Harry Reid is a clown. I seldom resort to name calling, but there’s really no other way to remain succinct about the man. Plus, that’s as nice as I can be with what appears to be an imminent flu bug

“One reason why we have the fires in California is global warming,” Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) told reporters Tuesday, stressing the need to pass the Democrats’ comprehensive energy package.

Moments later, when asked by a reporter if he really believed global warming caused the fires, he appeared to back away from his comments, saying there are many factors that contributed to the disaster.

Yes, he backtracked. Once he realized just how ridiculous his pitch was. There you have it, folks. All we needed to stop the wildfires in Californian was the Democrats’ “comprehensive energy package”. What an amateurish pitch for poor legislation!

See, it’s hot. And it’s never been hot before. If we had passed the Democrats’ “comprehensive energy package” earlier, the great fires of London, Chicago and San Francisco could have all been prevented. Ms. O’Leary would have been saved a century of bovine embarrassment.

We certainly have a trend here. In the last week the senator from Nevada has taken credit for $2.1 million Rush Limbaugh raised for charity (which is akin to a manslaughter convict taking credit for an organ donation) and now he attempts to tell us that the devastating fires in California are happening because the government has failed to, at best, address an unproven theory. I’m surprised he didn’t go further and call for ratification of the Kyoto Protocol.

Senator Reid never misses a chance to be a political opportunist. He’s just not very good at it.