Shedding Light on Searchlight’s Favorite Son

Gene Lalor | March 28, 2010 

The Searchlight, Nevada Airport is a non-descript little excuse for an airport situated in the desert with a single runway. 

The landing strip is ”uncontrolled, unmanned, and unlighted,” much like the most notable Searchlightean ever to find his way out of Searchlight, Senator Harry Mason Reid.  charged Reid was

Using a searchlight or a flashlight or guile, Harry got out of Searchlight by losing and winning local Nevada offices before making it to the Big Show as congressman from one of two Nevadan congressional districts in 1982 and to the Bigger Show when he was elected to the United States Senate in 1986.

Twenty years later Reid was elevated to be the Senate Majority Leader and he now stands as one of the most powerful individuals in the nation, along with fellow septuagenarian, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.

In January, 2011, he will be unemployed, unless he joins the previous ousted Democrat Leader and tax cheat, D.C. gadabout lawyer, Tom Daschle as a lobbyist or whatever it is Daschle does for a living lately.

A nominal Mormon with tainted and ambivalent conservative credentials, Reid has finally been discovered by Nevadans for what he is. 

Harry has become a typical Washingtonian and closet liberal who has been in office far too long and is now as far removed from Nevadan thinking as the 13 bordellos in Searchlight were from the nearest church in his youth.

This weekend, Tea Party activists–and, no, Anderson Cooper, they’re not teabaggers like your buddies–descended on Searchlight with one goal in mind, to send Harry home for good.

Sarah Palin paid a visit to the rally which drew some 10,000 protestors and she stoked the crowd with lines such as, “Someone needs to tell [Reid], this is not a crapshoot” and “We’re not going to sit down and shut up:” http://bit.ly/9g6xUB

The crapshoot comment was a reference to tawdry Las Vegas Welcome to the Las Vegas  where Reid served as gaming comissioner for four years, the second to the Democrat left’s ongoing criticism of protests such as those of Tea Partiers and many others. 

Protest was sacrosanct during the sixties and seventies and during the G.W. Bush years when the president was called everything from “shrub” to a baby killer to a new Hitler.  Now, according to Reid and Pelosi, legal, non-violent, and constitutionally-approved demands for redress of grievances are un-American.

Go figure.

Harry Reid is figuring a lot of late, figuring how to overcome the 10% lead of his two Republican opponents and figuring how to convince the state of Nevada that all those protestors were outsiders.

Harry, they were only outsiders if you believe that you’re much beloved in the Silver State.  Otherwise, you’re just another politician who has outlived his usefulness and who will soon be sent out to pasture with all the other uncontrolled, unmanned, and unlighted pols.

Try repealing Obamacare and reversing the record Vegas unemployment numbers before November and you may have a shot at re-election. 

      


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