SocraticGadfly: Apparently Harry Reid doesn’t realize Democrats won the midterm elections, domestic division

December 19, 2006

Apparently Harry Reid doesn’t realize Democrats won the midterm elections, domestic division

The Senate Majority Leader-elect is now officially on record as a Republican-type last-minute pork-barreling earmarker.
Senate Democratic Leader Harry Reid, who has pledged to stop “dead-of-night legislating,” did a little of his own in the final hours of this year's congressional session.

Reid slipped two home state projects into the last major bill Congress passed last week: a transfer of federal land in Nevada to state and private control that's almost two-thirds the size of Rhode Island; and a $4 million grant for a hospice. Neither had been approved by any congressional committee.

Given that Reid has stood accused in the media in the past three months of other shady land transactions, he’s off to a wonderful start.

Perhaps my title should better say: Harry Reid doesn’t understand why Democrats won the midterm elections.

No comments: