fresh.
Check those columns again. On Reid's side are plans, projects, results and action. On Angle's side are vague, meaningless platitudes. If severe deregulation of the oil, financial and insurance industries, that occurred under Bush benefited the economy, the recession wouldn't have occurred.
Tea Partiers think they will have less gov't regulation, but it is corporate America that will rule America, crushing individual rights. Excessive charges for gas, material goods are the hidden tax. Angle's website shows her support of coal and oil, but no mention of renewable energy, as opposed to Reid's extensive efforts to develop renewables in NV. Hence the funding her campaign receives from Big Oil.
While Sharron Angle has minimized damage from the recent Oil Spill, saying this is an isolated event, and isn't likely to happen in the future, this article and map shows millions of gallons of oil spilled from 542 reported pipeline damages during Hurricanes Katrina and Rita.
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/07/1...
opinion/main4275167.shtml
Save our soldiers by bringing them home from Bush's war for Middle Eastern oil by reducing dependency on foreign oil with renewables, rescue our economy (which crashed as gas prices skyrocketed) by reducing oil company profiteering.
If it wasn't for the Feds, Vegas wouldn't exist. Anybody remember a little something called Boulder Dam? Hello? LOL
What is Harry's plan when he gets reelected?
Top 2 he stated was cap and trade and immigration reform.
Cap and trade will cause utility rates to as Obama put it "skyrocket" 2-4 times current rates. This will cause all businesses to be unable to compete globally and everyone to pay much higher rates. Want to see your $400 utility bill go to $1,200?
Without cap and trade the Dems are predicting we will have 10% unemployment for the next 10 years or more. And that's their BEST case projection!
Ask Harry not what jobs he can give friends but when will Nevada unemployment be 5% or below?
By not enforcing current law, not effectively sealing the border and allowing all those here illegally to stay why would anyone spend the time and effort to immigrate here through the legal process? Why not just come on a tourist visa and overstay? Amnesty was granted twice before.
If you like what happened over the last 2 years keep Harry ! He will keep it up. Go Dems!!!
Harry spent 1000 times more than Hoover Dam on a stimulus bill he didn't write, no one was given time to read and he didn't know what's in it. We were promised green jobs, an improved infrastructure and an improved utility grid with this bill.
Anyone see any Hoover Dam projects built or anything else of that magnitude? Do we have a better utility grid? Are all our bridges now safe? Are there millions of new jobs created in the private sector?
Oops
Bush depression? Didn't Obama announce the recession he inherited ended June 2009?
From then on it became Obama's economy.
It's soooo much better now.
Sad but true.
Only 42% of Americans think that Obama is doing a good job on the economy...
Let's hope Nevada wakes up before it is too late. If Angle is elected, the desert will just swallow us up, and we'll become a wasteland. How did Angle get where she is today? Stupidity on the part of so many voters. It is so wrong to say a vote for Angle is not a vote for Angle; it's a vote against Reid. What a foolish and destructive idea. A vote for Angle will get us Angle and all of her crazy ideas. If you follow the national media, you'll know that the whole country is waiting to see if Nevada self-destructs. Don't let that happen.
A vote for democrats is tax and spend, spend and tax, bills voted on without reading them, cap and trade (more taxes on energy), a large cut back on drilling for oil causing more dependence on foreign oil, more regulation of our choices in our lives. I will take my chances with a republican. Goodbye harry...
Harry Reid has been so busy out creating jobs for Nevada, the unemployment went up to 15%...
Harry needs to learn from Sharron Angle:
"Harry Reid, it's not your job to create jobs," Angle said. "It's your job to create policies that create the confidence for the private sector to create those jobs. And they have lost confidence because of things like Obamacare"
Good, seeings how REID keeps screwing up our economy, I'm in favor of a new direction. Time to fire Dirty Harry Reid. Good riddence to his sorry butt!
The new health care law wasn't supposed to undercut employer plans that have provided most people in the U.S. with coverage for generations.
But last week a leading manufacturer told workers their costs will jump partly because of the law. Also, a Democratic governor laid out a scheme for employers to get out of health care by shifting workers into taxpayer-subsidized insurance markets that open in 2014.
While it's too early to proclaim the demise of job-based coverage, corporate number crunchers are looking at options that could lead to major changes.
"The economics of dropping existing coverage is about to become very attractive to many employers, both public and private," said Gov. Phil Bredesen, D-Tenn.
THANKS HARRY, GREAT WORK
Larry, you ever noticed how so many of the Angle supporters are "not trusted"?
Miss Sharon is going to create 1 million new great paying jobs in Nevada during her first week in office!
Obama has nothing on Miss Sharon.
Go, Sharon, GO!
[Enter crickets here]
Salty, you must be new in town. Quite a few of the liberal fringe aren't trusted...... literally and figuratively.
"Only 42% of Americans think that Obama is doing a good job on the economy..."
Yet, Bush left office with a 24% approval rating after having had EIGHT years to make America great.
I don't think Bush really cares. He made his and so did Cheney.
Republican theme: "It's just me, myself, and I."
I did not become a trusted commenter because of all of the hateful, vicious, threatening comments made by some of the Liberal commenters on this discussion site.
My life has been threatened by at least two of the commenters who used to post on this site. I have kept the emails to document these threats if ever needed. I must thank the LV SUN for not releasing my name or email address.
If you decided to be a trusted commenter, be careful about engaging others in a deep, spirited discussion, as someone might become physically aggressive toward you, and remember they know your name.
Now, if you do not live in the Las Vegas area, it would be more difficult to locate you if only your name is known.
I do not like the trusted commenter concept where you true name is known by all, but that was not my decision.
the Erie canal, the transcontinental railroad, the Panama Canal, the polio vaccine, the panama canal, the inter state highway system, the Hoover Dam, the bypass bridge, the space program, satellites.....if the Angle ruled the world people would still be in caves. She would have been against the Roman Highways and aqueducts.
She is a pea brain who has 10 talking points that she belches out on cue.
Love all the ignorant carpet baggers Nevada has attracted. A much more relevant reason for Nevada's economic malaise can be directly traced to where most of you came from. California's Indian Gaming. Something that our STATE leaders (Republican for the last 12) knew was coming for 20 years.
Only 42% of Americans think that Obama is doing a good job on the economy.
Only 39% of Americans now believe Obama deserves a second term.
Make no mistake about it, Mr Obama is brilliant. His underlying beliefs are proving to be half-baked and his negatives overwhelming, but he was seen as a political genius in 2008 when it came to carrying out his plans based on those same beliefs. Funny isn't it, how sunlight is always the best disinfectant?
mred- maybe you need Sinsiter Reid, the rest of us know better, my dog would do a better job than sinsiter Reid, he don't care about this country, neither is he concerned for Nevada, he cares about that big ego; that's it- Angle will win by atleast 7 points. She should start pulling away in the middle of next week. So long Senator Reid
Harry Reid, Sharron Angle polar opposites with views of economy
It is very simple:
Harry Reid wants you to pay for it and the Government to spend it...
Sharron Angle wants the Government to stay out of your business and quit spending money they don't have...
Finally we have someone that wants to inject some good old common sense back into government and let the people have control instead of the socialistic supply siders in office now. Sharon Angle might have some weird views like wanting to abolish social security but we need someone willing to take a tough stand on the free loaders.
The one and probably only time I will ever agree with LarryVegas is about the "trusted commentators" issue.
Since you can't even follow along without viewing all the comments, I don't see any benefit at all to us, especially people who live in the valley. I love my city, but there are a lot of people I wouldn't trust.
"The one and probably only time I will ever agree with LarryVegas..."
Jenlv, You are so kind...
:) Larry - you know it's true!!
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2010/10/...
"Quitting this class of men, I turn with the warm ardor of a friend to those who have nobly stood, and are yet determined to stand the matter out: I call not upon a few, but upon all: not on this state or that state, but on every state: up and help us; lay your shoulders to the wheel; better have too much force than too little, when so great an object is at stake. Let it be told to the future world, that in the depth of winter, when nothing but hope and virtue could survive, that the city and the country, alarmed at one common danger, came forth to meet and to repulse it. Say not that thousands are gone, turn out your tens of thousands; throw not the burden of the day upon Providence, but "show your faith by your works," that God may bless you. It matters not where you live, or what rank of life you hold, the evil or the blessing will reach you all. The far and the near, the home counties and the back, the rich and the poor, will suffer or rejoice alike. The heart that feels not now is dead; the blood of his children will curse his cowardice, who shrinks back at a time when a little might have saved the whole, and made them happy. I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink; but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death."
"There are cases which cannot be overdone by language, and this is one. There are persons, too, who see not the full extent of the evil which threatens them; they solace themselves with hopes that the enemy, if he succeed, will be merciful. It is the madness of folly, to expect mercy from those who have refused to do justice; and even mercy, where conquest is the object, is only a trick of war; the cunning of the fox is as murderous as the violence of the wolf, and we ought to guard equally against both."
Harry with more time will totally destroy both the economy, and the Constitution, judge him on the job performance of his liberal congress. Only once before have our freedoms faced such a crisis, and that was when Washington himself had his back to the wall with the enlistment of most of his cold, weary, and hungry troops, were up just days away, they were dishearten, and all but defeated when the inspiring lines written by Thomas Paine brought new life, and allegiance that allowed us to go on and fight and win on freedoms we have enjoyed in the past. I am posting some of that text, in hopes it inspires you to continue your fight to keep our freedoms, and not give up to this autocratic administration.
Thomas Paines excerpts " The Crisis"
"THESE are the times that try men's souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country; but he that stands by it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman. Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered; yet we have this consolation with us, that the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly: it is dearness only that gives every thing its value. Heaven knows how to put a proper price upon its goods; and it would be strange indeed if so celestial an article as FREEDOM should not be highly rated." "Even the expression is impious; for so unlimited a power can belong only to God."
The only freedom the crazy teabaggers have is
the freedom to be stupid.
They back a crazy woman who wants to take away
our Social Security and our health care.
YOU NUTS CALL THIS FREEDOM?
THE MAJORITY OF AMERICANS NEED SOCIAL SECURITY
AND HEALTH CARE.
SAVE OUR STATE AND COUNTRY,
VOTE HARRY REID.
Sharron Angle has made voting in this election simple for both democrats and republicans -- vote Reid. The wacko tea baggers descending on the state of Nevada and telling Nevadans how they should vote is insulting to all voters. Nevadans can see that Angle is both crazy and dangerous and that her ideas would do great damage to our state. The US and the entire world is in a deplorable economic condition and Senator Reid, as Senate Majority Leader, has made huge efforts to help Nevadans through these tough times. Replacing Senator Reid, the #1 senator (Majority Leader), with a #100 senator who will be shunned as a wacko by both republicans and democrats alike will be an unmitigated disaster for all Nevadans. Nevada's only real influence on the federal government lies with its two senators -- the voices of Nevada's three congressional representatives are scarcely heard. Nevada cannot afford to lose the influence Senator Reid brings to Nevada.