In the middle of a tirade against House Republicans’ “mean-spirited” budget cuts, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., inserted a commercial to support funding for “cowboy poetry” in his home state. Reid lamented that the GOP wanted to eliminate the National Endowment of the Humanities, which bankrolls a cowboy poetry festival in northern Nevada every January. Had that program not been around, Reid said, the tens of thousands of people who come there every year “would not exist.” Read More
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., is so upset about Republican spending cuts that he's brought out the big guns: Accusing the GOP of being so heartless they would de-fund the National Endowment for the Humanities, which underwrites a cowboy poetry festival in his state: Read More
