OH, SUCH WHINING - AT 11:10 A.M. ET:  Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid has a complaint:

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid today slammed the news media for its coverage of the health-care debate, accusing news organizations of paying too much attention to rowdy town-hall meetings.

“The press has not been” focused enough “on what we’ve been doing,” Reid told listeners in a telephone town hall meeting with Nevadans Friday afternoon, arguing that the media has focused on town hall attendees “yelling and screaming” rather than discussing the substance of the health-care reform effort.

“They can’t ask enough questions about town-hall meetings,” Reid told listeners in a telephone town hall meeting with Nevadans Friday afternoon. “They ask, ‘When are you holding a town hall meeting?’”

COMMENT:  You know the Democrats are really in trouble when they start complaining about the mainstream media.  The mainstream media?  That's practically a branch of the Democratic Party.

Reid's complaint is strange in another way, too.  He wants the focus on what Washington is doing, not on what the American people are saying.  That is about as clear a definition of his party's vision of the country as I've seen recently.  Really quite remarkable.

August 29, 2009