May I ask, you seem so blunt and callous when describing your own sexual adventures, yet when Harry Reid brings up his hometown (a famous bordello town) you find it insensitive and rude???
I’m not even sure Reid’s wife really “knows” him. People do somehow manage to live together for years without really knowing one another. Sad, but it’s true. My parents were like that.
Yes, he’s contradictory. He says his parents “we’re never around but they were always there.” How does that make sense? He also puts it out there that he frequented prostitutes. He does so because he is a far-left liberal and they do not seem to know the meaning of the word “shame.” I also believe that he does consider McCain “the enemy.”
I don’t hate Reid either, but I intensely dislike him. He embodies everything I fight against. This post did nothing to change my mind.
Looks like Dirty Sen. Harry (but he’s no Clint Eastwood) got started in the perfect place to prepare him for a career in “public service.” Didn’t President Reagan call politics the “second oldest profession?”
Perhaps in your upcoming interview, you could inquire about the true nature of Sen. Reid’s partisan hatreds. I suspect that Democrats and Republicans demonize each other, playing on the ideological fears their voters carry, as a way to stir up emotions to the point that we don’t question the real reason why legislators are in office: to satisfy their narcisstic desires while raiding the public coffers to fund people / companies that contribute money to their campaigns.
Specifically, I would ask the Senator about the $1 million he secured to study mormon crickets in Nevada. Or, the $17 million+ to fund a ravine for wealthy casino owners behind two hotels on the Vegas strip.
He truly picked up some great parlor tricks from his younger days… distract the public with slanderous, unproductive rhetoric about unpopular opponents while using sleight-of-hand to fund various pork projects.
But that’s politics. This is why I gave up on the Republican Party a long time ago as well… there are plenty of Harry Reid’s masquerading as something else on that side of the aisle, too.
At any rate, good job walking into the belly of the beast. It’s always an experience to be around those that delude themselves into thinking they are “socially conscious.”
I’d like to know how a senator from Nevada could not be crooked! I remember when they took Torricelli down in Jersey. Of course he was crooked! But he was a good representative and (brief) senator. Look at ol’ Ted Kennedy today. Keep kickin’ ol’ man!
What do we expect from Nevada? Some representative utopia? Without the resorts and casinos, and not in that order, Nevada would be a few mining spots on an otherwise empty map. Resorts and casinos are not exemplary corporatocracies for most of the rest of the world’s industrial adventures. Most transactions are more tangible than gambling. The more you gamble, the more you lose – the less you gamble, the more you stay the same = try not to gamble.
The differences I see between Tip O’Neill/Ronald Reagan and Harry Reid/George Bush are (1) that the relationship between O’Neill and Reagan was formed at the beginning of RR’s first term (Reid wasn’t even Majority Leader when Bush was first elected), when the issues and expectations were different, contrast that with the relationship between RR and the Congress towards the end of his second term, (2) O’Neill and Reagan were much different personalities than Reid and Bush, (3) the intervention of September 11 coming in the first few months of the first term, and (4) the general weariness of having to deal with the Bush Administration. I can’t help but think the vast majority of Americans — both Democrat and Republican — just want to see it over.
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Jersey McJones said,
June 2, 2008 at 10:34 am
May I ask, you seem so blunt and callous when describing your own sexual adventures, yet when Harry Reid brings up his hometown (a famous bordello town) you find it insensitive and rude???
JMJ
micky2 said,
June 2, 2008 at 10:50 am
“Ketchup bottle treatment” is not blunt and callous.
And Eric is not a U.S. Congressman preachs one set of morals and behavior but condones the same behavior on his part.
micky2 said,
June 2, 2008 at 10:52 am
Forgot a very important word.
And Eric is not a U.S. Congressman preachs “AGAINST” one set of morals and behavior but condones the same behavior on his part.
Gayle said,
June 2, 2008 at 3:01 pm
Very interesting, Eric.
I’m not even sure Reid’s wife really “knows” him. People do somehow manage to live together for years without really knowing one another. Sad, but it’s true. My parents were like that.
Yes, he’s contradictory. He says his parents “we’re never around but they were always there.” How does that make sense? He also puts it out there that he frequented prostitutes. He does so because he is a far-left liberal and they do not seem to know the meaning of the word “shame.” I also believe that he does consider McCain “the enemy.”
I don’t hate Reid either, but I intensely dislike him. He embodies everything I fight against. This post did nothing to change my mind.
J.Rock said,
June 2, 2008 at 4:12 pm
Looks like Dirty Sen. Harry (but he’s no Clint Eastwood) got started in the perfect place to prepare him for a career in “public service.” Didn’t President Reagan call politics the “second oldest profession?”
Perhaps in your upcoming interview, you could inquire about the true nature of Sen. Reid’s partisan hatreds. I suspect that Democrats and Republicans demonize each other, playing on the ideological fears their voters carry, as a way to stir up emotions to the point that we don’t question the real reason why legislators are in office: to satisfy their narcisstic desires while raiding the public coffers to fund people / companies that contribute money to their campaigns.
Specifically, I would ask the Senator about the $1 million he secured to study mormon crickets in Nevada. Or, the $17 million+ to fund a ravine for wealthy casino owners behind two hotels on the Vegas strip.
He truly picked up some great parlor tricks from his younger days… distract the public with slanderous, unproductive rhetoric about unpopular opponents while using sleight-of-hand to fund various pork projects.
But that’s politics. This is why I gave up on the Republican Party a long time ago as well… there are plenty of Harry Reid’s masquerading as something else on that side of the aisle, too.
At any rate, good job walking into the belly of the beast. It’s always an experience to be around those that delude themselves into thinking they are “socially conscious.”
Jersey McJones said,
June 2, 2008 at 5:56 pm
I’d like to know how a senator from Nevada could not be crooked! I remember when they took Torricelli down in Jersey. Of course he was crooked! But he was a good representative and (brief) senator. Look at ol’ Ted Kennedy today. Keep kickin’ ol’ man!
What do we expect from Nevada? Some representative utopia? Without the resorts and casinos, and not in that order, Nevada would be a few mining spots on an otherwise empty map. Resorts and casinos are not exemplary corporatocracies for most of the rest of the world’s industrial adventures. Most transactions are more tangible than gambling. The more you gamble, the more you lose – the less you gamble, the more you stay the same = try not to gamble.
Get it guys???
JMJ
micky2 said,
June 2, 2008 at 6:40 pm
Thats hard to do when libs are as dicey as they are.
Jersey McJones said,
June 2, 2008 at 6:54 pm
Then don’t have Nevadas, Micky.
JMJ
papundits said,
June 2, 2008 at 6:56 pm
Great piece, as always.
Keep up the good work!
Ed
micky2 said,
June 2, 2008 at 7:31 pm
Libs are nation wide boo.
Libs go to vegas, gamble cuz they think they’re entitled to win, lose all their money and go on entitlement programs
greg said,
June 2, 2008 at 9:52 pm
The differences I see between Tip O’Neill/Ronald Reagan and Harry Reid/George Bush are (1) that the relationship between O’Neill and Reagan was formed at the beginning of RR’s first term (Reid wasn’t even Majority Leader when Bush was first elected), when the issues and expectations were different, contrast that with the relationship between RR and the Congress towards the end of his second term, (2) O’Neill and Reagan were much different personalities than Reid and Bush, (3) the intervention of September 11 coming in the first few months of the first term, and (4) the general weariness of having to deal with the Bush Administration. I can’t help but think the vast majority of Americans — both Democrat and Republican — just want to see it over.
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