Reid: Crotchety, Out Of Touch And A Bit Crooked

I wouldn’t go so far as to say that Sharron Angle mopped the floor with Harry Reid at last week’s debate but the fact is she did a thoroughly workman-like job of making him look like what he is: a crotchety old man who has completely lost touch with the state which sent him to Washington.

Certainly her mission was to step out of Harry’s sleazy commercials painting her as nuts and extreme and show herself to be what she is: a 61-year-old grandmother who—like most Nevadans—sincerely believes our government is headed down the wrong track and that the train needs to be stopped before we have a disaster.

That, she did.

This gives Harry a big problem.

His big argument is from the movie Animal House: Remain Calm! All Is Well!

With the highest unemployment numbers in the nation, we know damn well it is not.

His next argument comes for and from the so-called republicans for Reid. “I deliver for you!”

Unlike the postal service, however, Harry only delivers for his close personal friends.  MGM’s CEO, Anderson Dairy’s CEO, R&R Advertising’s CEO, Arcata Engineering’s CEO.  The rest of Nevada? Not so much.

His final argument is that we’ll lose his awesome power.

And the logical retort is, “So what?”

The debate showed that Sharron isn’t nuts.  None of Harry’s so-called affirmative arguments are working.

What’s an aging political hack to do?

The other issue which Sharron finally brought up was the fact that in 24 years in the Senate he seems to have become wealthy.

He stuttered a bit and called that a “low blow”.  He pointed out that he was a “successful” lawyer and made good investments.

Well, Harry’s legal career was so short, we don’t know how good a lawyer he might have become but the way we see his biography, he was the Henderson City Attorney in the 60s and spent three years out of public office between 1974 and 1977.  So either he was Denny Crane of Crane, Pool and Schmidt for three years or he had a lot of friends.

As far as his “investments” go, I suggest you Google “Harry Reid Land Deal, 2006” and thoroughly read the results.

You will discover that not only was Sharron’s point not a low blow but that Reid is lucky that he hasn’t had to face a Federal Grand Jury over those very questions.

The truth is that Harry’s days as a political master of the universe are coming to a close.

People don’t like to have their elected officials screw them and that’s what Harry has spent a long time doing.

This is only partly about his liberal politics.

While that would be reason enough to 86 him from public office, this is about his arrogance in serving his friends and ignoring everyone else.

The Los Angeles Times looked at the relationship Reid has with Ely and reported he actually had the nerve to ask the fellow who runs the Ely Railroad—a tourist attraction owned by the city, “If I got the $10 million(to rehabilitate the tracks), could you take down half the signs in Ely?” He was referring, of course, to the “Anybody BUTT Harry Reid” signs which sprang up by the hundreds after he killed the coal-fired power plants there.

We’re not surprised.  And we won’t be surprised when we can call Angle, Senator Angle.

FRED WEINBERG

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