Harry Reid issues a statement.
Meanwhile Reid haters remain unable to piont out a single thing that Reid actually did wrong. In related news, water is wet.
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Harry Reid issues a statement.
Meanwhile Reid haters remain unable to piont out a single thing that Reid actually did wrong. In related news, water is wet.
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Rusty Shackleford
Give ’em hell, Harry!
Oh, and…
DA BEARS!
The Other Steve
But Harry Reid made money!
It’s not right that Democrats make money! They should be dirt poor.
Rudi
Weldon’s daughters house raided by FBI LOL.
Tsulagi
Damn, after Karl’s promise to take off the gloves and come out flinging shit barehanded, I was looking forward to some action. This thing with Reid is it? Fully disclosing property he owns, but his assault on the republic took place by not labeling it correctly?
Karl, you’re not just looking a little limp, you’re embarrassingly dribbling blanks down your pants. But never disappointing, the base summons their outrage for the fight. Gotta thank Karl and his pods for the laughs. They just keep on coming.
ThymeZone
Once again the Demon-crats cling to power despite their criminal behavior.
It’s time to restore honor and dignity to government.
Davebo
Obviously operation Able Danger has let down Mr. Weldon yet again.
Maybe he should consider daily sessions with Ms. Cleo?
Steve
Renowned conservative thinker Captain Ed has an op-ed in the New York Post about the Reid land deal.
This is his best chance to make a good case that Reid did something bad. So what does he do? The first two paragraphs briefly summarize the nature of the issue – at which point he says “this isn’t the first time questions have been raised about Harry Reid,” and spends the rest of the op-ed rehashing a bunch of old stuff!
If there’s any substance at all to the newest “scandal,” conservatives sure are doing their best to make sure it never comes to light.
Perry Como
If you only knew. This is FBI payback for Able Danger. The FBI is after Weldon’s family because he exposed their incompetence.
The Other Steve
I think they know there isn’t much substance there.
What they’re doing now is sowing Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt.
They’re all out of ideas, the only thing they have left to hold onto power is FUD.
Steve
Some of them know, I guess. Do you think, say, scs knows?
ThymeZone
She’s busy looking for that erstwhile Nevada law that will put Reid behind bars where he belongs.
Vladi G
She’s still trying to figure out who Bob Arum is. And she’s still looking for an article that quotes an “anonymous promoter”.
Pb
Oh well, I might as well drop one last Reid link, what can it hurt…
Perry Como
If anyone can get some torches, I have the pitchforks. We should storm the Reid castle for this gross clerical oversight.
Jess
Have you guys been reading the latest from Doonesbury? Check it out, especially Sunday’s. Hilarious, in a sad, twisted sort of way.
Sherard
The irony here is at record levels. Democrat – nothing to see, there is nothing there, just ASK Harry. Republican – crooks – must make long rant after long rant. What ? Harry Reid ? He said there’s nothing there.
Hysterical.
ThymeZone
I’m now convinced that she is a Sasha Baron Cohen character.
lard lad
Sherard, if Reid is guilty of ANY damn thing, let’s hear about it, for fuck’s sake… seriously, if you guys can’t do any better than “well, he’s corrupt, and everyone knows it,” you should just fold up your indignation and go home.
Hell, I saw a right-wing generated list of Demo “scandals” recently, designed to enable the base to fondle their moral outrage into a reasonably firm stiffy…
Scandal #1: Jefferson.
Scandal #2: McGreevey.
Scandal #3: Harry Reid’s boxing tickets.
I stopped reading after that… laughing too hard.
DwightKSchrute
Meanwhile Captain Call Center has conveniently ignored Hastert’s real estate shenanigans. Let’s recap:
Dennis Hastert used an Illinois trust to invest in real estate, secured $207 million in earmarked appropriations for a a highway project near that real estate, made no mention of the trust on his financial disclosures, did not take the extra steps called for in the House Ethics Manual and volunteer that he held land in a secret land trust, and then turned about a $1.8 million profit in less than two years.
What’s the saying, those in glass ships…
Pb
Yep–and each one about a different crook, at that. Often one who has pled guilty, or is at least actually under investigation…
And can you honestly refute that? I don’t think John Solomon has been able to either, but it’s not for lack of trying…
Pb
LOL… I just saw Scarborough come on… “another day, another Republican investigation”, talking about Curt Weldon’s daughter and her lobbying firm, etc. :)
Pooh
He denied it…which of course proves that he did it. Duh…
HH
Right, those “Reid haters” at the AJC, Washington Post and Philadelphia Inquirer.
demimondian
Hey, Hewitt! I really love the fact that Harry Reid is guilty of not misfiling his taxes. That’s a great catch, you know — that he filed his property taxes in spite of no longer owning the land he was going to make a suspicious profit on.
That’s real thinking for you. Harry Reid, master criminal — hid hyis ownership in a plot of land so that he could pay taxes on it, and pay taxes when it was sold, and pay all sorts of other useful levees. A less smart crook would have tried to make a profit off of his deception, but Reid…no, not him. He didn’t try to make any money, didn’t try to evade any taxes, didn’t even try to pretend to not owning the land in question. Wow!
HH
“Senate Democratic leader Harry Reid has been using campaign donations instead of his personal money to pay Christmas bonuses for the support staff at the Ritz-Carlton where he lives in an upscale condominium. Federal election law bars candidates from converting political donations for personal use.” – AP
I think I saw the word “law” in there somewhere.
demimondian
Gosh, Hewitt, and do you know, that criminal mastermind Reid — he released that fact himself this morning! Wow! What a crook! Gets an opinion from the Senate Ethics committee that he can spend the money in question, and still writes a check to his own campaign committee, just so that the Republican dead-enders can make an issue of the redirection.
What a criminal mastermind, eh? You’ve got to admire the man’s tenacity in his criminal enterprises, don’t you?
Pb
He must be, he’s at least two steps ahead of HH here!
demimondian
I can only stand in awe of the criminal brilliance of Harry Reid, and of the steadfast tenacity, not to mention perspicacity, which the GOP has brought to finding these criminal acts.
Steve
This is major, major stuff you guys keep turning up. Kudos on conclusively proving that both sides are equally corrupt.
Jess
Oooh, nice! I think I’m going to steal that one…
lard lad
Take my advice: if you do, wear rubber gloves. There’s no telling what you might catch.
Andrew
Indeed. If we can’t take down a politico based on his Christmas bonuses to the service staff (heck, they’re probably illegals), then I don’t see how we can fairly accuse a politician of earmarking federal highway funds to boost the value of his otherwise remote property.
Peas in the pod, really.
John D.
Who cares what he said?
I distrust statements. I’d rather follow the records. I can’t find where Harry Reid did anything other than pay taxes on this property, so from the IRS’ viewpoint, he had ownership. Doesn’t seem like he tried to hide his ownership, he filed the disclosure forms. Oh, here’s a problem — he failed to change the disclosure to represent it now being owned by a LLC he owned.
Look up “flow through taxation”. All profits, losses and expenses flow through to the respective members as if they were personal holdings. This is the major advantage of a LLC — you don’t get corporate and individual taxation. Yet he paid said taxes, how curious for someone you think has something to hide.
Explain to me what scandal there is in a mistake of this nature, please.
Tulkinghorn
Here is the scandal (not Reid, but the AP):
The fact that this slob is making a living as a journalist is the real scandal.
Pb
Tulkinghorn,
Thanks for the tip–it’s nice to know where the crazy is coming from…
DougJ
Clinton made more on Whitewater. And Hastert didn’t have to kill anybody to make his money. Clinton was worse.
J Bean
Uh Doug, the Clintons lost money on Whitewater. $15K or something which must have been quite a hit for a young couple just starting out. Hillary was probably making a pretty decent salary as a lawyer, but Bill was a law professor with political aspirations at the time and probably wasn’t really making that much. Heck, I’d be sick if I lost that kind of money today.
Despite what Republicans claim, it really isn’t illegal for Democrats to invest money. The Clintons were absolved of all wrong-doing in Whitewater by the Pillsbury Commission, the first special prosecutor, the second special prosecutor (hint: last name rhymes with “Starr”), and the third special prosecutor. They also hired a forensic accountant on their own nickel to make sure they had done nothing wrong.
Aaron
Sorry to late post, but I had to set the record straight.
HH said:
“Senate Democratic leader Harry Reid has been using campaign donations instead of his personal money to pay Christmas bonuses for the support staff at the Ritz-Carlton where he lives in an upscale condominium. Federal election law bars candidates from converting political donations for personal use.” – AP
I believe he explained that his political activities resulted in extra work for the staff, so he compensated them from his campaign. he also said he reconsidered and would recompense the campaign fund with his own personal money.