Harry Reid getting a pass

[hondo]

http://www.breitbart.com/news/2006/10/16/D8KPUR0G2.html

And don't tell me most of the media isn't downplaying this. The Washington Post has been hammering George Allen for a lot less.

 

[Armchair_QB]

Silly boy, of course he's getting a pass. He's a Democrat.

 

[zeke12]

Yeah, that guy tipped the staff in his building! Asshole!

You're really reaching, hondo. Enjoy watching the returns in November.

 

[hondo]

Yeah, that guy tipped the staff in his building! Asshole!

You're really reaching, hondo. Enjoy watching the returns in November.

Don't care:

A. You're not allowed to tip the staff in a building you live with your campaign's money.
B. They were hardly five-buck tips. They were Christmas bonuses totaling $3,500.
C. You're also ignoring the sweetheart land deal in which he raked in millions, and is now hurridly filing an amended financial report with the Senate.
D. If a GOP Senator had done this, he would have already been forced to resign by now.

And by the way...why am I an asshole for wondering why a Democratic Senator isn't held to the same standards as a Republican lawmaker?

 

[Ben_Hecht]

MSNBC and CNN have been hammering it, pretty good.

Crooks is crooks . . . though, Hon, your (D) is pure partisan horse**** overstatement. Come back to us.

 

[hondo]

MSNBC and CNN have been hammering it, pretty good.

Crooks is crooks . . . though, Hon, your (D) is pure partisan horse**** overstatement. Come back to us.

Does your characterization of it as "pure partisan horse**** overstatement" mean it didn't happen?

 

[zeke12]

Well, I think the fact that you had a story to link too means your martyr complex-o-meter might need some fine-tuning.

Voters don't care about Harry Reid's land deals. Oh, and Republicans lost a lot of credibility in the whole land-deal thing. Perhaps you remember the 1990s.

The guy tipped his condo staff three grand over three years from campaign funds. Want to bet that you can find similar or worse uses of campaign money by every single lawmaker in America, Democrat, Repbulican or Independent?

If this is the best you've got, you're already beaten.

And you know it. So sit down and take your beating.

 

[alleyallen]

Would it make you feel better if I say bring the same hammer to this guy as they do for others? Because it seems like you're assuming we'd automatically give this guy a pass. Of course, because some in the media are doing it, you assume we all do it.

 

[hondo]

Well, I think the fact that you had a story to link too means your martyr complex-o-meter might need some fine-tuning.

Voters don't care about Harry Reid's land deals. Oh, and Republicans lost a lot of credibility in the whole land-deal thing. Perhaps you remember the 1990s.

The guy tipped his condo staff three grand over three years from campaign funds. Want to bet that you can find similar or worse uses of campaign money by every single lawmaker in America, Democrat, Repbulican or Independent?

If this is the best you've got, you're already beaten.

And you know it. So sit down and take your beating.

On it's face, this is wrong, crooked politics, no matter what party he's from. Something happening in the 1990s doesn't change what Reid did ... just as some of you are fond of pointing out that the conduct of Gerry Studds, Barney Frank or Bill Clinton doesn't give Mark Foley a pass. (Damn...bet you hate it when you can't have it both ways). And by the way...get off this "tipping the condo staff" thing (I would live to get those kind of tips). The issue is making millions on a land deal where it should have been in the low six figures. The condo staff "tips" is only a small part of this and no, it ain't the best I've got.

 

[zeke12]

Sadly, it is the best you have.

Ive been around here for a while, hondo, and you don't get any better than this.

You can go out crying or you can take it like a man, but your party and ideology are going to get smacked down very soon.

I don't give two ****s about Harry Reid's land investments.

 

[alleyallen]

In the interest of fairness, party affiliation shouldn't matter in this case. Hondo, please take note. If we'd bust a Republican for this, we should bust a democrat. Plain and simple.

 

[Columbo]

Well, I think the fact that you had a story to link too means your martyr complex-o-meter might need some fine-tuning.

Voters don't care about Harry Reid's land deals. Oh, and Republicans lost a lot of credibility in the whole land-deal thing. Perhaps you remember the 1990s.

The guy tipped his condo staff three grand over three years from campaign funds. Want to bet that you can find similar or worse uses of campaign money by every single lawmaker in America, Democrat, Repbulican or Independent?

If this is the best you've got, you're already beaten.

And you know it. So sit down and take your beating.

On it's face, this is wrong, crooked politics, no matter what party he's from. Something happening in the 1990s doesn't change what Reid did ... just as some of you are fond of pointing out that the conduct of Gerry Studds, Barney Frank or Bill Clinton doesn't give Mark Foley a pass. (Damn...bet you hate it when you can't have it both ways). And by the way...get off this "tipping the condo staff" thing (I would live to get those kind of tips). The issue is making millions on a land deal where it should have been in the low six figures. The condo staff "tips" is only a small part of this and no, it ain't the best I've got.

I swear, Hondo is Payne Stewart reincarnated.

 

[Fenian_Bastard]

The land deal is a misbegotten AP story run amok...much like an early misbegotten NYT story concerning a land deal in Arkansas.

 

[Herbert Anchovy]

same standards as a Republican lawmaker

Those two items are mutually exclusive.

 

[Ben_Hecht]

These guys could have had a longer run -- if they hadn't been such pigs.

 

[D-Backs Hack]

Harry Reid getting a pass? Jesus, the story was released less than three ****ing hours ago.

"It's because he's a Democrat." Pathetic.

Considering John Solomon's batting average on his other attempted hit pieces -- He made money on land he didn't own! He's in bed with Abramoff! He illegally accepted free boxing tickets! -- looks he finally got one past the pitcher's mound. But by all means, righties, put your eggs in the basket of the $3,000 Reid is giving back.

 

[terrier]

The GOP is walking a fine here: They can go after Reid and force him to step down...and watch Hillary take his place.
Smart Republicans are thinking before they speak about Reid.

 

[old_tony]

Considering John Solomon's batting average on his other attempted hit pieces -- He made money on land he didn't own! He's in bed with Abramoff! He illegally accepted free boxing tickets! -- looks he finally got one past the pitcher's mound. But by all means, righties, put your eggs in the basket of the $3,000 Reid is giving back.

I don't really care or have a dog in this partisan fight, but it's strange that you would attack outstanding investigative journalism. I'd like to think that a journalism Web site, of all places, wouldn't attack a felllow reporter for doing his job. But I guess I'd be wrong.

Joe doesn't like it when Democrat corruption is pointed out. As with most lefties, it's politics before principle.

 

[hondo]

Harry Reid getting a pass? Jesus, the story was released less than three ****ing hours ago.

"It's because he's a Democrat." Pathetic.

Considering John Solomon's batting average on his other attempted hit pieces -- He made money on land he didn't own! He's in bed with Abramoff! He illegally accepted free boxing tickets! -- looks he finally got one past the pitcher's mound. But by all means, righties, put your eggs in the basket of the $3,000 Reid is giving back.

Ah, dude, this broke last Thursday in the Las Vegas papers. Shows you how much emphasis the national media puts on something when it doesn't involve a GOP.

 

[hondo]

Sadly, it is the best you have.

Ive been around here for a while, hondo, and you don't get any better than this.

You can go out crying or you can take it like a man, but your party and ideology are going to get smacked down very soon.

I don't give two ****s about Harry Reid's land investments.

You don't give two ****s because it's one of your guys. Tell me right now, with a straight face, that you wouldn't be screaming bloody murder about Republican corruption if this were Lott, First or McCain?
If you do, you're a bleeping liar.

And what's this "I've been around," ****? Let us all know how long we have to "be around" before we're allowed to comment on politics in your mighty presence.