Harry Reid in Rolling Stone

Harry and Howie are co-architects of the new Democratic Party, the party of defiance, anger, uncompromise and intolerance of any position other than their own.

The Sen. Minority Leader felt pretty comfortable giving a short interview to Rolling Stone (here), a publication that occupies a niche on the far left of American mainstream media. Here are some juicy excerpts:

What differences do you see in Bush now that he's in his second term?

This first five months of the second term, he and his folks have become even more pushy than they were in the first four years.

You've called Bush a loser.

And a liar.

You apologized for the loser comment.

But never for the liar, have I?

So to the leader of the minority party still is clinging to the "Bush is a liar" position, the position that requires "Kerry is a liar," "Dean is a liar," "Putin is a liar," "Schroeder is a liar," and "Cherac is a liar," since they all said there were WMD in Iraq.

Reid is not helping the Dems with this attitude, since WMDs have nothing to do with the war any more. There are other justifications, the greatest of which is fueling the spread of Democracy in the Middle East, that have supplanted the WMD argument now that Saddam is out of power.

Sticking to that kind of line won't help the Dems where Reid says they need helping. In the Rolling Stone interview, he blames Kerry's loss on Kerry ignoring the rural vote, and said, "Democrats can no longer win elections in big cities." But they're not going to win the critical suburban vote if they keep saying things like "Bush is a liar," something that most people outside the big cities simply see as a lie. And who does that make the liar?