4.17.2005

"Give 'Em Hell, Harry!"

From The Hill:

Senate Republican leaders were due to meet last night amid rising concern that they are being beaten on the “nuclear option” by Sen. Harry Reid’s (D-Nev.) public-relations war room.

The GOP’s talks follow a meeting last week in which aides warned Bob Stevenson, Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist’s (R-Tenn.) communications director, that something needs to be done to win back lost ground, a participant said.

“I think there’s a realization that this particular [Democratic] effort has to be countered and they’re in full-scale attack mode,” a GOP aide said, adding, “I think that people know that we’ve got a serious problem here.
"I don't care if it rains or freezes, long's I got my plastic Jesus, ridin' on the dashboard of my car... I can go a hundred miles an hour long's I got the almighty power, right up there with my pair of fuzzy dice."

Damn it. I cannot find the rightful name of the author of these dynamite lyrics many of us grew up on. You know, back before Imus became a full-fledged cracker nut dessert cake.