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Posts tagged "Harry Reid"

Reid or Boehner plan?

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By Dennis Byrne,
July 28, 2011 at 3:14 pm
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Is it okay for Harry Reid to re-gift nuclear waste back to Illinois?

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There are plenty of reasons for Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) to go, and not the least is the shafting that he is giving to Illinois and its electric utility customers. Reid effectively is blocking the completion of a safe, permanent storage facility for high-level radioactive waste deep under Yucca Mountain in Nevada, leaving... Read more »
By Dennis Byrne,
June 15, 2010 at 8:51 am
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Garrison Keillor, profiler

Garrison Keillor, stereotypemeister, suggests that “tea partyers” are so far out of the mainstream that their “paranoid hallucinations of the right” prompts them to ignore the “great heaps of dead bodies [in Haiti that] are moved by front-end loaders and dumped, uncounted, unidentified, into openpits in a stricken country while people feast and walk treadmills on enormous cruise... Read more »
By Dennis Byrne,
January 21, 2010 at 10:39 am
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Trickster Durbin might fudge rules to pass health care

Tricky Dickie Durbin has been well-known to change his mind (witness his jump from being pro-life to pro-choice), so this last brain-bender shouldn’t be a surprise. He said today that he’s willing to go back on his word not to break legislative rules to push through Obama/Reid/Pelosi/Durbin health care. The strategy, described by here, would deploy the... Read more »
By Dennis Byrne,
January 19, 2010 at 4:09 pm
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Blago emerges, again

Now here’s a creative way to get some attention when no one is paying you any: Apologize for some offense that no one noticed. Blagojevich must have noticed all the press that Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid got for saying something some people considered to be offensive about President Barack Obama.Reid’s offense and his subsequent... Read more »
By Dennis Byrne,
January 11, 2010 at 11:10 am
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Durbin fails Illinois

Where’s Sen. Dick Durbin when you need him? While other senators were making gravy for their states in exchange for supporting health care legislation, Durbin parlayed his job as Democratic whip, the second most powerful party job in the Senate, into, well, nothing for his home state of Illinois. By providing the necessary 60th vote... Read more »
By Dennis Byrne,
December 29, 2009 at 11:43 am
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More items from the good news department:

In addition to Mark Buehrle’s perfect game for the White Sox, we’re glad to report these items: Jump in home sales fuels jump in stock market. Best sales month since November. Read here. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said there will be no Senate vote on health care for months, saving the country from a... Read more »
By Dennis Byrne,
July 23, 2009 at 3:48 pm
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