Is Reid the new Rove?

Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) appeared to be auditioning for a position as Karl Rove's replacement Tuesday, as he delivered a speech to the liberal Center for American Progress in which he gave advice--or more accurately, listed demands--on the content and attitude of President Bush's upcoming State of the Union Address. The President, Reid said, "must unite the nation," saying "we need to hear honesty and humility from the commander in chief, not swagger from the campaigner-in-chief." He further maligned Bush and his party's commitment to national security, saying "Republicans run good campaigns, but when it comes to actually governing and protecting Americans, they have a record of incompetence."
Senator Reid's speech also included a little-known nugget about President Bush's Medicare prescription drug program. "The state of our union today," he said, "is that we have seniors begging in the streets for the medicine they need." Apparently he is the only one who has noticed this phenomenon, as nobody we have spoken to has seen our elders taking to the streets to beg for their drugs.
Reid also demanded that the President "come clean" on the "costs of Republican corruption." Speaking of the 2000 campaign against Al Gore, Reid said "George Bush promised to bring dignity to the White House but we've since found that he brought Jack Abramoff instead. President Bush needs to quit stonewalling about his White House's connection to corruption, and finally tell us how he's going to reform Washington."
The Senate Minority Leader continues in the same vein on his website, saying "Republicans today control the House of Representatives, the Senate and the White House. They have absolute power, and it has corrupted their Party and led to the culture of corruption that we see now in Washington."
No word yet from Reid on the $66,000 he took from Abramoff clients between 2001 and 2004; however, based on this part of his financial history, as well as his disturbing trend of projecting blame for personal wrongdoing onto others, it would appear that the "culture of corruption" in Washington could be solved in large part by Nevada voters, who can remove Reid from office in 2010.

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