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Reid has helped Nevada change with the times
Friday, Sept. 3, 2010 | 2:03 a.m.
During my early years in Pennsylvania, we had an ice block that was used to cool our refrigerator and a three-part washing tub for clothes. It was fairly easy to grow veggies as long as it didn’t freeze during the short summer season. (It often did.)
Now I live in Nevada. As the decades have passed, it has become a lot easier to obtain electricity and truck in items not produced locally. Nevada’s population has flourished.
There may actually be a family here that depends on no one else for their basic necessities. The rest of us are dependent on each other.
One group of citizens, the right wing, is having trouble with this change of circumstances. Republican Senate nominee Sharron Angle represents them. Maybe there were many good-old days. I have a feeling that most were childhood memories and it was our parents who struggled to keep us alive.
So I really don’t know why Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid gets a bad rap, because he has tried to help the citizens of Nevada change with the times.
Our future, the energy source from the sun, is shining down on us every day. We can long for the less than good-old days or embrace changes that will help our struggling economy. The choice is ours.
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Circumstances have indeed changed.
The economy changed dramatially in 20 short months. And our personal financial circumstances changed along with it.
Are we happy about these changes? Are these the changes we wanted when we voted for hope and change?
Can we change these recent changes?
Or is Linda saying we must "embrace" the change as something we cannot change?
Hope & change --- wow! We didn't know it would turn out this way.
Linda Wilcox say "As the decades have passed, it has become a lot easier to obtain electricity and truck in items not produced locally."
Does Harry Reid still deliver milk to you door every day?
Since GOP handlers fitted her with a tight muzzle we haven't heard Crazy Angle talk about Second Amendment remedies, privatizing Social Security and Medicare, or her Scientology-inspired plan to provide massages for prison inmates.
The Sharron we're seeing now never mentions those formerly-held positions because it's out-of-the-mainstream crazy talk that scares normal people. Still, it's what she truly believes and what she'll try to achieve as a US Senator.
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Reid has been good for the state and he shall remain so
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The question is will Angle get even one vote? Well, sure, she will and that will be the vote she herself casts .... ironically, that's the way it is.
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Have a good one !
You are right The reids have worked to drive the quality of living into a death spiral. If you like 14% unemployement then you must love the Reids.
Angle is new to the job so it woll take her at least 2 terms to be as corrupt as the Reids.
We neet to limit all of them to two terms.
"So I really don't know why Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid gets a bad rap, because he has tried to help the citizens of Nevada change with the times."
It's because of a number of things that all deal with the incredible evolution of the neo-conservative far right.
The Republican Party created the Tea Party Express, a collection of way out there, gullible far righties. And now, the Republican Party is being eaten away from the inside by them, forcing all the moderates out. And if the normal Republicans are still around, the Tea Partiers have outcast them. So, like a cancer, the Republicans have changed, even the most moderate ones have changed with it. For example, look at John McCain and compare how he was when he was running for President and how he is now after being challenged by a Tea Partier that forced him so far to the right, he fell off a steep cliff.
As far as Senator Reid goes, because the Republican Party is so desperate to vote him out, they end up fielding a totally unmarketable and deplorable candidate. The Tea Party took over and shoved Sharron Angle out on the Nevada political stage...even knowing her ideas were mired in the political climate of the 1920s, a candidate who has a horrible record in politics of voting no all the time and arguing about everything, priding herself in the fact she causes problems, not solving them.
And then add to this the corporate world on the right is flinging money left and right and advertising in Nevada to oust Senator Reid. And a lot of the ads and people speaking the loudest...are not even from Nevada. And they will not vote in November. But they sure want to influence the outcome.
In this Republican world, they want voters to hate. Hate the illegal aliens and dehumanize them as "criminal invaders" who use "anchor babies" to get in. Hate blacks who are going after whites. Hate Muslims who are trying to take over the world and ALL of them should be labeled "terrorists." Hate Social Security. Hate President Obama. Hate Senator Reid. Hate Speaker of the House Pelosi. Hate, hate, hate... hate everyone..except anyone who is a Republican.
Crazy is cool in the Republican world nowadays as they resort to anything to get into power.
But Senator Reid will win out. Because it's about which one is best for Nevada. And Sharron Angle ain't it. She isn't even close.
Not our fault the Republicans presented a crappy candidate.
People who try to apply a human element to the politician in 2010 are grasping at a big empty hole. Reid follows the money...
Colin wrote - "Crazy is cool in the Republican world nowadays as they resort to anything to get into power."
True. Like mindless lemmings the entire GOP has followed the teabagger example and jumped off the crazy cliff.
The old republican party that included moderates and independent thinkers is gone for good. Now it's all about far-right extremism .
LastThroes and Colin are typical knee jerk liberals. If you disagree with Harry Reid you are an extremist. If you disagree with Obama you are a racist.
If you agree with their narrow minded swill you are an intelligent, free thinking patriot. In actuality they are mindless trolls who scour the Internet in search of articles that support their drivel.
I don't agree with Harry and I am an Independent Hybrid Conservative.
I completely disagree with Obama and I am not a racist.
btw, Colin, you allude to "hating anchor babies", you realize Reid "hates anchor babies", right??
I have very strong opinions. Opinions I feel free to give. I don''t cut and troll.
This makes me dangerous, very dangerous.
I would love to hear what Angle would do for the state of Nevada, other than get rid of unemployment insurance, which she feels benefits no one, or get rid of the Department of Education. Other than that, and giving tax cuts to the top 2%, what exactly is she offering to the people of Nevada? Can someone please tell me?
Angle: "Unemployment really doesn't benefit anyone"..this woman is the biggest idiot I have ever seen running for high office!
For 22 of his 24 years you would have to say about Reid:
Reid has HUGELY IMPROVED this state.
Reid has CREATED HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF jobs.
Reid has BROUGHT integrity to corrupt Nevada politics.
Reid has CREATED a future of our kids and the American dream.
The point is no one politician has the power to create or destroy this economy. We are the victim of a national downturn. Who has money for gambling when they don't have much money coming in?
Hey Linda, Reid wants to jack up the price of your electricity to "Save the Planet". They'll be a time very soon when rolling blackouts will be the norm because the wind ain't blowin or the sun ain't shine'in. Perhaps then notacon will finally find a job picking up the dead people.
Thank you Reid!
gbigs said....
"Doncha love how the bashed Bush for 8 years on everything from wars to his econ, which actually produced jobs and increased incomes?"
Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! My little buddy gbigs is again attempting to rewrite history. Nothing new there....
Yep, that little Bush guy really created a lot of jobs didn't he? George created a total of 3 million jobs in 8 years.
That's the smallest number of jobs created by a any president since Herbert Hoover.
Of course, Hoover served one term (4 years) where as "clueless George" was living at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. for 8 years...
Also, America's middle class lost ground under the economic policies of the Bush Administration.
Also, approximately 8-10 million jobs were taken off shore during the same time period...
Yep, that gbigs character sure tries to rewrite history...Nothing new there!
How many community organizers do we have to hire to get the state unemployment level back into single-digits?
Increase energy taxes and finish off the middle-class!
A panel 238 presidential scholars voted GW Bush as 38th worst. He was a loser on the day the conservative Supreme Court appointed him president and he was still a loser eight years later when he slinked out of Washington DC for the final time with record-low 29% approvals.
History doesn't change no matter how much teabaggers wish it did.
Obama stopped us from having a depression..denial is certainly a disease of the mind gbigs.
Last throes: Scholars do not mater as they don't live in the real world, Just look at Reid, Titus and Buckley they have never had a real job, now they are telling 8,000,000 unemployed people that there is no depression!
"To a Progressive/liberal/socialist the truth is hate speech and name calling"
lastthroes, we get it, you can't stand Bush. This might help; Bush isn't president any more.
Obama ran on the platform of CHANGE. Sadly, thanks to his ego, all we have is chaotic change.
Let me be clear, your voters remorse is quite obvious. Wake up and smell the obvious. Obama is going down in flames.
Reid is as out of touch as you are.....you must be his de facto campaign manager.
Bush's tax cuts "sparked" the last "rebound for unemployment," says Ed Morrissey at Hot Air, and, as Dems belatedly realize, "socking" people with a tax hike now will have the opposite effect. That said, extending Bush's cuts is tricky for the Democrats -- it thwarts their strategy of blaming Bush for everything -- but, if they don't, they'll trigger another recession.
Tough to be a Dim nowadays. Unless you hate americans.
Hey El Lobo that is maybe true until now because Obama hasn't created any.
The following boot licking lying puppet bloggers: gbigs, milt, rusty57,nez212,Future, and Jank, have adopted the 'Big Lie" propaganda of Herr Hitler and Herr Goebbels.
The "Big Lie"--tell lies, even preposterous lies, and repeat them over and over to make the Nevada citizens believe them.
Why do they lie to their fellow Nevadans?
Are they "Elite" authoritarian submissive fascist followers?
Where is their values, their principles, their honor, and their humanity?
Why do the sycophant wingnut bloggers have no "SHAME?"
Harry is no stranger to the "Big Lie" himself, remember this one from just a couple of months ago?
( from 8 News Now: http://www.8newsnow.com/global/story.asp... )
"When you go to the unemployment office there's many U.S. citizens who are unemployed construction workers and they don't have jobs because right now, some of those construction companies find it easier to hire undocumented workers," said Reporter Nathan Baca.
"I think that any information you have in that regard is absolutely without foundation," responded Reid.
But a Pew Hispanic Center study shows 17-percent of all construction workers are in the United States illegally. Reid says not in Nevada. "That may be some place, but it's not here in Nevada."
gbigs; quoting a Faux News poll on anything political is akin to saying George Bush was a competent President. He was certainly one of the very worst, but you right-wing nutjobs are too ignorant to realize it. Why don't you go back to watching the Glenn Beck Comedy hour, and there will be some more cartoons on later for your amusement.
Yep, Harry certainly did help Nevada keep up with the times, especially race relations. According to Harry the US would be "ready to embrace a black presidential candidate, especially one such as Obama -- a 'light-skinned' African American 'with no Negro dialect, unless he wanted to have one.' "
The liberal loons wonder why the Republicans are the "Party of No". Today, we get word that the Obama Administration is considering a push to put through ANOTHER stimulus spending spree. THat additional spending would be in conjunction with tax increases on the people who own and operate small businesses.
Anybody with a brain in their head KNOWS that is the EXACT wrong thing to do and is completely politically motivated.
THus, all we Republicans have to do is keep "Saying NO!" like the majority of Americans. When that second bite at the rotten apple again fails miserably, the Democrats will have destroyed themselves.
Frankly, the best thing for this country would be, in the short run, to let these mopes pull this nonsense and completely immolate themselves.
Democrats, if Obama pulls this off you will NEVER be in power again in your lifetime....
And THAT would be a good thing!
Nov. 2 - Capitalism and Parents back in charge!
There's going to be a union sponsored "March" on Washington, D.C. on Oclober 2.
Prediction: There will be one tenth of the people there that went to see Beck/Palin and the media will report the crowd at 500,000 people.
When the Obama Administration is asked about the discrepancy, Biden will say that 450,000 people were "on their way" but got caught in traffic. Thus, they "intended" to go, but didn't make it....
George Bush:
"Miss Me Yet?"
You Betcha!
GREEDY REPUBLICANS DESTROYED OUR ECONOMY.
No amount of crazy republican lies will ever
change that fact.
YES, George Bush was THE WORST PRESIDENT in
history.
No amount of crazy republican lies will ever
change that fact.
George Bush dropped the ball on 9/11.
George Bush invaded the wrong country.
George Bush lied about WMD.
George Bush caused the housing bubble.
YES, GEORGE BUSH AND REPUBLICANS DESTROYED
OUR ECONOMY.
Sharron Angle's husband receives a substantial government pension each month thanks to his years of employment with the BLM, as well as the generosity of American taxpayers and also the union representatives who negotiated for a fair retirement plan on Mr. Angle's behalf.
So why does Sharron Angle hate government (except the BLM, of course) when, for several decades, her family's livelihood depended on Mr. Angle's income from the BLM?
Another Crazy Angle mystery. Like massages for prison inmates and her treasonous Second Amendment remedy.
This is FANTASTIC!
I'm watching Chris Matthews and two left wing extremists whining and crying about the possibility of the new Republican majority shutting down the government in 2011.
THey think that will energize the public against the Republicans and help the Democrats.
THey still don't get it!
THe people of this country are AGAINST the runaway government of Socialism. THey are tired of the massive spending. THey STILL think that the "average" American is what the old mutt, diamonddogg, thinks they are...dependent on government programs.
WRONG!
THis ain't 1994 - this is beyond 1994. This is a total reawakening of the American Public as to the dangerous path we are on and their adamant desire to STOP the madness spread by the Mad Hatter Barack Obama.
Keep going, Dems, you're making it easier!
Nov. 2 - Capitalists and Parents back in charge!
121,00 public sector jobs cut in the month of August.
Heard any complaints from the voting public?
Nope!
Those would be UNION jobs, right Teamster?
Any complaints from the voting public about union jobs being cut?
Nope!
The unions are about to spend $50M of their union brothers dues on a losing battle to maintain the relevance of the unions. Will it work?
Nope!
The question is whether the rank and file will be able to find fat John when they realize this Kamikaze mission with their pension fund dollars have bankrupted their pensions?
Fat John will be long gone, sipping Mai Tai's in the Carribean with his co-conspirator Jimmy Hoffa, Jr. when the you-know-what hits the fan!
Ta Ta Unions, into the tar pits!
gbigs, just another example of the left using their favorite tool:
"Let's do it ourselves and say they're doing it"
or
"Let's not do it and say we did!"
The people of this country are wising up to this nonsense. And the Democrats don't understand why their old tricks aren't working.....
Angle hates all government agencies except the military and Interior Dept, where her husband worked for many years, earning the Angle Klan a nice monthly stipend, care of the American taxpayer of course.
Here's how the scheme works -- Crazy Sharron only cares about the Big Government teets that have provided her family with a steady supply of fresh, creamy milk.
She has her handout from Uncle Sam and that where the sucking stops.
Screw everyone else.
So, Lastthroes, tell me what Sharron Angle's husband should have done. When he got the job, should he have said "THanks, but make sure I don't have a pension included".
And how much is the pension, anyway? Do you know? Was he part of a union who got ridiculous pay increases and an exorbitant pension like the teachers and firefighters? Do you know?
But I do find it interesting that you call that pension "Her handout from Uncle Sam"!
So that means YOU AGREE that these lavish pensions are "Handouts from Uncle Sam"!
Glad to see some cognitive thought creeping into your brain!!!!
All you union workers - LastTHroes ADMITS these pension benefits are HANDOUTS!!!!!
By the way, LastThroes, no comment on the superlative month for the car makers? You gave me all kinds of grief about how great the car companies did in July. Now, you seem to have lost your tongue as the month of August was deemed:
THe worst in automotive history in three decades!
C'mon, LastThroes, be a man and admit you were WRONG - car sales FELL OFF A CLIFF in August....
Of course, being a man is difficult when you're a cryin' little b****!
Extreme?
THIS is EXTREME:
SPENDING MORE MONEY FASTER THAN ANY FOUR PRESIDENTS COMBINED!
EXPANDING GOVERNMENT TO THE LARGEST BUREAUCRACY IN HISTORY!
INCREASING OUR NATIONAL DEFICIT TO THE POINT WHERE 40% OF ALL DOLLARS COLLECTED PAY INTEREST!
NOW THEY WANT ANOTHER STIMULUS AFTER THE FIRST ONE FAILED MISERABLY!
And the lunatic left fringe think someone else is EXTREME!
Again, "let's be extremists and say they are" - Democratic Tactic #1.
Nov. 2 - Capitalists and Parents back in charge!
gbigs, the more you point out the facts of life to these guys the more and more and more extreme they get and the louder they scream.
THat's good for the Republicans. We will continue to point out the stupidity of spending until you drop and then spending some more. We'll point out the stupidity of propping up union workers at pay levels twice the private sector which turns the thinking public against these thieves.
THese left wing extremists will try to justify spending like idiots and ridiculous pay for their union voting base.
And the more they try to justify these crazy positions, the more common sense Americans will turn against these guys.
Did you ever think in your lifetime the people of this country would show such indifference to the union firings taking place? NO
Did you ever see Americans rank the deficit as the biggest problem facing America? NO
So the more they defend it, the more extreme they look.
Keep going, Dems, you're making it easy!
The longer George Bush is gone the smarter he gets. On the other hand, President "really really really smart" Obama is starting to look absolutely stupid.
Was today's news conference the third or fourth time the Mad Hatter Barack Obama stated:
"The economy is moving forward, we added more than zero private jobs, which is a plus, but it's not moving as fast as we would like"
How many times can this guy come out and say the same stupid thing over and over and over again?
Gee, do you think the American people are "happy" with the "progress" we are making?
Only the delusional left-wing posters have their hands in the air.....the rest of America is saying:
TA TA on November 2 and in November 2012!
hombre said....
"The longer George Bush is gone the smarter he gets."
Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha!
Right....and pigs can now fly and water runs up hill!
George junior would have to cheat big time on an IQ test to rank anything close to normal....
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"Rarely is the questioned asked: Is our children learning?"
(George W. Bush - Florence, S.C., Jan. 11, 2000)
In the wild, at least on tv, if your being attacked by a pack of wolves just shoot one and the other wolves will ignore you and tear apart the wounded wolf. Our hero then makes good his escape. That's what's happening now. To get the minds of the electorate off Wall Street and the bankers with their huge bonuses and responsiblity for almost destroying the financial system the Republican propaganda machine has set the wolves upon themselves.
The rest of us are the wolves. One only needs to take a critical look at the studies claiming that most of the people in the US don't pay federal taxes for an example. Full of faulty assumptions and questionable arithmetic by a questionable organization but boy did it get the headlines and fangs barred. After hearing this piece of garbage the blood frenzy drowned out the fact that the top 25 hedge fund managers on Wall Street AVERAGED $1 BILLION EACH in compensation in 2009. Poor babies had to divvy up only $9 BILLION in 2007. Two of the worst years in recent economic history and these guys trippled their take in that time. Not to mention their employees and shareholders also got their share of the booty. Making big bucks with just a few key strokes on a computer.
A few years ago a guy did a study that claimed unemployement pay actually extended the amount of time a person stayed unemployed. His study was based on normal recessions not the mega one we are now in so news organizations contacted him about his study and how it applies to now. His take is that with there being at least 5 people unemployed for every job opening the results from his study do NOT apply to this recession. That did not stop some hack professor no one ever heard of claiming if we stopped paying all forms of unemployment we would all be back to work in short order. This guy was debunked from all corners except people haters and Tea Baggers who relished the news so they could set the wolves upon each other one more time and divert their attention from the party of NO. So now the wolves are stepping all over each other trying to find one or two people actually enjoying their unemployment so as to "prove" the rest of the millions collecting are all deadbeat layabouts. With "revelations" such as these the wolves are lining up behind the Republican candidates as they tear apart their own.
Unions and their working stiff members are also being used to deflect attention. Hardly a week goes by without some reference to unions killing this or that so as to take the heat off inept CEO's killing the job market and our country. Or the party of no emasculating financial reform. Union members, and their non union counterparts, are constantly portrayed as lazy, stupid, uneducated, ignorant, company killer, slugs unworthy of life let alone decent wages. Wolves out in force again with their blood pressure to the max tearing apart their own.
The desperation of these crazy republicans
like gogogreedy and gsmall is amazing.
These clowns think they can lie and scam their
way back into power.
NOT GOING TO WORK.
AMERICANS GOT BURNED BY THE GREEDY REPUBLICANS
FOR THE LAST TIME.
THE GREEDY REPUBLICAN PARTY IS BROKEN.
This leaderless party of thieves and crooks
has been busted.
Democrats will sail to victory in November.
George Bush has Barack Obama fighting his wars.
George Bush will go down in history as the
worst president of all time.
If Barack Obama is so very very extremely smart, why is he fighting Bush's wars?
I figured if he would be so very very very smart and have a 175 IQ that he could figure a way out of those wars.
He isn't as smart as all you lefties have him figured for.
I have already figured out the fact that Barack Obama is very very very smart. 175 IQ. Big medicine. Why is he acting just like George Bush. Bush has a 90 IQ. We got a 175 IQ guy behaving like a 90 IQ guy. Just as dumb, maybe dumber. He is polling the same. His Party is polling the same as the Repubs were at the end. The only difference I can see in the last two Presidents is the shade of their faces.
Obama is smarter than any of you republicans,
that's for sure.
Obama knows exactly what he is doing.
Sit back, watch and learn.
Your education is just starting.
I think the education of Obama is just starting. He is losing his own party. The only guy that wants him to campaign for him is Joe Sestak in Pennsylvania. He's fixin' to lose that race and he is desperate. All that talk by Obama about the Republicans fighting his agenda is just getting old. He is the Chief, he should be the leader of ALL the people . Not just you leftwienies. A real leader would find a way to get along. Not just shovin' everything down our gullets. Like that mickey mouse Health Care plan.
A classic example of leadership is Bill Clinton in '94. He lost his majority and still found a way to get things done by working WITH the Republicans. Not sitting around insulting them.
Republican Senator Chuck Hagel speaking about the radical extremist fringe, non-traditional republicans: "I do not see them presenting any alternatives, any new options or any new thinking. It's jst a no, no, no...."
American Institute's Norm Ornstein, Conservative Republican: "GOP leaders are becoming the Bart Simpson's of Congress, gleeful at smarmy and adolescent tactics, but unwilling to get serious."
Conservative Republican Professor Stephen Bainbridge: "The right is losing it's way, Now, under the influence of the potty mouthed Andrew Breitbart, the right is more concerned with trashing the left than in defending the best values of civilization. Now, observe the rule of the crazy cons." www.professorbainbridge.com.
RedState's Erick Erickson to GOP/republicans: "Stop lying and admit you're the party of no."
Chris Matthews responding to the republican birthers that constantly state that President Obama was not born in the USA: "Are they, no matter how much they claim to be patriotic, really the most Un-American of people..."
Republican Representative Bob Inglis, referring to the non-traditional republicans: "When we start just delivering rhetoric and misinformation, we are failing the conservative movement, we are failing the country."
The U.S. House election, 1994 was an election for the United States House of Representatives on November 8, 1994, in the middle of President Bill Clinton's first term. As a result of a 54-seat swing in membership from Democrats to Republicans, the Republican Party gained a majority of seats in the House for the first time since 1954.
The Democratic Party had run the House for all but four of the preceding 72 years. The Republican Party, united behind Newt Gingrich's Contract with America, which promised floor votes on various popular and institutional reforms, was able to capitalize on the perception that the House leadership was corrupt, as well as the dissatisfaction of conservative and many independent voters with President Clinton's actions (including a failed attempt at universal health care and gun control measures).
In a historic election, House Speaker Tom Foley (D-Washington) was defeated for re-election in his district, becoming the first Speaker of the House to fail to win re-election since the era of the American Civil War. Other major upsets included the defeat of powerful long-serving Representatives such as Ways and Means Chairman Dan Rostenkowski (D-Illinois) and Judiciary Chairman Jack Brooks (D-Texas). In all, 34 incumbents (all Democrats) were defeated, though several of them (like David Price of North Carolina, Ted Strickland of Ohio, and Jay Inslee of Washington) regained seats in later elections; Maria Cantwell of Washington won a U.S. Senate race in 2000. Republicans also won some seats that were left open by retiring Democrats. Democrats won four Republican-held seats where the incumbents were stepping down (Maine, Minnesota, Pennsylvania, and Rhode Island). Democrats who were elected in this situation included current Rhode Island congressman and Kennedy family member Patrick J. Kennedy and current Maine governor John Baldacci. No Republican incumbent lost his or her seat in 1994.
Minority whip Newt Gingrich (R-Georgia), re-elected in the Republican landslide, became Speaker (previous Minority Leader Robert H. Michel having retired). Former Majority Leader Dick Gephardt (D-Missouri) became minority leader. The new Republican leadership in the House promised to bring a dozen legislative proposals to a vote in the first 100 days of the session, although the Senate did not always follow suit. The Republicans would remain the majority party of the House for the following 12 years, until the 2006 midterm elections.
Chris Matthews is an unabashed left weiner.
He is going to be the first one crying when the GOP wins the House this November. Keith Olberman will probably have a stroke and Rachel Maddow will just wet her wranglers. All the Lefties will mourn for their loss. John Boehner will be Speaker.
What was Bill Clinton's relationship with the Republican-controlled Congress?
President Bill Clinton's presidency began slowly: many of his appointments were delayed or not approved by Congress; he moved quickly on a controversial topic-homosexuals in the military-before Congress, the military, and the general public had opportunities for debate; and his pursuit of a national health-care policy faced challenges from the beginning. Clinton was successful in helping win Senate approval for the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) and passage of the Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993.
In 1994 midterm elections, Republicans made substantial gains and had rallied around a "Contract with America," promising to move quickly on a wide variety of federal legislation within one hundred days. A sweeping welfare reform bill passed Congress and was signed into law by Clinton, and both sides claimed credit for the legislation. Republican resistance to Clinton programs became heated and led to a stalemate over the president's 1995 budget. Congress wanted spending cuts to fund a tax cut, but Clinton refused. Without an approved budget, and rejection by Congress of temporary funding measures, the government literally shut down in late 1995. National parks, museums, and many government agencies were closed. Congress took the brunt of the blame for the shutdown. A booming economy and Clinton's defense of the Social Security and Medicare programs contributed to his reelection in 1996.
59 Days, liberal loons, 59 days.
Please do the Mad Hatter Barack Obama a favor. instead of donating money to his 2012 campaign, please donate packages of chalk...he can use that chalk when he is back in the classroom in January 2013......
59 days until,
Nov. 2 - Capitalists and parents back in charge!
President Obama's approval is 50% today.
Obama's policies are working, the economy is
getting better.
Greedy republicans are running like scared
rabbits. These fools don't know which way to
turn.
We Democrats will keep the Senate and the House.
No way in hell will Americans put crazy, greedy
republican thieves and crooks back in power.
NO WAY, NO HOW.
bite....
What a rant! You remind me of the little carpetbagger from the city of the stinking onion....
He can rant with the best of them. Of course, he says little that's worth listening to in his long, long rants but he's definitely a "ranter"...
Keep trying, you just might reach "stinking onion status" down the road...
Oh, my the way, did you mention in your rant that Newt Gingrich was forced to resign from his position as Speaker of the House?
It seems the little "pudgy guy from Georgia" was doing several things in his personal life that he was blaming other people for doing in their life..
Yep, "family values Newt." Ha! Ha! Ha!
Is Newt going to throw his hat into the presidential ring come 2012? He's out there doing a lot of talking....Maybe the "little pudgy guy" has a bad case of "Potomac fever?"
Harry did hire Elizabeth Warren,the only person speaking for the working class.
Any former president who had a pulse can't beat W as being worst he wasn't even elected !
Wise-Up! A US Senator's main job is to try to get as much of our tax money sent to Washington (DC) returned to our state. Presently, Nevada is 49th out of 50 states in getting tax money back from the federal government. Nice job, Harry! Not to mention Nevada has the highest unemployment in the nation, a continuing home foreclosure crisis and an impending commercial property meltdown.
Harry Reid is a disgrace and embarrassment to our state and our nation. Send this antique back to Searchlight in November!
If elected Angle will have little influence in helping Nevada,and any she does exert will be negative.