I am amazed at how many stories are written to bash Harry Reid over the Burris matter. (Oh, by the way, Obama and 49 Dem Senators backed him on this.)
Please, DKos friends, Harry Reid can be lambasted for his approach to FISA and other issues but this is merely a procedural issue he got caught on the wrong side of. We should not be bashing him for showing guts early on and trying to intimidate Blago.
OK, his gambit did not work.
But now so many at DKos seem to relish the idea that if they had run ths show they would have seated Burris from the beginning because they knew how Blago would react. (Ignoring all of the insults leveled at Burris as a fool and the expressed hope that he would just go away).
The fact is that a few a weeks ago - amist a very uncertain legal environment over what would happen -- Reid took a stand.
Why is there a need at the beginning of this new day, when the Dems control the House, Senate and Presidency, that the first misstep a Dem leader makes is jumped on by the DKos members as being a sign that Reid is incompetent and has to be replaced?
You got to believe Rush Limbaugh is loving this.