Wow. Just wow. David Broder has just about topped anything else he's said in the past. His latest column, out today says that Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid is the equivalent of Alberto Gonzales (because he said the war was lost) and ought to resign. Click here, if you dare (but for the safety of your computer screen, remove all blunt or sharp objects in your vicinity).
If any Senate leader ought to contemplate resignation, it's Mitch McConnell, whose constituents are fed up with his rubber stamping of a failed policy. Yet the "Dean of the Washington Press Corps" is instead calling on the Democratic leader to resign for telling the truth. Americans believe that the war in Iraq is lost and for stating the obvious, Harry Reid has earned the ire of the elite Washington punditocracy. Broder cites Reid's statement that Alan Greenspan is a "hack," that Bush is "a loser" and that former Majority Leader Bill Frist had "no institutional integrity" as proof that he's a loose cannon and should be replaced. The only crime Harry Reid committed was speaking truth to power. David Broder's Washington is a Republican run town, where Republicans are allowed to say and do whatever they want, Democrats silently accept, and all is peaceful and well. And then along comes Harry Reid, who starts pointing out that the emperor has no clothes and messes up David Broder's Washington with his "lack of civility."
Perhaps the most laughable thing is trying to compare Reid and Gonzales. Let me think for a second, who is worse...a Senate leader who speaks the truth or an Attorney General who fire U.S. Attorneys for partisan political reasons and then lies about it under oath and tries to act like he had no idea why they were fired. And the answer is: David Broder is a wanker. Broder ends his delusional ramblings with:
The Democrats deserve better, and the country needs more, than Harry Reid has offered as Senate majority leader.
No Mr. Broder, we deserve better than you. Once again it bears asking: how much longer will the Washington Press Corps continue to defend this president even though the nation has long since abandoned him? First Broder absurdly predicted that Bush was poised for a political comeback. Now that that has fallen through, Broder is lashing out at the most visible critic of the president. When Reid fails to leave, it is only a matter of time before Broder starts lashing out at the American public and castigating it for electing those mean Democrats who messed up that nice thing they had going in David Broder's Washington. Only a completely clueless, isolated, and delusional Beltway hack could think that there is any equivalence between stating an opinion held by a majority of the public and subverting the justice process so that it serves the interests of your political party. The fact that this man is called The Dean of the Washington Press Corps sums up exactly what is wrong with Washington and why Bush is still given a free pass by the media.