Once again, it’s hard to find a word to describe a Democratic explanation of wrong doing beyond simply saying, “wow!!!”. Greta Van Susteran had a great interview with Harry Reid. During the interview, Greta talks about the Scott Brown victory. Sticking to the Democratic talking points, Reid threw Coakley under the bus, making a quip [...]
In a minor, and mostly symbolic victory, Republicans found a problem with the language of the House reconciliation bill that Senate Democrats have been trying to pass over the past 36 hours. The Republicans found a provision that guaranteed Pell grants into the future without providing funding for them, leaving that to a future Congress. [...]
When the Associated Press points out that Reid and Obama’s new stimulus bill jobs bill is unlikely to create many jobs, you know it must be bad. The Senate proposal, which is more narrow than the one analyzed by CBO, is estimated to cost about $10 billion. That would add 80,000 to 180,000 jobs over [...]
In what is becoming business as usual for Reid and Pelosi, Democratic leadership has stated that they will schedule an initial vote for the Second Stimulus Bill Jobs Bill on Monday. In order to accomplish this, Reid will move to cut off debate on the bill, which has yet to be produced, on Friday or [...]
Clearly the gang of three are not receiving the message that the American people in Massachusetts and all across the country are sending them. Even before the polls opened, President Obama, Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi signaled their intention to pass Obamacare regardless of the outcome of the Massachusetts Senate election, regardless of this last [...]
Six years ago, Harry Reid won his Senate seat easily with over 60% of the vote. However, the picture is much different today and isn’t expected to get much better for Reid when he tries to win re-election in November. Hot Air discusses Reid’s predicament: What are the odds that a guy given to rambling [...]
The latest body blow to Harry Reid’s chances of keeping his Senate seat came this weekend when it was reported that he referred to then candidate Senator Barack Obama’s “light skin” and lack of “negro dialect”, except when Obama wanted to have a “negro dialect.” While his 2008 comments have created a nation wide commotion, [...]
By now, most people are familiar with the various ‘favors’ that Harry Reid built into his managers amendment ‘compromise agreement’. Nebraska, Vermont, Massachusetts, Louisiana, Florida and other states all got sweetheart deals in exchange for votes. Now it would seem that a Senator, probably with ties to large construction companies or construction worker’s unions, had [...]
Harry Reid and President Obama are trying to use sleight of hand and cries of urgency to perpetrate a fraud on the citizens of the United States of America, again. Earlier in the month, in yet another free commercial for the President, also known as a Charlie Gibson interview, President Obama stated that if we [...]
It would appear that the reports that Obama told Reid to pull Medicare expansion out of the health care bill in order to get Lieberaman on board are true. TPM is reporting that Senator Tom Harkin (D-IA) has said that the Medicare option is going to be pulled: Asked by a reporter if the Medicare [...]
Don’t let facts stand in the way. This week Harry Reid compared the Republican opposition of the partisan Democratic health care bill to those hat opposed the abolition of slavery, those that opposed the woman’s right to vote and those that opposed civil rights. It might be time for Reid to take a history class, [...]