{"id":190075,"date":"2010-01-09T23:08:00","date_gmt":"2010-01-10T04:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/01\/09\/harry-reid-dead-meat-on-the-table\/"},"modified":"2010-01-09T23:08:00","modified_gmt":"2010-01-10T04:08:00","slug":"harry-reid-dead-meat-on-the-table","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/01\/09\/harry-reid-dead-meat-on-the-table\/","title":{"rendered":"Harry Reid: Dead Meat on the Table"},"content":{"rendered":"

Harry Reid has hit a new low in the latest Las Vegas Review-Journal poll<\/a>, with a 52% having an unfavorable view of him, and 33% having a favorable view of him.<\/p>\n

As an incumbent, polling below 50% in terms of how people vote is a near death sentence, when your unfavorable rating is over 1\u00bd times your favorable rating, you are in Dick Cheney territory.<\/p>\n

The problem is not what he has done, but what he hasn’t<\/span> done.<\/p>\n

Notwithstanding the arcane rules of the Senate, his constituents expect him to kick ass and get things done, and he hasn’t. He’s been a wimp, though I think that this was largely at the request of the Obama administration, which wanted insurance company and pharma support for something called healthcare.<\/p>\n

So, now he’s screwed, and won’t be a Senator in February of 1011, just like Chris Dodd, who got shafted by Obama and His Evil Minions\u2122<\/sup> in almost exactly<\/span> the same way.<\/p>\n

If the poll numbers weren’t bad enough, the merry band of at Politico<\/span> have released a book, Game Change<\/span>, in which they have the following quote from Harry Reid<\/a>:<\/p>\n

He was wowed by Obama’s oratorical gifts and believed that the country was ready to embrace a black presidential candidate, especially one such as Obama — a “light-skinned<\/span>” African American “with no Negro dialect<\/span>, unless he wanted to have one,” as he said privately. Reid was convinced, in fact, that Obama’s race would help him more than hurt him in a bid for the Democratic nomination.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

(emphasis mine<\/span>)<\/p>\n

So now we have a quote, an accurate one since Reid has apologized for it<\/a>, where he sounds like a country club racist.<\/p>\n

Reid needs to announce his retirement, tomorrow<\/span>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Harry Reid has hit a new low in the latest Las Vegas Review-Journal poll, with a 52% having an unfavorable view of him, and 33% having a favorable view of him. As an incumbent, polling below 50% in terms of how people vote is a near death sentence, when your unfavorable rating is over 1\u00bd …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[967,998,1000,1091],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-190075","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bigotry","category-congress","category-elections","category-polls"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190075"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=190075"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190075\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190075"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190075"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190075"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}