Reid decided against his speaking conference arrangement yesterday to evade those inevitable questions about his comments concerning Romney’s taxes. Those preset controlled DC in house interviews are so much preferred, it was the Weiner way. Milbank commented on the incident in his WP column today.
Milbank: “The talk after Reid’s tax broadside was that it was another of his famous verbal gaffes, the latest symptom of a kind of political Tourette’s syndrome that has caused the senator to call George W. Bush a “loser” and a “liar,” Alan Greenspan a “hack,” Clarence Thomas an “embarrassment,” the war in Iraq “lost,” Capitol tourists smelly, and his aides “fat.”
But this is something different for Reid, an extension of a role he assigned himself in 2008 when he endlessly hectored John McCain for missing Senate votes, accusing the Republican presidential nominee of being “too busy on the campaign trail to do his day job.” When McCain suspended his campaign to return to Washington to work on the financial crisis, Reid reversed himself, saying that McCain’s gesture “would not be helpful” and was “a campaign photo op”.”
This is Reid’s last ride, no more elections. Why would he be reserved about taking a few arrows for the team? As evidenced in the comments listed above, the team’s ritual includes ‘there is no such thing as dignity’. That’s what puts the GOP below them. When will he mention Romneyhood?
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Posted on August 7, 2012