True North

Everyone who's read this blog knows that Harry Reid is the easiest target ever known to bloggers. This editorial is additional proof of that. Here's the editorialist's first proof:

His latest hilarious monologue came a few days ago on the Fox Business channel when, in trying to defend the exorbitant costs (and federal subsidies) of renewable power, he asserted that money is overrated in debating the country's energy policy.

"Coal makes us sick. Oil makes us sick. It's global warming. It's ruining our country. It's ruining our world," Sen. Reid blurted out between pregnant pauses. "We've got to stop using fossil fuels."

Yes, the resources that not only drive the world's economy and rising standard of living, but make life and prosperity possible in his political base of Las Vegas, are "ruining our country" and "ruining our world."

This was the predictable outcome of Harry's shooting his mouth off:

By Thursday afternoon, the video clip had close to 400,000 hits on YouTube.

Is it any wonder why Harry Reid is the foremost YouTube sensation while he's simultaneously the world's finest village idiot? As laughable as that is, the editorialist points out something even more hilarious:

In an interview with Jan Helfeld, Sen. Reid first denies that America's progressive tax structure transfers wealth from its most productive citizens to its least productive, then attempts to argue for several minutes that the federal income tax is voluntary. That clip already has about 175,000 Web hits.

"Our system is a voluntary system," he says again and again.

Sen. Reid should try peddling that stuff to Leona Helmsley.

I've said it before and I'll say it again: Harry Reid is the most incompetent person to ever lead the House or Senate in either a minority or majority position. God help us if someone surpasses Reid's incompetent leadership. That wouldn't be laughable. That'd be really frightening.

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