Las Vegas Review-Journal: Reid is “the da Vinci of distraction”
A perfect description of the despicable Senate Majority Leader from one of his hometown newspapersΒ (hat tip):
Harry Reid is the da Vinci of distraction. The moment any scandal, policy failure or political defeat crashes down on him β and there have been plenty the past few years β the Senate majority leader unleashes outrageous rhetoric thatβs better suited for a sandbox than what once passed for the worldβs greatest deliberative body. Worse, the Nevada Democrat has become especially fond of slinging race cards just to crank up the outrage.
Last week, Sen. Reid was in rare form following the U.S. Supreme Courtβs decision to overturn part of the Affordable Care Actβs contraception mandate. The 5-4 ruling declared that closely held for-profit businesses, such as craft retailer Hobby Lobby, do not have to provide some forms of birth control to female employees if doing so violates the ownersβ religious beliefs. Sen. Reid eviscerated the decision. βThe one thing we are going to do during this work period, sooner rather than later, is to ensure that womenβs lives are not determined by virtue of five white men,β Sen. Reid said.
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Sen. Reidβs slip was no accident. He believes racial and ethnic minorities are ideologically monolithic constituencies who are incapable of independent or β gasp! β right-of-center thinking. In the majority leaderβs mind, Mr. Thomas is not an African-American because the justice doesnβt blindly subscribe to liberal orthodoxy.
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Never mind that Sen. Reid himself, like the entire Senate Democratic leadership, is as white as an Irishman in a snowstorm. And never mind that after more than five years of Democratic control of the White House and the Senate, black and Hispanic unemployment β especially among teenagers β remains scandalously high. Sen. Reidβs βfixβ for this problem β a higher minimum wage β will actually make it worse.
We thought the 2008 election of Barack Obama as president was supposed to herald an age of post-racial politics. So much for hope and change. Quit the race-baiting already, Sen. Reid. Youβre clearly colorblind β in all the wrong ways.
AMEN.
By the way, Reid was quoted years ago as saying to the director of LVRJ advertising during a Las Vegas Chamber of CommerceΒ business luncheon that he hoped the Review-JournalΒ would “go out of business.” Β Gee, I can’t imagine why, can you?Β