Sen. Ted Cruz Spanks Harry Reid on Senate Floor

Senator Harry Reid Begs Mercy from Republican Majority

Senator Harry Reid (D-NV) has chutzpah.  Now that he and his party have been relegated to minority status, he wants republicans to afford them what was denied during his tenure as majority leader:

“I would hope we could have an open amendment process and ample debate on that legislation,” Reid said on the floor.

Reid’s comments are close to a complete reversal compared to the way he has run the Senate, one that appears to be driven by the minority-party status that Democrats will hold next year. Reid has routinely blocked GOP senators from offering amendments on dozens of bills over the last few years, using a maneuver that blocks Democratic amendments as well.

That practice has essentially shut down the Senate as a legislative body, and turned it into a chamber that mostly rejects or ignores House-passed bills, except for must-pass spending bills or other critical measures.

Reid has stopped consideration of amendments through a process called “filling the tree.” In that procedure, Reid fills up all the designated amendment slots with his own token amendments that make tiny changes to the bill, which prevents others from having their own ideas considered when the bill comes up.

That maneuver has often prompted Republicans to vote against even considering legislation, since there’s no hope they can make any changes to it.

What a POS!

Source:

http://www.theblaze.com/blog/2014/11/19/harry-reid-who-stiffed-republicans-for-years-on-amendments-calls-on-gop-to-allow-amendments-next-year/

Senator Kay Hagan Rescued by Patron Harry Reid

One of the most despised characters in the U.S. government has reared his ugly head in North Carolina.  Senator Harry Reid will do anything to maintain his dictatorial powers in the Senate and he needs Kay Hagan.

 Reid’s Super PAC has made a difference.  The most ‘moderate democratic senator’ has benefitted from her patron.  The Wall Street Journal reported the following:

Senate Majority PAC, for example, has spent $8 million in North Carolina, where Sen. Kay Hagan, who entered the race as one of the Democrats' most endangered incumbents, has led in almost every recent poll. Roughly $6 million has been spent by super PACs on behalf of Thom Tillis, her GOP opponent, since 2013. Democrats have run about 4,200 ads in the state in recent weeks compared with 3,300 by Republicans, according to Wesleyan's analysis of data produced by tracking firm Kantar Media/CMAG.

If Kay Hagan is reelected we can expect that 96% moderate voting record to shoot up to 99% libtard.  Tar Heels will be surprised to find out they have the same values as Senator Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi.

Source:

http://www.ncgop.org/harry-reids-super-pac-come-riding-to-kay-hagans-rescue/

http://online.wsj.com/articles/super-pac-funding-keeps-democrats-competitive-in-senate-races-1411169413

Sen. Harry Reid is The D.C. Obstructionist

Source:

MuskegonPundit

Sen. Cruz: Hey, Reid Get out of the Ritz-Carlton and Visit the Border

Senator Harry Reid visit the border?  He's too busy blaming the Koch brothers on the Senate floor.

Should We Expropriate Nevada's Statehood?

How can Nevada be considered a state when the federal government owns 80% it?  The answer is it can’t.  What’s even more astonishing is the history of how this territory got its statehood.  It was a fraud!  Nevada didn’t qualify!  It was done for political purposes!  The law in 1864 required a population of 60,000 for a territory to become a state.  Nevada only had about 40,000. On top of that, Nevada made a deal with the devil.  Martin Armstrong of Precious Metals wrote the following:

The votes at the end of the day demonstrate that they never needed Nevada. Nonetheless, within the provisions of the Statehood Act of March 21, 1864 that brought Nevada into the voting fold, we see the source of the problem today. This Statehood Act retained the ownership of the land as a territory for the federal government. In return for the Statehood that was really against the law, the new state surrendered any right, title, or claim to the unappropriated public lands lying within Nevada. Moreover, this cannot be altered without the consent of the Feds. Hence, the people of Nevada cannot claim any land whatsoever because politicians needed Nevada for the 1864 election but did not want to hand-over anything in return. This was a typical political one-sided deal.

How ironic is it that the U.S. Senate should be run by a man whose entire career has been devoted to expanding federal power by any means possible?  That’s how Nevada was created, and that’s why the rule of law means nothing to people like Harry Reid.

Mr. Armstrong goes into detail on why the federal government has no claims to public lands in Nevada.  You can read his article by clicking the link below. 

 However, I believe it would be poetic justice to expropriate statehood from Nevada and kick Senator Harry Reid out of Washington D.C.  Nothing would give me more pleasure than a footprint on his backside.

Source:

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-04-20/martin-armstrong-asks-do-feds-really-own-land-nevada

http://armstrongeconomics.com/2014/04/19/do-the-feds-really-own-the-land-in-nevada-nope/

Sen. Harry Reid's Obamacare Lullabies

The party of the people, that’s what the democrats tells us.  They are the self-proclaimed champions of the common man, the trodden, and dispossessed.  Why, we are nothing without their comforting, warm embrace.  And if you disagree, if you complain about the harm their policies have wrought upon you and your family, well you’re just a liar.  After all, according to Senator Harry Reid, democratic policies are not horror stories, but bedtime lullabies. 

The only way some Americans have lower premiums is if they have been shoved onto Medicaid or are receiving a taxpayer subsidy.  And this kind of debt is unsustainable.

Democrats Utilize Nuclear Option; Dismiss Senate Rules

We have witnessed time and time again, Democrats disregarding the very rules and laws that they have implemented for short term political expediency.  This time they utilized the nuclear option.  According to Senate parliamentary procedures, a 2/3 vote is required to change senate rules.  That means 67 members must vote in the affirmative.  Senator Harry Reid and his confederates ignored this, even though he warned of the consequences in his book.

Everyone knows what this is about.  They want to pack the D.C. Circuit Court in order to buttress their runaway Administrative State and rule us without going through the legislative process.

You Democrats are fooling no one.

H/T:  NCRenegade

Federal Debt: Billions, Trillions. Oh, No! Godzillians

I remember a time when a billion dollars meant something.  Those days are long gone.  Soon, the Democrats will render trillion dollar debts meaningless.  Senator Harry Reid wants to raise the debt ceiling another $1.1 trillion, because we need to honor our debts and obligations.  The United States can’t afford not to pay its bills.  

When are we going to take away the credit card from these spoiled brats?

If we raise the debt ceiling another trillion, they’ll be back for another two next year.  And we’ll here the same excuse.  What responsible adult would tolerate crap like this? 

Soon we’ll be beyond trillions. The next level is Godzillians.  And the whole world will say: Oh, no!





Source:  http://thehill.com/blogs/on-the-money/budget/327363-reid-wants-1t-debt-hike-to-end-of-2014

Sen. Harry Reid: Confiscating Wealth is the Path to Prosperity

Democrats just implemented a new tax increase, and yet, it’s not enough.  According to Senator Reid, we can’t cut our way to prosperity; however, confiscation of other people’s wealth is their pathway to a new Golden Era.

There isn’t enough wealth in this country to satiate the greed of Washington D.C.

 H/T:  Weasel Zippers

Senator Harry Reid's Long Lost Uncle

We know the Democrats are a bunch of lying scum.  They can spin anything.  Here is an example (albeit a joke) of how good these band of liars can be:

Judy Walkman, a professional genealogy researcher in southern California , was doing some personal work on her own family tree. She discovered that Senator Harry Reid's great-great uncle, Remus Reid, was hanged for horse stealing and train robbery in Montana in 1889. Both Judy and Harry Reid share this common ancestor.

The only known photograph of Remus shows him standing on the gallows in Montana territory

 

On the back of the picture Judy obtained during her research is this inscription: 'Remus Reid, horse thief, sent to Montana Territorial Prison 1885, escaped 1887, robbed the Montana Flyer six times. Caught by Pinkerton detectives, convicted and hanged in 1889.'

So Judy recently e-mailed Senator Harry Reid for information about their great-great uncle.

Believe it or not, Harry Reid's staff sent back the following biographical sketch for her genealogy research:

"Remus Reid was a famous cowboy in the Montana Territory . His business empire grew to include acquisition of valuable equestrian assets and intimate dealings with the Montana railroad. Beginning in 1883, he devoted several years of his life to government service, finally taking leave to resume his dealings with the railroad. In 1887, he was a key player in a vital investigation run by the renowned Pinkerton Detective Agency. In 1889, Remus passed away during an important civic function held in his honor when the platform upon which he was standing collapsed."

NOW THAT's how it's done, Folks! That's real POLITICAL SPIN.

H/T:  Ray

Mitt Romney Plotted to Assassinate Abraham Lincoln!

Mitt Romney is the most villainous scoundrel to ever run for president. According to the Democrats, he’s a tax evader, a corporate raider and a murderer. Here is a video of that paragon of virtue himself, leveling the charge that Romney hasn’t paid taxes in ten years:

Here is a democratic operative accusing the GOP presumptive nominee of killing his wife:



What new infamy can they accuse Romney of next? Plotting to assassinate Lincoln? Why not? This man has more money than God. He could have a time machine locked away in one of his many palatial estates.

You think that’s absurd? Well, absurdity is a well practiced art in that hellhole called Washington D.C. During Reconstruction, after the Civil War, the radical republicans – the progressives of that time – accused President Andrew Johnson of plotting to assassinate Lincoln. Here is an excerpt from The Tragic Era – The Revolution After Lincoln:

Unimpressed, the morrow found Loan of Missouri and Ashley of Ohio introducing resolutions charging Johnson with every imaginable crime. Absurd as these were, Welles was fearful that ‘infamous charges, infamous testimony, and infamous proceedings could be produced as easily, honestly, and legally as Butler could get spoons in New Orleans.

And a week later, Loan gave a disgraceful exhibition – insinuating that Johnson had instigated the assassination of Lincoln! Next to Lincoln, he said, Johnson stood in direct line of succession, and ‘by birth, education, and association’ he was a Southern man. Worse – ‘a lifelong pro-slavery Democrat,’ and ‘influenced by all the grosser animal instincts’ and a ‘towering ambition.’ What more natural than that the ‘Jesuitical leaders of the rebellion’ should prefer such a man in the seat of power? And how easy! ‘But one frail life stood between them and the chief magistracy.’ Thus ‘the crime was committed…an assassins bullet directed by rebel hand and paid for by rebel gold made Andrew Johnson President.’

Of course these accusations were groundless and caused an uproar:

When an indignant member demanded that the words be taken down, Colfax, smiling as usual, as though such charges were customary, ruled the language unexceptionable. Thus encouraged, Loan pushed on, attacking the judiciary; and when a member asked if he did not feel his own self-respect and that of the House called for some particle of evidence ‘on which that charge, so grave is founded,’ Loan refused to answer, and Colfax smilingly announced that ‘the gentleman refused to answer further.’ There was an appeal from the decision, which was sustained by a strict party vote.

Senator Harry Reid would have fit right in with this bunch of scoundrels.


Source: http://www.amazon.com/The-Tragic-Era-Revolution-Lincoln/dp/1931541493

Do Nothing Congress? More Like Do Nothing Senate Democrats

Speaker Boehner and the House republicans have passed 30 bills. They are currently being held up by Sen. Harry Reid and his progressive junta. I suggest Obama talk to the do nothing Senate as to why the Democrats are holding up the works. But that would run counter to the Anointed One's talking points.

Obama Ushers in a New Era of Debt and Irresponsibility

In 2009, Barack Hussein Obama addressed the need for a responsible approach to the federal government and its expenditures.

“Government has failed to fully confront the deep, systemic problems that year after year have only become a larger and larger drag on our economy,” Obama said in his first budget message in February 2009. “From the rising costs of health care to the state of our schools, from the need to revolutionize how we power our economy to our crumbling infrastructure, policymakers in Washington have chosen temporary fixes over lasting solutions.

“The time has come to usher in a new era—a new era of responsibility in which we act not only to save and create new jobs, but also to lay a new foundation of growth upon which we can renew the promise of America,” said Obama.

The Anointed One has indeed ushered in a new era – a new era of insurmountable debt and budgets that are so irresponsible that the Senate voted 97 – 0 against it in 2011. This year’s budget proposal is so laughable, that Sen. Harry Reid (D) won’t even allow it to come to the floor for a simple majority vote. The projections are so astronomical, that it is determined by the year 2021 we will have a national debt of $25 trillion with a debt to GDP ratio of 110%. That is outrageous!

And to make matters worse, the Senate hasn’t passed a budget in three years. Senator Jeff Sessions (R) is up in arms over this flagrant violation of federal law:

It’s been more than 1,000 days since Senate Democrats have offered a budget plan to the American people. Now, once again, the Senate’s ineffectual Democrat majority balks at the task of leadership. Majority Leader Reid is denying the American people the opportunity to become engaged in the debate about the nation’s fiscal future and the difficult choices we face. He obviously continues in his belief that it would be politically foolish for his members to go on record in support of any long-term vision. But by refusing to lay out a budget plan for public examination—a fact no one can deny—the Democrat Senate has forfeited the high privilege to lead this chamber. If Sen. Reid and his members stand by this announcement, it means that the American people will go through yet another year of crisis without Senate Democrats unveiling and standing behind a financial plan for our future.

Budget Control Act spending caps, crafted behind closed doors and rushed to passage at the 11th hour under threat of panic, do not even approach the definition of the budget process that the law requires. They are not in any way or any sense a Senate Democrat budget plan. There is no argument that can be made that these caps are a long-term vision for this country—not on taxes, not on entitlements, not on spending, not on debt. Presumably, this obvious fact is why Chairman Conrad has said he will mark up a budget in our Committee. However, this process will be eviscerated if Sen. Reid refuses to allow a budget resolution to come to the floor.

I will continue to insist that the public process be carried out and that Senate Democrats bring an actual budget resolution to the Senate floor.

Senator, you can insist all you want, but these people believe they are above the law. The only way we can restore the integrity of the Senate is get rid of the Democratic majority. And that will be a tall order come November.


Source: http://cnsnews.com/news/article/debt-has-climbed-447t-obama-released-first-budget-calling-new-era-responsibility

http://content.usatoday.com/communities/theoval/post/2012/02/obama-budget-to-miss-deficit-goal/1

http://thehill.com/homenews/senate/163347-senate-votes-unanimously-against-obama-budget

http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2012/02/budget-who-needs-a-budget.php

http://www.buzzfeed.com/zekejmiller/obamas-budget-would-have-the-national-debt-break#HTWF2

Sen. Harry Reid Spreads Unicorn Manure

How delusional are democrats? Well, let’s take a gander at Sen. Harry Reid. According to the Senate majority leader, the rich don’t provide jobs. Why, that kind of thinking is about as real as mythical creatures like the unicorn and the Easter Bunny.

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) suggested on Monday that millionaires who create jobs are a mere figment of Republicans' imaginations.

"Millionaire job creators are like unicorns,” said Reid from the Senate floor. “They are impossible to find and don't exist."

Reid's frustration has grown in past weeks as Republicans have repeatedly and overwhelmingly blocked almost every fragment of President Obama's jobs package brought to the floor because Democrats have attempted to pay for them by raising taxes on millionaires. Republicans say they oppose that tax because it would hamper job creation.

But Reid said Monday morning that there was no evidence of a correlation between taxes on the wealthy and jobs.

"Republicans say the richest of the rich in our country … shouldn't contribute more to put our economy back on track," said Reid. "They call our plan time after time a 'tax on job creators,' and I say so-called job creators because … every shred of evidence contradicts this red herring.”

The majority leader concluded that most of Republicans' "fictitious millionaire job creators" are "hedge fund managers or wealthy lawyers that don't do much hiring."


I’ll tell you who the fictitious job creators are: government bureaucrats. Americans will starve to death if they believe Senator Harry Reid and his army of leprechauns can produce an era of prosperity with the fairy dust they're spreading.

Source: http://thehill.com/blogs/floor-action/senate/198787-reid-gops-millionaire-job-creators-are-imaginary-like-unicorns?utm_campaign=briefingroom&utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitterfeed

Unemployment Drops in Alabama After Passing Illegal Alien Law

The citizens of Alabama are reaping the benefits of its new illegal alien law. Since it was passed in June, unemployment has drastically fallen. Illegals are deporting themselves or leaving for other states. Businesses have no other choice but to hire Americans.

Unemployment rates have fallen in Alabama amid new legal pressure on companies to comply with a popular immigration reform law.

September was the first full month that the reform was in force, and the unemployment rate fell from 9.8 percent in September to 9.3 percent in October, according to a Nov. 18 report from the state government.

The rates fell from 9.9 percent to 9 percent in Etowah County, from 8.8 percent to 8.1 percent in Marshall county, and from 11.6 percent to 10.6 percent in DeKalb county.

“The latest fall in unemployment numbers is proof that American citizens will work, and continues to solidify [the evidence] that self-deportation [by illegal immigrants] due to the Alabama Taxpayer & Citizen’s Protection Act is occurring,” said Chuck Ellis, a city council member in Albertville — the main town in Marshall County, northern Alabama.

Of course the Obama administration is fighting tooth and nail to scrap this law, and keep the citizens of Alabama subservient to the welfare state, while catering to a third world horde who have no regard for our laws and sovereignty. Senator Harry applauds the Justice Departments suit.

“The concern I’ve always had from the first time I heard about this Alabama legislation is it would create without any question racial profiling and that is something that we just don’t stand for in this country,” Reid says in the video.

The law has prompted a federal lawsuit by the US Justice Department to have it ruled unconstitutional. It’s a move Reid supports.

“I also commend the Obama administration for filing a lawsuit about how unfair and unconstitutional this legislation is,” Reid said.

Harry Reid will tolerate depression era unemployment and the insolvency of states, just so he can lord his power over all of us. This kind of an attitude is an affront to all law abiding citizens. Lord Reid reminds me of European nobility. He tells Americans to eat cake, while he throws scraps to his illegal alien dogs.

Source: http://dailycaller.com/2011/11/21/unemployment-drops-as-alabamas-immigration-reform-enacted/#ixzz1eULPwE4y

http://cnsnews.com/news/article/sen-reid-alabama-s-immigration-law-would-without-any-question-create-racial-profiling?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter

Obama Wants Senate to Stop Playing Politics With Jobs Bill

Barack Obama used his weekly address to warn the Senate not to play politics with his jobs bill. Somebody should tell the president that it’s his own party that won’t let Stimulus 2.0 reach the floor:

On Thursday night, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) triggered the so-called nuclear option — unilaterally changing Senate rules by a simple majority vote to stop the minority from forcing votes on uncomfortable amendments. It’s the same tactic the majority would use to undercut the minority’s ability to filibuster. And that’s why it’s called “nuclear” — it dramatically alters the balance of power between the majority and minority. It is not a step to be taken lightly.

What great matter drove Reid to push the nuclear button? Apparently Republican leader Mitch McConnell (Ky.) was threatening to force a vote on the original version of President Obama’s jobs bill, to show how few Democrats were willing to support it. In other words, Reid invoked the nuclear option to avoid a political embarrassment for his party.

Obama asserts that reputable economist back his plan. Do these economists have amnesia? Because Son of Stimulus is a bastard just likes its father. And this bill will be nothing more than another boondoggle.

What’s really galling is how clueless Obama is. Not all construction workers are road and bridge builders. He acts as though none of these trades are specialized; that anyone can come off the street and throw up a bridge. That maybe so in the community organizing business, but not in construction.

I hope when 2012 comes around the American people elect a president who is worthy of the office, and not a back-bench agitator with catchy slogans.

Source: http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/harry-reids-nuclear-blunder/2011/10/07/gIQAeqtwTL_story.html

Crony Capitalism Alive and Well in Sen. Harry Reid's Nevada

The Department of Energy strikes again. It looks like another pie in the sky “renewable” energy boondoggle is about to go bust. Nevada Geothermal secured $79 million in loan guarantees along with an additional $66 million in federal government grants. But that’s not enough to pay the bills:

But even before it applied for the Obama administration incentives, problems at the plant cropped up. Company executives have variously predicted the plant could generate as much as 45 megawatts, after accounting for energy needed to power it.

Yet when the plant started up in October 2009, only 27 megawatts of net power were initially generated from the hot water pumped from the earth. That was not enough for the company to honor its commitment to the electric utility company, or to pay back a $91 million loan — carrying 14 percent interest — that it has with a Washington-based investment firm.

Through modifications at the Blue Mountain site in Nevada — drilling new wells to produce more steam — the company has been able to get the net power output up to a steady 35 megawatts. But, as the annual report released last week reiterated, that was still not enough production to cover the company’s loans and operating costs.

The Obama administration knew about these problems and still offered to underwrite a second guaranteed loan to Nevada Geothermal:

Obama administration officials knew about most of these difficulties before the Energy Department agreed in September 2010 to partly guarantee a second major loan to Nevada Geothermal, worth $98.5 million.

Nevada Geothermal executives, meanwhile, are working to renegotiate their $91 million, high-interest loan to avoid a default, which could come as soon as December. They have teamed up with Ormat to drill at a new Nevada site, and hope perhaps to do future drilling at the Blue Mountain site to increase the energy output there.

Who is Ormat? And how are these companies getting huge amounts of taxpayer monies?

During the tour, Mr. Reid had a chance to see electric generation equipment installed by a company called Ormat Technology, which is a Nevada Geothermal partner. Ormat’s lobbyist in Washington, Kai Anderson, and one of the company’s top executives, Paul Thomsen, are former aides to Mr. Reid.

Just last month, again with Mr. Reid’s support, Ormat secured its own Energy Department loan guarantee, worth $350 million, to help support three other Nevada geothermal projects that are expected to produce 113 megawatts of power.

Mr. Reid has received some support from the industry, in the form of at least $43,000 worth of campaign contributions from the geothermal industry since 2009, according to an analysis of federal campaign finance records.

Of course! It’s the biggest whore in the state of Nevada: Senator Harry Reid. And the two top company executives are former aides. Who would’ve thunk it? How dare we call this crony capitalism?


Source: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/03/business/a-us-backed-geothermal-plant-in-nevada-struggles.html?pagewanted=all

Sen. Harry Reid: House Republicans Have Moved Further to Tea Party

Late last night the House passed a stopgap measure that would avoid a government shutdown. The republican leadership embarrassed itself earlier this week, when they tried to shove through a continuing resolution that was antithetical to conservative principles. 48 republicans put a stop to that. Now the bill will go to the senate, where Dingy Harry awaits to squash it.

The Senate majority leader is angry that the tea party scrapped the Department of Energy’s boondoggle green energy loans. That money will be used to offset FEMA expenses.

“The bill the House will vote on tonight is not an honest effort at compromise. It fails to provide the relief that our fellow Americans need as they struggle to rebuild their lives in the wake of floods, wildfires and hurricanes, and it will be rejected by the Senate,” Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) said in a statement Thursday night before the House vote.

“I was optimistic that my House Republican colleagues would learn from their failure yesterday and move towards the middle. Instead, they moved even further towards the Tea Party.”

Reid said the Senate was ready to stay in session next week, potentially canceling its scheduled recess. The House bill would fund the government through Nov. 18

If Harry Reid thinks the Republican Party has moved closer to tea party ideals, than I can’t wait to see his reaction when November 2012 comes along.

Source: http://thehill.com/homenews/house/183487-house-stopgap-funding-late-night-vote-shutdown

Senator Harry Reid Calls Tea Partiers Extremist

The Tea Party movement has set up shop in Senator Harry Reid’s brain. While Dingy was pushing the latest Democratic snake oil to the media, he had to back hand the American people:

"Unfortunately the Republicans who used to run Congress, the two Republican caucuses, are being driven by a radical right-wing that is so in-tune with the tea party.

"They want their leaders to ignore the American people as they're doing. They want their leaders to ignore the business leaders like the Chamber of Commerce, that they're ignoring. And even a majority of Republicans around this country want something to happen and they're refusing to do that.

"They'd rather cut Social Security benefits than end taxpayer-funded giveaways for these billionaires and millionaires who have their corporate jets.

"We should not let these extremists dictate the outcome of this debate for the direction of our country. The time for ideological extremism should end. Now is the time for cooperation and consensus building and that's what legislation is all about."

Do these people look like extremist to you?

Source: http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2011/07/25/reid_introduces_deal_time_for_ideological_extremism_is_over.html