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Lots of people save everything. My mother-in-law, who could best be described as a "secular Lutheran" (ie, one who doesn't go to church) saves everything. She's a hoarder, actually. My friend's mom, a good Catholic woman, saved everything. Lots of people are savers.
If the president vetoes a CR that defunds those programs he needs to implement his plan, the onus of a government shutdown will be squarely on his shoulders. A poll last summer showed that 70% of Americans disagreed with the president's amnesty plan. And with the GOP uniting behind risking a government shutdown over the issue, you know they think they have a winning hand with the voter.
It will be difficult to defund a government program that hasn't been announced yet. So Reid is probably correct that a CR will make it through the Senate in the lame duck session if Obama holds off until close to Christmas with his plans. The new Congress can always start out by defunding whatever programs the president needs for amnesty.
If the president vetoes a CR that defunds those programs he needs to implement his plan, the onus of a government shutdown will be squarely on his shoulders. A poll last summer showed that 70% of Americans disagreed with the president's amnesty plan. And with the GOP uniting behind risking a government shutdown over the issue, you know they think they have a winning hand with the voter.
It will be difficult to defund a government program that hasn't been announced yet. So Reid is probably correct that a CR will make it through the Senate in the lame duck session if Obama holds off until close to Christmas with his plans. The new Congress can always start out by defunding whatever programs the president needs for amnesty.
Really? I thought your point was that Mormons kept everything. You even used your own Mormon background as an illustration.
As for the rest, nothing gets done if the govt. is shut down. The last shutdown was bad for my state. We'd had a horrendous flood, and the shutdown slowed the cleanup process.
Really? I thought your point was that Mormons kept everything. You even used your own Mormon background as an illustration.
Ummm, okay! Yes, most Mormons I know kept pictures and items showing how proud they were of their children achieving something. Is this a problem? Now that I know Reid wasn't Mormon from birth, I see why he has done the stuff he has done. I happen to know a nephew of his we went to school together and still remain friends. He and I both attended the same church when we were little. My friend's mom who is Reid's sister was very involved in the church while we were growing up......she must have married into it also, I never though to ask.
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As for the rest, nothing gets done if the govt. is shut down. The last shutdown was bad for my state. We'd had a horrendous flood, and the shutdown slowed the cleanup process.
“Last night, Senator Cruz sought to have senators go on record whether they believed the President’s executive amnesty is Constitutional, and Senator Lee sought a vote on prohibiting spending on said executive amnesty,” Murch said. “Reid blocked both attempts. Just as he did for three years in not producing a Senate Democrat budget, Reid is shielding his members from having to show their constituents where they stand on Constitutional separation of powers, the rule of law, immigration policy, and protecting American workers and national security.”
“While there will not be a shutdown, Reid could very easily have done the democratic thing and simply allowed votes,” he continued. “Senators would have been free to vote for the President’s lawlessness, defeated Cruz and Lee, moved on to the year’s remaining business, and been on flights home this morning. But Reid would not allow that. As such, efforts continue to let the American people know where their elected officials stand on an unconstitutional executive amnesty of monumental consequence to our nation’s future.”
Cruz noted in his statement that Reid’s efforts risk a government shutdown.
Come to find out Dirty Reid is also involved in a huge development Coyote Springs. What is strange that land has the same tortoises as the Bundy Ranch. So how can they develop houses and a golf course where tortoises roam, but cattle can't live among the tortoise. My bet the cows will deal with the tortoise much nicer than those developers!
Nor I. Conservatives are classless and now they wish him dead. See below. Ugh.
Reid is a POS protected from his numerous financial and ethical crimes by power and wealth, so yeah it's quite justified in taking pleasure from chance/karma/fate/divine intervention giving people like them a smack on the nose. A shove from the mortal coil would have been better to spare us his earthly presence, but take what you can get.
Maybe he wouldn't pay a hooker and she worked him over. I think most of the jokes stemmed from the timing, right after New year's Eve. Face it, we all pretty much assume he had a little too much to drink, stumbled and crashed into a coffee table or tripped down some stairs. I don't wish him injury or illness, but face it, he's a corrupt putz. So are virtually all high powered politicos. They need to be laughed at, its therapeutic for them.
He reminds me of Monty Burns. Its hard to really imagine he does any real exercising other than having a Weylund Smithers like fitness instructor around patronizing him pretending he's actually working out.
Harry Reid has "claimed" to be a boxer in his youth, but no record of any sanctioned boxing events involving Harry Reid exists. It is unlikely that he was a champion, because if he was, a record would exist of said championship.
Is this another case of false bravado on Harry's part? Artistic license? Out and out lying? Maybe he dated Barbara Boxer in his youth?
I certainly don't think Harry qualifies as a "lifelong boxer", either. Have we seen ANY evidence -- pictures, video, you know, things like that -- of "Iron Harry" stepping into a ring in the last 50 years?
No, we have not.
So Harry's claim of being a boxer is not much different than my claim of me dating Adrianna Lima and Alessandra Ambrosio at the same time. I know it happened, and I'm SURE Adrianna and Alessandra remember it fondly, so who needs documentation?
Sometimes, politicians engage in something called "lying". Remember in that goofy book where Barack Obama was quoted as telling his high school friends that his Kenyan father was the fiercest warrior in a tribe FULL of fierce warriors? That was a lie. His Kenyan father was an alcoholic adulterer serial inseminator.
But that doesn't sound quite as impressive as "fiercest warrior", does it?
Harry Reid likely believes he was a champion boxer, but apparently, that tree fell in the forest while no one was there.
More likely the lack of records is just life in rural Nevada when he was growing up. Searchlight, the town he grew up in, currently has a population of 539 people. Once away from the population centers of Reno and Las Vegas, the entire state is pretty much nothing but tiny little towns like this, and many have been abandoned since Reid was a kid. Who knows where records go when a grease spot on the road disappears?
Nevada has a long history of boxing as a popular sport and has produced many champions. Among them are Jack Dempsey, Evander Holyfield, George Foreman, Sonny Liston, and many others. Some were natives, others called Nevada home.
Dempsey wasn't a native, but he became famous boxing in the Reno area, and Reno became his home.
JOHN HINDERAKER at Powerline Blog is reporting an outrageous story having to do with what really might have happened that night:
I got a phone call from a man named Easton Elliott, a businessman who lives in the Las Vegas area, who told me what he thinks really happened to Harry Reid: Elliott spent a portion of last New Year’s Eve at an Alcoholics Anonymous meeting in Henderson, Nevada, with about 20 other people.
Some time between 10:00 and 11:30 p.m., a man entered the meeting and introduced himself as “Larry.” He had blood on his clothing, his left hand was swollen and he appeared to be somewhat intoxicated and was visibly agitated.
In a group discussion, Larry said he had been at a family get-together, and had just had a fight with a family member, but didn’t remember much because he had blacked out. When he came to, he was rolling on the ground, fighting with a family member, and his clothes were bloody. Now, he said, he was frightened that the Secret Service would come after him.
Easton Elliott didn’t think much more about Larry until, several weeks later, he saw a newspaper story about Larry Reid, Harry Reid’s brother, being arrested for DUI and assaulting a highway patrolman. The story was accompanied by a photograph, and Elliott immediately recognized Larry Reid as the “Larry” who had attended the AA meeting on New Year’s Eve.
Can't see Reid lifting weights, wonder what else could have broke. Funny, they're not telling us the machine it happened on.
Back to Yoga, Harry Reid.
Just speculating here, but he may want a better reason for retiring on such short notice than just being certain to lose the next election making this "accident" an extremely ironic face-saving measure.
Of course another possibility is that he may be about to be investigated and needs a sudden case of Hilary-style amnesia.
Just speculating here, but he may want a better reason for retiring on such short notice than just being certain to lose the next election making this "accident" an extremely ironic face-saving measure.
Of course another possibility is that he may be about to be investigated and needs a sudden case of Hilary-style amnesia.
Actually, a story came out yesterday, looks like a New Years Eve party and Harry's brother beat him up!
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