1 For once, I'm hoping that Dingy will be as obstinate and nasty as he usually is, and run for re-election.

2 I'm hoping Harry has to be dragged out, after a few tazings.

3 Steele wants Reid to quit as Majority Leader, not quit the Senate or drop out of the race.

4 I cant WAIT for Sue Lowden to kick this turds axx

and if every frakker who conspired to push HRC out winds up resigning because they are dragged down by either their own ill actions, karma, or attachment to Teh One, I will still be happy, anf there is STILL awesome chances for the GOP NO ONE will reelect their DEM Critters except the koolaid drinkers

ALL of us even those who do not follow closely see they are out of control and need to be stopped
ALL of us want a deadlock
ALL of us who arent mainlining obot juice are gonna vote GOP

hubby this morning told me he is voting down the ticket for the GOP, he was not an HRC supporter like myself, he is a 26 yr Dem and he is pixxed as hell

Gramnehsty and MAC are SOL too, I think we all know their ads are BS and they will not FIGHT

I hope I get to go to the TeaPartyConvention, am hoping they will welcome recovering Dems, millions of us are waiting for leadership

5 Like I said: this little story came out because someone in the Dem party wants Reid out so that someone can come in and, potentially, save the day.

6 and I want Harold Ford to kick axx too! Let Chuckie lose camera time to Harold a DLC, gasp, candidate who has all those maahhhvelous attributed Harry likes so much, lol...

frakkers

PS Just gave to Sue Lowden if ANYONE will run against Schumer I will give them money too, I dont have much money right now but I put it where my mouth is!

GIVE TO SUE LOWDEN HERE

7 So are you saying that this is a poorly timed attempt to force Reid to step aside ala Dodd?

And have you seen Sue Lowden?  She seems to be a charismatic, appealing and hawt candidate, if you ask me.  Nobody did, but that's what I'd say if they did.

8 I'll clear my schedule for some TV appearances.

9 you know, this is how I maxed out to HRC on my middle class income, lol

everytime the frakkers did something I donated and wound up maxed out

donate donate donate!

and to Scott

10 you know, this is how I maxed out to HRC on my middle class income, lol

everytime the frakkers did something I donated and wound up maxed out

donate donate donate!

and to Scott Brown too!

11 What #5 said.  But I like Steele for his statement.   Can't wait to hear Rush tomorrow.  Heehee

12 sorry for double posting, lol

you should have donation threads!! we used to do that and raised lots of dough for HRC when these ubertoolz did as they do and were revealed as the frakkers they are

giving to Brown now....

Lowden: Thank you for your generous contribution of 10.00 to my campaign. I appreciate your support and you have my word that I will fight hard throughout this campaign to gain the support of others. Please see our campaign web video, our blog and regularly updated campaign news. And again, thank you for your support.

Your confirmation number is VREE4DD9A787 and please note your contribution will be listed as eDonation on your statement.

13 Harry Reid has a laundry list of reasons for why he should resign the leadership position in the Senate. I mean go ahead and tattoo him with closet bigot......but come on, I bet he has said worse about many. He sounds like a calculating, manipulating, political hack, and I didn't need to read about his coarse analysis of our current President's odds on winning, to come to that conclusion.

14 I'm thinking about doing Joy Behar in blackface, and I might even appear on her show.

15 This would be the once per week that Steele actually does something right.  He needs to get that average up to five or six, right now.

16 How conservative is Nevada? would a non-incumbent Dem have a chance if Dorian Gray's coat rack dropped out?

17 Good point Boss. Reid is dead weight. What a sensation this "Game Change" has been, and timely. Is there another example of campaign "dish"? I would like to study it's impact.

18 All the big Dem names are already running for Nevada Gov so if Pinky drops out  I'm not sure if they could switch to running for Senator or not. As for being a Conservative state, we used to be but now the legislature is controlled by lib dems and we are embracing the suck almost as much as California.

19

Harry Reid has a laundry list of reasons for why he should resign the leadership position in the Senate. I mean go ahead and tattoo him with closet bigot......but come on, I bet he has said worse about many. He sounds like a calculating, manipulating, political hack, and I didn't need to read about his coarse analysis of our current President's odds on winning, to come to that conclusion.

The war is lost. _{(but I support the troops)}

20 None of this makes any sense. I'm still hung over from that Valu-Rite enema last night.

21 Every liberal democrat I know is telling me that these politicians who are democrats are "stepping aside for the sake of the party" since they know they can't win and allowing the party to put up someone who is a democrat who can win.  They are saying this is a good strategy and the right thing to do.  They feel americans have short memories, are not anti democrat but anti specific candidate and that they will elect dems rather than republicans in these seats that incumbents are "retiring" from.   Might work after all the libs/dems think the American people believe what they want them to believe and don't really question anymore and well are basically easily led and stupid.  Really, based on recent history do you blame them for believing this?

22

"What is going to happen, I fear, is that he will step aside, and that means there's a chance a charismatic, appealing candidate without so much baggage will replace him."

I want Reid on the ballot too. I'd like to see him lose 30%-70%, a sincere and very final "Thank YOU" from the Nevada voters.

But if Reid steps down, what new Democratic charismatic and appealing candidate would want to replace him now?

Keep in mind the current revelations about Bill Clinton and John Edwards. Now, figure the odds that any charismatic and appealing Democratic candidate would have no ties whatsoever to Reid or Clinton (never worked for either man, never partied with them, etc.).

The worst is yet to come. Stay tuned. Same Bat-time, same Bat-Channel.

Tarring the replacement as "Harry Reid Lite" would be easy, and he'd have to either support ObamaCare, C&T, etc. (an immediate support level of ~35%), or he'd have to find a way to distance himself from those steaming piles ...... how? By voting against them?

How about voting "Present"? Finding some sort of middle ground would be a titanic mistake; he'd look weaker than Carter and poll at what, 5% positive?

I don't see any sane, capable Democratic candidate stepping in for what Harry left, and I think the Nevada Democrats realize this.

23 Chris Wallace sure hammered Tim Keane on this on Fox News Sunday.  And Michael Steele pounded him too.

It's sweet to see the dems' hypocrisy being brought to the light. 

24 For all the opportunities he's missed, this one is a bit like guilding the lily.

"He (Steele) also lashed out at Republican critics, telling them to either "fire me" or "shut up."

I'm not shutting up.  You're fired.

25

Report: Health costs up slightly under Senate bill

[eruhs and ums omitted for brevity]

First, by now everyone except 52%'ers knows that "slightly" is measured in trillions. Second, I won't sign this bill (on C-SPAN).

"Not one dime" was my pledge, and you can take that to the Bank (before the Bank goes belly up and/or 50% inflation kicks in)!

26

It's sweet to see the dems' hypocrisy being brought to the light. 

A far better example, which can be documented, is the fact that MSM virtually names only Republicans' party affilliation in negative articles.

We all need to call them out on this.

 

27 """I can't believe that the New Jersey courts allowed a swap of Lautenberg for scandal-rocked Torricelli in the closing moments of the Senate campaign, what, four years ago? Six?""


You mean the state where a judge a few years back had said "The constitution means nothing here, "I" am the law".

You mean that state?

28

Man, that Little Negro plays a mean Jews Harp!

What?  The Jews love a good harmonica solo...

29

Look, if Oliver Stone can put Hitler "in context," I guess I should say this much:

Harry Reid has an A+ rating from the NRA. Despite his many failings, he has probably quietly killed any number of anti-gun initiatives before they could see the light of day. In that one single respect, he's a conservative Democrat.

No "attractive" Dem candidate air-dropped from out of state will be pro-gun.

There. I said something nice about him. That's all I got.

30 Setting aside MSM and political bias for a moment, the silliness of this scandal is that Harry spoke the absolute, clinical truth.

31 It's his magic underwear I want to see. Look, if they can pull the Mormon card on Romney, pull it on Reid. What's so damning, IRL, is that Reid apologized for his racist remark... proving thereby that he in fact did say it.

32

Like I said: this little story came out because someone in the Dem party wants Reid out so that someone can come in and, potentially, save the day.

Like YOU said??!

33 guilding gilding the lily

34 Come on, guys. There's room in my tent for everyone. Even you pesky teabaggers.

35 pesky "u" Mr. Safire.  :-)

36 For once Steele's appearance wasn't cringe-worthy _{(but I still want him gone)}.  I took great delight in seeing my outgoing governor appear barf-readyss when asked repeatedly tough questions that he had no answers for.  Remember, this is yet another example of brilliance rising to the top.  Tim Kane was immortalized by Rush when he played the clip of Rush saying that Delaware bordered Virginia _{on the pick of Joe Biden.}

37

IT'S DAMN COLD -- ALMOST EVERYWHERE!!!

 

 

 

Ever been drunk in Iowa's port cities?

38 I think Ace forgot to feed the server hamsters.

39 15 This would be the once per week that Steele actually does something right.  He needs to get that average up to five or six, right now.

Posted by: Hatchet Five

Yeah, Steele's metrics are still near the broken-level of competence.

40 "Broken-clock level"

41 This thing is about to break isn't it.

42

It's his magic underwear I want to see.

Mock them all you like, but you have to admit that they're working -- he's bulletproof!

43 It's working fine here, and I'm in the middle of a monthly virus scan.

44


I agree. Reid should be tossed out on his ass with Steele right behind him.

45 3 Steele wants Reid to quit as Majority Leader, not quit the Senate or drop out of the race.

Posted by: eman at January 10, 2010 01:31 PM (bghs4)

He hasn't stepped down only because he wants to be Majority Leader.  "Spending time with the family" notwithstanding, if he drops out, it will be because everybody knows he's toast in his re-election.  As a lame duck, he's powerless.

If he steps down as Majority Leader, he'll announce he won't run for re-election.

Nevada will elect a Republican in 2010, don't worry about a parachuted candidate.

Everybody knows the dance here: Obama will defend Reid and Steele punches at Reid, weakening and undermining him.  Reid will stay in place and the media will lamely attempt to defend him.

46 Yeah that Lautenberg thing still frosts my ass, but there's no hope for curtailing such corruption as long as the local voters insist on patting themselves on the back for being "sophisticated" enough to look the other way.

See also, Chicago.

47 I'd be more impressed with Steele yelling at Democrats if the GPO wasn't so busy trying to shove them down our throats as GOP candidates...

48 If any Moron wants a good laugh (and can stand the site) head over to Kos and read the Kids spin Reid's comments; funny, yet predictable!

49 While I'm delighted for the opportunity to serve this tired racist sauce to the statemongering ganders, I believe the vapors are over using the legitimate word "Negro." Really on a par with "Caucasian" in technical accuracy, but somehow has become weirdly offensive through disuse. Some young peeps might truly believe that IS the "n-word." Cordially...

50
If any Moron wants a good laugh (and can stand the site) head over to Kos and read the Kids spin Reid's comments; funny, yet predictable!

Posted by: billygoat at January 10, 2010 03:01 PM (fh7Kf)

If you want an even bigger laugh, head on over to Pandagon and read Aman-duh Marcotte's take on this. You'll lose thirty I.Q. points just by reading it.

51 True, Reid is now a very weak candidate individually - probably weaker then anyone else the Democrats might choose - however, as Senate majority leader, every negative against him hurts Democrats as a whole. So, for example, with no Obama on the ballot and the face of the Democrat party being a corrupt racist, some independents might be swayed to vote for a Republican to make sure that the likes of Reid are swept out of office. It also helps against the Democrats' perennial accusation that opposition to their agenda is tantamount to racism.

52 Yeah that Lautenberg thing still frosts my ass, but there's no hope for curtailing such corruption as long as the local voters insist on patting themselves on the back for being "sophisticated" enough to look the other way.

See also, Chicago.

Posted by: Michael Steele at January 10, 2010 02:56 PM (LIH4p)

That's actually not true. I don't think it is a fight the Republicans could win...but imagine 6 months of investigations of all the dirty dealing that went on around that manuever and the Torch's crinminality. If we made the Democrats pay that kind of price every time they pulled something like this they would probably cut back.

53

So, we now endorse the racial gotcha game?

I thought our side frowned on that shit. This doesn't seem consistant.

54 Lautenberg was in 2002, so 7 - 8 years ago. I'm with you. I want Harry on the ballot in November. While I'm not all that worried about the Dems finding a better candidate to replace him, I think having him on the ballot will hurt all teh other Democrats on the ballot.

55 Look, if they can pull the Mormon card on Romney, pull it on Reid. What's so damning, IRL, is that Reid apologized for his racist remark... proving thereby that he in fact did say it.

Posted by: George Orwell at January 10, 2010 02:18 PM (AZGON)

Making fun of someone's religious believes is unpolitically correct and wrong. Oh, he is a Mormon. Hehe...that's funny! But seriously, we should be throwing those people in jail, besides the good Mormons, like Reid.

56 Come on, guys. There's room in my tent for everyone. Even you pesky teabaggers.

Posted by: Michael Steele at January 10, 2010 02:25 PM (554T5)

Hehe. You said teabagger. Giggle. I'm such a serious journalist.

57

I don't understand how Harry Reid stays in the good graces of his church considerinng all he does in terms of promoting abortion. There are alot of Mormons in Nevada. Mormons are traditionally politically conservative.  Does anyone understand this?  Does the church just let him slide?  His views are in direct conflict church doctorine.

58 ...SmallTownGirl

59 53

So, we now endorse the racial gotcha game?

I thought our side frowned on that shit. This doesn't seem consistant.

This isn't a "gotcha" in the sense that Lott's was. Lott was just saying something everyone in the room knew he didn't believe in the name of generosity to a senile old coot on his birthday.

What was most damning to me about Kaine on FNS was he said Reid's comments were OK because they were in the context of "praising" Obama. Praising him for what? Being acceptable to white America? Reid is essentially saying that a dark-skinned, "Negro-dialected" candidate can't win. He displayed a cynical attitude not only about most white Americans, but about Obama himself as a candidate who can turn his blackness on and off like a switch for political advantage.

Reid got caught playing the same kind of race politics that led Clinton to compare Obama's SC primary win to Jesse Jackson's. It's the prism they see everything though, so in that sense it is a "gotcha" moment.

60 For fun, the liberal quote starter set. Feel free to add, I know there are many more:

"I am frankly insulted that the Obama campaign would imply that we are so stupid that we would think Hillary and Bill Clinton, who have been deeply and emotionally involved in black issues since Barack Obama was doing something in the neighborhood –­ and I won’t say what he was doing, but he said it in the book –­ when they have been involved.”

Moments later, he added: “That kind of campaign behavior does not resonate with me, for a guy who says, ‘I want to be a reasonable, likable, Sidney Poitier ‘Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner.’ And I’m thinking, I’m thinking to myself, this ain’t a movie, Sidney. This is real life.”

-- Bob Johnson, BET Founder, Charlotte Bobcats owner, Hillary Clinton backer

"He's the first mainstream African-American who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy."

-- Vice President Joe Biden

"Obama's mother is of white U.S. stock. His father is a black Kenyan."

-- Stanley Crouch, New York Daily News column entitled "What Obama Isn't: Black Like Me"

"Black, in our political and social vocabulary, means those descended from West African slaves."

-- Debra Dickerson on the liberal website Salon.

"Jesse Jackson won South Carolina in '84 and '88. Jackson ran a good campaign. And Obama ran a good campaign here."

-- Bill Clinton

"I think that they played the race card on me. And we now know, from memos from the campaign and everything that they planned to do it all along."

-- Bill Clinton

"[Ghandi] ran a gas station down in St. Louis."

-- Hillary Clinton

"You cannot go to a 7-Eleven or a Dunkin' Donuts unless you have a slight Indian accent. I'm not joking."

-- Vice President Joe Biden

"There are white n*ggers. I've seen a lot of white n*ggers in my time. I'm going to use that word."

-- Former Democratic majority leader Robert Byrd, one-time grand poobah of the KKK

"I want to cut his nuts off."

-- Jesse Jackson Sr.

61

"So, we now endorse the racial gotcha game?"

I see it as a pushback - an attempt to expose the double standards and hypocrisy of the Dims and the MSM.  Hoped for result - their race baiting is exposed, and somewhat neutered (at least among Independents).

62 Just in the interest of clarity (and Grammar Nazification) I think you meant "whup" up there. I do think the Dems and MSM would like to "whoop" it up for Reid, but they wouldn't want to "whup" on him.
And being from Texas we know what "whup" means.

63 Look, Harry Reid is an idiot and unfit for service in the US Senate. As proof he regularly says some stupid and idiotic shit. This is not one of those. We are not the party of ethnic grievance gotcha. Ethnic grievance gotcha need to end. No more macaca. If we are very, very lucky this will be an important moment in the ending of this PC affliction upon our republic. Harry Reid told the fucking truth in clear if dated language. He was speaking without malicious intent or effect. Macaca must stop. For every one time it afflicts a Lib it is used against us dozens of times. We need to use this instance to help negate this thin-skinned cult of PC. Let's set our sights further down the road and aim for larger and more powerful game than this already wounded dinosaur. Taking the power out of PC outrage is a move that will pay off every day for the rest of our politically active lives. Reid is already toast. Playing this very weak version of the race card doesn't harm him but does increase the power of the race card.

64 @63 Posted by: Ronsonic at January 10, 2010 04:47 PM (XiQgY)


+1

65

This is why I can no longer be a Republican.  It's the game playing.  Instead of focusing on actual issues, the Republican 'leader' is picking at words somebody uses, playing the 'political incorrectness' card.  It's immature, a waste of time, makes him look stupid, and right out of the liberal playbook. 

I guess it's just my age.  I remember when we had free speech.  People could say stuff.  Now if we say stuff, we get forced out of our jobs.  What ever happen to 'sticks and stones'?  What happened to having a different opinion?  In this case, Reid was right.  What does it matter what words he used?

Isn't there anything more important Steele can spend some time on?

66 The sooner blacks realize they've been played for fools by Democraps, the better. In the eyes of Reid, Biden, etc., Obama is an affirmative action hire whose race is more important than his qualifications. This is not just how they see Obama, but blacks in general - inferior.

This is as good an opening as any to drive that point home.

67 While it is nice to hear Steele to show a little testicular fortitude for a change.  He could've used this as a teachable moment for the American people and the MSM  by agreeing that Reid meant nothing by it and then laying out a list of all the Republicans that have been wrongly skewered for the same thing over the years.  Expose the double standard on the national media while they feel they have no choice but to cover you.

68 Hell, the DemocRATS put the antichrist on the ballot and they STILL One^tm. It's hopeless, but I'll still vote.

69

Reid got caught playing the same kind of race politics that led Clinton to compare Obama's SC primary win to Jesse Jackson's. It's the prism they see everything though, so in that sense it is a "gotcha" moment.

I disagree just dandy. This came down to one word: Negro.

No one disagrees that Obama's mainstream speech pattern helps win broad appeal. This was a cheap gotcha stunt that we are supposed to be opposing. Because they'll use it on us soon enough.

70

It's immature, a waste of time, makes him look stupid, and right out of the liberal playbook. 

Bingo.

71 Have Ann Coulter and Dick Cheney call upon Democrats to do "the right thing" and have everyone else tone it down.  Democrats will rally around the sinkhole.

72

re: Ronsonic #63,

Well said. The incident needs to be highlighted and emphasized, but in a "teaching moment" kind of way.

The race and political correctness cards are used against conservatives and Republicans 99 times out of 100. Pound him with it and emphasize the comment, but also emphasize that conservatives try to stay above racial and political correctness games, UNLIKE THE DEMOCRATS.

 

 

73 I was just saying that I could understand Obama...unlike many of the other negroes.

74 Steele shold shut the hell up. Harry Reid has eleven months in office. Throw him out now, as leader of the senate, and you will get Dick Turbin. A complete and utter asshole, even worse than Harry. Just let it go. Bye the way, I live in Vegas, and if Harry drops out, he throws his huge 'war chest' to Jim Gibson, another idiot, who might beat Sue Lowden. Hanf in there Harry