Reid "cracks:" offends Obamacare foes and the nation, embarrasses Nevadans

 Harry Reid lives in a bubble, out of touch with the nation and Nevada.

Lawmakers on the Senate floor are wondering if Majority Leader Harry Reid has lost his mind, something folks back home have known for quite some time.

Why else would Reid deliberately offend a majority of Americans, as well as most of his constituents?

During the raging debate on health care reform Monday, Senator Reid intentionally aimed nuclear missiles at his fellow lawmakers: he compared those who oppose health care reform to those who opposed the abolition of slavery more than a century ago.

Reid seems to have forgotten his history: Sen. Strom Thurmond, then a Democrat,  unsuccessfully tried to filibuster the Civil Rights Act of 1957, while Republicans led the charge against slavery.

More troubling is the fact that Reid appears unaware that not just Republican lawmakers oppose Obamacare. Numerous recent polls show a majority of Americans and Nevadans oppose the specific health care reform bill Harry is trying to pass. His salvos, aimed at the Republicans he is supposed to lead, might as well have been aimed at the entire nation... and Nevadans, who cringe every time Reid speaks.

The aging 4-term senator is no stranger to embarrassing himself and Nevada. As thousands of soldiers were being sent into Iraq, in the war's final surge, Reid surprisingly announced, "The war is lost," creating a angry firestorm across the nation, and unimaginable embarrassment back home.

Reid was proven very, very wrong. The surge worked, and Iraq was able to establish a democratic government free of extremist intervention. One would think Reid would have learned to hold his tongue.

But no. In sweeping accusations across the Senate floor Monday, Reid unwittingly chastised more than half the nation, comparing health care foes to those who opposed not just the abolition of slavery, but women's suffrage and civil rights as well.