Assault on Harry Reid

[maynard]

Being a constituent of Harry Reid, I am surprised (not shocked) at how vicious the internal attacks are getting on him and his family. Yes, the Senate Majority Leader needs to be replaced and become a regular senator. Yesterday, the publisher of the Las Vegas Review Journal, Sherman Frederick, was on Mark Levin's show talking about Harry being a bully at a Chamber of Commerce meeting. He quoted a third party comment (which may or may not be true)and took great offense at his newspaper being defamed. Harry Reid is not exactly Tom Delay.

http://www.lvrj.com/opinion/56171937.html
http://www.reviewjournal.com/media/video/sherm_on_fox.html?video=1
http://www.lvrj.com/blogs/mitchell/What_Sen_Reid_said_about_the_Review-Journal_in_public.html

The Review Journal hates everything. Even the music/concert critic hates all concerts that come to town. We have a governor like Mark Sanford and another senator who has a mistress, yet some people in Nevada want to take out the most powerful person in the Senate. This will put Nevada back at the bottom of the food chain.

This is going to be a very ugly race in 2010. This is partisan politics at it's best.

[grantcart]

1. Living in Spokane I was astonished that many people thought that

when the Republicans defeated Speaker Foley that the freshman Congressman from Eastern Washington did not automatically become Speaker of the House.


All of the wheat farmers from rural WA who flew to DC and talked to top officials in the Department of Agriculture were shocked to find that after the election no one could give a damn what they now felt.

I have real problems with Reid but being in the top leadership in Congress or the Senate means that your state get real power and it is a stupid stupid move to get rid of them without a very substantial reason.

[Sebastian Doyle]

6. If they really thought they were replacing the Speaker of the House when they defeated Foley

then why in God's name did they ever vote for a complete duncecap like George Nethercutt. Chimpy Bush really wasn't the dumbest guy named "George" to ever set foot in Washington DC. Duncecap Nethercutt put him to shame. And yes, I've heard that HE actually believed he would get Foley's job as Speaker.:dunce:

[grantcart]

8. After being away from the Church for sometime (and having gone to Seminary)

my mother requested that I go with her to First Presbyterian Church in Spokane, which 25 years ago was one of the most liberal churches in the Northwest.


I sat down and next to me was Nethercutt and the sermon preached had nothing to do with the bible but the preacher (the son of a very liberal Presbyterian minister) gave a sermon that was about angels that he had actually seen - stranger than Billy Graham.


I have not been in a Church since.



(Nethercutt won a very narrow election because of two things. There had been a terrible shooting at Fairchild AFB where an unstable soldier returned after being discharged for psychiatric reasons and opened up and killed several doctors and nurses.

Foley a lifelong member of the NRA then backed the AWB - and still backed all other gun rigths. the NRA wanted to make an example of him and spent hundred of thousands of dollars to buy ads - about term limits. Nethercutt promised to run only two times. Foley was defeated by a couple of percent. Nethercutt broke his pledge and was eventually thrown out.)

[orpupilofnature57]

2. Ands it's all being financed by You ,and me.I wanted the lot fired for not

Impeaching ,or at least putting it " On The Table "

[tularetom]

3. I'm afraid you won't find many defenders of Harry Reid around here

At least in his role as majority leader in the Senate. He may be a fine Senator but he is a piss poor majority leader.

He appears to lack either the powers of persuasion or the strong arm instinct needed to convince waffling members of his own caucus to vote for the party platform. In other words. he appears to be kind of a wimp.

I would never want to see him lose his seat to a republican, but I think he should step down as majority leader and turn the job over to someone who will do it enthusiastically. Giving up this post will lower his profile to the point where he would have an easier time of it in his re-election bid in 2012.

[dhpgetsit]

4. Agreed

His support in Nevada appears to be weak, and because he consistently caves whenever the Republicans mention the filibuster, he has weak support as Majority Leader among Dems nationwide.

[enlightenment]

7. Harry has relatively weak support among voters in Nevada

but he has incredibly strong backing by the money-brokers and power players in the state. Unless a very good Dem rival appears, he won't lose his seat. It really does come down to the 'devil you know' in his case.

He should step down as majority leader.

[MichiganVote]

5. A politician in name only. Harry is just living off his senior status in the senate.