Thus, it was no surprise that five days later, while American troops were in harm’s way in Iraq, he characterized the war there as “lost.” ”I believe myself that the secretary of state, secretary of defense and–you have to make your own decisions as to what the president knows – [know] this war is lost and the surge is not accomplishing anything as indicated by the extreme violence in Iraq yesterday,” he said. A day later on the Senate floor? “No one wants us to succeed in Iraq more than Democrats.”
Reid rationalized his erratic behavior in a 2006 interview with the New York Times. “I’m going to throw bombs sometimes–I’m going to be conciliatory other times,” he said, November 10, 2006.
Yet Reed isn’t quite as forthcoming about his own questionable behavior. He hasn’t had much to say about a 2003 article in the Los Angeles Times noting that a bill he presented to his Senate colleagues as an environmental measure contained provisions that “benefit a real estate development headed by a senior partner in the Nevada law firm that employs all four of Reid’s sons…” Nor have Americans heard much about a 2006 Newsmax article revealing that Reid “collected a $1.1 million windfall on a Las Vegas land sale even though he hadn’t personally owned the property for three years, property deeds show.” That story also notes the often Senator “hung up the phone when questioned about the deal during an AP interview last week.”
And just last Friday, the Las Vegas Review-Journal published a story about Reid strong-arming NV Energy, Nevada’s primary electricity provider, to buy more “green energy” from a Chinese solar company. This was occurring despite the fact that NV Energy had exceeded its state-mandated green energy quota, and the fact that green energy generates higher electric bills for customers. “There’s another factor, however, one more personal to Reid: His son, Rory Reid, is one of the attorneys for the ENN Mojave Energy project,” the paper reveals. “A Reid spokeswoman said the senator did not suggest Reid’s firm–Lionel, Sawyer & Collins–to ENN, nor has the elder Reid spoken to this son about the deal.”
Has Harry Reid enriched himself and his family illegally at taxpayer expense? Journalistic standards do not allow one to reach such a conclusion absent conclusive proof. Yet if one imposes Reed’s own standard regarding on whom the burden of proof is placed in such a situation, it compels him to respond to such an accusation, valid or not. If the media kept such accusations alive, it might even distract the public from the fact that the Democratically-controlled Senate, led by the Senator from Nevada, has refused to exercise one of its primary constitutional mandates: it hasn’t passed a budget in more than three years.
Thoughtful Americans are well aware of what Harry Reid is trying to do. If Reid is attacking Romney and Romney is responding such as he has, challenging Reed to “put up or shut up,” and insisting that he has paid “a lot of taxes,” then the focus is drawn away from both Barack Obama and the economy. Romney has a right to be angry, but he is not running against Harry Reid, or any of the other Democrat or media hacks trying to steer the focus away from the current president and his dismal record.
As for Barack Obama, yesterday White House press secretary Jay Carney claimed that Reid “speaks for himself” and did so without any guidance from Team Obama. Carney then reiterated Reid’s talking points. “You know, [releasing tax returns is] not always every candidate’s favorite part of the process, but it’s a tradition that’s important,” he said. “It’s valuable to the American people as they decide who should be president.” Not as nearly valuable as deciding who should be president based on living through the worst economic recovery in the nation’s history. Moreover, despite Carney’s denial of Team Obama’s involvement, does anyone seriously believe Jay Carney “speaks for himself”?
Harry Reid has crossed a line, and it is telling that not a single Democrat, especially the president, has seen fit to criticize him. Nothing speaks to the self-repudiation of Barack Obama’s “politics of inclusion,” “hope and change,” or “we’re in this together” more tellingly than that. Harry has substantially lowered the bar of public discourse. And most Democrats are more than willing to stoop down and join him.
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Na, Harry's just playing politics.
Not bad politics either. The proof is in the pudding.. the Governor has the pudding. .his behavior is 'curious' for a candidate who should be reaching out to independents to try and win an election.
How has Barack been doing with regards to the American people and their country?
He'll get four more years.
Very smart politics, at that.
What's the cost to Reid? There is no cost to Reid, so it's a no-brainer.
Both Romney and FDR had that "f-you" money that allows them to essentially do exactly what they want with the presidency. But where FDR stood up TO the rich conservatives of his day, Romney will stand up FOR them.
Throw in doubts about his financial dealings, add a personality that makes John Kerry look like Richard Simmons, and you got yourself a recipe for an election loss.
Smart politics.
Too bad there is a double standard when you talk about spending thousands to SEAL:
– Medical records
– College entrance forms, Occidental, Columbia , Harvard.
Nope, not hidin anything here! And he's PRESIDENT.
A PROVEN forged birth certificate?
Please, let's not be coy and pretend anyone's on a high horse, here.
Here's the deal with comparing Obama's sealed records to Romney's:
The more people get huffy about Obama's sealed documents, the better HE looks. I'm a big fan of the birther movement. Their willingness to make fools of themselves is a gift that keeps on giving.
And as long as Obama's team keeps that stuff sealed away, the wackos can have a speculative field day, and continue to make him look like the sane one. Stuff like his school records is total small potatoes. What, are we going to find out he got a B in Radical Feminism 202? Shocker!
Whereas with Romney, people are really going to wonder, what is he hiding, and who from? Is he keeping that secret because it's fodder for class warfare? Or is there something that would really turn off the Republican base?
At any rate, he's failed to put a lid on this thing, and it's getting closer to November.
Yep innuendo. NO substance. That's how we were buffaloed the first time. Make any accusations and out comes the race card. How convenient.
The police acted "stupidly", he said.
So lying is good politics, eh Jim? Obama care is a TAX. So much for no taxes on those making $250.00.
So should Romney ask Reid : "Is there any truth to the allegation that you beat your wife?'
Is that the kind of "smart" politics you admire. Aw who cares as long a marxism takes over.
Correction on those makingin under $250,000 per year.
The race card isn't hard to play when so many racists are willing to open their yaps.
Romney asking Reid about beating his wife would be par for the course. Were you sleeping during Newt's campaign last year, by any chance?
Class-warfare nonsense. No one believes that but you Lefties.
…and all liars will have their part in the lake that burns with fire and brimstone. This is the second death.
–From the book of Revelation.
I wonder if Harry has ever read that. Is being a liar really smart?
Sorry I reject the notion that outright lying is just playing politics!
Blatantly and slanderously lying about someone is "just playing politics"?
Give me a break.
He needs to get out of the stream like the turd so we can clean up our water!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Mary
Well Fiddler , I hope there's room enough in that " Lake " [ of fire ] for the rest of the 525 or so liars in Washington . They've ALL been caught in LIES thusfar , Romney is no exception . Dress for warm weather when you reach your last hour Fiddler , you and about 85 % of the posters on this blog , lol…including ALL of the Management .
Hypocrisy will buy you a free ticket to the "lake " watersports too .
Reid has spent his career enriching himself and his family from his position of public trust. That is, when he was not encouraging our enemies in Iraq.
What about those real estate deals in Nevada, Harry?
Eric and Barack ordered the murder of Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry. Agent Terry had information about Eric and Barack earning commissions on the guns sold to drug dealers by the Obama administration. Now, do I know that that’s true? Well, I’m not certain. But obviously he can’t release the documents that Congress has requested. How would it look? Obama's communist, useless, and abandoned father would be very proud of his boy. I am not basing this on some figment of my imagination. I have had a number of people tell me that. I don’t think the burden should be on me. The burden should be on them. They're the ones I’ve alleged ordered the murder of Agent Terry. Why didn’t they release the documents?
Oh. Harry is fond of little boys too. Everybody knows that.
Nice, touche.
These are communist, totalitarians, who would just have Romney eliminated if they thought they could get away with it.
Lol! That was great!a
OUCH! That is a good one and the allegations could be endless but I will now spread the word that "Eric and Barack earning commissions on the guns sold to drug dealers."
I heard John McCain fathered an illegitimate black child in South Carolina.
I heard Barack Obama wasn't born in the United States. That he's a secret Muslim, and a commie, to boot. I heard he is going to declare martial law, and take our guns away. I heard he had a gay lover. I heard he's in league with terrorists to plot the downfall of the USA.
Yeah, great point about how politics works.
Where is Reid's outrage toward confirmed tax cheats Geithner, Sebelius, Rangel and Daschle?
Dream on, they don't live in "Realville".
Harry Read is a scurrilous individual, ambulance chaser personified and so dispicable that the
people of Nevada should be forced to wear sack cloth and ashes for sending him to the
United States Senate. Debbie blabbermouth Schultz clears up the mystery of tax returns
stating that Romney gave John McCain twenty three years (23 years) of returns being veted
for Vice President. Does her statement not explicitly contradict Reid the liar. One thing about
liars, they can not keep their stories straight for long. If future President Romney had held
back ten years of tax returns from McCain it would have been noted and blasted in the media
but Reids lie had not been hatched yet, so it goes……..Nevada hold your collective heads in
shame. Where is our National Budget, Democratic ploy to spend without control, emptying
the Naitonal treasury, destrying our fiscal integrity but what can one expect from a liar and
crook like Harry Reid……..Why hasn't the Senate gotten rid of him, birds of a feather?
……………………………..William
I believe Nancy. I take her statement literally. I'm betting that it is a fact that someone told Harry Romney hasn't filed taxes for 10 years. Could have been anyone—- maybe Nancy said it. The allegation may not be a 'fact', but it might be a fact someone 'told' him.
I 'm an alien from another planet. I'm not of course, but that I said it is a fact.
I'm going to guess from age 5 to15, Romney didn't file/pay taxes. So now the statement could be true, or a fact, too.
This article neglects to mention that nearly all of Congressmen are real estate swindlers and that Mr. Ahlert's only real motivation for supporting Mitt Romney is that he has promised more illegal real estate to Benjamin Netanyahu. Mr. Ahlert raises the issue that Harry Reid profited from land that he hasn't owned for three years (not that he fact-checked any of that). What of Mr. Romney, who stands to profit by promising land that he never owned in exchange for 11 million dollars from Israel and Sheldon Adelson?
Every day and every way,you DRAG YOUR JEW-HATRED into any and every TROLLING POST you make.
Do the Jihadis PAY YOU by the post or by the hour?
This is yet another pitiful attempt at moral equivalence.
If you REALLY care about corruption, STOP voting these people in. How did we have to endure Teddy Chappaquiddick Kennedy for 40 some years? Answer because of a duped public in Mass who could moralize their way out of a paper bag.
TERM LIMITS! Send them packing to return to private life and live under the laws they themselves create!!!
Don't ever get tired of all the Jew-hatred you peddle on this website,Schlockmotion? It makes you sound stupid.
More Jew-hatred from our resident anti-Semitic troll.
allahu snackbar, schlomie, allahu snackbar! Are you having a pleasant ramadamadingdong? How's that pedophilic prophet of yours, schlomie? Isn't he the one that shat the koran in the arabian sands?
Rush is right. The way to silence the crap Reid is spewing is to demand an investigation into how Reid,who makes thousands, is now worth millions.
It's called "being in Congress"–for better and worse.
And the "worse" is okay with you. Is that correct?
Well, we can pretend to be outraged, but it's a little late for that.
And if Rush didn't say that, he should have.
Yassah Obama dun beez dah black messiah dat gonna bring us all more hopey and changey. Yassah. Yanoewatahmsayin' (smacking lips rapidly metttt-mettt-metttt-mettt!) Youse knows dah cracka Romany dun stole awl hims monies and nebber pay hims taxes. Hairy Reed an dah dah black cawkcuss dun tolt meh so its beez dah fact. Yassah!.
Hilarious.
You're a racist. Like Harry Reid. He pointed out that BO (aka Stinky) was light skinned enough to be electable, and didn't have "a Negro accent, unless he wanted one".
mrbean,your "Amos n' Andy" routine is just as bad as Schlomotion's Jew hatred. Both are unnecessary and stupid. Please ditch it.
Lets see Harry s' tax returns! That will shut that weasel up…
Try calling hairy "pinky reid's office and suggesting the senile and demented senator release his tax returns. You will get a rude aide who will tell you pinky ain't runnin' fer president so shut up your mouf! Then the rude little aide will hang up on you.
If I were Romney, I would only release the number$ Reid, ordered by Obama, are interested in that reveal every years TOTALS OF MONEY MADE AND TAXES PAID AND MONEY DONATED.
Example: "2005- Made $40 million. — Paid $3.3 million in taxes. — Donated $1.4 million."
IT USED TO BE, BEFORE OBAMA'S CLASS WARFARE, that a person like Romney would be envied since he worked 24-7 to acquire his wealth. Even Reid, Kerry, and Feinstein can be envied. IT'S THE AMERICAN GOAL TO BE WEALTHY!
Then you have people dreaming of becoming RICH OVERNIGHT by buying lottery tickets while Romney worked decades to acquire his.
This would prove that Harry was lying and that now Reid has to prove otherwise.
I did hear on Fox an interview by a prosecutor that says Romney should sue for slander and that Reid must reveal his source so Romney can then defend against the accuser.
The US was winning the "war" in Iraq. Pr. O did what was needed to lose it. The democrats call that a success.
Say Senator Reid: "Is there any truth to the allegation that you beat your wife?" What about growing marijuana in your back yard?
And while we are at it……..
(All above is no less scurrilous than what has been leveled at the governor)
So this passes for Senatorial discourse. Wow. As the saying goes:
"Politician's are like diapers; both need to be changed, and for the same reason!"
It's impossible to win any kind of argument with anyone who will not or cannot use logic, math, and plain common sense. Add gullibility and an inbred sense of entitlement and you have a constituency that will not be moved. God help us if this is the profile of a voter majority. Reid apparently thinks so.
Why doesn't Romney call Reid's bluff … which is actually Obama's bluff? Why doesn't he say, "I'll release every tax return in my adult life. In return, you unseal your Columbia University records. That's fair enough.
Harry Reid, show us your tax returns!! They are all a bunch of crooks, and they get off(charles rangal) and get re-elected. Maybe all Congress should show their tax returns.
The left is controlled by far left ideologues and headed by a a Islamo-communist leader that has decided that the best way to control the country is to divide and destroy. The left is on the path of war to destroy the human spirit and the individual.
Harry Reid knows good and well that the commonly-understood rule is that the burden is on a person making a claim to prove up his claim. When Reid says that the burden should be on Romney to prove that he DID pay taxes when Reid makes an unsubstantiated claim that he didn't, that's bass-ackwards.
Reid's claim is that Romney didn't pay taxes for ten years. It's his job to back that claim up with evidence. It's a craven act, a political posturing of the worst kind, to make a claim then abandon while it gets ground up in the rumor mill.
Dirty Harry Reid is a pedophile…prove it wrong!
If you want to call Harry Reid a liar, he will buy you a microphone and rent a stadium to make sure nobody misses it. In case you didn't figure it out, he's spoiling for a fight to be conducted 24/7 on all media, and the GOP is obliging. Now they are debating their own candidate's honesty with a senator, not the president, and the candidate is not making the job any easier by holding out.
Noted liberals William Kristol, George Will, Newt Gingrich and Rick Perry have called for Mitt to live up to a symbolic gesture of presidential honesty that was initiated by Mitt's own father, and is as sacred a part of the presidential ritual as shaking hands or kissing babies. Maybe nobody told Mitt he would have to kiss a baby.
If you're calling Kristol, WIll, Gingrich, and Perry "liberals," you're a delusional crackpot.
That is EXACTLY whats happening. Harry plays bad guy, deflects news cycle, plants time bomb for Romney campaign.
Lie , steal, cheat, and bring an invasion of foreigners. Sounds like a plan to me. ;(
Reid is a "taxer", no different from a "birther". Even their "all you have to do is release your tax-returns/birth-certificate to end the controversy" is the same. Big difference is that mainstream Republicans rejected and denounced "birthers" as a radical fringe, while "taxers" are the mainstream core of the Democratic Party. Shame on them, and shame on the mainstream media for not treating "taxers" with the same ridicule and disdain they treated "birthers".
Reid's a LIAR …..and so is Romney ..lol….and so are ALL of the 525 clowns we put in Washington .LOL….the highest crime demographic amongst groups of that size in the U.S. , outside of prison walls exists among this group of "elected officials " .
I'm thoroughly AMUSED .
I liken this circus to TWO WHOREHOUSES on either side of the street ,with the whores hanging out the windows screaming and throwing rocks at one another , each calling the other " WHORE " .lolol….nary a virgin nor decent woman among them .
Reid's a LIAR , and so is Romney .
The highest crime demographic in the country , outside of prison walls , exists amongst that group of 525 clowns elected to office in Washington .
I'm thoroughy AMUSED . It's like two cathouses on either side of the street with the occupants screaming at and throwing rocks at on another .
Enjoy the show , it's gonna get a lot worse , especially with super-pac money putting up un-endorsed ads , having only a group rather than party disclaimer .
It's coming down to Democrats are evil. This country has a critical moral choice to make. We shouldn't even be having this conversation, but here we are, and our lives depend on it.
Reince Preibus is right, Dinji Harry has become Dirty Harry. How in the world does anyone have any respect for these people that are failures in helping the AMerican people, putting us on a destructive path to Armageddon?
Yea Paul B. all Demoocrats are eeeeevil , and all Republicans are lily white angels who can do no wrong .Yup they are the reeeeeeaaal Patriots . That other 46% of Americans who are Democrats , THEY ARE TRAITORS who wish to destroy America /. Only Republicans are true patriots , everyone else across and inbetween are traitors .
Now go back on your drugs boy .
Romney said he will restire "work " to welfare . That is a lie , it was never abolished . Obama asked for flexibility ……just as Romney did in 2005 .
Yup he's a liar .