Wasting Time With Alex

Harry Reid’s bitching and pouting

Harry Reid sure must be pissed these days. Trying to live down his assurances made last summer, right when the surge started, that the US lost the Iraq war and should cut & run only to see it work sucks. But in addition to getting that wrong the new 110th Congress has been absolutely and hands down one of the worst we have had. Unable to deliver on any real campaign promises - especially about fiscal responsibility & higher standards, which all went out the window as soon as they took over, but more importantly on their flagship issue, an Iraqi withdrawal, which the left kept claiming was why they won the 2006 elections - and basically out maneuvered by Bush and the republicans every time, it now looks like they are forgetting some things. Of course, and unlike when they were doing it to prevent republicans from enacting their polices when they were in charge in the years before, suddenly having the opposition party, well, be in the business of being in the opposition, is a terrible thing. Harry Reid, again thinking he was being clever, delivered the following commentary:

If this is what winning looks like, then Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid wants no part of it. Tired of Republican crowing about winning on Iraq funding, the budget battle and the energy bill, Reid (D-Nev.) shot back on Tuesday afternoon. “We hear a lot of Republicans boasting ... because of their unprecedented obstruction,” Reid said.

Indeed, Republicans have gotten their way in the battle over spending, have forced Democrats to jettison rollbacks of tax breaks for oil companies, and have beaten back attempts to pay for expanded children’s health care programs with a tobacco tax increase. Even though they’re in the minority, the GOP, backed by President Bush, has used the filibuster to block Democratic priorities over and over this fall.

“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.”

So when democrats had their turn at obstructing, and once in power try to tax the productive to death to buy votes, the American people win. But when the donkeys are prevented from passing more of their draconian anti-American and pro socialist bull, then the people are losing? I guess in the mind of these loser donkeys, the only “American people” are the ones that believe government should take care of them in a society where they abdicated all their freedoms & rights for a nanny state - one that will do a piss poor job if one is to go by every example where these policies have been enacted - and the rest of us, the ones that believed in that American dream of being free to pursue our dreams and succeed or fail, are not. Very telling. Besides, when was the last time you got a job from a poor guy?

Senator Reid, I prefer you never get to define who the American people are, because I certainly prefer never to be counted in what idiots like you try to tell us the American people need to be. If I wanted to be a no good socialist parasite or taxed to death I would have lived in Western Europe and been misserable in general.