I've been wondering about this. We had a week of John Kerry's gaff last Monday, where he said in his own words that soldiers in Iraq were too stoopid to finish their college courses.

Harry Reid, on the other hand, has simply dropped off the media's radar. This in the face of new allegations of (and one would hope some serious investigations into) long-wispered graft on his part. Not since an AP story dated October 11, 2006, have we even seen him on TV. As the Minority Leader in the US Senate, I would have thought he would get equal play with Nancy Pelosi (his counterpart in the US House of Representatives).

The AP reported that Reid took a $1.1 million dollar payment on a real estate deal involving property he hadn't owned for 3 years. He failed to report his position to the ethics committee as he is required to do, due (as he claims) to a "clerical error". As soon as this issue became public, though, it was discovered his "clerical errors" have been helping improve his financial status quite a lot!

Now, we find out that he used campaign contributions to pay off the staff (in Christmas bonuses) of the hotel where he keeps his offices. His "clerical error" here was that, while the hotel staff thought it was a gift, he reported it as payroll.

Kerry and Pelosi may be embarrassing to their party and supporters in the press, but Reid is an actual albatross hanging arround their necks. No wonder he isn't getting any play in the Liberal media.