Thread: Why is Harry Reid doing this?

His tactics today were horrible. Is he trying to shame Bush or is he trying to fool people he is in charge? I just want to know his motive.

I've seen Jeff Sessions speak of special interest groups and nod at Reid when he says that. He always refers to the grand compromisers as influenced by special interest groups.

My guess is Harry Reid has a string of Vegas hookers at his disposal, courtesy of some of the major hotels in Vegas.

Originally Posted by portaltotx

His tactics today were horrible. Is he trying to shame Bush or is he trying to fool people he is in charge? I just want to know his motive.

He's been outclassed by Jeff Sessions and outmanoeuvred by David Vitter. He is bitter, angry, and (IMHO only) I think he knows this thing is going to go down like the Hindenburg tomorrow.

ALL THE MORE REASON to call, fax, email -- and then call some more tomorrow -- right up the the cloture vote.

You know, this isn't just for us and our families. It's for the next generation too.

Reid earmarked millions of dollars for La Raza.

http://www.alipac.us/modules.php?name=F ... c&p=148938

Now you know what the nod is all about. $'s

Dixie

Well I will tell you this. I will never set foot in Vegas again; and they'll lose a lot more money from me then they will from that illegal dude that runs their dishwasher.

Right after the announcement that a piece of crap had been released I began wondering about Harry Reid's motivations.

A week and a half later I was in his home state of Nevada for business in Las Vegas. I've been to Vegas a lot in my lifetime and NEVER have I seen so many illegals. I swear in one neighborhood, I thought I was in Tijauna, except I didn't smell sewage! Used to be, you would see Illegals in Vegas working in housekeeping or as bus boys, now they are in every facet of work except on the gaming floor.

I'm no genius, but it doesn't take one to figure this out. In my opinion, he's helping out the big casino companies with keeping their source of dirt cheap labor. Think about who needs cheap labor the least? Oil Companies and Casinos. They don't continue to build lavish casino properties because they are starving for cash. Publicly traded gaming companies are reaching record profits and they need cheap labor?

I think, Harry Reid is willing to sell out our language, culture, Social Security system, nation's security and sovereignty for cheap labor in Las Vegas and Reno. Ask yourself, Do they really need the rest of America to suffer so they can squeeze out an even larger profit?

If that's the case, Mobil, Exxon, BP and Shell need higher profits too!

Some have called him Dirty Harry. Read the attached article (I've posted the article alone in the past) and look at the connections to scandals.

Harry Mason Reid was born in Searchlight, Nevada, a mining town 60 miles south of Las Vegas, in December 1939. His father was a hand-to-mouth hard-rock miner; his mother never made it past the eighth grade. He had three brothers; the family of six lived in a cabin with no indoor plumbing. He attended a two-room elementary school in Searchlight that had one teacher for all eight grades. Young Harry had to travel to Henderson to attend Basic High School; he boarded with local families during the school week, then returned to Searchlight on the weekends.

At Basic High, Harry Reid's future was, basically, formed. He was elected student body president. His senior history teacher was Mike O'Callahan. And he met Landra Gould. Harry, a junior, and Landra, a sophomore, started dating. (They were married in 1959; in 1961, they had their first child and only girl, Lana. Harry and Landa also have four sons: Rory, Leif, Josh, and Key.)

Reid attended Southern Utah State College on a partial athletic scholarship (boxing), receiving his Associate's degree in 1958. He earned his bachelor's degree, with majors in history and political science, from Utah State University in 1960. The Reids then moved to Washington, D.C., where Harry attended law school at George Washington University. To support himself and his family, he worked for the U.S. Capitol Police as a cop. Graduating in 1964, Harry and his family returned to Nevada, where he worked for a few years as a lawyer, including a stint as the Henderson City Attorney. He parlayed that job into election to the Nevada State Assembly in 1968, at age 28.

This is where Reid entered big-time politics and he's been a career politician ever since -- nearly 40 years. Naturally, he's had his fair share of power struggles, controversies, scandals, apologies, and triumphs.

Anyway, in 1970, his high school teacher Mike O'Callaghan ran for governor; 30-year-old Reid ran for lieutenant governor. They both won and Harry became the youngest lieutenant governor in Nevada history.

In 1974, he ran for the U.S. Senate seat, losing by less than 600 votes to former Nevada governor Paul Laxalt.

In 1977 Reid was appointed Chairman of the Nevada Gaming Commission, a post he held for five tumultuous years, at a time when organized crime was being hounded out of Las Vegas for good. In the process, Reid went head to head with Frank "Lefty" Rosenthal, whose temper tantrum at a hearing where he lost his casino work card is legendary around here. Reportedly, Reid's life was threatened on several occasions; he's been quoted as saying, "They put bombs on my car, there were threatening phone calls at night, people tried to bribe me and went to jail."

In the early '80s, Reid returned to private practice for a few years, then won the first of two terms in the U. S. House of Representatives in 1982. He ran again for the Senate in 1986 and won, succeeding Laxalt. He was re-elected in 1992, then narrowly defeated his Republican opponent, John Ensign, in 1998. (Ensign won Nevada's other Senate seat in 2000). In 1999, Reid became Minority Whip, serving under Minority Leader Tom Daschle of South Dakota. He was re-elected to his fourth Senate term in 2004 and was unanimously elected the Senate Minority Leader by Democrats. He became the majority leader in 2006 after the Democrats took control of Congress.

Today, Harry Reid is one of the most powerful politicians in the country.

His style is rather bland; he's soft-spoken, but fairly forceful, especially now that he has so much seniority and authority. His effectiveness is in his willingness to dive into the mundane details of getting things done, rather than any dynamic presence or charisma that he can claim. He has a reputation as a "relationship builder" -- meaning he's expert in backroom politics and quid pro quo.

His record on issues has been moderately Democratic through the years. On national issues, he voted for both the Gulf War resolution in 1991 and the Iraq war resolution in 2002, though lately he's been critical of the war. He has opposed the tax cuts passed since George W. Bush took office. He voted in favor of the ban on partial-birth abortions and does not approve of same-sex marriage (though he's against a constitutional amendment defining marriage), but he's a strong supporter of the death penalty, including executing minors. He has a mixed record on gun control, voting against the ban on assault weapons, but in favor of the Brady Bill and background checks at gun shows. He tends to protect the mining industry from environmental regulation.

He's always been a strong advocate for Nevada. He's one of the most vociferous critics of the Yucca Mountain nuclear-waste repository. He considers Great Basin National Park "his" park, after working hard to establish it. He also put in long hard hours straightening out Lake Tahoe's water-allocation controversy, divvying it up among various northern Nevada interests. He's tireless in securing funding for Nevada highways and alternative transportation, as well as for Nevada military installations.

As for black marks on his record, he's had a little trouble with accusations of patronage. In 2003, an article in the Los Angeles Times reported that a bill introduced by Reid, the Clark County Conservation of Public Land and Natural Resources Act of 2002, would provide "a cavalcade of benefits to real-estate developers, corporations, and local institutions that were paying hundreds of thousands of dollars in lobbying fees to his sons' and son-in-law's firms." (One Nevada law firm employs all four of Reid's sons; his sons and son-in-law "have represented almost every industry in Nevada; all of them seek Reid's help on federal matters.") Reid later banned family members from lobbying anyone in his office.

Reid is also a champion of Harvey Whittemore, a lobbyist and developer who, with Reid's help, has assembled a large amount of land for his massive Coyote Springs development north of Las Vegas. At one point, Reid proposed that Whittemore be given government land for free; Whittemore subsequently paid $10 million for it.

Reid was also touched by the Jack Abramoff lobbying scandal. He reportedly received money from Abramoff's office, which he has refused to return.

And recent revelations have found that Reid used campaign donations to pay bonuses for staffers of a condominium he owns. He said he'd pay back the bonus money, which totaled $3,300.

Harry and Landra Reid still own a house in Searchlight, though they live most of the year in Washington. They have 16 grandchildren.

If you want to find out even more about Sen. Reid and his life, in his own words, you may be in luck: As reported in Today's News earlier this week, Harry Reid has just announced plans to publish his memoirs, co-authored with Esquire Executive Editor Mark Warren, in spring 2008. Apparently, the book will intertwine his own story, particularly his early life of abject poverty in Searchlight, "a place that boasted of thirteen brothels and no churches," with the cautionary tale of contemporary Washington, D.C. "If I can do nothing greater in this book than explain those two places to each other, then I will have done something important," he commented in a recent press release about the project.

His tactics today were horrible. Is he trying to shame Bush or is he trying to fool people he is in charge? I just want to know his motive.

I heard some things about that on the radio driving home. It seemed to me that Harry Reid is literally trying as hard as he can to bring the Republicans down. I distinctly thought that when I heard what he is doing and saying.

He wants this bill to go through so that he can bring them all down.
(Bush and the Republicans)

If the Republicans cannot see this, they deserve to go down for their absolute stupidity.

Reid basically can see how much the Bush administration, McCain, Lott and other Rhinos have betrayed their constituency and how it is really hurting the Republican party. The longer the bill stays out there the more Republican party members get a chance to see their own, who claimed to be conservative, pander to the caucus of communists and socialists, sign deals with virulent anti-americans like Ted Kennedy and a host of other injustices. Mostly the hypocrisy of many Republicans has caused an unforgettable rift. Reid as most extremists on the left know, Conservatives are unique in the political world in that they don't forget and remain principled, and for this they can't have Repubs who vote for amnesty and destruction of sovereignty and spending like sailors running around claiming to be conservative. He knows that Conservatives will fight Bush and he hopes this amnesty rift hurts him. He knows that Bush is weak and lacks the leadership and moral ground to defend this sham. In short he is letting Bush hang himself and the Republican party and the idiots are just taking the rope. They take it because of greed. Reid knows that he can also frame this on Bush and it will stick. Rightly so.

We all know and expect cowardice from the left. It has been along time since you have been able to call a male on the left a man. They have a tendency to be passive agressive and weak willed, filling seats in universities seeking junk science and ________ studies degrees. Often when they realize they have no creative wiritng ability or artistic ability they become english lit or art studies students... So we expect amnesty from these folk, don't forgive them, but know that they lack courage and vision. You expect a thief to steal and a coward to flee and point the finger, but what you don't expect is someone who claims to be a patriot, quotes the founding fathers and says that they stand up for America to call their own people names and betray them! To literally change the law in favor of foreign invaders over their own populace...Reid is letting this fall right on him...We know that it isn't purely the case, but I believe that is what he is thinking.

Chosen's

Reid basically can see how much the Bush administration, McCain, Lott and other Rhinos have betrayed their constituency and how it is really hurting the Republican party.

Exactly, Chosen!! I see it and so does everyone else in the country.