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Tom S
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Tom S asked in Politics & GovernmentPolitics · 1 decade ago

Obama is in Las Vegas to buy?

back as many votes as possible. How much money does it cost to undo thoughtless remarks about a city? Apparently 1.5 Billion. Do you think this payoff will make a difference for Harry Reid?

http://news.yahoo.com/s/bloomberg/20100219/pl_bloo...

Update:

I doubt even SEIU members can save him. They can try to beat down all voters at the both, but Harry may be done.

Update 2:

Should he have tried to cut the deficit by trying to play that 1.5 billion at the slot machines?

Update 3:

Will Migrant workers stay of there is no money?

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  • 1 decade ago
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    This is the scam I have been waring everyone about. The reason the Stimulus money has gone largely unspent for an entire year is that it was never intended to be a stimulus but a slush fund. Now Obama believes that he can pick and choose areas of the country where he can inject this funding to get the biggest political bang for the buck. This is to try to save Harry Reid and his son's political viability.

    But I there are few flies in Obama's ointment. First, the sheer size of the push back from taxpayers is surprising. I am encouraged that so many people "get it". They are not being fooled. Second, the magnitude of the economic down turn is larger than they expected. I doubt even the entire 800 billion in the slush fund is enough to save the Democrats now. Finally, the emergence of the Tea Party movement which is at the leading edge of the Conservative movement is giving empowerment back to the people who have been abused, ignored, vilified and dismissed by the very officials they voted for.

    There hasn't been enough of a distinction between Democrats and Republicans since the turn of the century. Now, that is changing. The Democrats, following Obama's, Reid's, and Pelosi's leads have run much too far to the Left to remain palatable to Independent voters. The Tea Party movement is ensuring that Conservative candidates are getting elected on the Republican side and they will hold them accountable that they walk the walk after the election as well.

    It would not surprise me to see several States refuse to take the money and insist that Obama instead used it to reduce the deficit.

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  • 1 decade ago

    Vegas is jam-packed full of SEIU members, whom Obama desperately wants to keep on his side and mobilize to keep Harry Reid in office.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    Yeah good luck. Harry Reid not only ruined his own career but his son's as well. How terrible of a father/person/politician do you have to be to ruin your descendants job opportunities!

  • 1 decade ago

    Nothing like a Kenyan in Vegas with a pocket full of money to show us democracy at it's finest.

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  • Yeah, right, like the migrant workers in Vegas are going to vote republican..........

  • 1 decade ago

    he is in the state to buy the votes for Reid much like ACORN did for him

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    Isnt vote buying illegal

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