Captain Ed has a wonderful piece up about an editorial from David Broder about Sen. Reid.

The port side of the blogosphere rings with rage over David Broder’s Washington Post column today. Talking Points Memo has called for a “blogswarm” to shout down Broder for the unforgivable offense of pointing out that Harry Reid has been as incompetent as Alberto Gonzales:

Here’s a Washington political riddle where you fill in the blanks: As Alberto Gonzales is to the Republicans, Blank Blank is to the Democrats — a continuing embarrassment thanks to his amateurish performance.
If you answered ” Harry Reid,” give yourself an A. And join the long list of senators of both parties who are ready for these two springtime exhibitions of ineptitude to end. …

[C]onsider the mental gyrations performed by Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) as he rationalized the recent comment from his majority leader, Harry Reid, the leading light of Searchlight, Nev., that the war in Iraq “is lost.”

Broder offers more examples of Reid’s ineptitide as caucus leader. Remember when Reid’s intellectual basis for opposing George Bush was that the President was a “loser”? Brave Harry managed to wait until Bush traveled to Europe before calling him names. He called Alan Greenspan “one of the biggest political hacks” in DC, despite Greenspan’s successful management of the Fed. He insulted Bill Frist for keeping his campaign pledge to serve only two terms in office.

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