Las Vegas paper weighs in on Sen. Harry Reid's oddly defiant farewell to his political career

Harry Reid has already crossed the American electorate once this year, delivering horrendous health care legislation to the president. On Saturday, he vowed to repeat the insult by passing more unwanted "reforms," this time to benefit illegal immigrants.

"We need to do this this year," the Senate majority leader said at a downtown Las Vegas rally, promising to make amnesty for illegals the top priority of Congress when lawmakers return to Washington this week.

"There's no excuses, there's no excuses. ... We're going to do immigration reform just like we did health care reform."

The underhanded deals that got new health insurance regulations passed were every bit as unpopular with the public as the regulations themselves, so the prospect of more vote buying at the expense of Nevada taxpayers is pathetic.

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Sen. Reid's arrogance can't be underestimated. He doesn't care about the polls that show public opposition to his agenda and wide disfavor with him, personally. He's too busy enacting the decades-old dreams of the Democratic elite -- and creating future dependent Democratic voters.

But if Sen. Reid insists on publicly proclaiming that Americans really want to turn illegals into citizens, then why doesn't he make his re-election race a referendum on amnesty? He can spend his millions of dollars on commercials touting his position on "comprehensive immigration reform."

Let's see how that plays out for him.