Duh, because left-leaning indies like you MADE IT HAPPEN when you voted Democrat. What, you think they’d pass over Reid for a statesman like that camera-hog scheming Schumer, that genius Bab ‘bouncer’ Boxer or that exemplar or moral rectitude Chris ‘countrywide’ Dodd? Indeed, no, Reid was the next mental dwarf in line to lead this bunch.

As PJ O’Rourke put it, giving money and power to Congress-critters is like giving whiskey and car keys to a bunch of teenagers and hoping nothing bad happens.

Why exactly is Harry Reid majority leader?

I suppose that its possible he chooses to maintain a public facade of complete incompetence, while out of the public eye he transforms into a Terminator-like brutally efficient legislative warrior.
If that’s the case . . . he’s the greatest actor I have ever witnessed, and the first politician that actively shuns any public display of ability and competence since forever.

I ain’t betting my chips on that, though.