1000 and counting, Harry Reid's failure.

I'm still waiting on a response to a letter I sent to Harry Reid about his budget, or actually his no budget. I'll post the letter when I get a response, if I do. Meanwhile, this might be the start of a series on Pinky Reid. Or maybe the start of a recall drive to replace him.

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid is a prime example of the problem in Washington DC. The United States Senate has not approved a budget in more than 1000 days, that’s nearly three years. The Senate has voted against budgets from the House of Representatives and President Obama, the President’s budget was so bad, it failed to receive one vote. With no budget, I guess the Senate can claim they never went over budget even though they continued to contribute to trillions in debt. This is not simply politics as usual. After the 2008 Presidential election, democrats controlled the House, the White House and the Senate and still Harry Reid did not pass a budget.
It is not only the budget; Harry Reid has failed to bring balance budget legislation to the floor, not once but twice. The Senate Majority leader has also failed to bring several House passed Jobs bill to the floor for debate, let alone to vote on. It’s not only Reid’s failure to bring important legislation to the floor, it’s some of the legislation he does bring to the floor and considers important. Harry Reid supports spending federal tax dollars on a Cowboy Poetry festival in his home state and has been majority leader during the biggest spending spree in our country’s history. He supported the $800 billion stimulus package to bankrupt green energy firms and bridges to nowhere and high speed rail. Harry Reid supported the original PATRIOT ACT and the renewal of the act, which could very well be the largest liberty stealing piece of legislation ever passed. Harry Reid also voted against the American people with the NDAA and supports the PIPA legislation, which he temporarily postponed due to mounting pressure from opponents of the bill.
Harry Reid has not only failed in his leadership in the Senate and has shown his willingness to vote against preserving constitutionally protected freedoms but he has also shown his ability to play the game in our nation’s capital. Senator Reid has attacked republicans in the most ridiculous ways. He claims that republicans want to poison the American people. He claims that republicans are trying to derail any economic recovery, despite his failure to bring job creation legislation to the floor. Reid also claims that those against Obamacare are like the democrats that opposed ending slavery (he didn’t point out that democrats were for slavery and filibustered the Civil Rights legislation). He refers to republicans as hostage takers, obstructionists and 1%ers. He makes blatantly false statements about job creation and the evil millionaires and billionaires.
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid is the perfect example of a career politician. He routinely shows that partisan politics and reelection are his main concerns. Reid is the perfect example of why the Framers of the Constitution had Senators elected by the state legislatures, not the people.

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