The Silver State Chronicles

Billy Dee Williams, Watch Out!

So when the party starts bouncin’ and the ladies start bumpin’, tighten up your flow with Rocket Fuel!  Rocket Fuel Malt Liquor – DAMN!

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Fantasist Harry Reid talks out of his arse, markets react…

At a press conference, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid declares, “We don’t have a lot of leeway on time,” Reid told reporters in the Capitol. “One of the individuals in the caucus today talked about a major insurance company — a major insurance company — one with a name that everyone knows that’s on the verge of going bankrupt. That’s what this is all about.”

When pressed for specifics, Reid’s office insisted that the Senate Majority Leader was speaking generally, and not about a specific insurance company.

Clearly, though, his words lead one to beleive that he was speaking of a sepcific, large, well known insurance company.

So who is full of it?  Harry Reid, or his staff?  Or both?

The result? The following day the markets suffer, insurance stocks tank, and Metlife issues a statement attempting to assure people that Reid was not talking about that company.

What a man!

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The Incredible Mr. Limpett Speaks!

Yep, my senior senator in the Silver State, and devil-may-care career politician, is up to his old tricks again. Not the brightest bulb on the tree, The Senate Majority Leader offered some strange stream of consciousness insights into oil, coal, and how those things are all making us very sick.

Well, I’ve heard this song and dance before, and while I am not an avid fan of pollution (I don’t know anybody who is, in fact), whenever anyone spouts this nonsense I always think of how their analysis is terribly lopsided and not the product of clear thinking.

Generating energy causes pollution, for sure, but it also helps raise our standard of living and directly contributes to advances in science and medicine. Indeed, it takes a simple mind to only see coal and fuel as things that just make us sick, and ignore that those resources help make the technology that contributes to our longer lifespans and overall better health.

I was pleased when even that rag The Las Vegas Review Journal took Senator Limpett to task on his silly, unsophisticated analysis.

EDITORIAL: YouTube sensation

Nevada’s own Harry Reid has become a YouTube sensation for continually combining his gloomy disposition with rhetoric that makes even his most partisan supporters cringe.

His latest hilarious monologue came a few days ago on the Fox Business channel when, in trying to defend the exorbitant costs (and federal subsidies) of renewable power, he asserted that money is overrated in debating the country’s energy policy.

“Coal makes us sick. Oil makes us sick. It’s global warming. It’s ruining our country. It’s ruining our world,” Sen. Reid blurted out between pregnant pauses. “We’ve got to stop using fossil fuels.”

Yes, the resources that not only drive the world’s economy and rising standard of living, but make life and prosperity possible in his political base of Las Vegas, are “ruining our country” and “ruining our world.”

By Thursday afternoon, the video clip had close to 400,000 hits on YouTube. Like an “American Idol” reject who has no idea he can’t sing, Sen. Reid serves up speechification that crashes and burns in spectacular fashion. Doesn’t the Democratic Party have its own Simon Cowell, someone with enough common sense to cut off the Slipup from Searchlight before he finds all new ways to embarrass his home state?

Funny thing about coal and oil. Before they began transforming Americans’ everyday lives by providing electricity and transport that didn’t require a horse, average citizens trudged though life with mouths half-full of teeth, fortunate to live past age 40. Far from making us sick, they’ve powered advances that have extended the country’s collective life expectancy to about 80, helped eliminate hard-core poverty and made us the wealthiest nation in the history of the planet.

Today, coal still provides half the country’s electricity — power that allows Las Vegas air conditioners to run 24 hours per day during the soul-searing heat of July, power that lets partygoers enjoy the city’s luxuries at all times. And how did they — and the foodstuffs they ate for breakfast — get to this otherwise uninhabitable tourist outpost? They drove or flew here on a tank of fossil fuel.

Perhaps we should be grateful for Sen. Reid’s uninspiring words. If Congress ultimately gives up on sacrificing our economy and quality of life, Sen. Reid’s stumbling, mumbling policy pitches might be his lasting gift to this nation.

Then again, one only has to look up a different YouTube clip to see that any well-reasoned discourse escaping Sen. Reid’s lips is a miracle worthy of papal recognition. In an interview with Jan Helfeld, Sen. Reid first denies that America’s progressive tax structure transfers wealth from its most productive citizens to its least productive, then attempts to argue for several minutes that the federal income tax is voluntary. That clip already has about 175,000 Web hits.

“Our system is a voluntary system,” he says again and again.

Hoo hoo! Stop it, Sen. Reid. You’re killing us!

But do please tell us where we can pick up our Monopoly-game “Get out of Paying Taxes Free” cards.

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What a moron…

Harry Reid is evidently an amateur scientist, along with being an amateur-level politician. As fires rage in nearby Southern California, forcing over 500,000 residents to flee, Ole’ Harry decided to inject a good dose of politics in a completely nonpolitical situation.

Worldnet Daily reports…

HEAT OF THE MOMENT
Global warming to blame for fires, says Harry Reid
To astonishment of reporters, Senate majority leader makes link
Posted: October 23, 2007

Is there a political angle to the wildfires raging through Southern California?

You betcha – at least according to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, who said global warming is at least partly responsible for the blazes.

“One reason why we have the fires in California is global warming,” the Nevada Democrat told reporters, emphasizing the need to pass the Democrats’ comprehensive energy package.

Pressed by astonished reporters on whether he really believed global warming caused the fires, he appeared to back away from his comments, saying there are many factors that contributed to the disaster.

I should hope so.

In fact, just a casual look at most news accounts reveals that the fires have strictly non-environmental causes.

The causes of the different fires raging throughout the state varied, with a fallen power line believed to be the cause of a blaze in Malibu and arson blamed for a fire in Orange County that torched 6,000 hectares (15,000 acres).

Apparently the senator has lost his marbles, but Nevadans like me who have kept an eye on him know that he lost his marbles several years ago.

Indeed, a recent poll shows that his negatives among Nevadans have crept over 50% (to 51%), and his approval rating is at an all-time low of 32%, 2 points lower than President Bush’s statewide approval ratings.

Get on the ball, Harry, and don’t let your eagerness to make everything political get in the way of what’s left of your credibility. We all know that global warming had nothing to do with these fires. And the thing is, you probably do, too. It just didn’t stop you from running your mouth.

Deplorable.

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