Harry Reid has always baffled me. [View all]
He grew up in very poor circumstances in Nevada. His father committed suicide and he had to overcome that also. I don't think anything came easy to him.
He was also a boxer in his youth. Later he was the Chairman of The Las Vegas Gaming Commission. In that role, he took on the mob and others who were running the corruption show. He was facing very real danger in that position. A bomb was attached to his wife's car in one incident.
I have always believed there was much more to him than met the eye. However, it has only been lately that the hard-nosed side of him has emerged for any length of time.
I wish his grit had been shown much earlier. I can only surmise he held out too much hope that many people he worked with in the GOP would at some point back away from the edge of The Tea
Party Earth.
The GOP finally stepped on Harry's one last nerve. He may be circumspect about pulling the 'nuclear trigger' but I don't think there was ever any doubt in his own mind that he would. The GOP bet the same way too many times and lost big.
Don't play poker with him. He may lose a lot while winning a few. However, at the end when the biggest bet has been made, he will leave with all the money and you will be left with no game at all.
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