Politico: Reid's Favors To Family Dragging Him Down

by JASmius

"Tonight we have an in-depth investigation into a scandal that is just beginning to break, and it's one that could mean the end of Harry Reid's political career." - Sean Hannity

"Shyah, right." - JASmius

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You know, after twenty years of one Democrat scandal after another raising conservative hopes of bringing down one powerful, high-ranking Democrat pol after another, only to see each and every such hope brutally and cruelly smashed to atoms, one would think that we would stop taking the bait.

Alas, the Right appears to be terminally gullible:

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid has found himself slowly sinking into the political quicksand as he faces close public scrutiny over potentially enriching family members through his powerful position as a Democratic leader.

The Nevada senator has recently become embroiled in the embarrassing controversy surrounding the $31,268 that his campaign paid to his granddaughter Ryan Elisabeth Reid for the purchase of gift items from her jewelry line, according to Politico.

We, of course, know all about and have posted about this latest Reidian malfeasance.  We also know all about what a corrupt, crooked old bastard Harry Reid is and has always been.  There's nothing in or about this story that is news, other than the allegation that this time, Dirty Harry is "slowly sinking into the political quicksand".

To which I respond with a simple question: Says who?  Politico?  The same bunch that, until the recent controversy,had declared, accurately, that the senator was "Mr. Teflon"?  What's so singularly devastating about Pencilneck laundering campaign money through his granddaughter's jewelry business as opposed to his past heists?:

[Reid's] weakness for pulling strings to help family members was first exposed by the Los Angeles Times a decade ago when a Nevada land bill proposed by Reid appeared to benefit his son-in-law Steve Barringer's consulting firm and his sons' legal firm.

The Howard Hughes Corp. paid $300,000 to the Washington firm Steve Barringer worked for to push a provision allowing the company to buy 1,000 acres of federal land for development in the then-burgeoning Las Vegas area, according to the Times.

The bill also benefited a real-estate development headed by a senior partner in the Nevada law firm that then employed all four of Reid's sons — Rory, Leif, Josh, and Key — by moving the right-of-way for a federal power transmission line off his property and onto what had been protected federal wilderness.

In its report, the Times said, "So pervasive are the ties among Reid, members of his family, and Nevada's leading industries and institutions that it's difficult to find a significant field in which such a relationship does not exist." [emphasis added]

A decade ago, ladies and gentlemen.  When he was only Senate Democrat Whip.  Long before he became (with unmerited apologies to Senate President Pro Tem "Leaky" Leahy) the most powerful Donk legislator in Congress.  That's at least how long his racket has been ongoing, unfettered and unimpeded by so much as an investigation, much less any media attention.  And he's kept getting re-elected and growing more and more powerful.

So tell me again where this "political quicksand" is coming from?  Because I'm putting that in the category of "Alien Autopsies," Bigfoot, the Loch Ness Monster, and other fantasies, until such time as an orange-prison-garbed Harry Reid is frog-marched out of the Senate chamber in handcuffs and legirons.