Surprised Harry Reid Is Surprised

Well gee, it seems now Harry Reid thinks playing with The Snowe Queen was "a waste of time".

"As I look back it was a waste of time dealing with [Snowe]," Reid is quoted as saying about the White House in a forthcoming New York Times Magazine piece, "because she had no intention of ever working anything out."

That's a harsh but understandable assessment. The White House was banking on Snowe's support for months, both as a means of securing conservative Democrats' support for the bill, and as a failsafe, in case Reid came up short on votes in the Democratic caucus. But after supporting the Senate Finance Committee's reform proposal, Snowe was hesitant to support major changes to the legislation, which Reid needed to make to keep the progressive wing of his caucus from defecting.

The real question is why Harry Reid is still Majority Leader when it took his ass a good six months to figure out something the rest of us knew in June.

[UPDATE 10:42 AM]  Bob Cesca concurs.   Time for Harry Reid to go.  Also, Politico is reporting this morning that the same NY Times Magazine article that's the source of the Snowe quote has Reid saying he felt that Joe F'ckin Lieberman "double-crossed" him on Obamacare.

Incoming Lieber-snit in 5...