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townhall.com - 1/11/2009
Amanda Carpenter: Reid's Sunday Vote
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Majority Leader Harry Reid was successful in corralling enough votes to advance his $10 billion land grab, despite 17 Republicans who protested the bill by skipping the vote altogether.Basically, by using "federal...
I Want to Play Poker with Harry Reid
firedoglake.com - 1/7/2009
I Want to Play Poker with Harry Reid
— firedoglake.com — I want to play poker with Harry Reid. Really I do. Rather than call for a special... election in Illinois, Reid sends a letter to Blagojevich signed by everyone in the Democratic caucus asking him to step down. They assert that they will not seat ... (more) I Want to Play Poker with Harry Reid

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redstate.com - 1/9/2009
Mitch McConnell Lost His Testicles and Now Infects the Senate GOP With a Cancer
— redstate.com — Allow me to be blunt: There are some of you who have fallen under McConnell's spell in... the same way the lefties have fallen under Obama's spell. McConnell can do no wrong. You all wet your pants when McConnell publicly rebukes Reid and engage in ... (more) Mitch McConnell Lost His Testicles and Now Infects the ...

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chicagotribune.com - 1/8/2009
Obama serves Reid taste of Chicago Way -
— chicagotribune.com — Roland "Tombstone" Burris, the amiable Illinois Democratic political hack who is being called eminently qualified by the... national Democrats—perhaps because he's from Illinois and he hasn't been indicted—has almost reached his goal of being addressed ... (more) Obama serves Reid taste of Chicago Way -

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No Runny Eggs:  Drill Here, Drill Now Tues…er, Sunday - 1/11/2009

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Drill Here, Drill Now Tues…er, Sunday - 1/11/2009
No Runny Eggs — (H/T for the new news - Amanda Carpenter, H/T for the DHDNT concept - Jessi Olson) My gas price - $1.879 just outside the bunker Why do I have a special Sunday edition of Drill Here, Drill Now? It’s because Senate Majority Leader Dingy Harry Reid (D-OPEC) and 65 of his fellow members of the bipartisan Party-In-Government used their first floor vote of the session to lock up the not-yet-developed energy-rich land to the tune of $10 billion. Even though that’s supposedly short of a veto (which I hope would happen if this shows up before noon Eastern 1/20), the fact that there were several ‘Rats missing ...

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