Pulling Harry's Head Out

Harry Reid (D-George Bush's Fault!) is whining again. Now, his scowling tantrums really aren't any more surprising than finding out one of the Spears sisters is knocked up but there was one little moment in a recent interview that made it appear as if Reid had decided to end the year by thinking for the first time since coming to power. 

In an interview with The Online News Hour Reid kind of/sort of admitted that the surge in Iraq was working. This is significant because Reid has thus far proven himself to be the most fact-resistant politician in America. He's so unfamiliar with the obvious that one can easily imagine him standing at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean and saying "It's not wet at all down here."

Of course, Reid didn't exactly give a ringing endorsement of the surge saying, "it certainly hasn't hurt. It's helped. I recognize that." Then, as if he feared an allergic reaction to saying something positive about the United States Reid went right back into his psychotically disconnected diatribe mode. 

Harry Reid suffers from a vocabulary problem. He seems to understand the words "Senate" and "Majority" in his title but is completely confounded by the word "Leader". If you follow "Leader" with "by example" he gets all kinds of perplexed.

The man has proven adept at nothing more than blaming Republicans for everything. He probably sees a GOP conspiracy when he runs out of toilet paper at home. He spends much of the rest of this interview doing the Democrat Dance of Irony in which be blames Republicans for everything but the Peloponnesian War then says the only way to get things done is in a bipartisan manner. Naturally, "bipartisan" means "Republicans caving into every lunatic socialist idea we have..." in this case. 

Honesty is another hallmark most people like in their leaders. In this interview, Reid flat-out lies about what President Bush thinks about global warming. 

Harry Reid suffers from the same confusion that the other Democratic leaders do in that he confuses "the American People" with "my Democratic supporters".  They speak with an authority about what the American people want while almost half of said people are sitting here screaming "Shut up!"

As with every other interview I've seen with not-so-honest Harry, he seems to keep pulling things out of his ass to support his twisted fantasy of what the American public wants to hear. The only thing he never pulls out of there is his head. 

I don't think that's a very good look for a leader.

Little Harry Climbs The Monkey Bars

Desperate to accomplish something before Toto pulled the curtain back and exposed him, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Sourpuss) finally scored a victory. The Dems are angry that President Bush has used recess appointments to circumvent their chronic obstructionism. Most of their pique has to do with the fact that recess appointments illustrate that it's easier to move the country forward when the senators are home getting spa treatments. One could almost make the case for an amendment requiring them to be on vacation all year. I'm sure they'd get used to an extra three weeks off.

It's important to note that, with the Senate floor all to themselves (himself, actually, since Jim Webb (D-Boorish) was the only senator there), the Democrats skipped the prayer and the Pledge.

No prayer, no Pledge of Allegiance, no chance for anyone to speak up against them...that's like a trip to Disneyland for this Democratic majority.

Cross posted at Real Clear Politics (Vote for it!)

The Chuckhouse Gas Effect

The week is winding down and the weirdness of it is just beginning to settle in. Elizabeth Edwards said that she's willing to give up tangerines to fight global warming, no doubt inspiring millions of children to offer the same kind of "help" by avoiding broccoli. My greatest fear of the week was that I'd be left with the lingering uneasiness brought on by her husband John saying "The biggest problem right now is that my butt hurts," after a bike ride with Lance Armstrong. Soon after that Edwards shouted to a group of supporters "They want to shut me up!" Well, yeah, if you're going to keep talking about your butt.

By the time Friday came I was worn out by the endless election cycle and thought that I might just lay off of national politics for the day.

Then Chuck Schumer opened his mouth. OK, I'm not sure that his mouth is ever closed but sometimes it makes more noise than at others. In fact, I think the climate commies might want to start looking at a correlation between rising temperatures and Schumer press conferences. They like to point to 1998 as being one of the hottest years in the last 1000. Guess who was running around campaigning for his first Senate term all that year? As Al Gore would say, "The debate is over."

This week's petulant offering from the perpetually aggrieved Schumer had to do with judicial nominees. Whining like a spurned sorority girl, Schumer said that he and his colleagues were "duped" by the charm of John Roberts and the erudition of Samuel Alito during the confirmation process. "Why, those sweet talkin' smarty pants boys just had me all atwitter and I simply couldn't think straight!" Terrified of falling prey to personality and intelligence again, Chucky has threatened to block any future nominees President Bush might put forth. (Quick aside: when Bill Clinton was in office Schumer couldn't shut up about Republicans allegedly stonewalling judicial nominees. Chucky is so two-faced on this that one could stand on either side of him and look him directly in the eyes.)

You might ask yourself, "What prompted the good Senator to address this now? Did I miss some news about a retiring Supreme Court justice while suffering from tangerine withdrawal?" No. What happened was that Senator Windbag realized he hadn't gotten any quality face time for a while. The U.S. Senate is the largest collection of egos outside of Hollywood and Charles Schumer's arrival there brought the Mother of all Egos to the dance. He had upset an incumbent and, full of himself, began to revel in all the camera-humping opportunities offered to a senator.

Tragedy befell Sen. Schumer two short years later when a fetching little lass by the name of Hillary Clinton was elected to his playpen. The effects of this were twofold: Schumer was now technically the senior senator from New York but, to the rest of the world, he was the other senator from New York.

And he's been acting out ever since.

Those of us who don't agree with Schumer's politics can help ensure that he continues to wander through this political purgatory by keeping Hillary Clinton in the Senate. Those of you who do agree with, and care about, him should help the poor guy by not returning him to office.

Whoa, I need to rest. I ate about a pound of tangerines awhile ago and I'm crashing off the sugar rush.