Whore House Harry And Other Embarassments

Having been in the great Northland last weekend, I got to hear Jerry Doyle, one of my favorite talk shows hosts (overnight on
WVMT, Burlington), go off on Whore House Harry Reid, the despicable Nevada senator who embarrasses himself, his party, and the entire Senate with his "dirty lies" about Mitt Romney on the Senate floor.

Whore House Harry is Doyle's epithet for Reid, based on the senator's childhood in a Nevada whore house (not that there's anything wrong with that), and a more fitting nickname would be impossible to come by.

I've been reading about the great Senate triumverate of Webster, Clay, and Calhoun, and just to think, this very Senate floor where Webster uttered those resounding words "liberty and union, now and forever" is the same place where Whore House Harry made up a story out of whole cloth that Mitt Romney hasn't paid any taxes in ten years.

In the New Hampshire House, such a comment would not be allowed (Paul Mirski came close to breaching the level of decorum by ranting against the Supreme Court).  It would be ruled not only inappropriate but irrelevant, but here we had the Senate Majority Leader not in some bar or in some back alley, but on the very floor of the Senate spread vicious slurs.

Even if it were true (and it clearly is not), how would this anonymous source have been able to tell Whore House that Romney had not paid any taxes.  Doesn't Whore House Harry realize that one's tax returns are private items between one and the IRS? 

Maybe Whore House Harry should release his own tax returns to show the world how he's become a multimillionaire many times over on a senator's salary.  Some say influence peddling has been involved, but none say that on the Senate floor.

Almost as silly as Whore House Harry has been the response from certain overzealous Republican spinmeisters who embarrass themselves and their party (albeit not on the Senate floor, usually in radio studios) by insisting that President Obama needs to release his college grades or that he needs to explain how he ever got a "Connecticut" social security number without living in Connecticut.

Has the political world gone mad?

I seem to remember a time when stupid comments from the likes of Whore House Harry or his Republican counterparts would not dominate the news?

Unemployment?

A $16 trillion deficit leading to the downfall of this country?

Who cares when we have the wild ravings of a United States senator and Republicans obsessed with college grades and SS cards.

Make it stop; make it stop.