Abu Wabu

Senate Chairwoman Harry Reid today tried to glom on to Rush Limbaugh's massive takedown of the MediaMatters smear campaign that prompted Reid and forty of his colleagues to sign the Declaration of Incontinence, which Rush just sold on eBay for 2.1 million dollars. It would have been all the Senate Democrats who signed that sumbitch, Dingy Harry tells us, had they simpy had the time. That's right: Reid actually has the gall to claim credit for the generosity of two other people, conservative Republicans, one of whom he brazenly lied about and tried to bully from the safety of the Senate chamber.

Harry Reid is a cowardly shitheel, and I'm stunned that Dennis Miller goes so easy on him.

A CQ commenter says it best:

The conservative thinks of a free-market way of raising private funds to aid a worthwhile cause and backs his commitment with his own money.

The liberal asks other people to donate funds, doesn't donate any of his own money, and tries to take credit for the generosity of others.

Don Surber noticed what Rush reminds Dingy Harry:

That letter was not written to raise money — it was written to get a man fired for broadcasting opinions that 41 Democratic Senators wanted censured. He dares to support a war that a Democratic Senate authorized in 2002.

Now look for Reid to take credit for victory in Iraq without apologizing to the troops for lying about them and undermining their mission, without admitting that he'd done so, and without ever personally lifting more than his middle finger in their direction.