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You just can't kick Harry Reid's butt enough. At least that is my philosophy.

I'm not alone in this avocation.

David Broder sent a steel toed brogan hurtling in that direction this week.

Read on.

You might remember from a month ago when David Broder caused quite a stir over a column called The Democrats Gonzales. In it he made the rather unremarkable, at least to those who haven't been comatose for a couple of years, observation that Harry Reid is not only an incompetent senate majority leader but a freakin virtuoso among goofs in his own right.

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.

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The Democrats deserve better, and the country needs more, than Harry Reid has offered as Senate majority leader.

In response, Reid wheedled 50 Democrat senators into signing a letter to Broder saying no, Reid is actually pretty smart and they love the man. This was roughly equivalent to former senator Chick Hecht calling a press conference to refute a magazine article that labeled him as the dumbest senator. P-A-T-H-E-T-I-C.

Broder now takes Reid to task for the gross mismanagement of the failed-and-resurrected immigration bill:

It is hard to say who looked worse in the Senate's impasse on immigration legislation -- Democrats or Republicans -- but the responsibility for reviving that measure clearly rests most heavily on the shoulders of Majority Leader Harry Reid.

[...]

Reid had decided that a week of debate before the Memorial Day recess and four or five more days last week was all the time the Senate could afford for what is arguably the single most important domestic issue on the agenda.

All this, from a Senate that had spent most of the past five months battling futilely with President Bush over a timetable for American withdrawal from Iraq -- and that then closed down for three days over last weekend and used Monday for a debate on a purely symbolic vote of no confidence in Attorney General Alberto Gonzales.

Broder concludes:

Reid may think that Bush will suffer if immigration reform is killed. But the public is likely to put the blame where it principally belongs -- on the leader of the party that runs the Senate.

Indeed. A recent Rasmussen poll has Reid with the same approval rating as Scooter Libby.

Don't get me wrong. I really enjoy Harry Reid as Senate majority leader and Nancy "nice hijab" Pelosi as Speaker of the House. I think it is wonderful that a former, so he says, recruiter of the Ku Klux Klan is president pro tem of the Senate. I live in fear of a Chuck Schumer running the Senate and Steny Hoyer calling the shots in the House. My real fear is that eventually the Democrats will replace this Laurel and Hardy act with people who understand power and politics but in the meantime do pass the popcorn.

The priceless Harry Reid poster by way of Military Motivators