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Reid: NEA Saving Lives via Cowboy Poetry

By: Steve Maley (Diary)  |  March 8th, 2011 at 08:42 PM  | 

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When it comes to cutting budgets, everything is on the table with the Democratic leadership of the Senate. Absolutely everything, everything, up to and including cowboy poetry festivals.

Or maybe not.


“The mean-spirited bill, H.R. 1, eliminates National Public Broadcasting,” said Reid in a floor speech. “It eliminates the National Endowment of the Humanities, National Endowment of the Arts. These programs create jobs. The National Endowment of the Humanities is the reason we have in northern Nevada every January a cowboy poetry festival. Had that program not been around, the tens of thousands of people who come there every year would not exist.”

Consider this an open thread. Extra points for Cowboy Poetry.

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  • izoneguy

    I always thought that Reid was a brokeback mountain kind of cowboy.

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    Home, Home on the Range
    Where the Democrats live on our pay
    Where seldom is seen
    A balanced budget?so mean!!!
    And Unions just whittle away

    • rightwingmom52
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        if you look at it another way….

        all we’re trying to do is to open up the barn and let the Union-critters free to roam the range again. They’ve gotten so soft in their comfort zone that they don’t remember what freedom feels like now.

    • gekster

      Oh give me a home,
      Where conservatives roam,
      and my children are free to go out and play.
      Where never is heard,
      a liberal word,
      and Old Glory flys with out shame.

      Home, home it’s my land,
      where conservatives must make a stand.
      with no NPR,
      I can smoke in a bar,
      And my taxes stay with me all day.

      Home, home it’s my land,
      where conservatives must make a stand.
      My countries not done,
      I’ve got liberties we won,
      And we can’t let them take them away.

      Feel free to add. :)

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      • Vegas_Rick
  • throwback59

    of tens of thousands. And Sharron Angle was crazy?

    • Next93

      Looking at the quote, I think he’s saying that these people exist only because someone is or has read poetry. If the poetry hadn’t been read aloud, they would never have come into existance.

      Either this man is spouting complete gibberish, or he’s developed an entirely new branch of quantum mechanics

      (Not that I’m saying that the two are mutually exclusive)

      • http://theminorityreportblog.com Repair_Man_Jack

        if we go with the Quantum Mechanics thesis.

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  • EagleWatcher

    These people are disgraceful. We have to throw these con men out of office.

    • Next93

      …it seems to me that the fact that they *were* voted back into office pretty much proves that SOMEONE is stupid.

      Hello, 53? Are you listening?

      • Vegas_Rick

        We did everything we could. But he had the SEIU, Culinary and most other unions. And he had half the casinos in town convinced he would get internet gambling past. They bused their employees to the polls with instructions. And, yeah, there are a great many stupid people in this state.

        • Castor

          Full disclosure: I contributed generously to Angle

          • Vegas_Rick

            after the primary. I like Tark too.

  • rcatheart

    What sorts of shenanigans go on at this festival???

    • Next93

      They really should be just be going to Cowboy Poetry Slams.

      **threadjack begins***
      (BTW, what’s with this fascination the Chinese have with aphrodesiacs? There’s 1.8 BILLION of them already, and they’re only allowed half a kid each, do they REALLY need to wipe out half the species on the planet to get folk-remedy aphrodesiacs? And who really tests to see if it IS rhino horn? Would they really know the difference between powdered cow hoof and powdered rhino horn?)
      ***end threadjack***

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      • http://theminorityreportblog.com Repair_Man_Jack

        Those can’t be good for anything. Pteh!

  • dennism

    Baxter Black perform once, in front of maybe 3,000 people. I don’t think Harry Reid or Mr. Obama either one could have got 10% of the vote in that crowd… they were all eating beef.

    I encourage you to check out some of his poetry at http://www.cowboypoetry.com/bb.htm which is of course an internet website and we wouldn’t have the internet if it weren’t for Al Gore.

  • conservativecurmudgeon

    and I could barely breathe, I was laughing so hard; Reid sounds so sad and heartbroken– and completely unaware of how monumentally dopey he sounds. This really needs to be played again and again and again– right up until November, 2012.

    If the American People knew the degree to which our money is spent on Cowboy Poetry Festivals of all stripes, there would be a revolution.

  • vamoose

    As long as former Wyoming Senator Alan Simpson is alive there will be cowboy poetry.

    ?…they’re walking on their pants with the cap on backwards listening to the enema man and Snoopy Snoopy Poop Dogg…?

  • chbroussard

    I’d like to preface by saying that Reid is a certifiable nutcase.

    Mommas don’t let your babies grow up to be liberals.
    They won’t pick guitars; they won’t ride in trucks.
    All that they’ll do is steal all your bucks.

  • NRPax

    Folks here won’t exist
    If they cannot hear my words?
    Wow. I have power.

  • http://twitter.com/biggator5 BigGator5

    An old cowboy went riding out one dark and windy day
    Upon a ridge he rested as he went along his way
    When all at once a mighty herd of red eyed cows he saw
    A-plowing through the ragged sky and up the cloudy draw

    Their brands were still on fire and their hooves were made of steel
    Their horns were black and shiny and their hot breath he could feel
    A bolt of fear went through him as they thundered through the sky
    For he saw the Riders coming hard and he heard their mournful cry

    Yippie yi Ohhhhh
    Yippie yi yaaaaay
    Ghost Riders in the sky

    Their faces gaunt, their eyes were blurred, their shirts all soaked with sweat
    He’s riding hard to catch that herd, but he ain’t caught ‘em yet
    ‘Cause they’ve got to ride forever on that range up in the sky
    On horses snorting fire
    As they ride on hear their cry

    As the riders loped on by him he heard one call his name
    “If you want to save your soul from Hell a-riding on our range
    Then cowboy change your ways today or with us you will ride
    Trying to catch the Devil’s herd, across these endless skies”

    Yippie yi Ohhhhh
    Yippie yi Yaaaaay
    Ghost Riders In The Sky

    • silkywiley

      Always loved this one. My uncles sang it to me when I was a tot. You could feel the thunder of the herd.

      And to think, it was written before there was an NEA and old Reid was wanderin’ around the dusty desert in old Nevadi’ in his diaper.

  • http://theminorityreportblog.com Repair_Man_Jack

    Git ALong Little Dawgie,
    Little Dawgie, Littel Dawgie
    Git Along, Little Dawgie
    And we’ll tellya how to vote

    You don’t need no job,
    no job, no job
    you don’t need no job
    you’ll get handouts instead

    You don’t need no private sector,
    no private sector, no private sector
    you don’t need no private sector
    money just magically appears

    Someone else will pay the taxes,
    pay the taxes, pay the taxes
    Someone else will pay the taxes
    we just tax the rich

    Someone else will do the thinking,
    do the thinking, do the thinking
    someone else will do the thinking,
    we’re better than you

    So move along, little dawgie,
    little dawgie, little dawgie
    move along little dawgie
    and join the blue herd.

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      the part about someone else paying the taxes.

      Do you think it ever occurs to liberals that the “wealthy” could just pack up and get the heck out of Dodge if they wanted to? If a “wealthy” person is put in a position of choosing between national loyalty and love of money or possessions…human beings are what they are, right?

      Then the liberals would be depending only on us “stupid folks” right? Could we go on strike then if we wanted to?

      • silkywiley

        They saw the pendulum swing coming when Pelosi was ready to step up to Speaker. Quietly, as they always do, with their fine honed instincts, they folded up tent, packed up and moved their fungible capital. Nothing you can do about it. The communists tried, they killed them all off and confiscated their goods, their farms, etc. Russia remains a country of brutish peasants. They will never recover.

        And our rich, they are smarter and more mobile and I guarantee that the impulse to self-preservation in the rich is stronger than any socialist movement foisted on this country by the new puritans.

  • http://janicecantore.com Janice Cantore

    I seriously think the guy has Altzheimer’s, I thought so when he debated Angle and talked about colonscopys. Can’t figure Nevada for sending him back to Washington

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      The man has a way with words, doesn’t he?

  • schooky

    Rollin Rollin Rollin Whoa my A$$ is swollin, RAWHIDE!

  • Next93

    The country has to raise its debt limit to the point where economic growth will never cover the bill, which means that inflation is going to destroy the savings of the old and the dreams of the young. Medicare spending is set to go to the point where the tax rate will have to go to 40% just to cover that one program. We’re spending more on HHS than the entire federal budget back when Johnson saddled us with the Great Society, and Social Security is turning into the biggest Ponzie scheme in history.

    It’s good to know that in the midst of that, Reid is able to focus on the really important things; making the world safe for Cowboy Poetry festivals and Big Bird.

  • dennism

    Somewhere deep in the old man’s eyes a mem’ry took a’hold.
    It fought the ageless undertow that drains and mocks the old.
    I wiped a dribble off his chin, “Pop, tell me what you see?”
    “It’s all the boys I rode with, I think they’ve come for me.”

    First stanza of “Good Bye, Old Man,” a poem by Baxter
    Black, evidently written about Harry Reid.

    • SoulEspresso
  • Michael Dugas

    Is it possible for Reid to look any more idiotic?
    Hope he keeps it up……moronic behavior suits him.

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  • Tbone

    “Had that program not been around, the tens of thousands of people who come there every year would not exist.?

  • rightwingmom52
  • http://whattoreadtoday.blogspot.com/ Paula

    Had that program not been around, the tens of thousands of people who come there every year would not exist.?

    Wait, what? Is the talking about Planned Parenthood funding? Because of PP funding thousands – no millions – of people do not exist and will never hear cowboy poetry. How about ‘rassling up a little sympathy for those poor souls Harry?

  • Castor

    Harry Reid in a ten gallon hat.
    One gallon of bull…
    And nine gallons of SH–

  • Raven

    water contamination in Roaring Branch, Lycoming County ((DEP, “2009 Marcellus Violations–violation #569930″)

    Bainbridge Township, Ohio, Dec 2007, (Ohio Department of Natural Resources (9/1/08))

    COGGC, “West Divide Creek Gas Seep” (4/14/04)

    and
    February 2009 Cabot Oil & Gas in Dimock, PA?

    • http://vladenblog.tumblr.com Steve Maley

      My impression is that Cabot agreed to run a water line for a certain number of residents before there was any kind of proof of causation.

      Oil and gas operations since time immemorial have been blamed for any and all disasters and calamities that happen in their vicinity. If livestock dies, it’s always the oil company’s fault, it’s always a prizewinning stud bull, and the oil company usually pays generously. I know of one case where a lady claimed that the presence of a drilling rig near her house gave her herpes.

      Note in the Gasland case, gas fracking operations were blamed for a fish kill that turned out to be due to coal mining operations. Don’t know if that’s one of your examples.

  • Locke

    It is a near-perfect example of one aspect of Crats’ viscious stupidity.

    • Locke

      I understood him to mean that the people “would … not come there”. What I find amazing is that he could consider something so trivial to be so vital, and could others to agree.

  • Spartan4Life

    Debt piles higher
    America’s future bleak
    Democrats drone on

    • http://impudent.edublogs.org/ kyle8

      The leaves change
      Harry and the Dems remain
      stupid vicious evil

  • tcaffey

    Y?all, come on over and listen to Harry

    ?Cuz he?s got some wisdom to share and they?s nary

    A smarter feller from here to the horizon

    He?s one of them folks that can squat with his spurs on

  • bclare

    Dandy Don Meredith, may he rest in peace.

  • kestrel

    Oh, bury me not,
    Mister Harry Reid,
    through your healthcare bill
    which will let me bleed…

    ‘cuz my skin is white
    and I’m not a lib
    and your great mer-cy
    is a flaming fib.

    “…if you are not among the favored guests at the table where officials make detailed lists of who is to receive what at whose expense, you are on the menu…. Laws and regulations nowadays are longer than ever because length is needed to specify how people will be treated unequally…. tilting the field exquisitely toward some and away from others.” –Angelo M. Codevilla

    Until the healthcare bill is repealed, Republicans should pass stand-alone legislation making EVERYONE, including themselves, equal under its terms. Then let’s get video footage for the 2012 election of Democrat congresspeople saying why they won’t vote to put themselves under provision of this healthcare law that is supposed to be so wonderful for US, but not for THEM.

    • http://www.marklaiminger.org Lammo

      to void all of the exemptions that have been granted? I understand they now number in the 1000s.

  • megsmom

    Harry with all the people out of jobs right now how many people do you think will be there next year if you do not start cutting the $14.5 TRILLION DEBT down? I guess you are so rich that it does not bother you, but the rest of us average folks can not take a vacation or go to the Cowboys Poet Festival., nor can we even go out to eat any more. Harry we are going broke and so is our country. If you as head of the Senate and President BHO are not willing to cut out spending that is frivolous, so that our country can survive, our country is doomed. BHO has not got it through his head yet that now is not the time to go completely green. Millions are out of work, they can not afford $4.00 or $5.00 a galleon of gas while looking for work. When you are out of work you can not afford solar or wind power, or an electric car. You worry about paying your mortgage or rent, having food on the table, clothes on every ones back. I guess you and BHO have been rich so long you two can not remember what it is like to live from one pay check to another. Since you and BHO are so rich you two should give up your pay in the Senate and Presidency and work for free, that would help, just like every little bit helps. If you two will not do it for the country do for your party so it can be put in the news papers and on TV.

  • steelpier1

    promptly dropped on his head, so he’s not bright
    he hates decency, which means you and me
    and sounds like his jockeys are too tight

  • vandalii

    All attibuted to Texas Bix Bender (i.e., I’m a plagiarist just like our VP!)

    “You can cover it with sugar
    and bake it in the oven,
    but a cowpie is still manure”

    “Get all the fools on your side
    and you can lead the herd.” (a special tribute to our Senate Majority Leader)

    “You can force a herd to follow a path of action,
    but you can’t force them to understand it.”

  • Common_Cents

    The guy is seriously loonie. How anyone votes for him is beyond comprehension.

  • jackbenimble

    My favorite western poem is unlike most of the genre, short and sweet. It was reputedly carved on the barrel of an early Smith and Wesson revolver. Dingy Harry has always pretended to be a friend to gun owners but he is a Democrat and little more needs to be said on that subject to devine his true feelings.

    The Equalizer

    Fear no man!
    no matter what his size.
    Just call on me,
    and I will equalize!

  • 1stsgt

    Bear in mind that Dingy Harry had a forebearer that was hung as a horse thief in the past. He cites the Nat Endowment for the Arts and the Humannities. Does anyone remember the great art display of Christ with feces smeared on his image. Or the crucifix in the urine? That kind of art we don’t need. Congress is going to get tired of my letters to them on various subjects. Speaking of urine, if Dingy Harry was on the side of the road on fire, I wouldn’t urinate on him. Possibly you may think I don’t like him. Well you’d be RIGHT!!