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The corrupt Senator from Nevada, Harry Reid, knows that his gun control legislation will not deter crazies and criminals from committing heinous acts, any yet he ignores a dangerous situation in his state where the state simply places mentally ill people on buses to out-of-state destinations …

Nevada buses hundreds of mentally ill patients to cities around country

Over the past five years, Nevada’s primary state psychiatric hospital has put hundreds of mentally ill patients on Greyhound buses and sent them to cities and towns across America.

Since July 2008, Rawson-Neal Psychiatric Hospital in Las Vegas has transported more than 1,500 patients to other cities via Greyhound bus, sending at least one person to every state in the continental United States, according to a Bee review of bus receipts kept by Nevada’s mental health division. About a third of those patients were dispatched to California, including more than 200 to Los Angeles County, about 70 to San Diego County and 19 to the city of Sacramento.

In recent years, as Nevada has slashed funding for mental health services, the number of mentally ill patients being bused out of southern Nevada has steadily risen, growing 66 percent from 2009 to 2012. During that same period, the hospital has dispersed those patients to an ever-increasing number of states.

By last year, Rawson-Neal bused out patients at a pace of well over one per day, shipping nearly 400 patients to a total of 176 cities and 45 states across the nation.

Nevada’s approach to dispatching mentally ill patients has come under scrutiny since one of its clients turned up suicidal and confused at a Sacramento homeless services complex. James Flavy Coy Brown, who is 48 and suffers from a variety of mood disorders including schizophrenia, was discharged in February from Rawson-Neal to a Greyhound bus for Sacramento, a place he had never visited and where he knew no one.

The hospital sent him on the 15-hour bus ride without making arrangements for his treatment or housing in California; he arrived in Sacramento out of medication and without identification or access to his Social Security payments. He wound up in the UC Davis Medical Center’s emergency room, where he lingered for three days until social workers were able to find him temporary housing.

Read more at: Nevada buses hundreds of mentally ill patients to cities around country – Investigations – The Sacramento Bee

Bottom line …

The progressive socialist democrats know that legislation does not deter crazies and criminals and yet they want to disarm law-abiding citizens rather than taking care of the mentally ill and cracking down on gangs as domestic terrorists. Dishonest, disingenuous, and disgusting,

– steve

It must be solid info… Harry got it from the same dudes who told him Romney hadn’t paid taxes in a decade.

From The Hill:

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) stepped up pressure Thursday for Republicans to allow a vote on President Obama’s nominee to lead the Defense Department.

Reid said if Republicans do not allow an up-or-down vote on nominee and former Sen. Chuck Hagel (R-Neb.), the U.S. will be without a defense secretary with Pentagon chief Leon Panetta’s retirement.

“We, at 12 o’clock today, do not have a Secretary of Defense,” Reid said on the Senate floor Thursday morning. “It is shocking that our Republicans colleagues would leave our nation without a Secretary of Defense with all the things going on and when we’re in a war.”

When it comes to the speed at which you believe anything Harry Reid says, you have to follow the same advice as you would when driving through a school zone: “not so fast”:

“The Secretary plans to stay in office until Sen. Hagel is confirmed and sworn in,” Pentagon press secretary George Little told the E-Ring, in an fresh email Thursday, following Reid’s assertion.
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FP National Security’s Situation Report reported on Thursday that Panetta will fly home to California on Thursday where he intends to stay. That’s clearly a pressure move by the administration (and Panetta always goes home on weekends — especially holidays.) But Panetta is fully connected to the Pentagon at his home, where he has spent dozens of weekends while in office, and will remain defense secretary.

If Reid’s trying to tell America that they won’t have a defense secretary just because he’s not in Washington, then this weekend we won’t have a president, either.

Quick update on where the full Senate vote on the Hagel nomination stands:

Hagel’s nomination made it out of the Senate Armed Services Committee Tuesday on a straight party line vote, another ominous sign.

Then on Wednesday afternoon, Reid announced he was filing a cloture motion, Senate-speak for an attempt to end a filibuster. He couldn’t reach agreement with Sen. James Inhofe, the Oklahoman who is the top Republican on the Armed Services panel, to end debate.

Among Inhofe’s stated concerns about Hagel, he has said, is that the Iranian Foreign Ministry supports his nomination. Sen. Carl Levin, the Michigan Democrat who is the committee’s chairman, has suggested that perhaps the Iranians are being bomb throwers and trying to cause mischief in American policy circles.

In any event, Reid has scheduled the vote to end the debate for Friday unless an agreement is reached beforehand.

At this point Reid is three votes short of the number that would be needed to end a Republican filibuster. I also understand the Senate is now just six votes shy of getting Reid committed to a pseudologia fantastica treatment facility.

by Burt Prelutsky

Frankly, I don’t think it will make much difference whether or not Chuck Hagel is confirmed. After all, he will be taking his marching orders from the single greatest menace America has ever had to endure. Still, that’s no reason to confirm the man who has made a career out of demeaning Israel and sucking up to Iran to such an unseemly extent that Iran’s foreign minister has applauded his nomination. If nothing else, when your nation’s archenemy gives a big thumbs-up to the guy who’s being considered as your Secretary of Defense, it should give even Democrats pause.

Not only has Hagel displayed an open bias against American Jews, insisting that something he refers to as the Jewish/Israel lobby intimidates members of Congress into doing dumb things, but when Sen. Lindsey Graham asked him to identify a single senator who’s been intimidated or to mention even one of those dumb things, Hagel turned into Porky Pig.

What’s more, as a member of some goofy outfit that calls itself Global Zero, he says he’s opposed to nuclear bombs, but insists he’s also opposed to unilateral disarmament by the United States. That can only mean that he believes that he and his merry band of pinheaded pacifists are convinced that they can use their moral authority to make Iran, Russia and North Korea, see the error of their ways.

In addition to all that, Rick Santorum, who served in the Senate with Hagel, claims that Hagel not only never introduced a piece of legislation during the dozen years he represented Nebraska, he rarely if ever even showed up for a party caucus. So, on top of being a confirmed anti-Semite, a man opposed to war or even meaningful sanctions where Iran is concerned, he’s as lazy as Barack Obama.

One of the fascinating things in the recent brouhaha over guns is that Harry Reid has been called by Wayne LaPierre, the head of the NRA, “a true champion of the Second Amendment.” Mr. LaPierre has also said of Sen. Reid that “no one has been a stronger advocate for responsible gun ownership than him.”

In 2010, the NRA was a major contributor to Harry Reid’s campaign against Sharron Angle. Could that possibly explain why, in the wake of the Aurora, CO, movie theater shootings, Sen. Reid blocked any debate about gun control, insisting that the Senate schedule was too packed to do anything about it. This is the same Senate, let us not forget, that’s also been too busy for the past four years to come up with a budget or to do anything about cutting the deficit or paying down the national debt. I guess there must be a Senate bowling league I haven’t heard about.

I wouldn’t want anyone to get the idea that I am in conflict with the NRA. In fact, this is the one area where Harry Reid and I are in agreement. I just thought it was fascinating to discover that Reid doesn’t owe his political career entirely to Nevada unions and Vegas casinos. And I can’t help wondering if Joe Biden and Dianne Feinstein realize that if Harry Reid ever loses his Senate seat, he might be in line to replace Wayne LaPierre.

Democrat Harry Reid (D-Utah), the man who disgraced the US Senate by using the floor of the Senate to use unsubstantiated rumors to accuse Mitt Romney of not paying income taxes, finds himself embroiled in a controversy involving bribery and perhaps other federal crimes.

As reported at the reference:

Sen. Harry Reid, D-Nev., denies taking a bribe from a Utah businessman who claims the Senate Majority Leader was to use his influence to deflect federal regulators from investigating the Utahn’s business.

Jeremy Johnson claims that he agreed to pay Reid $600,000 in 2010 to make a federal investigation go away. “The truth is the worst thing I think I’ve done was I paid money knowing it was going to influence Harry Reid,” Johnson told the Salt Lake Tribune. “So I’ve felt all along that I’ve committed bribery of some sort there.”

Reid denies the accusation. “Senator Reid has no knowledge or involvement regarding Mr. Johnson’s case,” Reid spokeswoman Kristen Orthman replied. “These unsubstantiated allegations implying Senator Reid’s involvement are nothing more than innuendo and simply not true.”

How sweet it is to see a lying weasel squirm to counter a serious felony issue!

The big question: Did Reid pay income taxes on the $600,000 bribe?

Swing Harry, swing!

John W. Lillpop
San Jose, California

Signs of life in the crybaby, country-club liberal Speaker of the House, John Boehner …

House Speaker John Boehner couldn’t hold back when he spotted Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid in the White House lobby last Friday.

It was only a few days before the nation would go over the fiscal cliff, no bipartisan agreement was in sight, and Reid had just publicly accused Boehner of running a “dictatorship” in the House and caring more about holding onto his gavel than striking a deal.

“Go f— yourself,” Boehner sniped as he pointed his finger at Reid, according to multiple sources present.

Reid, a bit startled, replied: “What are you talking about?”

Boehner repeated: “Go f— yourself.”

The harsh exchange just a few steps from the Oval Office — which Boehner later bragged about to fellow Republicans — was only one episode in nearly two months of high-stakes negotiations laced with distrust, miscommunication, false starts and yelling matches as Washington struggled to ward off $500 billion in tax hikes and spending cuts.

The White House and Congress knew of the self-imposed deadline for more than 17 months and they still blew past it, as a president fresh off a strong reelection victory tested — and ultimately broke — the Republican Party’s fidelity to its tax-cuts-only governing philosophy. Read more at: The fiscal cliff deal that almost wasn’t – John Bresnahan and Carrie Budoff Brown and Manu Raju and Jake Sherman – POLITICO.com

Bottom line …

Talking tough will not save his speakership. He is gutless when it comes to compromising with the democrats. He refused to pass a number of GOP bills and then let Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid explain why the democrats were blocking necessary legislation. Instead, he mad the GOP look weak and disorganized. Congress made the artificial fiscal cliff much in the same way the created the anti-GOP “obstructionist” scenario. Time to purge the democrats in 2014 in a massive revolt against a corrupt Congress.

– steve

In 2005, Harry Reid believed that “the filibuster is a critical tool in keeping the majority in check.” In 2012, Harry Reid is in the majority, which of course means bring on the filibuster reform.

Guy Benson at Hot Air found a video by way of the Senate Republican Conference that features Harry Reid from 2005 taking on Harry Reid from 2012, and vice-versa. These are soaring and majestic examples of flip-floppiness:

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RdTwcrYgoqs

On Thursday, Jay Carney said he wasn’t sure how many Democrats would support President Obama’s “$1.6 trillion in tax increases, no debt limit and new stimulus spending” plan that is somehow supposed to reduce the deficit — and Harry Reid has taken it upon himself to make sure nobody ever does find out. Mitch McConnell tried to bring the Obama plan to a vote in the Senate either as an amendment or a stand-alone bill and Harry Reid swatted it down so fast you’d think McConnell had proposed a ban on cowboy poetry.

At a press conference, Jay Carney was asked about Reid’s aversion to allowing a vote on Obama’s proposal:

Reporters: Why is he afraid to put the President’s plan on the floor. Do you think you have democratic support?

Carney: We know that, and the filibuster is certainly an issue here, that we don’t have 60 votes in the Senate. So, I would not argue with the idea that the President’s proposal cannot at this time, or has not at this time, garnered Republican support. That’s what this debate is about. We are very confident that the Democrats support the principle that we need to have $1.6 trillion in revenue, asking the wealthy to pay more as part of a balanced package that the President has put forward. I understand that you’re going along with the gamesmanship here. We’re trying to be serious about these negotiations. We have put forward a proposal. We have seen no substantive proposal, especially on revenues, from the Republicans.

If, as Carney insinuated, the only opposition to the Obama plan are Republicans, why pass up a golden opportunity to demonstrate that over 50 Democrats — the majority of the Senate — are unified in their support for Obama’s “bring down our deficits in a balanced way by constantly raising the debt ceiling” proposal? It sounds like somebody has been asked to not allow a repeat of the Obama budget vote.

In fairness to Harry Reid, he’s been preoccupied with trying to get a popcorn waiver. First things first.

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nUg1WRJ7_EY

by Burt Prelutsky

There is a great deal of hand-wringing and finger-pointing going on in Republican circles after the recent election. Much of it is justified. After all, how is it possible that after four years of Obama’s policies that have resulted in a terrible economy, a weakened military and ObamaCare, Mitt Romney could possibly receive two million fewer votes than John McCain?

On the other hand, it’s not too shocking that Harry Reid and the Democrats picked up two additional Senate seats. Did nobody think to check Todd Akin and Richard Mourdock for signs of insanity before allowing them to win their GOP primaries? When one of these guys talks about legitimate rape and the other schmuck suggests that rape just might be part of God’s overall plan, they don’t belong in the U.S. Senate, they belong in a loony bin. For those who can’t see the difference between the two places, I’m referring to the one with the padded walls.

Going forward, I would like to see the Republicans attempt to impeach the president. I wouldn’t expect to see Obama booted out of office, but I’m convinced that the GOP has to at least go through the motions. If they’re going to give Americans a reason to believe there is a real difference between the two parties, they have to take action against a commander-in-chief who places more importance on his own re-election than on our nation’s security.

The articles of impeachment should start with the leaks from his administration to the NY Times that, among other things, led to Pakistan’s imprisoning a doctor for 33 years for his role in leading us to Osama bin Laden.

Then there’s the matter of all the lies that Obama, Susan Rice and Joe Biden, told about the terrorist attack in Benghazi, pretending that a video had anything to do with the murders of our ambassador to Libya and three of his courageous colleagues. This cover-up not only makes Watergate seem like an innocent prank, but points out how biased the media is when you consider what a big deal they made of the earlier scandal and how little attention they paid to the one that resulted in the massacre of four Americans.

And, finally, there is the fact that the FBI was ordered to hold off going public about the Petraeus-Broadwell affair until after the election. Apparently, the CIA Director shared national security secrets during pillow talk with his biographer, which should lead to his imprisonment and not merely to a divorce. (If nothing else, the affair gives new meaning to a journalist being embedded with the military.)

Getting back to the election, the aftermath reminded me of the 1990 Super Bowl game. With eight seconds left in the game, the New York Giants were leading the Buffalo Bills 20-19 when Scott Norwood attempted a 47-yard field goal. If he made the kick, the Bills would have won 22-20. But his kick sailed right of the goal post by a yard. If it had hit the right goal post and bounced left, he would have been a hero and the Bills would have won the championship.

Instead, the next day all the football pundits were pondering the future of the Bills. What was needed? A new head coach?

“All I ask is for Republicans to understand what legislation is all about. It’s the art of compromise and building a consensus.”
–Harry “Lead By Example” Reid, January 2012

In actuality, Harry Reid’s definition of “bipartisanship” is “Republicans doing what Democrats want but not the other way around.” If Mitt Romney is elected on Tuesday, Reid will continue to be true to form:

Five days before the election, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid has ruled out trying to work with Mitt Romney should he win next week.

“Mitt Romney’s fantasy that Senate Democrats will work with him to pass his ‘severely conservative’ agenda is laughable,” Mr. Reid said in a statement on Friday, trying to puncture Mr. Romney’s closing election argument that he’ll be able to deliver on the bipartisanship President Obama promised in 2008 but has struggled to live up to.
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Mr. Reid flatly ruled out following Mr. Romney’s agenda, saying he and his colleagues have already voted down many of those proposals, including House Republicans’ budget, written by Republican vice presidential nominee Rep. Paul Ryan.

“Mitt Romney has demonstrated that he lacks the courage to stand up to the tea party, kowtowing to their demands time and again. There is nothing in Mitt Romney’s record to suggest he would act any differently as president,” Mr. Reid said.

It’s almost like Harry Reid senses a Romney win and is trying to preempt premature panic among the base. However, Reid did go on to say that he’s confident of an Obama victory on Tuesday — but I think he got that information from the same sources who told him Romney didn’t pay any taxes for a decade, so that information is dubious at best.

There’s a possibility that, if the stars align mightily for the Republicans next Tuesday, Harry Reid will end up losing control of the Senate. It falls in the “unlikely” category, but the possibility does exist:

Of those 12 senate races, five are projected to be won by the Republican nominees and seven are projected to be won by the Democrats. This leads to 52 Democratic senators and 48 Republican senators. For the Republicans to win the senate majority, assuming a tie-breaking vote of the vice president if Romney and Ryan win, they will need to win any two of the of the following close seats: Massachusetts, Virginia, Indiana, Missouri, Ohio, Florida, Pennsylvania and Connecticut. The odds of a 50 seat Republican senate comes down to looking for two upset possibilities among the close races. Democrats are likely to maintain a majority in the senate.