i do more than my share of dem bashing, too much in fact.
powerful democratic senator harry reid(nev) is in the political fight of his life, to maintain his senate seat.
there is much negative that could be said about harry reid, the worst being that he is a lifetime politician whohas ben on the government dole his entire adult life, and that he has enriched himself famously through those connections.
i've been watching what harry reid has done in the senate, not necessarily what he has said.
harry reid has lived up to the promises that he made to his constituents. after all, all politics is ultimately local politics.
pretty much every major candidate in this country has half the people liking them and the other half hating them.
senator reid is now facing the people who hate him.
senator reid is now the most powerful figure in the senate, and perhaps, congress. if he has a successor, they will not be the most powerful senator. they will be a newby on the back bench, with all the power of a newby.
if the senate stays democratic, reid will remain in his powerful position.
with a new senator, tiny sparsely populated nevada and nevadans will go to the back of the favors bus.
should reid falter, the likely senate democratic heads will be sen. charlie schumer from n.y. or dick durbin from populus illinois. whoever they are, they wont even be able to spell nevada.
locally, you see, candidates do make a difference.
i have many many questions about health care reform, but it will be modified as time goes along.
there would be no health care change bill whatsoever without harry reid. sen. reid is the one who made health care happen in congress.
some basic reforms were needed, in my opinion--outrageous costs and fees, pre-existing conditions, children, transportability--insurance companies needed to stop abandoning people.
do you remember sen. reid making the comment that the iraq war was lost? i do.
he was politically opposed to bush and his policies, but do you remember what he did after that statement?
as the leader of the u.s. senate, he made sure that the funding for our soldiers continued at the level requested by bush with no cuts.
secondly, reid was in the group that added the troops for the highly successful bush surge in iraq.
WHAT DID HE DO, RATHER THAN WHAT HE SAID?
the fact is that he did it, was counted, and got it done. when push came to shove, sen. reid stood up and was counted.
do you remember the earthquake in haiti when people were starving and dying on the ground?
top scientists around the country tried to contact oficials at the white house and in d.c.
the white house could have cared less. they wanted NOTHING to with dropping food to the starving.
the only 2 senior officials who responded and tried to do something were sen. feinstein's staff and sen. reid's staff, and harry reid assigned a top staff member to go after that issue for a month.
she did everything that she could, trying to get the pentagon to reverse their decision.
nobody else did anything.
the folks in nevada, who dont have have nuclear power plants, didnt want nuclear waste stored in one of their mountains.
perhaps abandoning the mountain nuclear dumping ground from other states was a bad idea.
reid, saw to it that the national nuclear waste mountain was,and will never be developed, which cost his state thousands of jobs.
fortunately, our nuclear plants have offered a different approach. the latest analysis by the department of energy is that local storage will continue for the next 50 years.
there is much bad, and much good to say about sen. reid, but, in the heat of a bitter election campaign, please give him his due.
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