The Problem with Harry Reid

It amazes me that Senate Democrats have Harry Reid as their leader.

I guess it's naive, but I still want to believe that the Democratic Party hasn't been completely taken over by the Loony Left. I want to believe that at least some Dems have class and a sense of decency. I want to believe they aren't just a pack of schoolyard bullies. I want to believe the Dems can do more than talk trash.

I really don't want to have such a low opinion of the Democrats.

However, as each day goes by, it gets increasingly difficult for me to respect them and take them seriously.

In an interview with BuzzFlash.com, Harry Reid exposes himself as an embarrassment to his party and to the nation. This man is not a leader I would agree to follow.

CHICAGO, July 31 /U.S. Newswire/ -- In an interview with BuzzFlash.com to be posted on Aug. 1, Sen. Harry Reid, Democratic minority leader of the Senate, blasted the pending recess appointment of John Bolton to become U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, BuzzFlash said today. "John Bolton is a person who, in his personal relationship with government employees, has been abominable, mean, unreasonable and bizarre," Sen. Reid told BuzzFlash. "His not producing the papers we have requested only underscores the importance of why we need those papers. There must be something he's trying to hide."

Two other excerpts from the BuzzFlash.com interview with Reid include:

BuzzFlash: Why does the Bush Administration have such difficulty in leveling with the American people?

Sen. Reid: "Arrogance, abuse of power. This Administration is drunk with power. They control the House and Senate and seven of nine members of the Supreme Court, and therefore, they feel they need not compromise. They need not communicate with the minority."

BuzzFlash: (In regards to the outing of Valerie Plame) What's the role of the President of the United States in holding such treachery accountable, whatever the legal outcome might be?

Sen. Reid: "What it shows me is that the President is not a person of his word. He said almost two years ago that if anyone in his Administration was caught being involved in this, they would be fired. There is no question Karl Rove is involved in it. Evidence is heavy. The President, after finding that Rove's involved, changes his standard from 'being involved' in it to having committed a crime. Well, crimes are hard to prove, and then you go through the appellate process. What does this mean? It means the President is not a credible person."

The rest of the interview is just as nauseating.

Harry Reid and those of his ilk, people who are so lacking in integrity and intellect that they are willing to twist the truth in order to score political points, remind me that there are two Americas.

There's the America that truly believes we are that shining city on a hill, a beacon of freedom for the oppressed in the world.

Then there's the other America; the one that is built on hopelessness and negativity and failure. This America is all about tearing down in the name of regaining power. This America, personified by Harry Reid's ugliness, has sold its soul.

Remember when it was said that 9/11 was going to be a turning point in our history? That nothing would ever be the same again? That the country would be unified by its treasured fundamental belief in every person's right to live in freedom?

Where did all of that go?

Harry Reid and his party seem bent on dividing Americans. They’ll do and say anything to get their political power back.

I don't think it's overstating it to say that at present we are engaged in a civil war on an ideological battlefield.

The Dems may think Reid's disgraceful statements will help them win the war of ideas. The thing is Reid and the Dems aren't offering Americans any ideas to improve the country. Obstruction and lies and hate-filled rants are all that the Dems have to offer.

That's a losing strategy. If they want to destroy themselves, that's their choice. The problem is, in the process of their self-destruction, they are taking the rest of the country down with them.