Riddle Me This, Senator Reid...

Okay, folks, pretend you're Harry Reid for a moment...

If your smearing of Judge Alito has made you and your party look like a bunch of buffoons;

If your breathless accusations over Abramoff and his clients' donations haven't successfully washed away the $66,000 you received;

As your accusations of illegality over the NSA's efforts, become more and more shrill and dishonest;

If your insistance that President Bush fire an employee that hadn't even been charged, or indicted, or convicted of any wrongdoing makes you sound childish;

If your continuous attacks and repeating the phrase "culture of corruption" over and over have made the Democrats in congress even more unpopular than the Republicans;

And just having finished directing your fellow Democratic Senators to ignore Judge Alito's qualifications and vote for partisan political gain only;

What do you think your next move should be? Change directions, maybe?

Not if you're Harry - nope, you set up an organization to step up the same types of attacks that have failed so miserably:

WASHINGTON - An organization with strong backing from the top Democrats in Congress intends to launch a costly election-year campaign to promote issues on the party's agenda, officials said Tuesday, beginning with a television commercial arguing it's "time for a change" after a season of political corruption.

Americans United "will use all the campaign-style tactics which characterize political campaigns," ranging from paid advertising to grassroots organizing, according to a memo describing the group's plans.

"Campaign-style tactics" means attack ads. And lots of fund-raising, too:

Officials said Senate Democratic leader Harry Reid of Nevada and House Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi of California met with potential donors in Los Angeles earlier this month, underscoring their personal interest in the group's efforts.

Americans United got it's start-up funds from MoveOn.Org and several large unions. The unions involved so far appear to be:

American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees
National Education Association
American Federation of Teachers
AFL-CIO
Service Employees International Union

The ethics-minded lefties have cleverly set this up as a 501(c) so that donors don't have to be disclosed. Also, the group will not support any individual candidate, so there will be no limits on the size of donations. This dovetails nicely with the Democrats' primary campaign strategy - since they don't as of yet have an agenda of their own, right-bashing is their only tactic at present. And AU can easily run ads supporting each individual Democratic candidates' platform of Bush and Right-bashing and still run a disclaimer on each ad stating their non-affiliation. Pretty clever, eh?

And there's more - the group is designed to emulate the very methodology of what Dems call the "Culture of Corruption":

"Sen. Reid and Rep. Pelosi are very supportive of efforts to advance progressive issues, much like the Republicans have done for years with conservative causes through such groups as Progress For America," said Jim Manley, a spokesman for Reid.

I would think that the last thing Reid would want to do is copy his "corrupt" adversaries.

This coming election season promises to be the most fun ever.