‘Dirty Harry’ Reid’s increasing eccentricity. "Eccentricity"? That's one way to put it.

"The power to destroy a thing is the absolute control over it." -- Paul-Muad'Dib Atreides, in Dune.

Harry Reid is channeling Emperor Shaddam and will continue to do so, right up to the point when his real masters tire of his inability to deliver the spice.

Senate majority leader practices politics of personal destruction

Pruden skewers Reid, but the fact of the matter is that Reid is a creature of the corrupt machine of casino owners in Vegas. When they tire of him, he'll be gone. The only question is, will the Koch brothers themselves tire of him and his attacks and use THEIR money to fund investigative journalism that will rip the mask off the gambling plutocrats who have created Harry and shielded him and the entire rotten structure that extends all the way down to the bumbling assassins who murdered Erik Scott four years ago? It strikes me that the Vegas criminal enterprise has two principal weaknesses. One is water and the public relations related to same. (One wonders what would happen if anti-Reid machine guerrillas started messing with the Vegas water supply in non-fatal but very creative ways? Will they, like the Guild Navigators in Dune, decide they've had enough of Emperor Shaddam?) The second is their allergic reaction to the antiseptic qualities of light. Like cockroaches, they only are happy operating in the dark. So far they have managed to do that. What happens to Harry if and when he makes enough powerful enemies that atrocities such as the Scott murder and the corrupt way it was covered up become the subject of real press attention? The Koch brothers have the money to do that. And there are certainly enough victims of the Vegas Machine who are willing to enlist in such a cause and aid it with leaks of what they know. Film at eleven, as they say.