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Republican voters toss Harry Reid a softball
Republican voters toss Harry Reid a softball
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Harry Reid is looking at life from a whole new Angle.
Only weeks ago, the Senate majority leader was a dead man walking, facing a seemingly inevitable defeat in his reelection battle in Nevada. But then came Tuesday's primary, and Republicans selected as their candidate Sharron Angle, a woman who, among other things, favors bringing more nuclear waste to Nevada, floated the idea of outlawing alcohol, and wants to abolish the Education Department, the Energy Department, the EPA, the United Nations and most of the IRS. She's not so keen on Social Security, Medicare or unemployment insurance, either.
That would explain the uncharacteristic smile on Reid's face as he opened Wednesday morning's Senate session. Instead of his usual stemwinder denouncing the obstructionist minority, he engaged his Republican counterpart, Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, in a celebration of the national pastime.
"I watched on television last night much of the performance of this 21-year-old phenom, Stephen Strasburg," the majority leader declared. "Seven innings, he struck out 14 . . . He's right-handed but reminded me so much of Sandy Koufax because he throws more than 100 miles an hour. He throws a curveball at 85 miles per hour." Reid went on to discuss, in no apparent order, the Nationals' latest draft pick (from Nevada), Mickey Mantle, Al Kaline, the old Griffith Stadium, Roger Maris and Yogi Berra.
McConnell offered the Republican response. "I was there," he said of the Nats game. "Remarkable."
"I wish I could have been there," Reid said. "But it was really, even watching it on TV -- gee whiz."
Gee whiz?
It's a measure of this strange political year that Harry Reid, thanks to the tea party, now has a solid chance to win a fifth term in the Senate. More than half of Nevadans have an unfavorable opinion of Reid -- which means he should have been an easy target for Republicans as they forced him to defend the economy and the national debt. Instead, the campaign now seems more likely to revolve around Angle's oddities. Gee whiz.
Within minutes of the primary win by the tea-party-backed Angle, a gleeful Nevada Democratic Party sent out a news release calling Reid's opponent "Sharron 'Wacky' Angle."
With the party doing his dirty work, Reid could afford to be generous to his opponent. "I congratulated my Republican opponent in the election, Sharron Angle, about the campaign she ran," Reid announced on the Senate floor before his baseball analysis. "She actually came from nowhere in a 13-person field in the primary to win this election. So I extended my appreciation to her in that regard."
washingtonpost.com
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Harry has a new bounce in his step... 
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this stuff just cracks me up.
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