Comments on: Wild About Harry

By: A Blog For All

A Blog For All — Fri, 13 Oct 2006 20:02:29 +0000

Harry Reid Must Resign…

Substitute Senator Bill Frist or Rick Santorum or John McCain, and how quickly would media outlets take to make this front page news, and Democrats would be calling for scalps and those members to step down? I’m only calling for equal treatment. Eith….

By: daveinboca

daveinboca — Fri, 13 Oct 2006 19:49:43 +0000

Sen Minority Leader Reid should hang up his spurs instead of hanging up the phone on AP. Even the liberal planets around the NYT sun are agog at the arrogance of this girlie man for his land deals with a “former mobster.” [BTW, what is the statute of limitations for being mobbed up?]

Sounds like the Dems are beginning the slide to Putinization before they are even elected to a majority status. The Russian KGB dwarf is busy giving parts of the economy to Russian mobsters, while his KGB pals and other cronies take the choicest parts of the economic pie.

Making a million without reporting it should be regarded as at least equivalent to e-mails and IMs to House pages, but look for silence by Pravda on the Hudson and the dinosaur networks. As I was told long ago by a lefty scamster from Columbia U named Mark Rudd, “No fault on the left.”

By: Flopping Aces » Blog Archive » The Reid Influence

Flopping Aces » Blog Archive » The Reid Influence — Fri, 13 Oct 2006 17:35:38 +0000

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By: biwah

biwah — Fri, 13 Oct 2006 14:34:37 +0000

I agree that there is a distinction, but also that it doesn’t have any meaningful difference in this case.

As someone who has vaguely like Reid, I feel obliged to weigh in and say he should be held accountable for violating the disclosure rules.

By: bRight & Early » First Cup 10.13.06

bRight & Early » First Cup 10.13.06 — Fri, 13 Oct 2006 14:20:42 +0000

[...] Blue Crab Boulevard Wild About Harry — “Wow, the media is picking up the story about Harry Reid’s lucrative land deal and running with it. The Philadelphia Inquirer has an editorial, the WaPo has one, too and it appears even more major newspapers a writing about it. Harry is going to have some ‘splainin’ to do.” Harry Reid, North Korea, The Left, UN(PLUGG or DIGG this story Below)Share and Enjoy:These icons link to social bookmarking sites where readers can share and discover new web pages. [...]

By: Gaius

Gaius — Fri, 13 Oct 2006 13:52:49 +0000

A distinction without a difference in practical terms. The appearance of impropriety is there no matter how it is nuanced.

By: jpe

jpe — Fri, 13 Oct 2006 13:47:35 +0000

Experts on Senate ethics rules say Reid should have disclosed the sale in 2001 on his annual ethics report

It wasn’t a sale. It was a capital contribution.