Tag Archives: Harry Reid

Wingnut Memes Of The Week

After Sen. Harry Reid’s as yet unsubstantiated claim that Mitt Romney paid no taxes for ten years, teabaggers launched a popular meme demanding that Reid prove that he isn’t a pedophile. Yesterday Ann Coulter joined in with the above Obama/Harvard variation.

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RNC Head: Harry Reid Is A Dirty Liar

(Via Think Progress)

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Reid Repeats Romney Tax Claim

“The word’s out that he hasn’t paid taxes in ten years. Let him prove that he has paid taxes because he hasn’t.”

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Sen. Harry Reid: Bain Investor Told Me Mitt Romney Paid No Tax For Ten Years

If this is true, the Huffington Post may have the biggest scoop of the election. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) has what he says is an informed explanation for why Mitt Romney refuses to release additional tax returns. According a Bain investor, Reid charged, Romney didn’t pay any taxes for 10 years. In a wide-ranging interview with The Huffington …

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Harry Reid: Burn Those Olympic Uniforms

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Sen. Harry Reid Evolves Slightly

“My personal belief is that marriage is between a man and a woman. But in a civil society, I believe that people should be able to marry whomever they want, and it’s no business of mine if two men or two women want to get married. The idea that allowing two loving, committed people to marry would have any impact …

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Harry Reid Rebukes Obama On Israel

At yesterday’s meeting of AIPAC, the powerful pro-Israel lobbying group.

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Sen. Harry Reid: Tea Party Will Disappear As Soon As The Economy Gets Better

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VIDEO: Dan Choi Gets His Ring Back

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PROMISE RING: Lt. Dan Choi Gets His West Point Ring Back From Sen. Harry Reid

Sen. Harry Reid has returned Lt. Dan Choi’s West Point ring, fulfilling a promise he made to Choi at Netroots Nation in front of hundreds of progressive writers, including yours truly. Upon receipt of the ring, Choi tweeted: “The next time I get a ring from a man, I expect it will be for full, equal, American marriage.

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Sen. Harry Reid Tweets Lt. Dan Choi

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Tweet Of The Day – Kerry Eleveld

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DADT Vote Scheduled For Today

AmericaBlog reports that the cloture vote on the Defense Authorization Act is now scheduled for noon today. As we know, that could change. [Obviously, it did.] Right now the Senate is voting on the DREAM Act, which passed in the House yesterday. Watch live on C-SPAN. UPDATE: The Senate has voted to table the DREAM Act until next week by …

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LIVE VIDEO: “Possible” DADT Senate Cloture Vote To Take Place At 5:30PM

Nobody seems to be sure it will happen, but the Family Research Council is claiming on Twitter that a cloture vote on the Defense Authorization Act is scheduled for around 5:30PM. The FRC has spent the day marshaling their followers to deluge Senate offices with protesting calls, so this could be a panicked push to generate more calls while folks …

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Obama Calls Senators On DADT

Metro Weekly’s Chris Geidner reports that President Obama today contacted members of the Senate asking for their support of the Defense Authorization Act, which includes the repeal of DADT. White House spokesman Shin Inouye tells Metro Weekly, “The President has been reaching out to Senators from both sides of the aisle to reiterate his desire to see Congress pass the …

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RUMOR MILL: Surprise DADT Vote Today?

Several Washington sources including the usually reliable Roll Call are saying that Sen. Harry Reid may actually propose a Senate cloture vote on the Defense Authorization Bill today. Proposing the cloture vote and making it happen are two different things, of course. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) has scheduled cloture votes for Wednesday on a host of bills opposed …

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Liberty Counsel: Sen. Harry Reid Wants To See “Forced Intimacy” In Military Showers

And “sexual deviants” like WikiLeaks source Bradley Manning are a perfect example of why gays cannot ever be trusted.

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Tweet Of The Day – Sen. Harry Reid

Interesting move. Certain to be filibustered by the GOP, I’m betting. The DREAM Act has been languishing in Congress for ten years thanks to Republican opposition.

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Servicemembers United Urges Harry Reid To Move On DADT In Lame Duck Session

Servicemembers United has issued a press release telling Sen. Harry Reid that he has “no good reason” to drag his feet on putting DADT to a Senate vote during the lame duck session. “The path to getting defense authorization and ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’ wrapped up this year is narrow, but that path is also crystal clear,” said Alexander Nicholson, …

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NEVADA: Nutjob Anti-Gay Teabagger Racist Sharron Angle LOSES To Harry Reid

I am touching ALL of the Flying Spaghetti Monster’s noodly appendages in joy as the networks have just declared Sen. Harry Reid as the winner in Nevada’s freakazoid Senate race. Never before (I don’t think) have I loathed a political candidate so fiercely with every gay fiber of my being as I do Sharron Angle. (OK, maybe Ruben Diaz.) Congratulations …

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