Posted on 08/03/2010 5:08:01 PM PDT by Sub-Driver
Reid opponet targets him over 'coked-up stimulus monkeys' By Shane D'Aprile - 08/03/10 05:46 PM ET
Republican Nevada Senate candidate Sharron Angle used a new report from two GOP senators that detailed alleged waste of stimulus dollars to attack Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) Tuesday.
The report, released by Sens. John McCain (R-Ariz.) and Tom Coburn (R-Okla.), detailed some 100 stimulus projects the senators considered wasteful and questioned whether they actually resulted in job creation.
In a news release, Angle focused her attention on a $71,623 grant awarded to the Wake Forest University Medical Center. Part of the university's research involved studying the effects of cocaine on monkeys.
"We had no idea Harry’s plan of ‘more’ meant spending millions on coked-up monkeys and exotic ants while our state is ravaged by the worst foreclosure rate and highest unemployment rate in the nation,” an Angle spokesman said in a news release.
A spokeswoman for the University told ABC News that the "small grant has helped protect very important research that will have significant impact on public health in regards to cocaine addiction and the issue of relapse."
The National Republican Senatorial Committee also piled on Tuesday afternoon, blasting out a release with the headline, "Reid's failed stimulus provides monkeys with cocaine while failing to create much-needed jobs."
Actual estimates of the job creation effect of the stimulus have been mixed. The non-partisan Congressional Budget Office estimated back in May that the stimulus created more than 2 million jobs.
“Coked-up stimulus monkey”?
0bama supporters will use this as further evidence that the Tea Party is racist...
This woman needs professional campaign managers. She is an olive short of a martini.
Hey. Monkeys need jobs too.
I actually think this is pretty funny and cuts through the clutter.
Monkeys. Doing the jobs even illegal aliens don’t want.
At first, I honestly thought she was crassly referring to Reid and his fellow Congressional Democrats!
I thought she was referring to Biden and Geithner.
I have a new tagline....
Actually, I like the attack. It’s funny, and it hits home. But, you’re right: she does need consultants. the fact that she doesn’t have them points to the massive failure of Washington-based conservative groups. Their donors ought to cut off every cent to them until they stop the infighting and get serious about grassroots training and consulting.
Monkeys on cocaine as a scientific study getting a pile of money during a recession where people are suffering unemployment and foreclosure, yeah that’s both ridiculous and outrageous. Nothing short of genius on her part to use it to illustrate Harry Reid and his ilk. Whoever came up with the idea for her to use it deserves a raise.
An easy mistake to make. But real monkeys have tails. If you remember that you can make the right call 89% of the time.
Herman Cain was all over this on his show tonight (this and the studies on exotic ants, and studies on hot flashes in breast cancer survivors)
One of the people that called in called it the “Junky Monkey” study LOL
I liked it too!
Would love to see mid-Octiber billboards popup with that photo of dingy harry flippin the bird. No need for anything said. That picture is truly worth a thousand words.
And like a coke-up monkey, the Congress is often flinging feces at us.
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