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From Ralston and the Las Vegas Sun: On Thursday, Harry Reid was mad (or so it seemed). And when Reid gets mad, Reidisms follow.
The Senate majority leader has made many off-the-cuff comments over the years that have raised eyebrows, evoked guffaws and, occasionally, sparked outrage (calling George W. Bush a “loser” in 2004 comes to mind.) But rarely has the majority leader packed so many Reidisms into one day and of varying types as he did Thursday in talking about Olympic uniforms, Mitt Romney and Shelley Berkley.
If you want to know why the majority leader’s staff has a private prayer group (“Our senator, who art in Congress, careless be his tongue …”) and has a special “Reidism alert” button on their BlackBerrys, consider:
“The USOC should be embarrassed, they should be humiliated. ... Our athletes should not wear clothes manufactured in China.”....
But how does Reid make the case for being apoplectic about this scandal of mammoth proportions when he is as enthusiastic as ever about his Chinese billionaire friend, Wang Yusuo, making a fortune by building a solar plant near Laughlin — an enterprise that coincidentally now employs his son, Rory Reid, as a lobbyist?
And when is Reid going to let the Nevada gamers have it for investing so much money in China that could have been used to reinvigorate the Nevada economy?....
“(Mitt Romney) not only couldn’t be confirmed as a Cabinet secretary, he couldn’t be confirmed as a dog catcher. Because a dog catcher — you’re at least going to want to look at his income tax returns.”
Those comments, as reported by the Sun’s Karoun Demirjian and others, came a day after Reid declared Romney could not get confirmed as a Cabinet secretary because of his reluctance to release more of his tax returns. I understand that Reid relishes playing the attack dog for national Democrats on Romney, but this one does not hunt.
No, I don’t mean that dog catchers don’t actually need to be confirmed. Nor do I want to argue about whether presidential candidate should be browbeaten into releasing tax returns — while Romney’s date of withdrawal from his Bain Capital may be germane, I’m not sure his tax returns are. (Maybe Reid should agree to release his wardrobe — any Ralph Laurens made in China? — if Romney agrees to hand over his IRS documents.)
We get it — Romney is super-rich and the Democrats want to rub that and his offshore accounts in his face to win the support of middle-class families. But to sneer at Romney by using the dog catcher line is to show a level of viciousness that, I think, too often populates rhetoric from a left that has lost too many message battles and prefers ad hominem attacks to defense of policy initiatives.
http://www.lasvegassun.com/news/2012/jul/15/harry-reid-romney-dog-catcher-olympics/?hpp
When you lose Jon Ralston, you know you are in trouble. In 2010, when Reid was running for re-election, it was widely thought that Reid was going to lose, but the GOP bailed him out by nominating Sharron Angle. But the election was close enough that Ralston even admitted that he was giving Reid an easy time by throwing softball questions to him and rarely saying anything critical about Crybaby/Coward Reid. So, in a year and a half, Reid has fallen out of the good graces of Jon Ralston to the point that Ralston is mocking him openly.
Couldn't happen to a nicer guy.
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