Reid in trouble?

That was a good discussion on Afghanistan. I only have one comment to add to andrew teasdale (who gets props for using his name): I have read the Constitution cover to cover, many times. I have a pocket version of it on my desk and refer to it almost daily. I also understand the arguments surrounding the War Powers Act and the president’s authority. I will ask a question in return: How was the Franco-American war constitutional? It wasn’t declared, and it was waged by John Adams, a Founding Father.
But now I’d like to turn our attention to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid.

He recently got into a tiff with the Las Vegas Review-Journal, which made national news.
It caught my eye because I was a reporter at the Review-Journal for three years. R-J Publisher Sherman Frederick wrote a column that blasted Reid for telling the paper’s advertising director “I hope you go out of business.”
Those are fighting words in this business, where going out of business is a real possibility these days. Reid’s office insists he was just joking. So does Las Vegas Sun columnist Jon Ralston, who called Frederick’s column “garbage.”
I know Ralston. I showed him around the police beat on his first day as a reporter in Las Vegas about 25 years ago. He’s a good journalist and his assessment is most-likely correct.
But the bigger issue down there is Reid’s sagging popularity. An opinion poll shows him trailing two GOP challengers for re-election next year.
The R-J quoted BYU political science professor Richard Davis as saying that winning “”becomes more difficult when you are actually the one having to carry the water for the president. He (Reid) has got to get something out of the Obama administration that he can claim as his own.”
It’s way early yet, but an election loss by the Senate majority leader would be huge.