Associated Press LAS VEGAS — Former Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid is endorsing Joe Biden for president. Reids in a statement Monday said that Biden is the Democratic candidate with the best chance of beating President Donald Trump in November. The move comes as part of a wave of establishment support flows to the former vice president heading into the Super Tuesday … [Read more...]
Product lawyer points out Reid’s conflicting statements
By Ken Ritter Associated Press LAS VEGAS — Former U.S. Sen. Harry Reid was challenged Friday about his “veracity” and truthfulness after saying that his political career was cut short by an eye injury that he blames on an exercise band maker. Attorney Laurin Quiat, representing the maker of the stretchy resistance device TheraBand, followed Reid’s statement to a jury … [Read more...]
Reidless and rudderless?
U.S. Sen. Harry Reid left Nevada with a serious case of the blues, both the good kind and the bad. On the plus side, he tromped the Trump trend and went out a winner. He replaced himself with Democrat Catherine Cortez-Masto, returned both legislative chambers to the Donkeykongs and delivered Nevada for Mrs. Clinton. After bucking the 2016 national blue flu epidemic, … [Read more...]
Will Collaboration On Sage Grouse Finally Happen?
Nevada has every reason to feel like a slighted wallflower. We keep getting invited to the big sage grouse dance, but never get asked to dance. Gov. Brian Sandoval and Attorney Adam Laxalt and others have complained bitterly that state and local input on how to protect the sage grouse population and still conduct economically productive endeavors on the land the birds occupy … [Read more...]
Filibuster Tarnishes Reid’s Marvelous Environmental Record
Office-leaving Sen. Harry Reid will never live down the shame of keeping the terribly undemocratic filibuster. Reid, retiring in 10 days after a 50-year career in Nevada politics, was majority leader for 12 years when his Democratic Party controlled the Senate. He alone could have killed the filibuster. He lacked the wisdom to do it. That failure forever tarnishes his … [Read more...]
Eye For An Eye: Karma Snaps Back on Harry
We won’t say Harry Reid is dumb as a post. We’d need an official IQ test from the post. What we can say, however, is that what goes around comes around for Reid, and in the case of the so-called “Nuclear Option” for Senate appointees, it’s coming around with a vengeance. Reid changed Senate rules so that presidential confirmations no longer take 60 votes, but only 50+1. That … [Read more...]
Why We Have a Federalist System, Instead of a Democracy
Someone buy these folks a civics textbook and maybe a Cliff Notes version of the Federalist Papers. Yes, Hillary Clinton won the popular vote by about 3 million more votes than Donald Trump, but she lost the Electoral College vote by 306 to 232. That is because the Electoral College is made up of 538 members — one for each senator and representative from each state, plus the … [Read more...]
Reid in Farewell Speech Calls on Press to Criticize … We Oblige
In what Harry Reid himself called “my final speech” this past week on the floor of the U.S. Senate, Nevada’s senator for the past three decades and minority or majority leader of Senate Democrats for more than a decade rambled for 77 minutes in his customary monotone through a disjointed litany of accomplishments and a painfully personal autobiography of his ascent from poverty … [Read more...]