HellCare Is Dead
2009 September 16
Harry Reid bails out
From the Las Vegas Sun
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“He was guilty of nothing, except that he earned his own fortune and never forgot that it was his.“ The concept contained within that phrase is what has set America apart, and made her the greatest nation on Earth. And it is the systematic attack on that concept, that this website is dedicated to fighting. This website is NOT devoted to making people “wealthy”, but rather to fighting the notion that the “wealth” they DO have needs to be “redistributed”.
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[1]
He’s just holding out for more money.
[2]
D-E-A-D
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Call the undertaker
[4]
It’s not dead, it’s resting. As long as the Dems have 57 Senators and a house majority, it’s not dead.
Nothing is certain. It looks dead. But like amnesty, it will always be back.
Not dead.
[5]
I’ll make you the same deal I made EPH on the KYl amnesty proposal.
If they bury this abortion completely , I will gladly service helen thomas on the white house steps at high noon,and let you video tape it for you tube.
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Agree with RWY it’s not dead, nothing is ever dead with these people.
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Reid is just lying out of both sides of his mouth.
RedState has this: Harry Reid Plays Washington Two Step And Gets Caught
Reid is obviously hoping that no one in Nevada uses the internet or can figure out that he lies.
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Look at the differences:
vs.
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Dingy harry knows his days are numbered as majority leader, as he will be dumped from office next election.
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The SENATE MAJORITY LEADER took a dump on Barack Obama’s highest priority legislation
In public
D-E-A-D
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Dead as Ulysses S Grant’s grandfather
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Reid is pulling a Daschle. Old Tom got away with this all the time, and several other Red State Dems do too.
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It’s bloody not dead. They don’t need Reid, if they can snag 3 stupid Rs.
You’re mistaking it for being dead, when it’s only resting.
RESTING!
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Sen. Bill Nelson D-FL gets away with this all the time. Down homey accent, sounds like a common sense centrist, votes like a Kossack. And he SOMEHOW CANNOT BE BEATEN.
Bah.
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see post 5 ( they have waited 50 year for this crap, they won’t give up now.)
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That’s right, if you think the communists are going to pass up an opportunity to get ANYTHING THEY CAN, after 50 years of waiting, you are on crack.
They are wedded to this like W was to amnesty and open borders. They will pass it in the face of 90% opposition of the people. Just like W.
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W failed, didn’t he…???
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W didn’t have this large of vote margin in both houses.
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I want MFG to be right~~~but~~~
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I’m increasingly inclined to think MFG is right–but I’m not quite there yet!
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Well the pronouncement from Dingy Harry posses this question — was it intended for local consumption or national?
Personally I think he was trying to play to the hometown crowd. Las Vegas is way down on tourists, consequently the local economy is in the tank. So he was trying to prop up his numbers by pitching he is against the bill.
Just my guess…
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That’s right, INC. I am leaning dead, but not there yet.
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Don’t you all know, that by saying it’s dead, you are tempting fate?
I want to tempt it the other way via post 5.
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They don’t need reid to pass a “something”. 51 votes is all they need.
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So, who is going to give the republican response on the five Sunday morning shows Obama appropriated for his own use?
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“Reid is pulling a Daschle.”
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Heh, and we need to arrange for Reid the same fate that came Daschle’s way.
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Go Palin!!!!
Which begs the question, might we see a twitter anouncement on Friday?????
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Why Friday?
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IP727: “If they bury this abortion completely , I will gladly service helen thomas on the white house steps at high noon,and let you video tape it for you tube.”
You have now put us all in the awkward position of almost rooting for ObamaCare. Scary imagery!
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Reid is a little old, and the Internet too pervasive, to be able to pull this bullshit off.
He has two other major problems in trying to do this:
(1) he is the freaking Senate MAJORITY Leader…so HE controls the agenda. Bringing a Bill of this nature to the floor for passage under “Reconciliation” is gonna require the DIRECT involvement of the Senate MAJORITY Leader…aka Dingy Harry
(2) Harry serisouly pissed off the major newspaper in Las Vegas not long ago…and I don’t think they’re inclined to forgive him!
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KH, she launched the last missile before O was to deliver a speech. Now he is going to do the round of the Sunday shows this weekend. So what better time to provide the counter argument than say Friday Noon. All the chatter builds up on the blogs on Saturday. Then the only questions that get thrust at him are entreaties for rebuttal to what Palin said on Sunday. His message gets drowned out as a consequence.
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drdog…I sure hope she is as clever as you!
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Wow. I’ve been working on an emergency roof repair all day (what terrible work) and missed this news. Perhaps I should stay off the Internet more often so more good things can happen.
I realize that the bill isn’t quite dead, but it looks like Eph’s (and mine) prediction that there will be no Health Care bill is looking better by the hour.
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The Democrats realize they can let ObamaCare go for now. After all, some hapless Republican will scoop up their fumble and RUN WITH IT
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Deader than Elvis. Oh wait, Elvis is still alive living on an island with JFK and Jimmy Hoffa, but this bill is not.
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JR, I think SheWhoSkinsMoose has me beat by a mile. I will be surprised if she does not Facebook something before the weekend.
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mpt, my sympathy on the roof repair. I slung hot tar up a roof in buckets for a summer job once. Vowed never to do roofing ever again.
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Reid is just figuring he can make one announcement in Washington D.C. supporting it, and the other in Nevada OPPOSING it. His rationale is that by the time the Pony Express riders make it across the full width of the country (average 8 days) the voting will be over!
Poor Harry
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JR
If Reid was part of the Blue Dog “I’m a fake centrist” cabal, he might have had a chance in your scenario.
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From what I have read, it might not even make it out of the sub-committee. Rockefeller, Snowe and another democrat are opposed to it.
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Ive done 80 square on 2 roofs, in 2005, and 2006, and I am done roofing. It’s fun to shingle, but all the other work sucks. Making a mess in the yard, cleaning it up, hauling it off and dumping it, re-trimming the house, bulling (tarring) and all that is a drag.
Shingling is more fun, with a nailgun of course, but even that gets old after 3 days straight.
[42]
What are the latest numbers on Reid? Earlier this week I thought I saw numbers against him in the double digits.
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did exactly ONE roofing job in my life. while working as an apprentice glazer between my first two years of college.
Head boss man decided he wanted the entire warehouse roof re-tarred & papered. then re-graveled.
My job was to take every bit of the old gravel off…then strip the old paper where it was loose. then help the professional do the re-tar and re-paper. THEN I got to re-spread TONS of gravel.
Worst week of my life, work wise. Especially shoveling all the gravel into great big empty oil drums, and the fork-lifting it all down off the roof…then reversing the process.
I think I’ll go throw up just from the memories!
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mpt, my sympathy on the roof repair. I slung hot tar up a roof in buckets for a summer job once. Vowed never to do roofing ever again.
I did hot roof in Virginia when I was a teenager. Some creep hired us to go to Alexandria with him. He then wanted us to skip out on the hotel room. We didn’t cooperate. Then we slaved on the roof. I remember the a-hole foreman was on the ground operating the tar melter. I was on the roof filling a bucket with the tar and I spilled it on him down on the ground. That was not intended. When we got back to Va. Beach it took us a month or so of stalking the guy to get paid.
I remember walking around on that built up tar roof smelling that crap and mopping tar. My shoes were collecting that tar and debris on the soles and every hour or so it would build up so thick I felt I was on stilts. Id have to stop and chip it off.
To this day I can smell that tar a mile away if I encounter it and it takes me back there to that hell and makes me want to puke.
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BCL, yeah, the smell is pretty distinct.
Night all. Got an early day tomorrow.
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Thanks guys. We had an early rain in the Bay Area and my roof sprung a number leaks. Turns out a while back damn squirrels crawled up under the clay tiles and tore into and took the underlying tar paper — presumably to line their own nests. I decided to do the repair work myself to save several thousand dollars. The work isn’t technically hard, but man, it’s back breaking manual labor. Well, now I know why it would cost several thousand dollars
. Anyway, it’s giving me a chance to take care of other maintenance.
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Read all the comments on this thread and I tend to agree with yahoo, that HC is resting.
Reid’s comments just seemed too orchestrated to me, like he was pandering to Nevada, now that his numbers are tanking with both of the republican candidates opposing him in his reelection bid. It’s all about saving himself, at the moment. When he feels “safe” again he will go back to being the back-stabber that he is.
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mp
That rain you talked about was a hard rain above you on the North coast. I can see why your roof leaked.
Also, if you have a tile roof I think those are the hardest and most expensive to repair or replace.
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“If they bury this abortion completely , I will gladly service helen thomas on the white house steps at high noon,and let you video tape it for you tube.”
ROFLMAO !!!!
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When I was in college, my freshman year was less that stellar. Not flunking out, but mediocre straight C’s. The following summer got a job as a laborer working with a bunch a carpenters who were pretty tough on me. The job taught me some important lessons and when I went back to college I was able to apply myself so I graduated with high honors. Hard as the job was, it provided pretty good motivation to get my act together.
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Oh, Mike, dont say damn squirrels around us….my wife and I name our female squirrels (Isabel and Sophie) and cater to them all the year around. Now the boy squirrels are kind of scoundrels, just showing up for a date, a malt and maybe a quick hug. But we love our squirrels and their babies. I’ll put in a word with Isabel to tell those irresponsible San Francisco hippie dope smoking dirty squirrels to quit defacing your roof!
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“If they bury this abortion completely , I will gladly service helen thomas on the white house steps at high noon,and let you video tape it for you tube.”
To go easy on you, we’ll let you choose between Helen Thomas or Nancy Pelosi.
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Ip I want to know what service means exactly. Bring her a drink? Change her Depends? What?
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Also, I hate to say it, but I know some guys that would service a sock if that is all they had to choose from, so that is hardly a sacrifice.
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brucefdb, my kids asked me what will happen if the squirrels come back. I said two words: Squirrel Soup.
Actually, the damage occurred a few years ago and I had since put up mesh to keep them out. Unfortunately, I couldn’t see the damage they inflicted until I removed the tiles a few days ago. Those rascals can do a LOT of damage. As you suggest, they must be freeloading hippy Democrat squirrels.
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Yep, Mike, you got your freeloading dope smoking squirrels up there and here in Fullerton we have responsible, self sufficient squirrels. Just another lesson in conservative vs liberal values.
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Harry thinks that saving his stinking job is much more important that saving Obama’s scrawny rear on socialized medicine – a pathetic ploy but all he’s got left.
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Just wanted to say thanks to all of you who commented about Swayze’s role in Red Dawn. Enjoy
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Wow they got the whole movie up? Nice.
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-hotair:
According to reliable sources, Obama administration officials are on their way to Poland and the Czech Republic to deliver very bad news. The administration intends to cancel completely the missile defense sites that had been promised to these governments by the previous administration. This represents a complete capitulation to Russia’s Vladimir Putin, who had demanded that the proposed deployments be halted as a price for improved relations. Ironically, the Obama administration, which is appeasing Russia in the hopes that Moscow will help put pressure on Iran, has made this mammoth concession just a few days after Moscow declared that it had no intention of supporting sanctions against Iran.
Nice huh… wonder what fun will be in store next summer.
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This is terrible news. Just terrible–what a foolish and also merciless man Obama is.