The mind of Reid, cont.

Sen. Reid, like President Bush, is no mental giant, and, also like Bush, he is exceedingly hard to read. Here’s a new angle on Reid’s motivations for stopping the immigration bill, from VFR reader Josh:

I think the “grand bargain” was that President Bush and the Democrats were both to get what they wanted (a compromise that they would bust open the border by any means necessary), but the credit given for this radically liberalizing piece of legislation was to be President Bush’s only. When Senator Reid recognized that President Bush’s amnesty bill was radically liberal, implied by the reaction of Bush’s “base,” he simply decided that he does not want a Republican president to get credit for something that should have been achieved by a Democratic leadership.

LA replies:

A brilliant if phantasmagorical insight into the liberal mind. In other words, when Reid recognized how terrible this bill really was and how it was the most nation-destroying bill in our history and thus the ultimate fulfillment of leftist hopes, he felt that the Dems simply must get all the credit for it.

Posted by Lawrence Auster at June 09, 2007 11:51 AM | Send