Pejman Yousefzadeh:

Harry Reid is well-known for his inability to utter a cogent and coherent statement without eliciting laughter and guffaws at him. So I guess that it should come as no surprise that he is now calling judicial nominees with whom he disagrees “bad people.” No one knows, of course, what on earth Reid means when he says that people like Janice Rogers Brown want to take us “back to the Civil War days,” and frankly, it probably does not matter what Reid means or where he got the transcendentally stupid idea that Janice Rogers Brown craves a return to antebellum America. It’s probably just something his staffers fed him, and he took and ran with.

The key, of course, is to ensure that matters do not end with yet another whimper when it comes to Reid’s commentary. At some point, we have to ask ourselves how it is that a public official can make so many stupefyingly wrong statements, and how it is that a party so dedicated to the proposition that “Bush! Is! Dumb!” (though avoiding the resulting questions of how dumb Bush can keep beating them at the polls) can wink and nod as its Senate Leader makes one boneheaded statement after another…

Seconding that.