Michelle Obama heads to Nevada : The Swamp
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Chicago Tribune
Posted May 27, 2010 1:53 PM
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by Lisa Mascaro

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid will get a little help in his re-election bid next week as he welcomes First Lady Michelle Obama to Nevada to tout healthy living initiatives in Reno and Las Vegas.

Michelle Obama will headline a Women's Summit in Reno on Tuesday morning before heading south to Las Vegas for a swearing-in ceremony for Junior Rangers a the Red Rock Conservation Area that afternoon.

The First Lady's visit comes as Nevadans are in the midst of early voting for the June 8 primary. Several Republicans are in heated campaigns for the chance to challenge the majority leader this fall. Republican frontrunner, Sue Lowden, suffered setbacks after recent gaffes, and she is losing ground to Tea Party-backed Sharron Angle.

Reid has hosted a long list of administration officials to Nevada during his uphill battle for a fifth-term. Joining the first lady and the majority leader at the event will be an assistant secretary from the Interior Department and other administration officials.


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Bye-bye, Harry!


Thanks to the fringe right wing nutjobs that Republicans are running against Harry Reid, he'll end up having no problem whatsoever getting reelected.


Republican Sharron Angle has Weird Ties to Scientology http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2010/05/sharron-angle-attacked-for-alleged-scientology-ties.php


Republican Sue Lowden's Top Supporter (Reno Mayor) Mocks Her, Calls Her: "Suicidal Sue".
http://videocafe.crooksandliars.com/scarce/suicidal-sue-lowden



I Heart Michelle Obama!


Is she staying there, or crossing the boarder to run.


With Sue "Chicken" Lowden on a downward trajectory, the GOP looks set to nominate Rand Paul's female Teabagger doppleganger (Sharron Angle) in Nevada.


http://dyn.politico.com/printstory.cfm?uuid=C7D8EE28-18FE-70B2-A8E6C13E0168C2AF


On Angle's website — which is full of spelling mistakes and grammatical errors — Angle declares: "Like a soldier going to war, I am fighting for my country, the Constitution and a free society."


She wants to privatize Social Security; cut federal spending by hundreds of billions of dollars; build nuclear power plants inside Yucca Mountain; abolish the federal income tax and institute a "simpler, fairer, flatter tax system"; "defund Obamacare"; pull the United States out of the United Nations; ban nearly all abortions; get rid of the Energy and Education departments as well as Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac; and remove all campaign finance restrictions, requiring instead immediate reporting of donations.


And in a state with a large and growing Hispanic population, Angle takes a hard-line view on immigration, siding with the tough new Arizona "papers please" law that gives law enforcement officials broad discretion to crack down on suspected illegal aliens.


Angle's response? Well, everyone agrees with the Teabaggers!


Angle says the Democrats are misreading the country.


"They’ve missed the pulse of the nation," Angle told POLITICO. "It’s a wave of conservatism across the land. I think they’re not really reading what is truly going on if they think I’m going to be an easy opponent for Harry Reid."


After being named the "worst member" of the Nevada Assembly in 1999 and 2005 by the conservative Las Vegas Review-Journal, Angle claimed it was all a "liberal plot".


Angle said the press, legislators and staff participating in the poll were largely "left leaning."


"Any conservative thought, or any conservative voting, to their way of thinking is terrible," Angle said. "And so that’s really what that rating was about. I wear that as a badge of honor. What that does is just solidify my record as being a conservative."


Whether it's Lowden or Angle, it looks as if Reid may be the luckiest politician this cycle. By rights, his numbers suggest he's facing imminent retirement to his Searchlight ranch. But as with Kentucky, the Teabagger Republicans are doing their damnedest to give Democrats a new lease on life.
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http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0510/37670.html
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http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/archives/individual/2010_05/023972.php



DeaninNV

All the polls I see have Hairy Reed behind anybody put up against him. And using left-wing bloggers is just plain idiotic. Try to get it a real source next time triple H.


I puke Michele Obama


I puke Michele Obama

Posted by: pat | May 27, 2010 9:41 PM


Maybe you can see a doctor and get your government run medicare to take care of that.


Have a good one Aunt Ester.


I guess she doesn't have to show ANY support for the people on the Gulf Coast. Making political points is MORE on her agenda. Must be nice to Finally be proud to be an American and go for the political spoils FIRST.


Joining the first lady and the majority leader at the event will be an assistant secretary from the Interior Department


"And so that’s really what that rating was about. I wear that as a badge of honor. What that does is just solidify my record as being a conservative."


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