California Conservative

Talk to any conservative pundit and they’ll tell you that they’d love to see Harry Reid defeated this fall. Stephen Moore’s WSJ article provides alot of reasons why conservative pundits, and Nevada residents, want him out of office:

When I ask whether it is really possible to knock off a Senate majority leader, she laughs and replies, “only Reid thinks he’s too big to fail.” Her strategy against the Reid attack machine is to link him to the lousy economy in Nevada. When I ask her if Nevadans want to give up Mr. Reid’s clout in Washington, she replies: “When Harry Reid got to be majority leader, the unemployment rate was 4.4%. Now it is 14%, higher than even in Michigan…What has Harry Reid’s power done for our state?” Her new TV ad, unrolled this week, hammers this message. “We know he is going to attack me constantly,” she says, because “he can’t possibly run on his record.”

I said in this post that Harry Reid’s supposed clout hasn’t helped make life better for Nevada. If anything, his earmarks have helped a tiny sliver of his cronies to the exclusion of others. Here’s more proof that Reid sides with the special interests first, Nevadans second:

Regarding jobs, she points to Mr. Reid’s role in killing three clean coal-fired plants in rural Ely, where she and her husband have lived since 1971. After years of opposition by Mr. Reid in league with various environmental groups, NV Energy halted development of a $5 billion plant in February 2009. That meant the loss of 5,000 jobs, Mrs. Angle says.

“That’s really when we realized Harry Reid doesn’t care about jobs or people losing their homes. And it’s also when ‘Anybody but Harry Reid’ signs first began to sprout up all over the state.”

Reid either believes in letting job-creating opportunities disappear or he sided with the environmentalists in killing this project. I don’t believe for a split second that Reid hates job creation. I don’t have trouble believing, though, that he’d side with Washington’s special interests so that their campaign contributions would keep flowing. (more…)