Posts Tagged ‘Harry Reid’
Friday, October 4th, 2013
Harry Reid and Obama declare war on World War II Vets and cancer patients. Next up: Reid explaining why the shutdown requires them to euthanize kittens.
Obama deserves the blame for the shutdown.
Thomas Sowell: “There is really nothing complicated about the facts. The Republican-controlled House of Representatives voted all the money required to keep all government activities going — except for Obamacare…You cannot blame other people for not giving you everything you want. And it is a fraud to blame them when you refuse to use the money they did vote for, even when it is ample to pay for everything else in the government…When Barack Obama keeps claiming that it is some new outrage for those who control the money to try to change government policy by granting or withholding money, that is simply a bald-faced lie.”
The “only man to enroll in Obamacare” is an OFA shill. Also a liar. “Bill Henderson told me that both he and his son were interested in getting coverage, but that he had not enrolled in any plan yet, and to his knowledge, neither had his son.” Ace has the blow-by-blow dissection of Henderson’s story coming part.
The White House has 436 essential employees and 1,265 non-essential? Where do they fit???
You can probably tell what the Obama Administration thinks of you when you realize the number for ObamaCare information is 1-800-FUCKYO.
The people composing California’s elementary school math questions are evidently illiterate.
Pedophile pleads guilty, receives prison sentence.
Obama tried to have Wisconsin state parks shut down. Response: Get stuffed!
Park Rangers are actually being told to make life difficult for visitors.
Five reasons Ted Cruz deserves our respect.
British lefty: We have to talk about Islamic barbarism. (Hat tip: Ace of Spades.)
What’s so special about John Moses Browning? (Ditto)
Obituary watch: Gen. Vo Nguyen Giap, Army of North Vietnam. Like Erwin Rommel or Heinz Guderian, Giap was a brilliant general who fought for an evil government.
Islamists kicked out in Tunisia.
TV reporter asks undercover cop to step up to the microphone.
Via James Lileks, this is pretty funny:
Tags:Budget, Harry Reid, Jihad, LinkSwarm, Michael Totten, Obama, ObamaCare, shutdown, Thomas Sowell, Tunisia, vets, video, Vo Nguyen Giap, Wisconsin
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Thursday, October 3rd, 2013
Liberals have staged another one of their regular hissy fits over the government shutdown. What they don’t seem to realize is that this is exactly how divided government is supposed to work. The Founding Fathers were tremendously suspicious of investing too much power in any one person, which is exactly why they set up the executive legislative and Judicial branches in opposition to each other. This is why the executive and legislative have to work together to pass laws, and why the House and Senate must agree with each other. If everyone gets a veto on the process, then no one portion of the federal government can seize power over another. By refusing to go to conference, Harry Reid is shirking the legislative branches constitutional duty to pass a budget.
Forcing the White House and the Senate to come together and negotiate is part of the constitutional design. This is why Ronald Reagan and Tip O’Neill had to negotiate compromises during several shutdowns in the 1980s.
But Obama, as he’s proven time and time again, is no Reagan.
Tags:Budget, Harry Reid, Obama, ObamaCare, shutdown
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Friday, May 31st, 2013
The season has switched from not Summer to Summer here in Texas, so here’s a hot, humid LinkSwarm:
In Europe, youth unemployment is climbing to scary, stratospheric heights. So scary I’m going to swipe their chart:
Notice how countries that have kept their deficit spending relatively low (Germany and even the UK, where deficits has at least decreased under Cameron) are doing much better than the PIIGS. Again, Austerity hasn’t failed in Europe, it’s been declared difficult and left untried.
Harry Reid calls his close personal friend and business associate Harvey Whittemore (and his wife) “wonderful people.” Oh, and Whittemore is now also a convicted felon.
Eric Holder: Obama’s sin eater. “The attorney general has done little in his tenure to protect civil liberties or the free press. Rather, Holder has supervised a comprehensive erosion of privacy rights, press freedom and due process. This ignoble legacy was made possible by Democrats who would look at their shoes whenever the Obama administration was accused of constitutional abuses.”
Pentagon Papers lawyer James Goodale talks about just how bad Obaama is for freedom of the press.
ObamaCare rates next year in California: “Obamacare will increase individual-market premiums by an average of 116 percent.”
Britain remains in denial over Islamic terror.
The Gang of 8 proposal implements amnesty and gives conservatives nothing in return.
Ted Cruz actually tries to fix the bill. Gang of 8 tells him to get stuffed.
The Chicago Sun-Times lays off their entire staff of photographers. Including a Pulitzer Prize winner.
Tags:Border Controls, California, Chicago Sun Times, Eric Holder, Europe, European Debt Crisis, Harry Reid, Harvey Whittemore, IRS, James Goodale, Jihad, Media Watch, Obama Scandals, ObamaCare, PIIGS, Ted Cruz, UK, unemployment, Welfare State
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Thursday, April 25th, 2013
A random basket of gun news, including more fallout from the Senate’s failure to restrict gun rights:
“Why is opposing the will of the majority a mark of “cowardice,” as Giffords says, rather than a mark of courage?… I suspect that Giffords credits the majority with wisdom only when the polls are going her way, just as she credits politicians with integrity only when they agree with her.”
A very nice infographic of gun facts.
Here’s one woman who isn’t having any of the gun-grabbing blather: “You say, ‘If it saves just one life.’ I hear ‘Except yours, you stupid bitch. We’d rather you get raped and murdered while waiting for the police to arrive.'” (Hat tip: Borepatch.)
They only want to control guns as a way of controlling you. (Also Borepatch.)
Why we won:
Gun owners care year in and year out. And they vote on the issue. This had little to do with the fearsome power of “the NRA”, or their fundraising efforts. It had to do with gun owners who will do their best to unelect any politician who votes to deprive them of what they view as constitutional rights. Those gun owners are more likely to live in swing states than the most avid gun controllers: progressives who cram themselves into a handful of cities. And they vote on the issue, unlike progressives, who, for all their furor at the outcome, put a large number of issues–taxes, abortion, welfare programs, and so forth–much higher on their list of priorities. By 2014, the odds of any “No” vote losing their job over it are pretty slim.
Did Harry Reid want the gun bill to fail?
Reason debunks that 90% number.
Put down O.F. Mossberg & Sons as another gun manufacturer getting tired of the irrational hoplophobia of their Blue State politicians.
And Mossberg is one of three Connecticut gun manufacturers that Texas representatives (including John Carter, my own rep) asked to move from their gun-hating blue state to someplace more enlightened.
Tags:gun control, Guns, Harry Reid, John Carter, NRA
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Tuesday, March 19th, 2013
The “assault weapon” ban of Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-osen’t Know the Constitution) died before it could even reach the Senate floor.
What happened? The NRA-ILA happened. Ted Cruz happened. Actual voters happened. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid evidently didn’t have the clout to put the squeeze on members over gun control the way Nancy Pelosi did on Obamacare and taxpayer-funded abortions. That, or the fact there’s no way in hell the Republican House would pass a ban, Reid decided the political cost would be too high (including, very possibly, the loss of the Senate) for no legislative gain.
This is one of the times that the Senate’s glacial pace helped prevent knee-jerk liberal opportunism from making it’s way into law.
There’s still a lot of other bad gun control ideas floating around Washington, DC (not to mention out in the states), but at least we managed to kill this one.
Maybe in a few months I can buy an AR at a decent price…
Tags:AR-15, Democrats, Dianne Feinstein, gun control, Guns, Harry Reid, Modern Sporting Rifle
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Wednesday, January 16th, 2013
Lots of news in the world of guns and the Second Amendment today, so here’s a quick lunchtime roundup:
So Obama has issued his executive orders on guns. The good news is that the Executive Orders themselves are not nearly as bad as many feared, at least on the surface. But remember that if you give Obama a constitutional inch, he’ll take an unconstitutional mile. His requested legislation, with restoration of the cosmetic Clinton-era “assault weapons” ban and other such mischief, are a different kettle of fish, but I’m cautiously optimistic that none of them will pass muster in the Republican House.
Hell even Harry Reid says that the “Assault Weapons” ban is doomed.
The title pretty much says it all: Joe Manchin: Lying Sack of Shit on Guns.
All Obama’s proposed legislation is just the latest in a long line of passing
gun laws that in no way would have prevented the crimes they were passed in reaction to. (Hat tip: Say Uncle.)
“The D.C. gun control laws irrationally prevent only law abiding citizens from owning handguns.”
Cracked, of all places, offers up a dose of perspective. “Gun violence has, generally speaking, been working out pretty spiffy for us.” The writer’s suggestions are as useless as the “Assault Weapon” ban, but are at least less harmful.
An average of 22 children a year are killed on school buses or in bus loading zones. Where’s the outcry for bus safety?
Mark Steyn notes that for MSM elites, laws are for the little people.
Ruger’s automatic letter generator for your congresscritters.
Jeff Soyer at Alphecca could use your help.
Tags:Assault Weapon, Crime, Democrats, gun control, Guns, handguns, Harry Reid, Joe Manchin, Mark Steyn, Obama, Regulation
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Friday, January 20th, 2012
As per the Senate Democratic Majority Leader’s official statement:
Washington, D.C. – Nevada Senator Harry Reid released the following statement today on the Senate’s PROTECT I.P. Act:
“In light of recent events, I have decided to postpone Tuesday’s vote on the PROTECT I.P. Act.
“There is no reason that the legitimate issues raised by many about this bill cannot be resolved. Counterfeiting and piracy cost the American economy billions of dollars and thousands of jobs each year, with the movie industry alone supporting over 2.2 million jobs. We must take action to stop these illegal practices. We live in a country where people rightfully expect to be fairly compensated for a day’s work, whether that person is a miner in the high desert of Nevada, an independent band in New York City, or a union worker on the back lots of a California movie studio.
“I admire the work that Chairman Leahy has put into this bill. I encourage him to continue engaging with all stakeholders to forge a balance between protecting Americans’ intellectual property, and maintaining openness and innovation on the internet. We made good progress through the discussions we’ve held in recent days, and I am optimistic that we can reach a compromise in the coming weeks.”
A “compromise.” That means “we only want to censor you a little. Or, we want to wait until the heat is off before we get back to screwing you. (Hat tip: Penny Arcade.)
Sadly, the Republican leadership isn’t sounding much better. My quick and dirty impression is that the rank-and-file Republican members of the House and Senate closest to the Tea Party have gotten the message, good and hard, but that the leadership is still putting their fingers in their ears and thinking they’ll be fine if they just keep humming until to furor dies down.
They must be disabused of this notion.
I would urge you to contact your representative and tell them you don’t want SOPA/PIPA “delayed” or “fixed,” you want it killed dead and a stake driven through it’s heart. Or, to quote Spinal Tap, “just crank that volume to the point of pain.” They must come to dread your wrath more than the thought of losing campaign contributions from the MPAA/RIAA.
You must teach them fear.
Tags:Democrats, Harry Reid, Patrick Leahy, PIPA, Regulation, Republicans, SOPA, Tea Party
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Friday, December 17th, 2010
The Bush Tax Cuts passed the House by a margin of 277 to 148. I guess the public outcry over the biggest tax increase in history finally got through their reality bubble.
Also good news is the fact that Harry Reid pulled the pork-and-earmark laden omnibus budget bill off the floor, due, in large measure, to Tea Party pressure.
These are just two small steps toward restoring fiscal discipline and reigning in a gargantuan government, and Tea Partiers and other taxpayers are going to have to keep up the pressure to keep Washington from resorting to its old ways (and expect a lot of backsliding and heartbreak along the way). But both these victories prove one thing: elections matter. Don’t let anyone tell you otherwise.
Tags:Bush Tax Cuts, earmarks, Harry Reid, omnibus spending bill, pork barrell
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Friday, October 29th, 2010
There’s an election coming up on Tuesday. (Perhaps you’ve noticed.) Here are some links about it:
Tags:Alexi Giannoulias, Barney Frank, Democrats, Dennis Kucinich, Elections, Harry Reid, Joe Sestak, John Dingell, LinkSwarm, National Journal, Paul Kanjorski, Rand Paul, Russ Feingold, Sharon Angle
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Wednesday, September 29th, 2010
A few links you may find of interest:
Tags:deficits, Dick Morris, George McGovern, Harry Reid, Herbert Hoover, LinkSwarm, Mark Steyn, Nancy Pelosi, Obama
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