Senator Harry Reid is a “Loser”
Yes, that is what I said. Senator Harry Reid is a “Loser.” I know, some of you are saying “Oh my goodness, the maturity of the Common Sense has just dropped!” Fear not. I am not resorting to elementary school playground name-calling here. When I refer to Reid as a “Loser,” I am referring to his view on reality and not his character.
In the latest category of “losing,” Harry Reid had this to say regarding the lack of victories by the Democratic Party in Congress, where they hold the majority in both chambers:
“Who’s winning?” Reid asked a group of reporters. “Big Oil, Big Tobacco. … Al Qaeda has regrouped and is able to fight a civil war in Iraq. … The American people are losing.”
The American People are losing? Some might argue the fact that Congress hasn’t been able to do anything significant this year as a victory. Kidding aside, there are some items that have come before Congress that should have been considered and/or passed as separate bills rather than lumped into large bills, like the omnibus spending pill passed by Congress this week. Additionally, if al Qaeda has regrouped anywhere, it is currently in Afghanistan, not Iraq - just in case the Senator was confused about his geography. However, to say that the American People are losing is really petty on the Senate Majority Speakers behalf. Let us look at some of his other “loser” comments.
Back in April of 2007, at the point that troop deployments were beginning for the “surge” called for by President Bush, the Senator had this to say:
“I believe … that this war is lost, and this surge is not accomplishing anything, as is shown by the extreme violence in Iraq this week.”
Ok, so before the surge was even fully implemented, it is already a failure? The war itself is lost? Now, he might say that the strategies used up to that point have failed to bring forth the desired result, but to say that the war is lost shows that the Senator does not have America’s best interest in mind, since it weakens our troops morale as well as the standing of the country on the international scene. Maybe this is what he meant this week when he said the “American people are losing.” Is it a self-fulfillling prophecy? I don’t know, but I fear that our nation might lose if Reid’s view of the world is adopted by more people.
Ed Gruberman has a good article related to this:
http://edgruberman.wordpress.com/2007/12/19/%e2%80%a2-harry-poopy-pants-reid-angry-at-mccain-for-quoting-him-correctly/
Hey thanks for the comments over at my place.
It amazes me that I can turn on any news channel right now and see people waving signs with “Vote Hillary” on them. After everything that’s happened in the last few years for someone to be able to look at themselves in the mirror and honestly believe that they are on the right side baffles me. I am constantly astounded that anyone would buy into these people’s ideas, well except for those stoner hippies… that I understand. But to see honesty in their faces makes me think there really is something in the Kool-Aid. Fakes, liars and hypocrites through and through. Not to say that our side isn’t always right, we’re not look at McCain and his Shamnesty Plan. But to look at Reid and say to yourself, “God, there goes a really great leader!” is inconceivable.
Yeah, both he and Pelosi are getting a second-look lately within their own party. No matter which direction 2008 goes, my money is on both of them being replaced as the party’s leaders in Congress.