{"id":2620,"date":"2009-12-11T13:38:28","date_gmt":"2009-12-11T18:38:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=2620"},"modified":"2009-12-11T14:33:17","modified_gmt":"2009-12-11T19:33:17","slug":"harry-reid-the-boy-who-killed-his-parents-and-pleaded-orphan-status","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/2620\/harry-reid-the-boy-who-killed-his-parents-and-pleaded-orphan-status\/","title":{"rendered":"Harry Reid: The Boy Who Killed His Parents and Pleaded Orphan Status"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D &#8211; Nevada) <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/2009\/12\/10\/senate-republicans-turn-tables-weekend-sessions-debate-health-care\/?test=latestnews\" target=\"_blank\">appeared on the verge of tears<\/a> on the Senate floor yesterday, lamenting criticisms lodged against him.<\/p>\n<p>His complaint?\u00a0 That those big, bad, meanie Republicans had the audacity to question his personal judgment in scooting off to a Louisiana fundraiser, even while he threatens to keep the Senate in session into the holidays to address healthcare legislation.\u00a0 Voice cracking, he feigned heartbreak that criticisms against him could become so &#8220;personal.&#8221;\u00a0 He professed an inability to fathom how supposed &#8220;friends&#8221; from across the aisle could &#8220;embarrass or denigrate&#8221; him in such a cruel, cruel manner.<\/p>\n<p>This is the same Harry Reid who, just three days earlier, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/results?search_query=harry+reid+slavery&amp;search_type=&amp;aq=f\" target=\"_blank\">compared opponents<\/a> of his healthcare legislation to those who defended slavery and opposed the Civil Rights Act.\u00a0 Never mind that the Republican Party originated from opposition to slavery, or that Republicans voted for the 1964 Civil Rights Act in higher proportions than Democrats.\u00a0 Factual realities are apparently no more relevant to Harry Reid than is a sense of personal decorum and judgment.<\/p>\n<p>In this way, he is like the proverbial boy who murdered his parents only to later plead for mercy as an orphan.\u00a0 He started a fight, but didn&#8217;t like it when his targets fought back.\u00a0 In less than one year, Nevada voters will have their opportunity to render judgment on Reid&#8217;s plea.\u00a0 According to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rasmussenreports.com\/public_content\/politics\/elections2\/election_2010\/election_2010_senate_elections\/nevada\/election_2010_nevada_senate_race\" target=\"_blank\">latest polls<\/a>, they are apparently unamused.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D &#8211; Nevada) appeared on the verge of tears on the Senate floor yesterday, lamenting criticisms lodged against him. His complaint?\u00a0 That those big, bad, meanie Republicans had the audacity to question his personal judgment in scooting off to a Louisiana fundraiser, even while he threatens to keep the Senate [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[626,77,12,465,35,43,625],"class_list":["post-2620","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-civil-rights","tag-harry-reid","tag-health-care","tag-health-care-reform","tag-obamacare","tag-public-option","tag-slavery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2620","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2620"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2620\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2633,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2620\/revisions\/2633"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}