Reid: “We won’t smell the tourists anymore.”
Some think that Harry Reid must live a charmed life.
After all, he asserted last year that the Iraq War “is lost.” Now it looks like victory, at least to seasoned on-the-ground observers like Michael Yon.
He has fretted over how fossil fuels like coal make us sick.Never mind that life expectancy, largely, uh, fueled byindustrialization and its accompanying higher living standards,continues to climb.
In each case, the consequences to Reid’s political career have apparently been minimal.
Now Reid has said that visitors to the Capitol — everyday Americancitizens like you and me — stink, and that he’s glad to get away fromthem.
The Capitol Visitors Center, which opened this morning,may have tripled its original budget and fallen years behind schedule,but Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid found a silver lining for membersof Congress: tourists won’t offend them with their B.O. anymore.
“My staff tells me not to say this, but I’m going to say itanyway,” said Reid in his remarks. “In the summer because of the heatand high humidity, you could literally smell the tourists coming intothe Capitol. It may be descriptive but it’s true.”
Suffice it to say that an “obviously elitist” conservative orRepublican who said something similar would have found himself orherself the subject of the lead story in almost every Old Media outletstill standing. How would the Nevada senator react if tourists and theAmerican people decided that they would avoid further offending Reid bynot visiting his home-state tourist havens of Las Vegas and Reno?