Isn't it nice that our rulers tell us everything --  eventually? First thing out of the gate after the midterm was Harry Reid's chief of staff briefing the media on how the defeat was all the White House's fault. The president promised support but he never delivered. I now understand something that had just puzzled me for the last two years. Why was Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) shutting down the Senate by keeping bills passed by the House off the Senate floor and denying anyone a chance to offer amendments? Was the White House calling the shots? The conventional view is that Reid was a wrecker, cynically shutting down the Senate to help the White House. But now we learn from Philip Rucker and Robert Costa at the Washington Post that Reid and the White House simply don't get along, and that the relation between the White House and Nancy Pelosi is not to be spoken of. Reid was not being intransigent and trying to shut down the Republicans. He...(Read Full Article)