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AFF is on Reid’s case again, this time via the radio airwaves in Nevada.  Here’s part of the transcript:

How’s Harry Reid using his position as Majority Leader to help lower gas prices?  Reid and Congress just took a five week vacation – instead of working to lower gas prices. Congress found time to pass National Apple Month, but Reid continues to block votes to explore for energy in America.

America has huge energy reserves, but Congress has placed up to 85 percent of them off-limits. Reid repeatedly blocks efforts to lift the moratorium on safe exploration off our coasts. Reid opposes exploring a tiny portion of Alaska – less land than the Las Vegas airport – and he’s against developing our massive oil shale reserves.

Call Harry Reid: 702-388-5020. Tell him his vacation should end and the Senate should vote on S. 3202.”

Hat Tip:  PolitickerNV

If you don’t live in Nevada or D.C. then you haven’t seen this new targeted ad slam against Harry Reid by the newly formed American Future Fund.

The ad quotes Reid:  “Coal makes us sick; oil makes us sick.  Global warming is ruining our country; it’s ruining our world…” and then informs viewers, “Reid says ‘no’ to energy exploration in Alaska and off our coasts and ‘no’ to the safe development of our massive oil shale reserves.  Reid says ‘yes’ to higher energy taxes that consumers will end up paying.

Call Harry Reid at 202-224-3542.  Tell him to allow the Senate to vote on S. 3202 – and drill for oil right here, right now.”

You can view AFFs’ seven-point energy plan (which also plays the Reid ad when the page first loads) here and if you wish, sign their petition here. 

Curious after seeing an AFF ”Drill Here, Drill Now” bumper sticker over the weekend, I contacted them.  Their director of communications, Tim Albrecht, told me they were founded earlier this year as a 501(c)(4) corporation.  They are located in Des Moines and advocate for conservative, free-market issues.  (And since AFF only paid to have the ad run in NV and DC, I’m sure Tim would appreciate it if you’d do them the favor of passing on the link!) 

Gallup is reporting the lowest Congressional job approval rating since Gallup started polling 34 years ago.  This dismally low number reminds me of…hm…Something…oh Yes!  It’s Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid recently saying the following in re: to comments about a possible presidential veto by Senator Mitch McConnel (quoted from Mark Hemingway’s June 30 column @ National Review Online):

SEN. HARRY REID (D-NV): “A veto by the President? Gee whiz, who would be afraid of him? He has a 29-percent approval rating. How in the world could anybody be afraid of him vetoing a bill?  I cannot imagine why anyone would care about that. . . .  I say to my friend and I say I don’t know how many people are up here for reelection, but I am watching a few of them pretty closely, I say to all these people who are up for reelection:  If you think you can go home and say, I voted no because this weak President, the weakest political standing since they have done polling, I voted because I was afraid to override his veto — come on.”

So, Senator Reid… If a 29% presidential approval rating renders W. “weak,” what does a 14% approval rating render you and your feeble Congressional pals?

While I’ve got Harry Reid on the brain, I saw a funny note by Henry Payne on NRO’s Planet Gore blog the other day.  He referred to an early June debate over the Lieberman-Warner climate bill and quoted Senator Reid as saying that global warming is “the most important issue facing the world today.” The funny part is that Reid drives to work every day in a large, armor-plated, 13 mpg Chevrolet Suburban SUV provided to him by Capitol security police.  With respect for Senator Reid’s concern (awareness?) that more than one citizen might wish to do him harm, is this really necessary?  Payne said one of his Detroit News colleagues recently quipped, “I’ll believe climate change is a crisis when the people who say it’s a crisis start acting like it’s a crisis.”  Amen!