The Perfect Opportunity

Twenty-ten is an election year. One-third of our U.S. Sen-ators, includ-ing public menace num-ber two, Harry Reid, and all members of the U.S. House of Represen-tatives are coming up for re-election. This sets up the perfect opportunity for all good Americans to muck out the stinking pile of excrement accumulating in Washington. As a grateful American and a native Nevadan, I would like to direct my remarks specifically at what I will call the “Harry Reid Problem.”

Though I have made an exhaustive study of the matter, I have failed to detect any virtues in our state’s senior senator. And now his unrelenting barrage of campaign commercials has removed any doubt whatsoever that modesty might be one of them.

Never before in the long and tortuous history of campaign advertising has anyone so blatantly and shamelessly portrayed himself as the indispensable conduit through which all things good and wonderful flow from the U.S. Treasury to the awaiting public.

And yet when you analyze it, what is he really doing to improve things? He is simply seizing other people’s money and handing it over to someone else, minus the huge portion wasted by the federal government. His contemptible scheme consist of nothing more novel or ingenious than that. Nevertheless, after each underhanded exchange is completed, he takes full personal credit for giving a helping hand to the needy, without even bothering to mention the heavy contribution borne by the great American working class, their children and grandchildren.

I ask you, is that your idea of true generosity? Is that your idea of genuine compassion? Is that your idea of real humility?

All we hear day in and day out is what Harry Reid is doing. Yes, we all can agree that Harry Reid is busy. He and his liberal cohorts are drawing closer to destroying America than any previous enemy ever has. Our challenge, our urgent challenge, is to get them busy doing something else, like licking their wounds and writing their memoirs.

If Harry Reid wants to be a generous benefactor, let’s remove him from the U.S. Senate and see what he can do as a private citizen. Let him put his own money where his big mouth is. If he wants to support incorrigible deadbeats, let him do it with his own ill-gotten riches. After all, somehow the man has succeeded in accumulating a fortune during a lifelong career as a “public servant.” Ever wonder how he did that?

There was a time when Nevada, the United States and the world were getting along just fine without Senator Harry Reid. Let us return to those blessed times.

As the popular bumper sticker says: “Vote for anyone BUTT Harry Reid!”