{"id":1597,"date":"2010-09-08T18:34:33","date_gmt":"2010-09-09T01:34:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/2helenahandbaskets.com\/?p=1597"},"modified":"2010-09-08T18:34:33","modified_gmt":"2010-09-09T01:34:33","slug":"harry-harry-harry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/2helenahandbaskets.com\/?p=1597","title":{"rendered":"Harry, Harry, Harry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/2helenahandbaskets.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/Unknown.jpeg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/2helenahandbaskets.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/Unknown-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Unknown\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-1598\" \/><\/a>You have to wonder just what he&#8217;s been doing for all those years&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, facing a tough re-election bid in one of the states hardest hit by the recession, said today that the economic downturn was not his fault. &#8220;I had nothing to do with the massive foreclosures here,&#8221; Reid said during an appearance on the ABC News\/Washington Post &#8220;Top Line&#8221; program, adding that he also had no part in contributing to the state&#8217;s dismal unemployment figures. At 14.3 percent, Nevada&#8217;s unemployment rate ranks the highest in the country.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So I guess if he isn&#8217;t responsible for any of the bad stuff, he doesn&#8217;t get credit for any of the good stuff either.  Which leaves the question &#8211; why is he even there?  <\/p>\n<p>Hopefully the voters of Nevada will elect a RESPONSIBLE senator this year!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/2helenahandbaskets.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/harry-reid-racist.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/2helenahandbaskets.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/harry-reid-racist.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"harry reid racist\" width=\"400\" height=\"301\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1600\" srcset=\"http:\/\/2helenahandbaskets.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/harry-reid-racist.jpg 400w, http:\/\/2helenahandbaskets.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/harry-reid-racist-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You have to wonder just what he&#8217;s been doing for all those years&#8230; Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, facing a tough re-election bid in one of the states hardest hit by the recession, said today that the economic downturn was &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/2helenahandbaskets.com\/?p=1597\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2Xq4i-pL","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/2helenahandbaskets.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1597"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/2helenahandbaskets.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/2helenahandbaskets.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/2helenahandbaskets.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/2helenahandbaskets.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1597"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/2helenahandbaskets.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1597\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1602,"href":"http:\/\/2helenahandbaskets.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1597\/revisions\/1602"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/2helenahandbaskets.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/2helenahandbaskets.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/2helenahandbaskets.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}