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Isn't it astounding that while someone like former Republican Congressman Curt Weldon is pounced on by by the FBI, just days before the election
Curt-freaking-Weldon!,
on a request from a liberal activist, on a seemingly insignificant
charge, Harry Reid litters the landscape with criminal activity for
months on end with nary a mutter of discontent? Unfreaking real.
One thing I haven't seen mentioned in all
the chatter over Todd Purdum's profile of John McCain in Vanity Fair
was this tidbit on Harry Reid:
On another flight, later that day, McCain reacts to the news that Harry
Reid, the Senate Democratic leader, has used campaign money to
contribute to the employees' Christmas bonuses at the Ritz-Carlton in
Washington, where Reid and his wife, Landra, own a condominium. In
legal terms Reid's move was dodgy at best. "Who knew he lived at the
Ritz?," McCain says. "Not bad for a boy from Searchlight, Nevada." Then
McCain--a former amateur boxer and inveterate gambler, whose wife is
the wealthy heir to a beer-distributing franchise in Phoenix--goes on
to recount how the McCains and the Reids once ran into one another in
Las Vegas and went to a boxing match. It turned out that the Reids took
free tickets, while the McCains paid.
"I
wouldn't say this publicly," McCain tells the crowd at the private
Thune fund-raiser, speaking of Reid, "but I came to the House with him
in 1982 and he's always been ... " Here McCain pauses--as if suddenly
realizing that what he's saying he is indeed saying publicly--and then
goes on to finish the thought anyway: " ... a little on the edge." Reid On The Edge (Tom Bevin RCP)
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Bevin concludes, "By the way, did I mention that Majority Leader Reid is leading the Senate in taking up' ethics reform' today?"
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