The news has been so bad for so long, we're starting to believe the very sources that are there to make us disbelieve in our leaders and our future as a party.
Enough of this cry-baby crap. Here is some information about Reid that you may find highly encouraging. The guy kicks ass. He just does it from a controlled exsterior, which is fine in our times. Makes us look justifiably irate. Reid
set the mark up, now it's time for the take down.
Just look at this and add to it.
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Harry Reid Is Not Boring
Has Scorsese fictionalized your U.S. senator?
By Chris Suellentrop
Posted Wednesday, Dec. 22, 2004, at 5:51 PM PT
http://slate.msn.com/id/2111392 /
Like flies to wanton boys are politicians to the press. We kill them for our sport. But rarely has a public figure been subject to a campaign of character assassination as unfair as the one that's targeted Harry Reid
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… his career is far more interesting than that of the average senator. In politics,
Nevada is the next best thing to Louisiana. To take just one example, is there another U.S. senator who has been part of the inspiration for a character in a Martin Scorsese film? …In Casino, Robert DeNiro's character melts down in front of the Nevada Gaming Commission after the commission denies him a license to operate a casino.
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Sure, Reid can sap these stories of some of some of their innate interest. "Well, it's true that when I served with the Gaming Commission that
I had a number of threats on my life," he told me during a brief interview earlier this week. When talking about
taping the windows in his house to protect his family from the threat of shattered glass, he used the same tone that he used to discuss the importance of Senate procedure. But no matter what tone you use to discuss the fact that your
wife once discovered a bomb wired to one of the family cars, it's not boring.Besides, on other occasions, Reid can, despite his reputation, give good quote. He has called the move to put a nuclear waste repository at
Yucca Mountain the "Screw Nevada Law." On meeting his wife… "The first time I saw her, she was washing her parents' car. She was wearing short shorts."
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A man named Jack Gordon, who later married LaToya Jackson, tried to give Reid a $12,000 bribe. Reid let the FBI videotape Gordon offering him the bribe, and then, according to a Las Vegas Review-Journal account, he "put his hands around Gordon's neck and said, 'You son of a bitch, you tried to bribe me.'"
That's right, Senate Democrats are being led by a man who once tried to strangle LaToya Jackson's future husband-manager. You call that boring?<snip>
He is the son of an alcoholic gold miner who killed himself. His mother did laundry for, in Reid's words, "houses of ill repute." He once disguised himself as a homeless man and spent the night at a mission in Las Vegas. …He once
filibustered the Republicans for nine hours, by himself, by reading from the history book he wrote about his hometown of Searchlight, Nev. …Reid told Joe Klein that he got into a
fistfight with his future father-in-law before he eloped with his wife..
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Like I said,
LETS GET READY TO RUMMMMMMMMMMBLE!!!