Harry Reid's Home State Strongly Opposes Obamacare
Posted by Jim Hoft on Sunday, January 10, 2010, 1:53 PM
The Senate Majority leader is unpopular at home.
He’s in trouble with several states for bribing democratic senators for their health care vote and for the constitutionality of the Senate health care bill.
He’s in trouble with the GOP for his racist remarks during the 2008 campaign.
And now this…
Nevadans strongly oppose Obamacare and Reid’s efforts to ram it through the Senate.
The Review-Journal reported, via Sweetness and Light:
HEALTH CARE OVERHAUL POLL: More Nevadans unhappy with reform package and in Reid’s efforts pushing it
Declining support reflects Nevadans distaste for deals to win votes
Support for the health care reform package moving through Congress continues to drop among Nevadans, as does support among the state’s Democrats and independents for the work done on the bill by Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, a new poll commissioned by the Las Vegas Review-Journal shows.
That same poll shows nearly one in five Nevadans would elect to pay a fine by the government rather than buy health insurance under the new plan.
The poll found that 35 percent of Nevadans support the attempt to correct inadequacies in the nation’s health care system, a 4 percentage point drop from a December poll that found 39 percent of the state’s voters approved of health reform efforts.
In August, 43 percent of the state’s voters backed reform.
Among the state’s Democrats, 66 percent approve of Reid’s efforts to get a health care reform bill through the U.S. Senate, also down 4 percentage points since December. Democrats who disapprove are at 27 percent, up 9 points since December. Statewide, 33 percent approve and 60 percent disapprove.
Perhaps even more critical for Reid, President Barack Obama’s point man for passage of the legislation, is the fact that his disapproval rating among independents for his work on health care rose to 74 percent, compared to 53 percent in December.
Brad Coker, managing partner of the Washington, D.C.-based Mason-Dixon Polling & Research, which conducted the telephone poll of 625 registered voters Tuesday through Thursday, said the plummeting numbers for both the overall plan and Reid largely reflect a distaste by the public for the wheeling and dealing done to gain the 60 votes needed for the health reform bill to pass the Senate.
“Voters had been told things would be different under the Democrats,” Coker said. “They were actually told by (House Speaker) Nancy Pelosi that the ‘swamp would be drained.’ But this has been politics as usual. To get a bill passed, they still make sausage the way they always make sausage, and it’s not a pretty thing to see. The fact that Reid was leading the arm twisting hasn’t helped him.”
To get the 60th vote necessary to get the health reform bill out of the Senate, Reid negotiated with Sen. Ben Nelson, D-Neb., who received numerous benefits for his state, including having the federal government pick up the full cost of a proposed expansion of Medicaid in Nebraska at an estimated cost of $100 million over 10 years.
It’s been a rough week for the partisan Majority Leader.
At least race hustler Al Sharpton has his back.
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jainphx commented:
Old Sharpton only holds conservative feet to the fire!
Byrd can use the “n” word on television-crickets. Now we have both Reid and Clinton telling with words how they really feel regarding our black brothers, and we get more crickets. Please can’t the light of day find it’s way into the hearts of those who still think the Demoncraps in leadership have anything but utter disregard for people of color.
Finncrisp commented:
Democrats always survive this stuff because of the hypocricy of most Democrats. It is all about wiinning. If, on balance, he is helping advance their agenda, he gets to stay. If he becomes aliability, he’s gone. Whatever the discression is, doesn’t matter. Look at Pres. Clinton. His disturbing behavior in the White house could not garner one Democrat vote in his subsequent impeachment trial. Later, he did have his law license suspended, so there was something to the complaint. Charlie Rangel also gets ot keep his post in spite of admitted behavior and tax dodges that are easily proven. The going on two year “investigation” has produced nothing yet. It is truly discraceful what these guys with a “D” after their name get away with.
BigAlSouth commented:
Which Conservative Senator said this about Harry Reid’s remarks:
One senator described the comments as ‘outrageous’ and ‘completely inexcusable.’ ‘Those kinds of comments have no place in our society and should be repudiated by every American. At this point, (their) caucus in the U.S. Senate needs to think long and hard about the kind of values they want their leadership to represent.‘
Oh. My bad. That was Democratic Senatrix and Hypocrite Debbie Stabenow commenting on Trent Lott’s birthday salute to Strom Thurmand.
MB commented:
“Dingy Harry” continues to lead the band of hypocrites forward into a State of Socialism.
Dingy Harry = total disgrace + complete hypocrite
He is the lowest form of political pond scum
Opus #6 commented:
I never made any sense to me how Reid is throwing away his career on Obamacare. And how the businessmen in Las Vegas could allow him to do that.
I am told by folks connected in Vegas that Reid does NOTHING without a big payoff. So who is paying Reid off for pushing Obamacare. Soros? Is Reid getting a golden parachute that he just can’t turn down?
NeoKong commented:
Old Harry has a golden parachute coming for him somewhere. You can count on it.He didn’t throw away his Senate career for nothing. He will cash in as a lobbyist after he gets tossed in Nevada.
Believe me. All those billions in stimulus money will somehow provide a nice nest egg for the Reid family.
Daniel commented:
There oughta be a law …
where, if you lose re-election, you lose your pension also.
Right, Dingy?
Agent 99 commented:
There’s an Alinsky lesson in here somewhere. I think it would be about making Dingy Harry prove to all of us that he does not dislike “negroes”. We should ask him, then ask him again, and again, and again, and again………………………………..
The other Alinksy lesson is easy to see once you understand liberal philosophy is about gaining political power at the expense of any other result. In the case of racism, liberals believe it is acceptable to suppress blacks if they can increase political power. That’s why liberals are the true racists. They are racist in their core.
Anyway Harry, why do you dislike negroes?
Repeat…Repeat…True Allinsky-Style!! Blame Harry!! It’s Harry’s Fault!! Over and over and over….THE ALLINSKY RULES!! Yee hah! “Harry, why do you dislike Negroes?” Ask repeatedly.
FedUp commented:
Keep going, Harry… lead those lemmings over the cliff… then the adults (not necessarily the Repubs) can take over!
Agent 99 commented:
FYI Be sure to click the link from Jim re: Sharpton has his back. Wow!!! God Bless…Gotta go!
shibumi commented:
Well, since Captain Awesome was elected President for Life, when has anyone of the “D” party cared about what the public wants? As long as the have the unions in the pocket, along with ACORN doing the voter fraud, they’re good to go with their agenda.
bg commented:
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hah, as if they care what voters
think, or not winning elections..
the powers that be sing fiddle-de dum, fiddle-de dee “what’s in it for me”.. as they shake off their high stepping boots & don soft slippers à la retiree..
What the Dems know that we don’t:
Universal Voter Registration
[Many are puzzled that Democrats persist in ramming unpopular and destructive legislation down our collective throats while seemingly unconcerned by their plummeting poll numbers. A widespread belief is that the Democrats are committing political suicide and will be swept from one or both houses of Congress with unprecedented electoral losses next November. But since Democrat politicians rarely do things that will not ultimately benefit themselves, this column asked two weeks ago: "what
do they know that we don't?"
We may have found out. It's called universal voter registration.
[..]
Universal voter registration will create massive vulnerabilities to systemic voter fraud nationwide, and if Democrats have proven anything in recent years, it is that they can win elections that way. The George-Soros-funded Secretary of State project (SOS) was designed to take advantage of such vulnerabilities and may have been developed in anticipation of the universal voter registration plan. Al Franken’s stolen election in Minnesota was a trial run for the SOS project. Longtime ACORN friend Mark Ritchie was elected Minnesota Secretary of State in 2006 with Soros’s SOS and ACORN money, and what followed in Norm Coleman’s Senate runoff election was a frighening demonstration of just how far Democrats will go to win. Franken won the runoff and the Democrats got their filibuster-proof sixty vote Senate majority.
The Motor Voter law was correctly identified as a facilitator of vote fraud. One of the few legal issues Barack Obama actually participated in as a lawyer was a 1995 suit against the State of Illinois, which he brought on behalf of ACORN. Then Republican Governor Jim Edgars saw the newly passed Motor Voter act as creating the potential for massive vote fraud and refused to implement it. With the assistance of the Clinton Justice Department, Obama’s legal team won that suit. Obama himself actually participated very little, a strategy that seems to have served him well in life. According to the Chicago Sun-Times, after identifying himself in court proceedings, Obama sat back and let “the heavy-hitters at the Justice Department make the arguments…”
It is not surprising that the Democrats are now choosing to push this
new initiative, for universal voter registration will be Motor Voter on turbochargers. And who better to sign it into law than the President
from ACORN.]
more & links @ link..
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Sandy commented:
Harry Reid has done nothing for Las Vegas. The casinos are dying and our foreclosure rate is the second highest in the nation.
When Obama attacked any big business which holds its convention in Vegas — Reid said nothing and Vegas lost millions.
Just the other day Reid had an invitation only Town Meeting when one person stood up and disagreed with the Healthcare Bill the man was ejected.
I watch as our home values crumble and good people are evicted from their homes — after the owners were promised they could refinance those homes. I see developments half built and left to rot. Businesses are closing left and right and HARRY REID SAYS NOTHING.
Senator Reid is too busy picking up after Obama to care about Nevadans. Our Governor Jim Gibbons made a passionate speech the other day saying Nevada cannot afford the expansion of Medicaid and fears that the state will have to cut the budget for first responders. Did Reid answer. NO! Senator Reid is too busy picking up after Obama to care about Nevadans. Will Nevadans show him the door in November DEFINITELY!
Sandy commented:
The reason so many people have Healthcare in Nevada is that we have a large Senior population. The largest employers in the state are Casinos who offer generous Healthcare packages in lieu of large salaries. If Obama Care passes it will turn this state up side down economically.
Senator Reid’s son Rory Reid is probably going to run for Gov. as a Dem and when asked if he supports his father–he said nothing.
pm commented:
Good to see Liz Cheney holding her own against the libs (and George Will) populating Stephanopolous’ crowded table today.
In reference to Reid’s racist remarks, she let them know it’s “not okay, whether in public or private” to make the kinds of remarks Reid did. And that it’s “about time” the “elites” start judging people by the content of their character instead.
Love that woman.
Cher Cropper commented:
I disagree, it hasn’t been politics as usual, it has been politics worse than usual without any shame at all. Astounding what this Congress is capable of doing to America to get its way.
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