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Other People’s Money – FOXBusiness

1.5 million dollars to develop a laundry folding robot . And don’t forget Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid’s infamous ” Cowboy Poetry Festival “. In my wealthy New York City neighborhood, politicians recently decided to hand out bike helmets, free [...]

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R.J. Manning: An in-house remedy for big government – Orange County Register

It seems unbelievable, but Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid recently objected to proposed legislation as “mean-spirited” because it did not fund a cowboy poetry festival in Nevada. Dysfunctional government is also addressed in the Government …

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It’s a spending problem – Vacaville Reporter

But it gets worse: The left has become so brazen and detached from reality that the leader of the Senate, Democrat Harry Reid, declared straight-faced on C-SPAN that Republican spending cuts could jeopardize Nevada’s Cowboy Poetry Festival — a calamitous [...]

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Rep. Shimkus calls Yucca Mountain ‘very sad’ after trip – St. Louis Post-Dispatch

WASHINGTON • Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., called the trip “a publicity stunt.” A Nevadan in the U.S. House said the travelers should have consulted Google Earth and stayed home. But Rep. John Shimkus returned from Yucca Mountain this [...]

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BASED ON THE NEW BUDGET DEAL, DEMOCRAT SEN. – Burlington County Times

Based on the new budget deal, Democrat Sen. Harry Reid will be able to use taxpayer money to have his Cowboy Poetry Festival in Nevada after all. Yippee! Dan Shaw, Richboro “Me” the people are most likely Republicans with all [...]

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Forty– something – Columbia Star

Last month Sen. Harry Reid made an impassioned plea with a straight and perfectly solemn face to save federal funds for a cowboy poetry festival in his home state of Nevada. The United States was fighting two wars, the Middle [...]

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CAGW Names Senator Harry Reid Porker of the Month – PR Inside

the March “Porker of the Month” Award for his absurd belief : that a federally-funded Cowboy Poetry Festival in Elko, Nevada (pop. 17,000) constitutes essential government spending. The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), which allots a small …

http://www.pr-inside.com/cagw-names-senator-harry-reid-porker-r2499314.htm

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Letters from readers: Out of step – Florida Times-Union

In the well of the Senate, Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nevada, bemoaned that funding would put in jeopardy the annual Northern Nevada Cowboy Poetry Festival. Cowboy Poetry Festival? You can’t make this stuff up! The political class and the people [...]

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LETTER: U.S. debt is getting larger – Aiken Standard

And the Democrats never made a budget for 2011. And Harry Reid just said he would not cut the federal spending, wanting to save the funding for the Nevada Cowboy Poetry Festival each year in Nevada. When does the hope [...]

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Complete text of Sen. Harry Reid’s speech to the Nevada Legislature – Reno Gazette

We were battle born. Our principles and priorities keep us balanced as the challenges before us change. Our resolve to recover is as solid as the Sierras – and my belief in that determination is just as unmovable. We’ve recovered [...]

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If Harry Reid didn’t exist, we’d have to invent him – Atlanta Journal Constitution (blog)

In the middle of his tirade against House Republicans’ “mean-spirited” budget bill on the Senate floor Tuesday, the Senate Majority Leader lamented that the GOP’s proposed budget cuts would eliminate the annual “cowboy poetry festival” in his …

http://blogs.ajc.com/kyle-wingfield/2011/03/08/if-harry-reid-didnt-exist-wed-have-to-invent-him/

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Mike Pence: Time for GOP to Fight on Budget, Planned Parenthood – LifeNews.com

In an interview with Fox News this morning, Pence said: The American people know that the federal government is going broke and for Harry Reid to not only defend the Cowboy Poetry Festival, but to say that finding $ [...]

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Reida s Cowboy Poetry Puffery

Sen. Harry Reid vastly overstated annual attendance figures for the federally subsidized National Cowboy Poetry Gathering in Nevada.

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Brothels fire back at Harry Reid

Nevada legislators sat in stunned silence when U.S. Sen. Harry Reid proposed outlawing the state’s brothels last week, but the working girls and brothel employees are speaking loud and clear.

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`Nevada brothel owners prefer to be pioneers – Reno Gazette-Journal

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`Nevada brothel owners prefer to be pioneersReno Gazette-JournalBut whatever they were wearing, the prostitutes walking the hallways of the Nevada State Legislature were stepping out in defiance. Nevada is the last place in the US working girls can openly say [...]

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