Harry Reid will go down in history as the worst Senate Majority Leader in modern history, having presided over the destruction of any semblance of comity in the Senate.

Even Arlen Specter has turned against him and I didn't think that was possible.

"Reid, the soft-spoken trial lawyer from Searchlight, Nev., in his tumultuous six and one-half months as majority leader has tended to suppress free expression in the self-proclaimed World's Greatest Deliberative Body. He last week cut off an attempt to respond to him by Sen. Arlen Specter, the veteran moderate Republican, in an abrupt way that I had not witnessed in a half-century of Senate-watching. Neither had Specter. When Specter finally got the Senate floor, he declared: "Nothing is done here until the majority leader decides to exercise his power to keep the Senate in all night on a meaningless, insulting session. . . . Last night's performance made us the laughingstock of the world." It may get worse if plans to eviscerate ethics legislation are pursued."

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2007/07/shame_of_the_senate.html

Read the part about the new ethics rules:

"Reid is plotting to strip anti-earmark transparency from the final version of ethics legislation passed by both the Senate and House, with tacit support from Republican senators and the GOP leadership."
.