I put this prediction right up there with the one he made in 2008 that this was the beginning of “generations of huge democratic majorities”. This is exactly what gave the democrats the butt whipping they just took, being tone deaf to the American people is not a good idea.

I hope not. As we see both parties shrinking and the number of independents rising I mwant to see the political landscape change. Democrats need the same shakeup the GOP is having.

“Economy Gets Better”

That is just it Harry The economy won’t get significantly better (in terms of jobs). And the TEABAGGERS

continued.

still have their black boogeyman to curse at in the meantime.

The Tea Party will never go away. If anything it may replace the GOP, hopefully.

Since the economy may not be all that “better” for 5 years or more that give the Tea Party at least 5 years.

And the Tea Party is not just a stand alone entity,it’s a catalyst.It’s part of what I hope is the emergence of a viable third party and an end to a two party monopoly.

It make some sense I guess. Once the economy gets better and the government becomes more efficient with it’s spending there really won’t be much for the Tea Party to complain about.

If that even happens.

In addition to the Tea Party, dingy harry also wants the US Constitution, the Bill of Rights, fiscal sanity, respect for American values, respect for the voters, integrity, ethics and honesty to ALL GO AWAY. But then, he’s just like all the other lunatic-left d-crat socialists.

What a brain-dead fossil Reid is. He makes it sound as though the economy will get better by ‘Next Thursday’ or ‘March 23′ or some other conveniently close-in time. Fact is, the gloom in this country won’t disappear until Obama does. The anchor is Obama, and Reid is tied to it. Dems all over the place are whining about being ‘exhausted’ by politics. I damn well HOPE he’s exhausted. He created the mess we’re in. Pelosi looks utterly decrepit; it makes you wonder what she’d look like without Botox.

Maybe they will maybe they wont, but wasn’t it Bernake who said recently that it was going to take 4-5 years for jobs to fully come back to this country? I don’t know you you guys but to me that sounds like a long time to wait for some people, and a pretty long time in the political realm. The Tea Party may disappear but you and your buddies in Congress have much more at stake.

Sen. Reid, what color is the sky in your world? You will be gone before the TEA PARTY. Were you in a coma and miss the results of the election. WE the PEOPLE are here and want you to go. TEA PARTY will change the socialist that are still in the senate and rid the country of the NAZI/SOCIALIST UNIONS and the OBAMA. WE are here and it shows how out of touch you are and why it is time for you to GO.

File under wishful thinking and one more sign that Harry is losing his fragile grip on reality.

Sen. Harry Reid: ‘The Tea Party Will Disappear as Soon as Economy Gets Better’ Then we can get back to politics as usual and I can start padding my pockets again.

ChrisNH said:
What a brain-dead fossil Reid is. He makes it sound as though the economy will get better by ‘Next Thursday’ or ‘March 23′ or some other conveniently close-in time. Fact is, the gloom in this country won’t disappear until Obama does. The anchor is Obama, and Reid is tied to it. Dems all over the place are whining about being ‘exhausted’ by politics. I damn well HOPE he’s exhausted. He created the mess we’re in. Pelosi looks utterly decrepit; it makes you wonder what she’d look like without Botox.

I agree completely with your first sentence. Idiot pols who know nothing of how the economy works think the economy changes like the weather. (Pretty ironic, actually, these people argue that governent policy can change the weather but they think the economy is somehow oblivious to the wanton destruction they wreak upon it with massive malinvestment and debt. But I digress.)

What I would disagree with is that Obama “created the mess we’re in.” His is but one in a long line. What I’d add to what ChrisNH said is that GOP has lots of blame in the destruction in the economy just as the Democrats do. While I agree that Obama and Reid are train wrecks, and the GOP’s best actions in years were its resistance of the Obama/Reid/Pelosi agenda, the GOP’s actions when they had control were absolutely abhorrent and fiscally irresponsible.

Until we stop our neverending war, propping up of dictators the world over, election toppling, etc., we will rightly be hated all over the world REGARDLESS of how good the intentions of the American people are. People simply don’t want to be managed from outside. We’ve meddled in the internal affairs of the Middle East for almost 100 years. It is astounding how little blowback there has been all this time. Peoples who will hopelessly fight each other, perhaps forever, will ONLY unite to throw us out, only to return to fighting amongst themselves again. All the while, our young men and women are killed and maimed, the foreigners get killed and maimed, we go broke and make enemies of the world.

The only way we’re going to make progress is to be honest about the crimes of both parties. We need to hold their feet to the fire and keep ousting the crooks, which means most of Team D and Team R alike. Government needs to get off the backs of the world and the American people alike.

I ask everyone to consider TRULY LIMITED government that respects the sovereignty, liberty, and property of other nations, of the separate States, of counties, of townships, and OF THE INDIVIDUAL. This is what the Founders based our nation upon. This is perhaps the most telling and useful paragraph ever written: http://www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/intrel/jqadams.htm

The twisted logic of the police state, where government reads our email and listens to our phone calls and monitors our financial transactions, this logic is the offense of PRE-EMPTIVE strikes. Finding the enemies of the state before they strike. Search everyone, with no probable cause. A state which does this IS THE ENEMY OF ITS PEOPLE, and wil rightly create more and more enemies who resist its crimes. And of course, it will find more and more enemies as a result, and hold these up as evidence it was right to destroy liberty for the greater good of security.

Our neverending pre-emptive meddling in internal sovereignty and war, the world over, is the exact same phenomenon, internationally. It is the police state of the globe. And it will RIGHTLY create enemies. And when it uncovers those enemies, it will hold them up as evidence that our pre-emptive acts of war were justified. Do not fall victim to the twisted logic, regardless of the good intentions of many who implement it.

We must respect natural rights of all, the world over.

BTW, please consider I am not so naive to think this will make us LOVED the world over. There are plenty of bad people who hate us. But this has long been the case, and we have not been invaded as a result. Just as there are millions of hornets everywhere, almost no one is ever stung by one. Quite simply, because we largely leave them alone. But if we embark on a campaign to wipe them out because they represent a threat, most assuredly they will make war on us.

In summary, YES, Reid is a crook or a fool or both. So are many in the GOP. The economy WON’T get significantly better as long as the parasite of ever-encraoching government feeds. Reed thinks it will magically get better, as a rainy day will yield to a sunny one.

Living standards rise and fall based on the efficiency by which people produce things that willing customers want. Houses, food, energy, x-boxes. People who produce these things are satisfying willing customers and raising living standards.

Bloated bureacracies and the tools of neverendig, offensive war are COSTS. They are expenditures, every penny of which reduces the amount of houses, food, energy, and x-boxes produced. They LOWER living standards. This is gangsterism, the world’s largest protection racket.

Not to say government is not needed. Far from it. Just a very small, very limited government to protect the country from invasion. Almost anything else should come from MUCH more local government, state, county, town, community, household. A massive federal government is a crime that breaks the very contract with the People by which it was created.

FINALLY,

Though he is right that the Tea Parties would not exist but for the failing economy, Reid is a fool or a crook or both for thinking the economy will get better. The economy is sick because of what the US government has done to make it sick, and it is getting WORSE, not better.

Apologies for going on so long about the sins of the warfare state, but the Founders warned us about its ruin. Those who claim the Founders were wise and like the compact they drew up with the people must examine the crime of our neverending war. So long as the people are rabidly split, supporting the Democrats or the Republicans, the pols maintain their death grip on power and ruin. When enough supporters of the GOP demand an end to the warfare state, and when enough supporters of the Democrats demand an end to redistribution of wealth, and supporters of both demand an end to big business and government bedding down in the world of crony capitalism, THAT is the day the economy will improve.

Quite simply because people, who have no way to make a living but to produce something that others want to buy, will do just that and raise living standards for all others as they do so for themselves.

People whose paycheck comes because guys, with kevlar ad Glocks intimidate producers into coughing up protection money, LOWER living standards for all others as they raise living standards for themselves.

Our Federal Government is about 10 times the size it should be, or more. Aside from the one tenth that does its proper work, the rest of our Federal Government is the biggest mafia in history. And it draws its support through the crimes of both parties, not one or the other.

Fox News: Serving the Freeper community since 1996 said:
“Economy Gets Better”

That is just it Harry The economy won’t get significantly better (in terms of jobs). And the TEABAGGERS

Reid hasn’t a clue about anything, nor do you.

i have to agree with this.. where was Gingrich’s contract with America after 1996??

Its sad, but anything that gets into Washington will be corrupted forever.. except very few things.

Be prepared to see your tea party representatives/senators be fiscally irresponsible in less than a year. Thats what happens to a majority of people that get involved in politics.

And blame aristocracy for this problem..

Fox News: Serving the Freeper community since 1996 said:
continued. still have their black boogeyman to curse at in the meantime.

Race baiter.

Just_MC said:
Our Federal Government is about 10 times the size it should be, or more. Aside from the one tenth that does its proper work, the rest of our Federal Government is the biggest mafia in history. And it draws its support through the crimes of both parties, not one or the other.

Well our federal government is big. But think about it. Half of the our spending goes to wars( according to 2009 budget), and other half goes into maintaining social security, medicare, roads, education, etc..

so yea.. more than half of what our government does are stuff we can live without. But these half of the things are done by the people in congress so they can get elected. Its just the stuff they advertise all the time. Remember your senator saying that we should be “secure” and our “American dream is being destroyed” by people overseas and the whole conversation about “our borders being secure”(although these same guys are the people that wouldn’t mind having illegals working in companies, because they support these companies).

Yep, our government is F’ed up because the people we send there to make the federal government to provide us with basic services, also make the federal government to do the things to make them get reelected….

Harry Ridiculous is “whistlin’ by the graveyard.” LOL

The Tea Party was responsible for helping to remvoe 63 House ‘Rats, 6 Senate ‘Rats, 5 ‘Rat governors & almost 700 ‘Rat state legislature members…and we’ve just begun…

With Obozo, Pelousy & Harry Ridiculous in the “D” party leadership, it practically guarantees a GOP “Hat Trick” come 2012.

And after we’ve removed the Leftists in the ‘Rat party, then we’re gonna start removing the RINOS! BIG SMILE

Like Margaret Thatcher once said, Socialism only works ’til you run out of other peoples’ money.

“Liberalism is just Communism sold by the drink.” P.J.O’Rourke

NOBAMA 2012

The Tea Party is a force of nature and it is bigger than the progressives can fathom or even bring themselves to believe.

AS LONG AS THIS NATION KEEP IN MIND THE TEA PARTY’S VIEW WILL BRING DOWN HAVOC ON AMERICA AND KEEP THE STORIES OF THE MISERY THIS PARTY HAD BROUGHT AMERICA….ONLY THEN WILL THE TEA PARTY GO AWAY…BUT NOT SHOWING THE MISERY THE TEA PARTY HAD CAUSED THE AMERICAN PUBLIC IS A COWARDLY WAY OUT….IT LIKE SAYING THE HOLOCAUST OF AFRICAN AD IRISH SLAVES DID NOT HAPPEN…IT LIKE SAYING THE JEWISH AND PROTESTANT HOLOCAUST DID NOT HAPPEN…ITS LIKE ATTACKS ON GAYS DID NOT HAPPEN…..CALL OUT THE TEA PARTY FROM THE SHADOW AND MAKE SURE THEY ARE TOLD WE ARE WATCHING AND WE AMERICA WILL NOT TOLERANT ANY MORE DISTRACTION FROM THIS NATION EFFORT TOWARD PERFECTION….BE STRONG ….JUST STAND AGAINST HATE AND DO NOT ALLOW OTHERS TO COMPARE YOUR DISTAIN FOR HATE BE COMPARED TO HATE…

The Tea-Parties birth is the result of over 30 years of disconnect between Washington and the public. I believe the Tea-Party will eventually replace the Republican Party. The Progressive movement within the Democratic Party will result in it’s own demise.
We have watched the Courts make law from the bench, a Constitutional power they do not have, and the power of business Lobbies who now control Washington put us in such economic peril that the only thing that will stop us from self-destructing is a radical group like the Tea-Party who are more than willing to attack both parties equally. The Tea-Party should be called the “No More Non-Sense Party”.

WRONG Harry. The TEA – Taxed Enough Already – Parties happened when aware citizens decided we have had enough of wild overspending and grotesque federal over-reach. You Will be challenged again, and all incumbents will find themselves being held accountable by their constituents at the polls. Waaay too many of you in Washington think we citizens need to be directed as though we are subjects. Wrong! Neither Obummer, nor you, nor Pelosi are a ruler. You three, in particular, have a lot of stinkin’ thinkin’ going on there with your unconstitutional actions, and your outrageous spending on programs not provided for in the Constitution. It only calls for the federal government to PROVIDE for the common defense. That’s all. Promote, only, not provide for, the general welfare. And lose the sophistry about welfare being part of the common defense.

The next Correction Election is less than two years out, and counting down! And that’s a good thing.

NOBAMA 2012 said:
Harry Ridiculous is “whistlin’ by the graveyard.” LOL

The Tea Party was responsible for helping to remvoe 63 House ‘Rats, 6 Senate ‘Rats, 5 ‘Rat governors & almost 700 ‘Rat state legislature members…and we’ve just begun…

With Obozo, Pelousy & Harry Ridiculous in the “D” party leadership, it practically guarantees a GOP “Hat Trick” come 2012.

And after we’ve removed the Leftists in the ‘Rat party, then we’re gonna start removing the RINOS! BIG SMILE

Like Margaret Thatcher once said, Socialism only works ’til you run out of other peoples’ money.

“Liberalism is just Communism sold by the drink.” P.J.O’Rourke

NOBAMA 2012

yea gl in 2012 with ur arrogant mission..

getting rid of people on the other side.. isn’t as easy as it seems and pple who try to do that fail..ALL the time..

Guess what happened to Margaret Tatcher one she privatized The british pension..her party lost power in the parliament.

CAconservative said:
The Progressive movement within the Democratic Party will result in it’s own demise.

yup.. and progressives will finally have their own party.

I JUST KNOW WE WILL PAY ATTENTION TO HARRY REID! LOOK WHAT HE HAS ALREADY DONE,WHAT A KILLER. PUTTING THE USA DOWN THE TOILET!!

SWWT said:
It make some sense I guess. Once the economy gets better and the government becomes more efficient with it’s spending there really won’t be much for the Tea Party to complain about. If that even happens.

You are correct in the part about Americans in general having the proclivity to become complacent in what are perceived as “good times.”

Socialist said:
yup.. and progressives will finally have their own party.

I hope not. I hope people will come to understand that the progressives, socialists, communists, and fascists that have infiltrated our political system over the past hundred years are the root cause of all the problems we’re facing today.

Socialist said:
because the people we send there to make the federal government to provide us with basic services

If you’re talking about “basic services” being “free” healthcare and guaranteeing equality of outcomes, you are a huge part of the problem. Equality means equal opportunity to achieve excellence not equal outcomes whether a person has abilities or skills necessary to achieve their desired outcome.

Dream on, Harry.