Actually, he has to remove his head from his rectum before he can put his foot in his mouth.

Harry Reid really is imploding.

Look at the recent news on him.

1. Holds a staged town hall on health care
2. Thousands turn out for tea party express protest against him
3. Attempts to bully Vegas newspaper
4. Is behind in polls to get re-elected
5. Calls the opponents of Obamacare “evil mongers”

This guy is about to spontaneously combust.

Harry Reid on Kennedy’s Death: ‘I Think It’s Going to Help Us’

When the Reno Gazette-Journal asked Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid whether Ted Kennedy’s death would help Democrats pass health care reform, he gave a rather impolitic answer.

Q: How will U.S. Sen. (Edward) Kennedy’s death affect things?
A: I think it’s going to help us. He hasn’t been around for some time. We’re going to have a new chairman of that committee, it’ll be, I don’t know for sure, but I think Sen. (Chris) Dodd, (D-Conn.). He has a right to take it. Either him or (U.S. Sen. Tom) Harkin, (D-Iowa), whichever one wants it can have it. I think he (Kennedy) will be a help. He’s an inspiration for us. That was the issue of his life and he didn’t get it done.

His answer strikes me as problematic for several reasons.
First, Senator Reid might want to reconsider how wise it is to speculate about the political ramifications of someone’s death. I have long had a rule, which if adopted I believe would benefit politicians, which is that political leaders should never talk like political commentators. Leave it to the pundits and bloggers to speculate on such things. Politicians shouldn’t be in the business of making political prognostications – it always burns them when they do. At this point, it is now fair to say Democrats are politicizing Kennedy’s death in order to pass health care – Reid essentially admitted to it.
Second, Reid could have simply said, “He’s an inspiration for us,” and left it at that. Instead, his first thought was that Kennedy had been (understandably) absent a lot – and now he could be replaced by the younger Chris Dodd. Publicly speculating about who would replace Kennedy seems a bit callous, but noting they could essentially upgrade the chairmanship with a more effective leader was certainly in poor taste.

To sum up, Redi said that Ted Kennedy hurt them the past 8 months, by hanging on to his Senate seat when he couldn’t do the work, meaning they were missing the chair of important committees.

IN other words, Harry Reid just attacked Ted Kennedy, and said they were better off with Ted Kennedy dead.

Hope and Change!

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