Harry Reid Gives Odd Sen. Speech: I Really Miss My Pomegranate Trees and Rose Bushes
- Posted on August 2, 2011 at 1:31pm by
Jonathon M. Seidl
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Harry Reid has delivered on speeches on the Senate floor in the past. For example, he’s detailed college football games and cowboy poetry. Now? Well, we get to learn about his pomegranate trees and rose bushes.
While discussing the Senate’s agenda and possible recess, Reid trailed off into dreamy talk about his Nevada home that he hasn’t seen in months. Then came discussion about his plants:
“It‘s been a pretty hard work period we’ve had. The last two weekends, working late. And I think the Senate deserves to be able to go home as soon as we can. If there was ever a time we need to work with our constituents, it’s now. And for me personally, I’ve been here for a long time. I have a home in Nevada that I haven’t seen in months. My pomegranate trees are, I’m told, are blossoming — there’s pomegranates on them, I have some fig trees, roses and stuff that I just haven’t seen. So I have constituents that I’m anxious to see, friends I’m eager to visit with, relatives I need to visit with. So as soon as we can complete our work, I would like to move as quick as I can to the summer recess period.”
CNS News, which first noted the speech, summed it up like this: “In remarks on the Senate floor Monday, Majority Leader Harry Reid made it clear he’s longing to go home.”
I guess you can’t blame the guy for being homesick. But trying to create sympathy on the Senate floor for having to stick around and do your job? And mentioning your pomegranate and fig trees and your rose bushes?
I hate to wonder what he’ll talk about next.
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Comments (275)
123abc
Posted on August 2, 2011 at 1:52pmI think old Harry‘s losin’ it. He can hardly even speak anymore.
Report Post »TumbleBumble
Posted on August 2, 2011 at 2:01pmNow that’s a prollem.
Report Post »Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
Posted on August 2, 2011 at 2:24pmNo he is not losing it — I have spoken and posted on other sights the prospect of Obama using Reid as a political scapegoat over the debt fiasco; Reid will probably announce his retiring shortly and not run in the next Nevada elections…Obama has coverage for his actions by using the tactics that Reid did for obstructionist of the legislation; coverage with the left base Obama has…not much after this I honestly pray.
Reid will take the heat for Obama and probably get some cushy administrativie postion on the part of Obama if the worst nightmare happens and he gets into office once again.
Report Post »artistskeptic
Posted on August 2, 2011 at 2:38pmI’m sure “poor ole Harry” doesn’t want to be in Navada as badly as we want him to be in Navada. May he soon reside permanently in the shade of his beloved pomegranite trees.
Report Post »robert
Posted on August 2, 2011 at 2:40pm“I have a home in Nevada that I haven’t seen in months.”
Well, go home, Dingy Harry. At your age if you don;t leave now you might not get there standing up.
Among you, Nancy Pelosi or Ted Kennedy I dont know who might be the country’s worse politician ever.
Report Post »BIGJAYINPA
Posted on August 2, 2011 at 2:40pmHarry my man. You can retire any time you want and go home to the roses. Take the price of a gold watch out of petty cash. If you so desire you can be buried under those roses and pomegranites. Your Choice….Just sayin’
Report Post »ConstitutionalPatriot
Posted on August 2, 2011 at 2:46pmThat‘s why he is the ’leader’. Look Soros picked Obama because if he isn‘t reading it he ain’t saying it period. So who did Obama GET TO PICK? Joe Biden (need I explain), Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi. Damn that Soros sure can set up those ‘Ten pins’ huh…
Report Post »Dale
Posted on August 2, 2011 at 2:49pmCould be dingy’s swan song. He had to work late and on weekends! WOW. This appears that he is ready to give up his sinecure – and return to Nevada. Heck, if he did, I’d buy some pomegranates from him!
Report Post »Edct
Posted on August 2, 2011 at 2:53pmHe stole the last election in NV with his illegal mexs and sold our country for a dollar and a vote….he is truly a political prostitute.
Report Post »Servant Of YHVH
Posted on August 2, 2011 at 3:22pmHey, for once I 100% agree with something he said! So, Harry go home, tend to your trees and your plants and STAY THERE!!!
Report Post »llotus
Posted on August 2, 2011 at 3:33pm123abc………look and listen to nancy, harry,,, barney, obama, momabama and the rest of em. They all have lost it. Whats harry gonna do when they come to his door wanting their share of his wealth. They have created a monster and they are going to want and take what they have been promised from the very start of this mess. They have chosen to destroy the only source of revinue, the people that are willing to work and pay taxes. They have closed the door on the only answer. I fear it is all down hill from here. The republican progressives, and we now have a clearer picture of which ones are, have it seems, joined the American haters. They are no better. These people are traitors now, in my book. Please put someone with integerty in the Speaker seat and fast. All of them are in a fantacy land. Deport all of em. They dont have enough since to live here. Lotus.
Report Post »Anonymous T. Irrelevant
Posted on August 2, 2011 at 3:42pmHarry lost it long ago. He is just a puppet like his alter-ego Pelosi.
Report Post »chazman
Posted on August 2, 2011 at 3:49pmHe’s been hit one too many times in the head. Besides, I’ve always thought him to be a stupid man. Do the American people a favor, Harry. Go home and don’t come back.
Report Post »lvamervet
Posted on August 2, 2011 at 4:00pmI don’t know which one I hate more…….obama, pelosi or reid…..
Report Post »I KNOW FOR SURE I CAN’T BEAR TO LISTEN TO ANY OF THEM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
yougottabekidding
Posted on August 2, 2011 at 4:16pmDo they smell better then the tourists?
Report Post »MIBUGNU2
Posted on August 2, 2011 at 5:00pmI miss my lawn mower and compost pile .
Report Post »MIBUGNU2
Posted on August 2, 2011 at 5:10pm@ Edct
Posted on August 2, 2011 at 2:53pm
He stole the last election in NV with his illegal mexs and sold our country for a dollar and a vote….he is truly a political prostitute
In Jan. 2013, this little Tur** will be sitting in the back of the room…
Report Post »verityquest
Posted on August 2, 2011 at 5:13pmDon’t let the door hit you in the A s s on the way out and home, HARRY. You lying, petulant P-O-S.
VOTE – 2012
Report Post »VegasGuy
Posted on August 2, 2011 at 5:52pmI miss the TEA Party rally we had in Harry’s home town of Searchlight. I wish there were another scheduled, you know, to welcome him home.
Report Post »SFsuper49er
Posted on August 2, 2011 at 6:00pmI am totally unplugging from the mainstream media news. I can’t take all the lies deception and foolishness coming from Washington anymore. My 12 year old has more sense then most of them. They say the stupidest things anymore. I think they act like kids and they do whatever they want to do anyway. It’s always about some secret agenda that the American people never know. No truth. All corruption, lies and greed… I need to wrap duct tape around my head so it don’t explode… I think i am unplugging from The Factor too… Bill has been shifting to far in the middle touching the left in a few cases. Some things he says disturbs me here lately. Been wanting to watch Sean Hannity more… GBTV and the Blaze is going to be my only source of news then i can take the duct tape off my head…
Report Post »getalong
Posted on August 2, 2011 at 6:31pmPoor Harry, has to actually do some work for a change. This guy needs to be put out to pasture some where far away from Washington, DC
Report Post »zoose
Posted on August 2, 2011 at 9:01pmIf he misses his pomegranate trees and rose bushes he could always just retire.
Report Post »loadingmyclips
Posted on August 3, 2011 at 10:23amFigures the bedwetter wouldn’t miss his HArley or shooting range. I hope he brought his panty liners!!
Report Post »Libertyluvnmomma
Posted on August 3, 2011 at 12:11pmHis wang-doodle is prolbly (!) sore from scr*wing the American people in the back door.
Report Post »RaeMarie
Posted on August 3, 2011 at 1:37pmGo on home, Harry. And stay there. He should have retired long ago.
Report Post »Secret Squirrel
Posted on August 3, 2011 at 2:11pm.
Report Post »Drunk.
Secret Squirrel
Posted on August 3, 2011 at 2:14pm.
Report Post »And you thought Sharon Angle was crazy?
wildernessrider
Posted on August 4, 2011 at 12:05amGee Harry I think You should go home hay and stay there resign Your post We all know You deserve a good long relaxing rest and a suffisent amount of time to clean all of those darn tea party commen sence trueths out of your mind and that might take a long long time so do what You gotta do Ill understand!
Report Post »UlyssesP
Posted on August 2, 2011 at 1:52pmI don’t get it. The trees voted for him?
Report Post »“I have some fig trees, roses and stuff that I just haven’t seen. So I have constituents that I’m anxious to see”
jackbauer
Posted on August 2, 2011 at 2:07pmWith the deployment of Democrat’s inventive voting methods, who knows, maybe the trees and rose bushes did vote for him.
Report Post »MidWestMom
Posted on August 2, 2011 at 2:15pmThey were threatened with Round-Up weed killer if they didn’t vote the “left” way.
Report Post »independentvoteril
Posted on August 2, 2011 at 2:21pm@MIDWESTMOM.. Good one..
Report Post »Kiti45
Posted on August 2, 2011 at 5:13pmYeah ACORN helped them register to vote
Report Post »code green
Posted on August 2, 2011 at 1:49pmHarry I think the butter has slipped off your bread .
Report Post »LibertyMama
Posted on August 2, 2011 at 1:48pmI hope he’s so homesick he can bear to return to DC after the recess.
Report Post »Stoic one
Posted on August 2, 2011 at 1:59pmDon’t you mean he cannot bear to return to DC????
I hope he never leaves Nevada again.
Report Post »Libertyluvnmomma
Posted on August 3, 2011 at 12:12pmYou stole my moniker- you should have found your own.
Report Post »Dismayed Veteran
Posted on August 2, 2011 at 1:47pmMy summer recess ended the summer of 1965. I want it back.
Report Post »drphil69
Posted on August 2, 2011 at 1:51pmHarry, we will do our best to get you home right after your next election.
Report Post »douglassoileau
Posted on August 2, 2011 at 1:47pmdot·age/ˈdōtij/Noun
Report Post »1. The period of life in which a person is old and weak: “you could live here and look after me in my dotage”.
2. The state of having the intellect impaired, esp. through old age; senility
vtxphantom
Posted on August 2, 2011 at 3:32pmMaybe he was shot in the head too, when no one was looking
Report Post »Shiroi Raion
Posted on August 2, 2011 at 1:47pmOh… so sad… you miss your pomegranate trees. I feel worse for the people who miss having a paycheck or having homes because of the Progressive agenda. Shrink the government, lower the spending, stop pandering to your corrupt cronies, and get the government out of the way so people can get back to work, fool.
Report Post »Right of Glenn
Posted on August 2, 2011 at 6:41pmAMEN Brother! The Chicken, wants to go home and Roost!
Report Post »Ghandi was a Republican
Posted on August 2, 2011 at 1:45pmBig deal Harry– You worked 2 weekends whining and berating American who want a little accountability and transparency in Government. All you worked on was a piece of legislation that was written for this crisis YOU and OBAMA/PELOSI engineered with your cohorts over the last decade!
Report Post »Maybe now G Sore-azz will let you have a little time off, or maybe he will have you hang around and work on another corrupt jobs/stimulus/bailout/takeover bill… Too bad you are HIS Bitttch~
deleeuw
Posted on August 2, 2011 at 1:45pmI wanna go home too, but I have a job to do. And if I don’t do my job, I DON”T go to my boss and demand a raise!
Report Post »Secessionista
Posted on August 2, 2011 at 1:44pmDid anyone notice – did he happen to mention anything about jobs or the economy? No? Not on the top of his agenda list? Oh, I see.
Report Post »barnyard
Posted on August 2, 2011 at 1:43pmcan we hope he goes home and stays home forever
Report Post »ukcats
Posted on August 2, 2011 at 3:17pmnot gonna happen. He’s addicted to shoving unpopular legislation down our throats.
Report Post »eyestoseeearstohear
Posted on August 2, 2011 at 1:43pmIt’s “CODE” for something!
Report Post »MidWestMom
Posted on August 2, 2011 at 1:41pmAlzheimers or Lunacy, take your pick.
Report Post »godlovinmom
Posted on August 2, 2011 at 1:48pmA little of both, I’m afraid!
Report Post »Mateytwo Barreett
Posted on August 2, 2011 at 1:58pmAdd your comments
Report Post »Right of Glenn
Posted on August 2, 2011 at 6:45pmRepeal the 17th amendment, do you think his State Legislature would tolerate this bag of wind? Let give the States a Voice again!
Report Post »Mrtoohappy
Posted on August 2, 2011 at 1:40pmDon’t hurry back Harry. May be you can take Nancy with you?
Report Post »MIBUGNU2
Posted on August 2, 2011 at 1:56pmTake Nancy, Can use that POS as compost for your Trees…
Report Post »BlondeFrenzy
Posted on August 2, 2011 at 1:39pmI hope he drops dead under one of his pomegranate trees!
Report Post »EZDOZIT
Posted on August 2, 2011 at 2:07pmThat‘s the only thing he’s good for…fertilizer.
Report Post »Volsense
Posted on August 2, 2011 at 1:39pmAs liberal after liberal takes the podium and exposes they are merely babbling fools, it shows the lack of intelligence of the American voter to keep electing the same fools over and over. Pelosi and Reid are disgraces and definitley unfit to lead.
Report Post »biohazard23
Posted on August 2, 2011 at 1:39pmHarry, guess what? No one’s gonna stop you if you go. Why don’t you just permanently hang out under your pomegranate tree and watch those roses bloom? Leave the people‘s work to people who actually CARE about our nation’s future.
Report Post »hauschild
Posted on August 2, 2011 at 1:38pmSenile old codger should be locked-up. Instead, he’s responsible for the major legislative bills in this country.
We’re so screwed, guys.
Report Post »boston-rightwinger
Posted on August 2, 2011 at 1:38pmOur economy is not going to improve until Obama and Reed are gone as Washington leaders. The rhetoric must stop and the class warfare really ****** me off. We need leaders who can lead and not whiners that like to spend other people money, even if they have not been born yet.
Report Post »deleeuw
Posted on August 2, 2011 at 1:37pmWhat the…???
Report Post »SpankDaMonkey
Posted on August 2, 2011 at 1:37pm.
Report Post »He must have got Nancy to hook him up with a Medical Marijuana Script. His one brain cell is worn out from figuring out how to screw the rest of us………..
trolltrainer
Posted on August 2, 2011 at 1:37pmHe is not well. Notice all the coughing he was doing? He is starting to ramble. It would not surprise me to learn in the very near future that he is terminal with something.
Report Post »hauschild
Posted on August 2, 2011 at 1:38pmAnd, I would absolutely hate it if that happened!
Report Post »douglassoileau
Posted on August 2, 2011 at 1:41pmHe already has it, it’s called stupidity
Report Post »douglassoileau
Posted on August 2, 2011 at 1:36pmBrain Dead Idiot…………..what’s new……….
Report Post »salvawhoray
Posted on August 2, 2011 at 1:36pmHe’s like the “BP Guy” Saying “He wants his life back”.
Report Post »well a lot of tax payers would like their house back also the tax payers that are trying to keep their houses.
sWampy
Posted on August 2, 2011 at 1:34pmWell go home you senile old fool.
Report Post »douglassoileau
Posted on August 2, 2011 at 1:40pmYes , go home old fool, and bring mccain, schumer, mcconnell,and liberman with you
Report Post »sawhorse1950
Posted on August 2, 2011 at 10:22pmYeah, we don’t need your stinking ugly face around..get lost..for good..
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