May 29, 2006
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In this frame from video, provided by HBO, Sen. Minority Leader, Sen. Harry Reid, D-Nev., left, and Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., second from left, sit near ringside at the Oscar De La Hoya-Bernard Hopkins championship boxing match in Las Vegas in September 2004. Reid accepted free ringside tickets from the Nevada Athletic Commission while McCain insisted on paying $1,400 to reimburse for the tickets he shared with Reid.
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9:17 pm [ Quote ]
Ian,
no hat tip to drudge?? yahoo news?
9:18 pm [ Quote ]
Any sources on that story?
9:24 pm [ Quote ]
Any sources on that story?
go to drudge you’ll find it there
9:41 pm [ Quote ]
The difference between the Republican and Democrat parties.
Thank you, Senator McCain for stepping up to the plate to represent our party.
9:51 pm [ Quote ]
I call this “karma”.
Harry Reid is always the first Democrat out there with his “Culture of Corruption” campaign against the Republicans, so perhaps it shouldn’t surprise him that somebody found dirt on him as well.
The sad thing is that I respected the man before he became the Senate Minority Leader because he wasn’t nearly as blatantly partisan when he didn’t hold that position of power.
Practice what you preach, Harry.
10:15 pm [ Quote ]
So this means no Republican ever accepted anything? Wow. That seems to violate causality.
10:16 pm [ Quote ]
Boy oh boy….so much for democrats being the ‘Party of Public Trust’™.
And to think I believed the libs when they said they were above such shenanigans. Yeaaaaaaaaaaah.
Ok lefties, start defending the man, lets hear your excuses for why this incident is different and shouldnt be considered a big deal.
10:19 pm [ Quote ]
So this means no Republican ever accepted anything? Wow. That seems to violate causality.
That took exactly…uh…one minute. Notice the quick deflection back onto the republicans.
You libs ever wonder why the nation is scared to death of having you protect us? You would make excuses for intentionally releasing OBL. You fools.
10:21 pm [ Quote ]
What a surprise another example of the Democratic do as I say not as I do attitude of the party.
10:29 pm [ Quote ]
The funny thing about this is that I really wouldn’t care if Reid took free tickets, if not for all of the liberal BS about the ‘Republican Culture of Corruption!’
Liberals have destroyed legitimate political discourse. It’s gone. They claim that the conservatives did so with Clinton. Ha! What a joke. The liberal attacks on Bush are thousands of times worse than the conservative attacks on Clinton. Far-right extremists accused Clinton of murdering his enemies. Mainstream liberals accuse Bush of being worse than Hitler… and are serious about it!
10:31 pm [ Quote ]
Yeah, drudge, good gossip source…
10:37 pm [ Quote ]
Yeah, drudge, good gossip source…
Frank,
Are you saying we should discount everything the AP has to say? Or just the stories that hurt conservatives?
10:42 pm [ Quote ]
The libs loved to see Marc Rich skate away, there was no problem with the ChiComs enjoying the White House…
that stuff never happened in their little world, yet they want to change government to work for the little guy.
They are lost in the Matrix, lost little brains, maybe someday they will awake from their slumber, but doubtful as it is so attractive to them to get the lizard parts of their brain tickled by feeling part of a movement.
Lemmings…remember the National Lampoon Lemmings?
they were talking about the sell-out little brained liberals.
RIP Mr. Mike
10:43 pm [ Quote ]
JWL Said:
10:29 pm [ Quote ]
The funny thing about this is that I really wouldn’t care if Reid took free tickets, if not for all of the liberal BS about the ‘Republican Culture of Corruption!’
I agree 100%.
This is a story because Reid is always out in front of the TV cameras with his “corruption” charges against Republicans and it is now coming back to bite him on the ass a little bit.
Otherwise, this wouldn’t even be a story because normally most people don’t care.
Politicians accepting gifts is not exactly anything new these days no matter what political party you reside.
10:46 pm [ Quote ]
Yeah, drudge, good gossip source…
Frank,
Are you saying we should discount everything the AP has to say? Or just the stories that hurt conservatives?
Still no post from the Huffpost, that must be where you get your gossip, right frank??
10:54 pm [ Quote ]
Hahahaha. You neocons are hilarious. You don’t blink an eye at the lies, corruption, scandal, bullshit that have gone down over the last 6.5 years in this country but Harry Reid takes some free boxing tickets and you all go nuts as if the Messiah himself is coming back to earth. The day of reckoning is upon us
Harry Reid, you have sinned!
You all are so full of s**t it makes me laugh and vomit at the same time. Hypocrites!
10:54 pm [ Quote ]
OMG FREE TICKETS! I guess we should comment on the possible free food he may have gotten also. This is small potatoes compared to the Republican Culture of Corruption.
11:02 pm [ Quote ]
Support our troops Impeach the president!
up to 720,000 votes. Vote here:
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11:12 pm [ Quote ]
Support our troops Impeach the president!
up to 720,000 votes. Vote here:
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I hate to break it to you, but a STRONG majority of our troops and military personnel (as well as veterans) voted for Bush and have traditionally voted for Republicans for more than three decades.
The numbers aren’t even close and it didn’t matter that John “I served in Vietnam” Kerry was his opponent in 2004.
Now, put that in your pipe and smoke it.
11:17 pm [ Quote ]
Come on “Democratic Culture of Anti-American, Liberal Hate, Liberal Bias, (inhales) Anti-American, Liberal Whining, (asphyxiated) Liberal Lies, Liberal Tolerance, (renal failure) Mainstream Medi…(necrosis).
11:40 pm [ Quote ]
Does it make any difference, Reid is from Nevada and McCain is from Arizona.
12:04 am [ Quote ]
Support our troops Impeach the president!
up to 720,000 votes. Vote here:
http://www.impeachbush.org/site/PageServer
I hate to break it to you, but a STRONG majority of our troops and military personnel (as well as veterans) voted for Bush and have traditionally voted for Republicans for more than three decades.
The numbers aren’t even close and it didn’t matter that John “I served in Vietnam” Kerry was his opponent in 2004.
Now, put that in your pipe and smoke it.
You see.. you are seriously uninformed. The majority of the military wants to pull out and my my every day a new general comes and speaks out about Rumsfeld and Bush. I have only seen tommy franks come out and support Rumsfeld. Ahh nm.. go on back to your “good news from Iraq” and “killing people is necessary” blindness.
Killing for peace is like screwing for virginity
12:05 am [ Quote ]
Does it make any difference, Reid is from Nevada and McCain is from Arizona.
uh? what is your point??
12:07 am [ Quote ]
I think you have been a victim of this anaconda:
Bush ‘planted fake news stories on American TV’
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/americas/article621189.ece
looks like the pentagon is using their “psychological warfare” on us.
12:07 am [ Quote ]
Support our troops Impeach the president!
up to 720,000 votes. Vote here:
http://www.impeachbush.org/site/PageServer
I hate to break it to you, but a STRONG majority of our troops and military personnel (as well as veterans) voted for Bush and have traditionally voted for Republicans for more than three decades.
The numbers aren’t even close and it didn’t matter that John “I served in Vietnam” Kerry was his opponent in 2004.
Now, put that in your pipe and smoke it.
I hate to break it to you but an overwhelming majority of American citizens thinks the president is doing a lousy job. Put that in your pipe and smoke it. I don’t know why republicans like him…is it because:
1) the war in Iraq that is going terribly and will probably end up in more american casualties than 9/11, considering he himself has said the next president will have to worry about bringing the troops home (the buck stops here…or there)?
2) his buckling down on illegal immigration?
3) the WMD that weren’t?
4) his impressive Hurricane Katrina work?
5) the reduction in the size of government and his continuous use of the presidential veto?
6) his appointment of judges that consider Roe v. Wade the settled law of the land?
What a great leader! And yet the media still won’t talk about how a new see-saw was put in an Iraqi school playground!
12:22 am [ Quote ]
I’m just curious and I’ll admit to being a little uninformed on the topic at hand….but is what Reid did actually illegal?
12:30 am [ Quote ]
good job wolfe, in not addressing once the issue of soldiers supporting the president
youd be a good dodgeball player
12:41 am [ Quote ]
good job wolfe, in not addressing once the issue of soldiers supporting the president
youd be a good dodgeball player
your information is B.S.
1:40 am [ Quote ]
Support our troops Impeach the president!
up to 720,000 votes. Vote here:
http://www.impeachbush.org/site/PageServer
I hate to break it to you, but a STRONG majority of our troops and military personnel (as well as veterans) voted for Bush and have traditionally voted for Republicans for more than three decades.
The numbers aren’t even close and it didn’t matter that John “I served in Vietnam” Kerry was his opponent in 2004.
Now, put that in your pipe and smoke it.
You see.. you are seriously uninformed. The majority of the military wants to pull out and my my every day a new general comes and speaks out about Rumsfeld and Bush. I have only seen tommy franks come out and support Rumsfeld. Ahh nm.. go on back to your “good news from Iraq” and “killing people is necessary” blindness.
Killing for peace is like screwing for virginity
I am “uninformed” about the military traditionally voting for Republicans and in 2004 with Bush over Kerry?
Uh, no, that is a FACT.
If you don’t know that, there is nothing that can be done for you that a lobotomy can’t fix.
Perhaps you should view the results of the last several elections. The Republicans have won the military vote by strong margins for decades. It is not even close.
Didn’t all of the early exit polls on Election Day in 2004 suggest that John Kerry was going to annihilate Bush and the Dems were going to clobber the Republicans, only to be crying in their spilt latte or java once the results came in?
The exit polls were dead WRONG.
It goes to show you that Bush supporters don’t feel the need to run towards the press and TV cameras to voice their support for him like his critics always seem to do when they have a chance to bash him.
It was the Dem voters who enthusiastically ran towards the pollsters and overwhelmingly proclaimed that Bush was going down that day and it completely threw the exit poll results out of whack.
However, the actual election results showed that Bush and the Republicans did quite well that day, now didn’t they?
You talk about how many generals who have spoken AGAINST Bush, but what about the military leaders who SUPPORT Bush? I’m sorry to say, Tommy Franks is NOT the only one.
In fact, many military advisors and analysts have stated their problem with some of Bush’s policies is that he hasn’t been hawkish ENOUGH in some cases, NOT that he lied us into war and blah blah blah…etc like the Lib moonbats spew daily.
Bush supporters don’t feel the need to run to the press whenever they express their opinion like some of his detractors do.
1:45 am [ Quote ]
Support our troops Impeach the president!
up to 720,000 votes. Vote here:
http://www.impeachbush.org/site/PageServer
I hate to break it to you, but a STRONG majority of our troops and military personnel (as well as veterans) voted for Bush and have traditionally voted for Republicans for more than three decades.
The numbers aren’t even close and it didn’t matter that John “I served in Vietnam” Kerry was his opponent in 2004.
Now, put that in your pipe and smoke it.
I hate to break it to you but an overwhelming majority of American citizens thinks the president is doing a lousy job. Put that in your pipe and smoke it. I don’t know why republicans like him…is it because:
1) the war in Iraq that is going terribly and will probably end up in more american casualties than 9/11, considering he himself has said the next president will have to worry about bringing the troops home (the buck stops here…or there)?
2) his buckling down on illegal immigration?
3) the WMD that weren’t?
4) his impressive Hurricane Katrina work?
5) the reduction in the size of government and his continuous use of the presidential veto?
6) his appointment of judges that consider Roe v. Wade the settled law of the land?
What a great leader! And yet the media still won’t talk about how a new see-saw was put in an Iraqi school playground!
Hey Wolfe,
Why don’t you go write another fine poem?
Make sure you include the troubling issues that face the Black Community these days since you claim you are an expert in that area because you have a Black friend.
2:05 am [ Quote ]
Support our troops Impeach the president!
up to 720,000 votes. Vote here:
http://www.impeachbush.org/site/PageServer
I hate to break it to you, but a STRONG majority of our troops and military personnel (as well as veterans) voted for Bush and have traditionally voted for Republicans for more than three decades.
The numbers aren’t even close and it didn’t matter that John “I served in Vietnam” Kerry was his opponent in 2004.
Now, put that in your pipe and smoke it.
You see.. you are seriously uninformed. The majority of the military wants to pull out and my my every day a new general comes and speaks out about Rumsfeld and Bush. I have only seen tommy franks come out and support Rumsfeld. Ahh nm.. go on back to your “good news from Iraq” and “killing people is necessary” blindness.
Killing for peace is like screwing for virginity
I am “uninformed” about the military traditionally voting for Republicans and in 2004 with Bush over Kerry?
Uh, no, that is a FACT.
If you don’t know that, there is nothing that can be done for you that a lobotomy can’t fix.
Perhaps you should view the results of the last several elections. The Republicans have won the military vote by strong margins for decades. It is not even close.
Didn’t all of the early exit polls on Election Day in 2004 suggest that John Kerry was going to annihilate Bush and the Dems were going to clobber the Republicans, only to be crying in their spilt latte or java once the results came in?
The exit polls were dead WRONG.
It goes to show you that Bush supporters don’t feel the need to run towards the press and TV cameras to voice their support for him like his critics always seem to do when they have a chance to bash him.
It was the Dem voters who enthusiastically ran towards the pollsters and overwhelmingly proclaimed that Bush was going down that day and it completely threw the exit poll results out of whack.
However, the actual election results showed that Bush and the Republicans did quite well that day, now didn’t they?
You talk about how many generals who have spoken AGAINST Bush, but what about the military leaders who SUPPORT Bush? I’m sorry to say, Tommy Franks is NOT the only one.
In fact, many military advisors and analysts have stated their problem with some of Bush’s policies is that he hasn’t been hawkish ENOUGH in some cases, NOT that he lied us into war and blah blah blah…etc like the Lib moonbats spew daily.
Bush supporters don’t feel the need to run to the press whenever they express their opinion like some of his detractors do.
ahh the old “silent majority” phase comes back to life…hoping for them to turn out at the ballot box worked out real good for nixon huh?
2:22 am [ Quote ]
ahh the old “silent majority” phase comes back to life…hoping for them to turn out at the ballot box worked out real good for nixon huh?
LOL Dan, Don’t know his history.
1968Popular VoteElectoral College
Nixon® 31,783,783 301
Hubert (D)31,271,839 191
1972
Nixon (R) 47,168,710 520
McGovern(D) 29,173,222 17
In 68 Nixon won 43.42% of Popular Vote and 55.95% of the Electoral College against Humphrey.
In 72 Nixon won 60.67% of Popular Vote and 96.65% of the Electoral College against McGovern.
http://www.uselectionatlas.org/RESULTS/national.php?year=1968&off=0&elect=0&f=0
2:31 am [ Quote ]
Speaking of boxing did anyone see De La Hoya kick Ricardo Mayorga’s ass. That was beautiful
2:35 am [ Quote ]
I was just perusing some of Dan’s comments on another thread. I suspect he is a youngster who has been indoctrinated by his liberal teachers and/or professors.
He’s apparently quite ignorant about a number of things.
I’ve spent the day seeing liberals like him deflecting the Democrat’s corruption, and John Kerry’s lies. Not much would surprise me, anymore.
4:31 am [ Quote ]
“ahh the old “silent majority” phase comes back to life…hoping for them to turn out at the ballot box worked out real good for nixon huh?”
I don’t know what planet you’re on, but Nixon won two Presidential elections, including his landslide victory versus the anti-war Democrat McGovern in 1972 (as ordi pointed out in above post).
From 1968 to 1988, my nephew’s 5th grade US History book illustrates that only one Democrat won a Presidential election during that 20 year span.
Too bad for the Dems that his reign was very short-lived since he was booted from office after just one-term and was likely the worst President this country had at anytime during the 20th Century.
6:38 am [ Quote ]
Reid’s fight nights questioned…
WASHINGTON — Sen. Harry Reid accepted free tickets from the Nevada Athletic Commission to thre…
7:12 am [ Quote ]
Who is it going to be?
HOT WATER AWAITS 11 CONGRESSMAN
HOLIDAY’S over. I’m back, you’re back, we’re all back, back to impor tant things, like the investigation of Louisiana congressman William Jefferson a k a “Dollar Bill.”
You will remember – you absolutely better remember – that I have repeatedly told you, starting as early as last year, predating even the Jack Abramoff scandal – that a large load of House of Representatives members would be indicted. I said we could put it at a dozen. I said this number could conceivably rise, depending on whom they then implicate, to maybe 20, but that this larger number was only a guess at this juncture. I said it would come under the heading of influence peddling. I now tell you, wait for another 11.
http://www.nypost.com/gossip/cindy/cindy.htm
7:42 am [ Quote ]
Bittersweet Moment For Bonds: Surpasses Ruth, Faces Euthanization…
Barry Bonds, (pictured at left being led off the field by his personal trainer), breathed new life into the baseball world this past Sunday when he hit his 715th major league home run and in the process moved into second…
9:30 am [ Quote ]
B Co 1/171st Avn
Bush 99%
Kerry 1%
that was just my unit, the only guy to vote for Kerry was the lowest ranking and youngest soldier in my unit. We will teach him better next time.
Ltwolf whoever you are, obviously never in Iraq or you would never call it a failure.
Now question why republicans like Bush?
Well not that I agree with everything he does (immigration, spending). but he stands for something, He has convictions and beliefs (not talking religion here). He stands his ground and doesn’t let polls change his convictions. I’ll take that anyday over a guy getting head in the white house while troops are on foriegn soil.
JEB 08!
9:42 am [ Quote ]
For all you girls that simply MUST point out that our elected President has low poll numbers I will remind you of something.
You will constantly cite polls. You will poll and re-poll. You will FLOOD the media for months about how the polls say we don’t like what the President is doing.
But there is only one poll that really matters in these cases. It comes every four years. Through this poll we decide who will lead us.
In 2004 America chose to continue with the policies of George W. Bush.
You girls can keep making up new polls, Criticizing everything but offering nothing, while our ELECTED leaders will continue with the mission that got them re-elected; new polls be damned!
I’d suggest that you snivelers acknowledge the REAL POLL we had in ‘04! If you really beleive in democracy that means that America has allready made her choice on all the issues you cry over. So snap out of it! Get behind OUR country- even if it means you don’t agree with the path WE HAVE CHOSEN!
There’s going to be other REAL polls in ‘06 and ‘08. These will be your chances to use the democratic process to achieve your goals. Not by continiously attacking the will of the majority in the poll that really counts!
9:58 am [ Quote ]
The problem we have in America today is that there is only one legitimate major political party – the Republicans. The Democrats were legitimate in the past, but now they have been taken over by madmen. Just look at the liberals in this thread.
I truly don’t believe that it’s possible for the Democrat Party to become legitimate again, so hopefully they can be replaced by the Libertarians or Independents and the sane people of America can actually have a choice again instead of being forced to vote for either sanity or insanity.
11:46 am [ Quote ]
Hey, loonies, he was ALLOWED to take these tickets, and then he voted for MORE boxing regulations.
You guys are really funny!
11:46 am [ Quote ]
Ha-ha Libs, good to get a taste of your own!!
That sounds pretty bad.
Only, there is an exception for gifts from governmental agencies (like the Nevada Athletic Commission) in the Senate ethics rules. So there is nothing untoward about Reid having accepted the free tickets.
But it would still seem pretty bad if Reid had accepted the tickets and then stumped shamelessly for the commission.
Only, he didn’t. As was the case with Abramoff and the Marianas, Reid voted against the peddler’s interest. Reid was advocating “the creation of a federal boxing commission that Nevada’s agency feared might usurp its authority.” Reid never changed his position. And this was a dramatically uncontroversial piece of legislation largely preoccupied with ensuring the safety of boxers by creating the United States Boxing Administration. It passed the Senate unanimously.
tpm
11:49 am [ Quote ]
BIG WHOOP!
12:08 pm [ Quote ]
I guess we can stfu up about Reid now. He didnt stump shamelessly for the comission. NOW SHUT UP!
REPUBLICAN CULTURE OF CORRUPTION PLEASE GO AWAY IN 2006
12:21 pm [ Quote ]
Reid Blames Delay
12:46 pm [ Quote ]
Ring Side for Reid…
Free Boxing Tickets for ring side!! Why not? You want a bill passed? It seems Senator Democratic LEADER Harry M. Reid did not mind being persuaded and/or influenced, no arm-twisting for Reid for free gifts. Between 2003 and 2005, Reid accepted FR ….....
12:52 pm [ Quote ]
But it would still seem pretty bad if Reid had accepted the tickets and then stumped shamelessly for the commission.
Oh sure, and the boxing interest just happened to go to Reid instead of someone lower on the political food chain, simply because they were being nice.
I know that I, a nondescript average American, am always offered ringside seats for big events. Hell, my social calendar is jampacked with such things.
If it wasnt illegal, it certainly wasnt ethical. Do your damn job and be a politician, those tickets wouldnt have come his way if Reid wasnt who he was.
Double dealing libs, they want to the power but not the personal responsibility.
1:16 pm [ Quote ]
Galaga
Give it up! It is allowed under the applicable ethics rules. Pick another topic. Maybe one where you’re not so ridiculously wrong.
1:25 pm [ Quote ]
You’re damn right this is allowed under ehtics rules. Sorry guys. Maybe you should quit going after Reid for a bit, since it’s obviously not working.
1:52 pm [ Quote ]
Little Harry at a fight, would his mother approve? I’m surprised he dint get sick all over himself.
1:57 pm [ Quote ]
B Co 1/171st Avn
Bush 99%
Kerry 1%
that was just my unit, the only guy to vote for Kerry was the lowest ranking and youngest soldier in my unit. We will teach him better next time.
Ltwolf whoever you are, obviously never in Iraq or you would never call it a failure.
Now question why republicans like Bush?
Well not that I agree with everything he does (immigration, spending). but he stands for something, He has convictions and beliefs (not talking religion here). He stands his ground and doesn’t let polls change his convictions. I’ll take that anyday over a guy getting head in the white house while troops are on foriegn soil.
JEB 08!
I’m sure these are official numbers.
hahahahaha
3:43 pm [ Quote ]
An Associated Press report found Reid took free seats for three big Las Vegas fights between 2003 and 2005—as he was pressing legislation to increase government oversight of the sport.
One measure would have formed a federal boxing commission that might have usurped Nevada Athletic Commission authority.
Let me get this straight. Reid took some tickets and proceeded to f*ck the Athletic Commission anyway. We’re supposed to be outraged? See, usually when you want to show corruption you show somebody accepting a gift and then doing what the donor wants them to do. Doing the opposite, well, it’s hard to really see where laws have been broken.
This is quite possibly your worst post since the one where you deliberately misconstrued John Kerry’s remarks to pretend he was saying American soldiers were too dumb to drive. I’m beginning to wonder if it’s something pathological.
3:47 pm [ Quote ]
I know you are going to kick, and scream, but taking the tickets and not paying for them is legal. If it is not, please provide a link.
It still doesn’t look good, and it is great McCain paid for his tickets.
Make sure if any rightie radio talkers scream “broke the law” they are lying it would appear.
5:21 pm [ Quote ]
Waiting for some MSM coverage? Don’t hold your breath…
5:31 pm [ Quote ]
If that is the standard of honesty, lets kick out anyone who has been convicted of something. I’m all for it. I do think the ratio right now is about 80% republican to 20% democrats. Lets get rid of them. I assume that you waited until Reid was convected,since you were screaming on one of your other postings that the Marines were conviced without an hearing..
Personally I think we should kick all Congress out of office and start over..That means all of them, not just democrats…..
5:57 pm [ Quote ]
I do think the ratio right now is about 80% republican to 20% democrats.—The leftisright
Presuming you are actually talking about convictions, and not accusations and/or indictments, would you have anything to back up that outrageous assertion?
Thanks if advance for the link…
6:36 pm [ Quote ]
Isn’t funny how Dems are giving Harry a pass saying what he did was not illegal. However, they are not and do not give Tom Delay the same pass even though what Delay is accused of is a law that was NOT on the books when he is alledged to have committed the crime.
The Dems are certainly pharisaical and sanctimonious on this issue. Which of course is nothing new.
4:29 pm [ Quote ]
Except, it turns out, that Reid voted against the interests of the people who gave him the tickets. And he is allowed, by ethics rules, to accept gifts of that sort from state officials. So, unlike Abramoff-associated Republicans who pushed hard as heck for the Marianas exceptions and for Abramoff’s preferred Indian casino clients, Reid didn’t do favors in return for gifts. That is kind of relevant to the story, don’t you think? It’s one thing if he accepted the tickets and then changed his position on legislation, as has been notably recorded as having happened with, say Bob Ney (R-OH-18). But he didn’t.
4:32 pm [ Quote ]
Little Harry at a fight, would his mother approve? I’m surprised he dint get sick all over himself.
Uh… “Little Harry” is a former boxer. How many bouts have you fought, tough guy?
5:22 pm [ Quote ]
Harry Reid on the Ropes? He accepted gifts from boxing promoters…
The culture of corruption takes another blow, and once again it is a Democrat, Senate Democratic Leader Harry Reid. He of course denies all wrong doing, but the timing here was no better or worse then most of the other recent ethics scandals…