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Member Section => Politics & RKBA => Topic started by: ericire12 on May 19, 2009, 01:09:14 PM
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http://michellemalkin.com/2009/05/19/theyre-sick-of-harry-reid-too/
Nearly half of Nevadans have had enough of Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid as the powerful Democrat heads into his re-election campaign, a new Las Vegas Review-Journal poll finds.
About a third of the state’s voters would re-elect Reid if the 2010 election were held today, according to the poll, but 45 percent say they would definitely vote to replace him. Seventeen percent would consider another candidate.
The findings are echoed by another poll question about Reid’s popularity that finds the four-term incumbent to be a polarizing figure in his home state.
Half of Nevada voters had an unfavorable view of Reid, while 38 percent had a favorable view and 11 percent a neutral opinion.
The statewide poll of 625 Nevadans who vote regularly was conducted by telephone last week by Washington-based Mason-Dixon Polling & Research Inc. for the Review-Journal. It carries a margin of error of 4 percentage points in either direction.
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Lets wish Harry luck, because if he goes Chuck Schumer is definately at the head of the pack to replace him.
FQ13
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Lets wish Harry luck, because if he goes Chuck Schumer is definately at the head of the pack to replace him.
FQ13
Amen! Reid is just stupid and not completely anti-gun, but Schumer is pure evil! The only thing worse than Schumer in charge would be to have a California senator in charge.
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Amen! Reid is just stupid and not completely anti-gun, but Schumer is pure evil! The only thing worse than Schumer in charge would be to have a California senator in charge.
You do realize that I'm now going have nightmares about majority leader DiFi? At least she's consistent though, she hates the whole bill of rights, not just the 2A. AAARGH, damn you Fuzzdaddy!
FQ13
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"This war is lost",.....
"The surge has failed",.......
quotes from Sen. Reid.
I say:
"YOU are lost!"
"YOU have failed"
Time for a Daschle treatment,.......and don't go away mad,......just GO AWAY!
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Fuzzdaddy has it right. Reid IS an idiot, but a generally pro-gun idiot, whether this is out of principle or self preservation, I don't care. He voted against Clintons AWB, and has not allowed any anti-gun stuff to come the floor since he's been leader. The NRA gives him an A. Schumer hates guns.Its not opportunism, he is as much a true believer as Kennedy or MaCarthy. He also headed the Dem Senate Campaign Committee in '06 and '08. They lost not one incumbent and gained enough seats to put them at 60. He has a lot of markers to call in, and will be the odds on favorite for Reid's job. If Reid loses, we get Schumer, in exchange for a freshman Senator from the minority party, who will be sharing office space with a janitor's mop. Do the math.
FQ13
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Would I rather be run over by a Mack Truck? OR by a locomotive,.....
Answer?
Reid needs to go, if the voters in NV "get it", and remove him, it will send a message. Schumer won't get it, but it will give him a reality slap.
Although the NY voters (just like the San Fran Nan crowd) KEEP re-electing these people, just like Uncle Teddy K.
There's always the "duh" factor of the voting sector.
I hope NV gets it right with Reid.
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Maybe if we get rid of enough lefties and even some moderate Republi-crats in 2010, we won't have to worry about any Senate leaders or House speakers from the left anymore. That sounds like a great Thanksgiving present to give BHO next year! How many seats are up in each anyway?
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Maybe if we get rid of enough lefties and even some moderate Republi-crats in 2010, we won't have to worry about any Senate leaders or House speakers from the left anymore. That sounds like a great Thanksgiving present to give BHO next year! How many seats are up in each anyway?
Every House seat and one third of the Senate. The problem is though, that the GOP failed to learn from the Dems. In the '70s and '80s and early '90s the Dems drank the "pure" ideology Kool-aid. It cost them the South and the West and they took a trip into the wilderness. They then, under Howard Dean, discovered that maybe being pro-gun or pro-life, or pro-death penalty was ok, if you on board with the other 80% of the platform and the unions were going to suck it up or go where exactly?. The Gop is repeating the Dems earlier mistake and attacking "rhinos" (never a smart thing without a .577 T-Rex). As a result they have lost the entire North East, except for Me., and they are thretening to go after Collins and Snow (because surely a hard right Republican will win up there ::). Likewise Arlen Specter has defected. A party that doesn't understand that politics is the art of the possible, with the possible being defined as recognizing that most folks aren't ideolouges, is screwed. The Dems learned this the hard way. I think the GOP is fixin to.
FQ13
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Reid is like Murtha, He may be pro gun, but I wish he weren't, because when the revolution comes I will still cheerfully put him against the wall.
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Maybe if we get rid of enough lefties and even some moderate Republi-crats in 2010, we won't have to worry about any Senate leaders or House speakers from the left anymore. That sounds like a great Thanksgiving present to give BHO next year! How many seats are up in each anyway?
The Senate is 36 seats in 2010 and the entire House is up for re-election, all 435 members.
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FQ - Your points are good and valid, except that you're overlooking one thing. Assuming that the seats OTHER than Reid's remain static, the simple act of electing a republican into Reid's Senate seat erases the dem's super-majority in the Senate. Granted, we get stuck with Chucky Schumer (aka, the antichrist) as majority leader, but it puts the republicans in the position of having SOME (albeit precious little) power in that body. And prcious little is better than being run over, roughshod.
Or am I missing something stupidly obvious?
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None of this would be a problem if Congress had term limits!
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None of this would be a problem if Congress had term limits!
They do. Two years and six. Its up to the voters to enforce them.
FQ13
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Limits on the number of terms they can serve. ::)
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Limits on the number of terms they can serve. ::)
+1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000.......aka "a shitload"...
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I always thought it should be set up that you needed three terms before you get a retirement (graduated) and that after your first term you had to step down for one term berfore running for re-election.
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I always thought it should be set up that you needed three terms before you get a retirement (graduated) and that after your first term you had to step down for one term berfore running for re-election.
Thats a pretty good idea. I don't like kicking people out arbitrarily if they're doing a good job, that should be up to the voters. But your plan would at least let them run again with a new guy for comparison. The thing is though, that any change will require a constitutional ammendment. I woldn't hold my breath waiting for that one.
FQ13
PS Eric, you need to study up on recognizing sarcasm. ;)
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Senator Reid's popularity may be skating on thin ice, but the Republican Party in Nevada has no one to compete against him seriously. Also, the Nevada state Republican Party is in shambles after last year's fight over delegates to the national convention. Ron Paul supporters versus John McCain supporters created a wound that has yet to be healed. Remember too that Nevada is a Blue state now with Democrats holding more registered voters. They delivered our electoral votes to the Messiah. While my pal Dean Heller's seat in Congress is probably secure, expect a Democrat sweep in 2010 in all other races. How many of these Democrats will be Blue Dogs remains to be seen.