Via HelenK, this was Reince Priebus on ABC’s This Week with George Stephanopoulos. I had to laugh. But it got me thinking. How much is Harry Reid worth?
Now, unlike Mr. Romney, Reid didn’t spend very much time in the private sector at all. Nope, he earned almost all of that via his government connections. See for yourself:
The problem, for Harry Reid, is that since he graduated college, there hasn’t been a lot of time outside of government service. Reid was elected to the State Assembly in 1966 and in the past 43 years (when Reid went from 27 years old to 70 – and your humble correspondent went from 2 to 45), the only gap in public service was the two years in the mid-70′s between his term as Lt. Governor and his service on the Nevada Gaming Commission. And during that time he ran for Mayor of Las Vegas, leaving little time to build up a fortune in the private sector.
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Reid has been earning that 193 grand for a few years, but when he first entered the Senate in 1987, I think the Senate salary was about $125,000.00 per year. In order to build up $4.6 million dollars over the past 43 years, Reid would have had to sock aside – out of various government salaries – nearly $107,000.00 per year.
Does anyone want to believe that Reid has done this? That he has saved his government-salary pennies (including for all those years when he made far less than even $107,000.00 per year) and built up his fortune just out of the money we know he’s been earning since he entered public office? And what if Reid’s fortune is actually closer to the higher estimate of $6.3 million?
It’s just not credible that Reid has done this just out of his government salary.
Now that pederast thing that’s been going around, that’s funny. But I must agree with Jack Marshall. This is how you nail Harry Reid: with the truth. Pass it on.
Yeah, it does seem that he has some ‘splainin’ to do. I think Reid needs to come clean before he demands the same of Romney.
Insider Trading and Payoffs!
It’s a good gig if you can get it!
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And, his sons are busy earning their millions off of the same connections!
I think it’s more complicated than that. Just a modest investment in the stock market every week from the late 60’s through the 90’s could have produced a very decent return.
Although in the 60’s I think the income tax rate was 90% for the highest earners. Maybe congress was not among the highest earners back then?
We look like cousins on our dad’s side!
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Using the senate floor with an unsubstantiated political attack is what makes Reid a despicable person, imho.
here is another liar
http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2012/08/04/liar-liar-pants-on-fire
well, if Reid wants to play his little game, he has to expect some blowback, and it appears that there is plenty to work with—-LOL!!!!
lol, talk about blowback, found this in the comments at another site:
…great shirt idea, picturing Dirty Harry & Mitt with the caption
Mitt: the BETTER Mormon!
part one of a series on how dirty harry made his money
http://hotair.com/archives/2012/08/05/flashback-questions-harry-reid-wont-answer-part-i/
Good catch.
Oh wow, thanks for bringing that over. I’d read that the land deals were shady, but it turns out the dirty lying scumbag’s an out-and-out crook.
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http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2012/08/is-harry-reid-the-nancy-pelosi-of-2012.php
I like this article
oh hell harry, even van jones doesn’t like your act
http://weaselzippers.us/2012/08/05/former-obama-green-czar-van-jones-hits-harry-reid-over-his-attacks-on-mitt-romney/
http://www.politico.com/blogs/charlie-mahtesian/2012/08/gop-to-reid-youre-next-131134.html
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0812/79365.html
reid has backtrack’s ok on his tactics
Just left this comment there:
more on dirty harry’s shady deals
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-04-03/solar-jobs-join-harry-reid-to-chinese-billionaire-in-price-drop.html
Horsepucky:
He’s just pissed because he’s losing.
What BS. His contempt for Hillary was palpable & he thought so highly of McCain’s honorable military record that he sent Wes Clark out to float the disgusting argument that downing a plane does not a war hero make. As far as what he thought about S. Palin…there are not enough words in the English language.
OT, but FFS, it just gets better and better:
“People retiring today are part of the first generation of workers who have paid more in Social Security taxes during their careers than they will receive in benefits after they retire. It’s a historic shift that will only get worse for future retirees, according to an analysis by The Associated Press.”
http://news.yahoo.com/social-security-still-good-deal-workers-125016929–finance.html
Powerline:
Check out the photo that has Turkey upset at Obama
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2183900/Barack-Obama-President-holds-baseball-BAT-phone-Turkish-PM-Tayyip-Erdogan.html
Sheez, doesn’t he remember the saying? “We bring a bat to a fight, they bring a cruise missile?”
http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2012/08/05/Flashback-When-Harry-Reid-Complained-About-False-Mob-Charges-Against-Him
gotta love this
dirty harry complaining about false mob charges against him
http://news.investors.com/article/620870/201208030818/harry-reid-scandal-and-mitt-romney-story.htm
Good article, great cartoon.