Wild about Harry

IN late April, the left-wing activist website DailyKos asked its readers to evaluate the performance of Senate majority leader Harry Reid. Nearly 22,000 so-called Kossacks voted, and the verdict was overwhelming: Almost 90 percent approved of Reid’s work. “Sen. Reid, I love you,” wrote one admirer, asking that Reid write something for DailyKos “so we can shower you with mojo & love.”

At about the same time, the Washington Post’s David Broder, the longtime “dean” of the Washington press corps, issued his own evaluation of Reid’s work. In an uncharacteristically biting column focused on Reid’s comment that the war in Iraq “is lost,” Broder called Reid a “continuing embarrassment thanks to his amateurish performance.” A “long list” of senators, including some from Reid’s Democratic caucus, Broder said, are ready for the majority leader’s “exhibition of ineptitude to end.”

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Byron York

Byron York is a former White House correspondent for National Review.

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IN late April, the left-wing activist website DailyKos asked its readers to evaluate the performance of Senate majority leader Harry Reid. Nearly 22,000 so-called Kossacks voted, and the verdict was overwhelming: Almost 90 percent approved of Reid’s work. “Sen. Reid, I love you,” wrote one admirer, asking that Reid write something for DailyKos “so we can shower you with mojo & love.”

At about the same time, the Washington Post’s David Broder, the longtime “dean” of the Washington press corps, issued his own evaluation of Reid’s work. In an uncharacteristically biting column focused on Reid’s comment that the war in Iraq “is lost,” Broder called Reid a “continuing embarrassment thanks to his amateurish performance.” A “long list” of senators, including some from Reid’s Democratic caucus, Broder said, are ready for the majority leader’s “exhibition of ineptitude to end.”