Yes, it’s a stab at tying two stories together for one post.

First, how’s that “health care everybody wants” working out for you, Harry?

More than half of Nevadans are unhappy with Sen. Harry Reid, according to a new poll commissioned by the Las Vegas Review-Journal. It’s the worst “unfavorable” rating he’s received in the newspaper’s surveys for this year’s election, and it comes amid quiet speculation — or perhaps wishful thinking by his opponents — that it’s time for the Nevada Democrat to retire rather than lose re-election.

In response, Reid told the Review-Journal Friday he wouldn’t consider stepping aside as did Sen. Chris Dodd of Connecticut, whose announcement this week prompted rumors that the Senate majority leader might think about ending his political career now that he’s the most vulnerable incumbent.

Get that? All of Reid’s effort on HCR hasn’t done anything more than render him the “most vulnerable incumbent”. Shouldn’t the fact that so many prominent Democrats are being asked to stand in the middle of the tracks with their backs to the onrushing train in order to get this monstrosity passed tell them something? Anything?

It’s gotten to the point that the GOP in Nevada can throw random Vegas showgirls’ names into the mix and Reid loses the hypothetical election.

Fortunately for Team Lightbringer, Reid isn’t the savvy politician that his Botox-frozen counterpart in the House is. He’s just a slobbering lap dog who rose to the top because of a complete dearth of talent on the Democratic side of the aisle in the Senate (I’ll see your Barbara Boxer and raise you a Roland Burris).

Of course, Reid can still be a money-gathering machine and make it a real fight. As we saw in Minnesota, any close election that can be turned over to the courts doesn’t bode well for the GOP. Judges know who wants to turn the entire legislative process over to them and are more than willing to oblige by manufacturing votes out of thin air to put or keep Democrats in power.

Reid’s swan dive in the polls shows up in tandem with the revelation that he’s kind of an old-school racist prick.

On page 37, a remark, said “privately” by Sen. Harry Reid, about Barack Obama’s racial appeal. Though Reid would later say that he was neutral in the presidential race, the truth, the authors write, was that his:

Encouragement of Obama was unequivocal. He was wowed by Obama’s oratorical gifts and believed that the country was ready to embrace a black presidential candidate, especially one such as Obama — a “light-skinned” African American “with no Negro dialect, unless he wanted to have one,” as he said privately. Reid was convinced, in fact, that Obama’s race would help him more than hurt him in a bid for the Democratic nomination.

What, no “well-spoken” in there too, Harry?

Naturally, if a Republican had said this it would be the lead story for the next month in the New York Times and over at MSNBHonkie.

Instead, I’m sure the MSM will now devote its efforts to explaining that there is actually a context in which its perfectly acceptable for a white guy to say “light-skinned” and “Negro dialect”. And we all know that context will involve nothing more than one’s voter registration.

At the very least, none of Reid’s challengers need to worry about campaigning too hard against him while he keeps campaigning against himself.