Harry Reid has found his tear-jerker victim of the evil House Republicans: a cowboy poetry festival.
No, I’m not kidding (Politico via NRO – The Corner):
The mean-spirited bill, H.R. 1 … eliminates the National Endowment of the Humanities, National Endowment of the Arts,” said Reid. “These programs create jobs. The National Endowment of the Humanities is the reason we have in northern Nevada every January a cowboy poetry festival.”
Reid was so emotional about the cowboy poets that he warned (emphasis added): ” Had that program not been around, the tens of thousands of people who come there every year would not exist.”
That led Ramesh Ponnuru to comment: “Tens of thousands of people wouldn’t exist without the subsidy? That’s some multiplier effect.”
Keep this little episode in mind the next time the Democrats warble about budget deficits: they’d rather “save the cowboy poets.”
