What a Politician!

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20071019/people_nm/usa_politics_limbaugh_dc

The "What a Politician" award goes to Senator Harry Reid today.

The story starts a few weeks ago when Rush Limbaugh was criticizing phony soldiers who fake their military records and make a news splash by criticizing Bush and the Iraq War while pretending to be a vet. It irritates Rush that the Democrats and the liberal media quote the phony soldiers without checking the source, and never backtrack after the phony soldiers are outed to clean up the mess.

Well, Harry Reid chose to misinterpret Rush to mean Rush was calling every soldier who opposed the Iraq War a phony soldier. Harry Reid made some angry speeches about it in the Senate. The transcript of the radio show proves that Rush did no such thing, but whatever. Later, Harry Reid and 40 of his closest Senator friends wrote and signed a letter to the chairman of Clear Channel, Mark Mays. Clear Channel carries the Rush Limbaugh radio show. The letter asked Mark Mays to confer with Limbaugh regarding the statements he made (an action which I believe is unconstitutional).

Rush and Mark Mays decided to sell the letter on E-Bay in hopes of raising a big contribution to the Marine Corps-Law Enforcement Foundation, which is a charity for children of fallen Marines and law enforcement officers the Marine Corps, with the promise Rush would match the highest bid. The auction ended today, the highest bid was $2.1 million, Rush matched it, and the charity will receive a whopping $4.2 million (they can handle it, since they have distributed about $30 million since 1996.

In a moment of absolute political brilliance, Harry Reid stood up on the floor of the Senate today, praised this huge contribution to the charity, and took credit for it! He said, “I don't know what we could do more important than helping to ensure that children of our fallen soldiers and police officers who have fallen in the line of duty have the opportunity for their children to have a good education.”

We??? What a hoot! Like he and Rush planned the charity auction from the beginning.