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I have been in communication with a lot of people through the YouTube videos on this issue, as well as the blogs for John McCain site, and developing a dialog with Dems and Independents who are seeking out better information. They feel betrayed. Their concerns center on two things:1. What is the truth about Sarah Palin2. Why did the bailout go from $700 Billion to $850 Billion, how much is pork and who is responsible?I'm looking for links to useful articles that are NOT TOO PARTISAN to explain these things. (Remember, these poor people are going through a crisis. They...

Harry Reid Screws Up Again Creates Run on Insurance Stocks Harry Reid never met a stupid comment he didn't like. His latest brush with the Stupid Fairy occurred last night during the debate on the banking bailout. Nancy Pelosi's Senate Butler decided to make his best Chuck Schumer imitation by announcing that there is an American Insurance firm on the verge of bankruptcy. Reid's statement caused a run on Insurance stocks: The Harry Reid Run In stumping for the needed (though flawed) bailout bill yesterday, Harry Reid warned that an unnamed American insurance firm was teetering on bankruptcy. Those of...

Washington—In what can only be described as “having cajones the size of wrecking balls,” Nancy Pelosi is leading the charge to take up the cost of living raise after the recess. The move comes in the midst of an economy in crisis, sending a message that even some in the House of Representatives could face a dangerous future. Despite taking their recess on Thursday, October 2, 2008, Congress will continue to stay at the helm to help resolve the financial crisis and its icy grip on America. “We’ve worked very hard for the American people and have given practically everyone...

NEWS RELEASE Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms 12500 N.E. Tenth Place Bellevue, WA  98005 CCRKBA URGES SEN. REID TO ALLOW SENATE VOTE ON DISTRICT GUN LAW For Immediate Release: September 24, 2008 BELLEVUE, WA – The Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms is today calling on Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) to allow a House-approved bill on the District of Columbia’s gun law to face an immediate Senate vote. “Texas Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison and 46 of her colleagues have asked Sen. Reid to do this before the end...

Dear Senator Reid, The public is looking for our elected officials to put aside partisan politics and blame in order to rapidly look at the root causes that put us into our current situation and address them with definitive action. First, I have to say this - your partisan jabs at John McCain specifically and the Republicans in general JUST NOW in your public statements are transparently partisan, not helpful, and disingenuous at best.  Since your comments, the DOW is starting to slide downward. I heard with my own ears the comments from Senator Shelby yesterday, well before the arrival...

Harry Reid argues that US Income tax is VOLUNTARY, VIDEO of full interview here -- http://digg.com/politics/Senator_Harry_Reid_Says_Paying_Income_Tax_is_Voluntary

I didn’t hear it personally, but I have it from a reliable source, that Sen. Joe Lieberman told Sean Hannity the following on the radio this afternoon. SEN LIEBERMAN: [Laughs]. Yeah, I mean it is true, it’s odd in terms of the typical stereotypes of the two parties. Senator McCain I’m not saying hasn’t gotten some money from Wall Street but the major recipient of the contributions from Wall Street executives and employees has been Sen. Obama. I’m disappointed, I think this is a great act of leadership by John McCain, this is the guy I’ve come to know and...

Reid tries to sneak oil shale ban back into legislation By Michelle Malkin  •  September 25, 2008 11:47 AM Sen. Jim DeMint’s office reports just now that Harry Reid is trying to sneak the oil shale ban — backed by House Democrats — back into legislation under cover of the bailout frenzy.Details: We’ve just been alerted that despite House Democrats relenting on extending bans on offshore drilling and oil shale in the continuing resolution (CR) appropriations bill, Democrat Senate Leader Harry Reid has decided to sneak an extension of the oil shale ban through as Congress fights over the financial bailout. Oil...

Reid to McCain: Don't Come Back to Capitol September 24, 2008 5:14 PM A Democrat tells ABC News that, in a phone call late this afternoon, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., told Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., that it would NOT be helpful for him to come back to Washington, D.C., to work on the Wall Street bailout bill. McCain this afternoon suspended his campaign and said he would skip the first presidential debate in order to return to Capitol Hill to work on the log-jammed Bush administration legislation, which, as of Wednesday afternoon, was in peril. McCain had phoned...

I’ll be the first to admit it. I’ll laugh at myself on this one so that you guys don’t have to. John McCain wasn’t sacrificing anything by suspending his campaign. He was calling “Vegas Harry’s” bluff. Senator Reid opined that he could read minds when he offered up the following bit of “truthiness” regarding Senator McCain’s position on the bailout. “I got some good news in the last hour or so … it appears that Sen. McCain is going to come out for this,” Reid announced. It seems Reid had described McCain’s actual position about as accurately as Senator Joseph...

A Democrat tells ABC News that in a phone call late this afternoon, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., told Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., that it would NOT be helpful for him to come back to Washington, DC, to work on the Wall Street bailout bill. McCain this afternoon suspended his campaign and said he would skip the first presidential debate in order to return to Capitol Hill to work on the log jammed Bush administration legislation, which as of Wednesday afternoon was in peril. When contacted, the McCain campaign did not have any comment.

WASHINGTON - House Democrats will allow a quarter-century ban on drilling for oil off the Atlantic and Pacific coasts to expire next week. Appropriations Committee Chairman David Obey is telling reporters that language continuing the moratorium will be omitted this year from a spending bill to keep the government in operating funds after Congress recesses for the election.

The most fascinating political development of the summer has occurred with little notice. Republicans are respected again. Wait, what? Believe it or not, entering the final quarter of the eighth year of the George W. Bush presidency, Republicans are ascending in popularity, Politico.com reported yesterday. Half of registered voters and half of independent voters have a favorable opinion of the GOP, according to a new poll from the Pew Center for the People and the Press. Democrats hold a slight edge in favorability among registered voters (55 percent to 50 percent), but they are statistically tied with Republicans among independent...

With the financial crisis enveloping Washington, and the Obama campaign trying to spin it as a Republican problem, Congress is about to go on "vacation" again - like they did in August. Remember the House Republicans (Genius!!!) who stayed behind, and worked on gas and drilling, while their Dem counterparts fled the Capitol? It was pure genius! And how the Dems have suffered for it. This is another (and greater) such opportunity. With the financial crisis in full swing, the Dems are fleeing, and saying a lot of embarassng things. Republicans should remain in town when the dems flee -...

This Congress hasn't accomplished all that much, so you'd think they'd be eager to pass a no-brainer such as bipartisan legislation to protect kids from online predators. You'd be wrong. Last December, the House passed the Securing Adolescents from Exploitation Online Act by a resounding margin of 409-2. The bipartisan bill expands reporting requirements for child sex exploitation and child pornography, requires providers to disclose the identity of anyone who appears to have violated child pornography laws, directs the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children to report child pornography violations to law enforcement, and grants service providers and NCMEC...

“A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson in the essay, “Self Reliance” (1841) Emerson was a wise old, and young, man whose words still live and bear great truth, coming up on two centuries after he wrote them. The validity of that quotation from the American philosopher-essayist capsulizes Democrats today and personifies Senate Democratic leader, Harry Reid. In a nutshell, those words mean that people who are so immersed in the weakness of self denial as opposed to self reliance are forever doomed to think and...

Senate Majority Leader on Economic Woes: 'No One Knows What to Do' September 17, 2008 2:03 PM ABC News' Z. Byron Wolf reports from Capitol Hill: Don't look for any legislation in the near future to address the financial crisis. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, asked today what new regulatory actions Congress can take, said, bluntly, "No one knows what to do."

WASHINGTON (AP) — Democrats sought on Saturday to drum up support for compromise legislation on offshore drilling, challenging Republicans to break from Bush administration policies that neglect development of alternative energy sources.

Lost amidst the many speeches delivered at the Democrat Convention was one by Sen. Harry Reid of Nevada. He is the Senate Majority Leader and, as such, controls the legislative agenda in that upper house of Congress. Harry Reid hates oil, but then, so does the Democrat Party. The reason this nation is held hostage to other oil producing nations is that the Democrats, going back to President Jimmy Carter, have waged war on the American oil industry. This is especially important insofar as nations ruled by monarchies, corrupt, and communist governments, control 75% of the world’s oil. Seldon B....

S. Orange, NJ - Lost amidst the many speeches delivered at the Democrat Convention was one by Sen. Harry Reid of Nevada. He is the Senate Majority Leader and, as such, controls the legislative agenda in that upper house of Congress. Harry Reid hates oil, but then, so does the Democrat Party. The reason this nation is held hostage to other oil producing nations is that the Democrats, going back to President Jimmy Carter, have waged war on the American oil industry. This is especially important insofar as nations ruled by monarchies, corrupt, and communist governments, control 75% of the...

I am sick of the McCain voted with Bush argument, so I compared Obama's with the do nothing Senate Leader 9% Harry Reid in 110th Congress. Total Votes 635 Not Voting 289 Yea 214 Nay 132 Total Votes 346 With Reid 318 % with Reid 92% Obama was "Not Voting" 55% of the time and when he voted it was with Reid 92% of the time. This needs to get repeated over and over and over.

CNN double checked with its reporter and confirmed that Reid meant Palin personally, everyone on the CNN panel had to admit this term is never used against men and that Reid's remark is a mistake that can help validate Palin's attacks on the democrats. Priceless, they also said Reid hates McCain and Reid played right into the republicans' hands. They said Reid was upset last night too. Guess he thinks only the left should have a political convention. CNN just came back from the break and is still covering this story. Lol now Paul Begala is saying only calling Sarah...

CNN: Harry Reid releases statement, attacking Palin's speech as "shrill".. The talking heads are somewhat aghast, noting the sexist implications of the term "shrill"..

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid was not happy with Sen. Joe Lieberman’s speech before the Republican National Convention Tuesday night.

Democrats and Republicans have scripted their conventions as tightly as possible. But after delegates return home with buttons, badges and banners, the curtain will rise on a more unruly drama: the fall session of Congress. And it could affect the November election more than the conventions. The House and Senate return to Washington Monday, Sept. 8. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid hope it will be a short session, ending on Sept. 26. That will allow members to go home and campaign, not to return until after Election Day. Good luck. Congress hasn't yet passed any...

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and John McCain have never exactly enjoyed a close relationship, but the Democratic leader was exceedingly blunt Wednesday in his assessment of his colleague from Arizona. "I can't stand John McCain," Reid flatly told his hometown paper, the Las Vegas Review Journal in comments published Thursday. The Nevada Democrat also said he had recently expressed that sentiment to Democrat-turned Independent Sen. Joe Lieberman, an ardent supporter of McCain who has agreed to speak at the Republican convention early next month.

(The Politico) Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid had some harsh words for the presumptive Republican presidential nominee Thursday, telling the Las Vegas Review Journal; "I can't stand John McCain. In the interview, Reid also defended Connecticut Sen. Joe Lieberman, after the former Democratic vice presidential nominee accepted a speaking slot at next month's Republican convention in Minnesota. "He has a close personal relationship with John McCain. I don't fully understand why he does," Reid told the paper. "I told him last night, 'You know, Joe, I can't stand John McCain.' He said, 'I know you feel that way,' " Reid...

Nevada - Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid told reporters that during a phone call with Connecticut Sen. Joe Lieberman, he mentioned his intense dislike of John McCain. "I told him last night, 'You know, Joe, I can't stand John McCain and the way he thinks America is so great.' " Reid said. Lieberman later said his reply was, "Of course you don't like McCain, he's not the Taliban." He continued, "If you  look past his hatred for the United States and his aid and comfort to our enemies, Harry is actually a pretty nice guy. You know, he suffered a severe...

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., defended Connecticut Sen. Joe Lieberman on Wednesday after the former Democratic vice presidential nominee accepted a speaking slot at next month's Republican convention in Minnesota. "He has a close personal relationship with John McCain. I don't fully understand why he does," said Reid, who said Lieberman called Tuesday from the Republic of Georgia to alert him to the move. "I told him last night, 'You know, Joe, I can't stand John McCain.' He said, 'I know you feel that way,' " Reid said. But Reid said he would continue to resist calls from the...

Radio Row to Showcase the Largest Gathering Ever of Radio Hosts Broadcasting Together Live as a Unified Voice Demanding Immigration Enforcement, Secure Borders and No Amnesty. Federation for American Immigration Reform Congressional Task Force (FAIRCTF) announces September 10th and 11th as the dates for its annual Hold Their Feet to the Fire in Washington, D.C. Currently 20 radio hosts are confirmed to broadcast live from Radio Row with upwards of 50 to 75 others expected, thus doubling the size of the broadcast over previous years. In spring of 2007, 37 radio talk hosts attended Hold Their Feet to the Fire...

Ever since the American public exploded with rage over gasoline prices and demanded that Congress stop the nonsense and let an American industry go back to work, we have seen a procession of Democrat talking heads and spin meisters trying to undermine the push for more oil drilling. They say, “no oil for 10 years” (not true, but so what?); they say, oil companies already have 68,000,000 acres on which to drill (not true, these leases are dry); and they say, “not enough oil to be concerned about” (NOT TRUE).

As most of Washington met last week to fret over the economy, Harry Reid was attending a less-noticed summit. The Senate majority leader had summoned the titans of more than a dozen industry trade groups to a Capitol Hill meeting, where he delivered a crisp message: Get with our program, or get demolished. Anyone remember the "K Street Project"? Former House Majority Leader Tom DeLay and conservative activist Grover Norquist designed it to pressure the business community into hiring GOP lobbyists, supporting GOP causes, and giving money to GOP candidates. The press was shocked, shocked, to discover such behavior, and...

Sen. Reid Says Polygamy Is 'Form of Organized Crime' Thursday , July 24, 2008 WASHINGTON — Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid took a rare opportunity Thursday to switch roles and testify before his colleagues to blast polygamy, a still-used practice among some who practice the Mormon faith. Reid, D-Nev., is Mormon himself and noted that while his church had cast off its polygamist past, some members continue the practice of men maintaining multiple wives. The groups that still practice polygamy "are a form of organized crime," Reid told the Senate Judiciary Committee.

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid will introduce a measure Wednesday establishing a federal task force on polygamy and offering help to those trying to escape polygamous communities. The bill, if passed, would set the stage for likely the largest orchestrated crackdown on polygamy in a century. Ahead of the first congressional hearing focused on polygamy since the 1950s, Reid, a Mormon convert from Nevada, will introduce the Victims of Polygamy Assistance Act. It would set up a collaborative effort between federal, state and local law enforcement agencies to combat "broad patterns" of polygamy-related crimes. The bill also would create grants...

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid promised that by the end of last week he would show Republicans his proposal to deal with "this speculation thing" that he calls the root cause of $4-a-gallon gasoline. It would attempt "to end speculation on the oil markets." By week's end, Republicans had seen nothing of Reid's plan because of internal Democratic disagreement on details. Plus, Democratic leaders were focused Monday on denouncing President Bush's lifting of the executive ban on offshore oil drilling. Still, plenty of other Democratic legislative proposals floated around Capitol Hill, claiming to resolve the nation's gasoline woes by regulating...

WASHINGTON, July 14 (Reuters) - U.S. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, a Nevada Democrat, on Monday rejected a call by U.S. President George W. Bush to lift a moratorium on offshore oil drilling. Bush announced on Monday that he lifted the executive branch's restriction on offshore exploration, saying only Congress stood in the way of opening up America's untapped oil riches.

The economic mess the country confronts can be laid at the feet of Barack Obama, Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid. The Don’t Drill Democrats are forcing deindustrialization through depression brought about by soaring energy costs. This is a man-made meltdown, and make no mistake: The Democrats could halt and reverse the skyrocketing cost of oil, but they are choosing not to. The impact of the massive oil shock brought about by the rise of oil to more than $140 a barrel has just begun to be felt. The airline industry has gotten organized to alert everyone it can that it...

It seems strange that the Democrats have any chance of re-election in November. The Democrat controlled congress has an all time low approval rating of 9% according to Rasmussen Reports.

Nevada's own Harry Reid has become a YouTube sensation for continually combining his gloomy disposition with rhetoric that makes even his most partisan supporters cringe. His latest hilarious monologue came a few days ago on the Fox Business channel when, in trying to defend the exorbitant costs (and federal subsidies) of renewable power, he asserted that money is overrated in debating the country's energy policy. "Coal makes us sick. Oil makes us sick. It's global warming. It's ruining our country. It's ruining our world," Sen. Reid blurted out between pregnant pauses. "We've got to stop using fossil fuels." Yes, the...

There was a remarkable exchange on the floor of the Senate this past Thursday between Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell. It offers pretty stunning evidence of how personally petty Reid is, as well as his penchant for defining “partisanship� as anything that keeps him from getting his way. The particulars here aren’t terribly important, but what happened was this: The Senate was voting on a Medicare bill bloated with new spending. The bill was also an attempt to prevent cuts in payment rates to doctors who treat seniors on Medicare, and Democrats wanted to...

"...coal makes us sick, oil makes us sick, it's global warming, it's ruining our country, it's ruining our world, we've got to stop using fossil fuel, we've for generations taken it out of the earth, carbon out of the earth and put it in the atmosphere, it's making us all sick, it's changing our world...."

Before bureaucrats slammed the door for almost two years on new solar plants on 119 million acres of federal land they manage in six western states, they might have mentioned it to Harry Reid. You know, Harry Reid, the Senate majority leader who represents a state that has been called the Saudi Arabia of solar, the senior senator from the state with 67 percent of its land under the control of the Bureau of Land Management, which implemented the freeze. But in this case, the BLM must have lost Reid’s number. “We read it in (Wednesday) morning’s paper,” Reid spokesman...

Take a wild guess Only 2 percent of the nation's electricity comes from so-called "renewable" sources -- wind turbines, solar panels and geothermal plants. Environmentalists dream of taking that number up to 100 percent, making all of America's utilities carbon-free. Getting even a tenth of the way toward that goal will require an awful lot of time and money. For one thing, getting that "green" electricity from the remote, open areas where the wind blows, the sun shines and the land is cheap to the urban areas that consume most of the nation's power will take thousands of miles of...

America is divided between the haves and the have-nots. In this case, I am referring to those who have a clue as to what’s really happening to America, and those that have not a clue. The latter group is certainly not stupid, because as some people have observed, you can’t fix stupid. They are just severely uninformed and misinformed. The have-nots are being taken advantage of to pull off one of the biggest political power grabs in U.S. history at the expense of our nation. No. It is not the Republican leadership in Congress or the White House. They simply...

We now have incontrovertible proof that the Democratic Party is a party whose leaders are liars and scoundrels. This week the Democrat-controlled House of Representatives passed an Iraq War Funding bill that, for the first time in years, contained no restrictions or pull-out dates. That same House also passed a FISA bill covering the electronic surveillance of suspected foreign terrorists communicating with domestic accomplices.

(CNSNews.com) - President's Bush's call on Wednesday for Congress to lift its 27-year moratorium on offshore drilling is an "example of typical Bush White House politics," Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev) told Cybercast News Service Thursday. Other leading Democrats on Capitol Hill also said they were surprised that Bush has not yet rescinded the executive office ban on drilling, which was established by his father, President George H.W. Bush, in 1990. "What the president is doing is unfair to the American people to indicate, 'We will let Congress do something about it,' " Reid said. "He has the authority...

While last year's sagging economy hit the financial fortunes of millions of Americans -- and most lawmakers -- two Senate leaders did pretty well for themselves, according to a new analysis. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., saw his wealth grow by as much as $1.2 million last year, according to a review of lawmakers' new financial disclosure reports by the Hill newspaper. And Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., saw his assets increase by at least $600,000, according to the paper. Aside from their $183,500 salary, the two men reported little other income outside of the increase of their investments....

You must have seen or heard it. It's been repeated ad nauseum by Democrats on floors of both houses of Congress, before TV cameras and radio microphones and at recent campaign events. "We can't drill our way out of this." The donkey party's latest mantra has been hammered home by the usual suspects from Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid to Barack Obama. Like most Democrat talking points, it's a falsehood. Yes we CAN drill our way out of this. Just the announcement of our intention to drill in any one of the Big Three Forbidden Zones (off the Continental Shelf,...

"We can't drill our way out of the problem." Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama has said it. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid has said it. It's one of those bromides sincerely repeated by Democrats with such conviction that for years left-leaning audiences duly nodded their heads, never questioning whether the truism was indeed true. Until gasoline leaped above the $4-a-gallon mark. Now some polls show that Americans support more domestic drilling. President Bush seized the moment Wednesday when he asked Congress to lift its ban on offshore drilling. Even Republican presidential candidate John McCain has seen the light. A long-time...

June 18, 2008 Reid: Bush And McCain Still Don't Get It - We Cannot Drill Our Way Out Of This Energy Crisis Washington, DC—Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid made the following statement today in response to President Bush’s proposal to drill offshore for oil: “This week’s flip-flop on offshore oil drilling by President Bush and Senator John McCain is nothing more than a cynical campaign ploy that will do nothing to lower energy prices and represents another big giveaway to oil companies already making billions in profits. “The facts are clear: Oil companies have already had ample opportunity to increase...