The Trouble With Harry
or, What's He Got in Common
with the Nosferatu?
It's not only that Reid himself, as a career pol, has been living
off the life blood of Nevada working men and women for over a quarter century.
It's also that, behind the scenes in Washington, he's a zealous
worker for the Democratic leadership's schemes to make feeding on one's fellow citizens
the American norm, enforced by an always-growing federal colossus.
Because Reid is cunning, he's been able to successfully masquerade
for years as a more or less conservative down-home Nevadan 'from Searchlight'. But, as the
non-partisan and respected Congressional Quarterly noted fifteen years ago, that's just for
show. Stealthily and behind the scenes, Reid -- always 'made member' of the Democratic
leadership -- has always been an active collaborator in efforts to feed the federal
colossus and its favored special interests at the expense of your earnings and your
liberties.
Harry's had a significant, if low-profile, role in helping move
America to an increasingly corrupt, two-tiered society, where those with great wealth use
it to buy the exercise of federal power on their behalf, and those with federal power use
it to gain great wealth.
Thus it is no coincidence that, during all the years Reid has been
representing Nevada in Washington, somehow the trust placed in him by working and
middle-class Nevada voters has produced a situation where Harry is now one of the
wealthiest millionaires in the U.S. Senate, but Nevadans -- and Americans generally --
have the least freedom since the Republic was founded.
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