Posted on 12/09/2004 1:28:13 AM PST by nickcarraway
WASHINGTON -- Do you know who Harry M. Reid might be? Frankly I did not know either until he was quoted in the newspapers as having said on NBC's "Meet the Press" that Justice Clarence Thomas is "an embarrassment to the Supreme Court." He also asseverated that Justice Thomas's opinions "are poorly written." As he made these utterances recently on "Meet the Press" I concluded that the man must have some stature, unless, of course, the issue being treated on the show was small-town bigotry. Well, it turns out that this fellow Reid is a United States senator. In fact, he is the incoming Senate Minority Leader from Nevada.
Senator Reid will replace the ever-purring Senator Tom Daschle as Minority Leader after Senator Daschle's mishap on November 2. This should be amusing. On the same program he also said Justice Antonin Scalia would probably get his support if the President nominates him to be chief justice because Justice Scalia is "one smart guy." So Senator Reid is not a small-town bigot. Rather he is just another vulgar mind, raised to eminence by Democrats and emboldened to favor us with his crude thoughts. If in the course of "Meet the Press" he were to have wiped his nose on his sleeve I would not be surprised. Doubtless, he would have a morally-superior explanation if anyone questioned his etiquette. This is the consequence when liberalism's morally-superior mindset affixes itself on mediocrity.
The moral pretense of the American liberal is a thing to marvel upon. So is the intellectual pretense. The Nevada senator who pronounced on Justice Thomas's record and literary merit is a man of no intellectual distinction whatsoever. Having read over the transcript of his remarks on "Meet the Press" I can tell you he articulates woodenly. His thoughts are banal. How well he writes I cannot say with total confidence, but if he writes as well as he speaks he is -- after his first few simple sentences -- unreadable.
What would provoke such a born blank to pronounce on the intellectual capacities of either Justice Thomas or Justice Scalia? The incoming Senate Minority Leader believes he is part of that large gaggle of impostors who consider themselves liberals or "progressives," as they in their florid vanity would have it. They are confident that they stand in that long line of prodigies that goes back to the New Deal and beyond to the Progressive Era. Their forebears believed in the Bill of Rights, the right of laborers to organize, public health, internationalism, and other perfectly sensible matters. Today the Harry M. Reids believe in Vast Right-Wing Conspiracies, a government as good as Sweden's, and the United Nations as a monitor of American foreign policy. Oh yes, and they believe Justice Thomas does not write very well.
They also believe that they won the presidential election in 2000 and many believe that they won it in 2004. They doubt the outcome of the 2004 election because they approached Election Day absolutely confident that they were headed for a stupendous triumph. They believed that despite the fact that their presidential candidate was the most ridiculous presidential candidate since, well, since General Wesley Clark, who could not have been more preposterous if he had run as a nudist. Of course, if Franklin Roosevelt were resurrected and forced to enunciate the positions of today's national Democratic Party he too would probably have lost in 2004.
The problem with Harry M. Reid's party is that it is about 30 years out of date. Its economic position is that of John Kenneth Galbraith, without the wit. Its foreign policy is that of Warren Harding. Its social policy is that of Betty Friedan, without the charm. If Senator Reid does not know who Warren Harding is I suggest he call Justice Scalia, that "one smart guy."
Thirty years ago Democratic Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan said all the "new ideas" were coming from the right. Off and on he tried to come up with some new ideas for the Democrats. Whether he succeeded or not, the Democrats paid no more attention to his ideas than they paid to the right. They slumbered contentedly in their conceit that they were the morally and intellectually superior. Now they are being lead by this preposterosity, Reid. And he thinks his judgments on Justice Thomas matter. He is in the minority and that minority will remain a minority for a very long time with him as Leader.
You are misunderestimating our President.
If you had ever seen previous statements by Reid you would know that he is even more evil than Daschle.
Unless you happen to be a Clinton.
Then, it's allll good bruda!
It doesn't look like the liberal socialist are heading in the right direction to regain power. They are still shooting themselves in the foot.
Boogers are cool.
Bart Simpson:
Yeah man!
Spot on, LOL! Ping
I'm suffering from fatigue-induced lack of wit tonight. Coffee time...
Don't miss a great read! Lots of good lines showing how feckless the new minority leader really is.
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I hope you're right.
Here's a few I'm not using "zzzzzzzzzzz". Starbucks is open in 20 min. I SHALL OVERCOME!!!(f***ing Mondays..)
I have'nt seen it yet. Soon.
It's a matter of color. The Demos want the colored vote. If Thomas was white there would be problem, they do not want them in a power. Look at the hard time the Demos gave Condi.
Though, the soundtrack does make a fantastic stocking stuffer!
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