What’s that, Harry?
By D.J. McGuire | Tuesday, March 8th, 2011 | Policy
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.”
Tags:
Contribute for Conservatism!
Share this post
About the author
Former candidate for Board of Supervisors in Spotsylvania, current blogger, economics teacher, and long-rumored windbag. There are two causes closest to the heart: steering the country away from the social democratic nonsense that is sinking Europe, and convincing the rest of the "rightosphere" that the NBA really is a joy to watch.
We're 75% there! Thank you to everyone who has so far contributed! Just $2000 to go!
Comments
4 Responses to "What’s that, Harry?"
Hmmm, I don’t think the Senator phrased that right.
Republicans are just mad at him because he came out against prostitution. (Free market values and all that.)
Why can’t leftists just come out with a direct response without these silly non sequiturs meant to evade? The issue is whether the govt should run trillion dollar deficits or double the tax rate (and then continue to run trillion dollar deficits) to fund all kinds of special interest cronyisms and commercially unviable projects I suppose from your non-response you think that the govt should. Why not just say that and defend the position? How many other jobs were lost because of funding the cowboy festival? I’m sure more than were “created”. Where is the money going to come from to fund a metastasizing list of goodies? I don’t think wealthy Dems are going to pick up the tab, they’ll write themselves an exemption. And for every dollar that goes to the cowboy festival 6 more dollars go to the bureaucracy which “manages” it. Its too bad the late not so great Soviet Union is no longer here to point to as the result of this line of thinking. But in its absence take a look at Greece, Cuba, Venezuela.
My non response suggests I didn’t find the Harry Reid item very serious and so I took the opportunity to make a joke about it. Lighten up.
BTW, I bet the cowboy poetry festivals in the “late, not so great” Soviet Union really sucked.
For Harry, it’s no longer about the CHILDREN, it’s about the PoetrySlamminCowboyz. http://disruptthenarrative.wordpress.com/2011/03/08/harry-reid-stands-up-for-the-cowboys/#comments
Leave your response