Long-term E-Verify fails by a couple of votes, the omnibus bill is signed full of earmarks, and the President gives us yet another speech on responsibility and transparency.

As for why Harry Reid is more pro-illegal alien and pro-democrat than he is pro-American, the answer is simple. The answer is Las Vegas.

Amidst the hustle and bustle of a tourist economy built on fabulous hotels and entertainment of all kinds are the hotel kitchens, rooms to be cleaned and all the service jobs illegal aliens have come to do so well.

If they can’t do service jobs they do construction, or they did until the housing bubble burst, and don’t forget landscaping needed for all those new homes that were popping up.

Las Vegas sucks money from tourists’ wallets and when the tourists are gone the economy of Las Vegas wilts like a plucked rose left sitting in the sun.

Harry Reid is a little shrunken gnome of a man with a life-long dedication to the Democratic Party. He hails from a strange little town just outside Las Vegas called Searchlight, Nevada. Always on the sidelines, always conservatively quiet, his driven dedication to the party is seldom matched.