Harry Munster blows it

Harry Munster Reid blew it yesterday with trying to shove personally beneficial issues into the defense bill. Powerline covers it here. Sadly, for Grandpa Munster, success was elusive:

Even Reid may not get much credit for his maneuver. For one thing, failure is rarely welcome. For another, Reid probably helped contribute to the failure through his unwillingness to entertain amendments which,according to one gay rights activist, "blew the votes we had lined up." Similarly, Hispanic groups understandably were disappointed that they couldn't get a vote on the DREAM Act. They are probably wondering why this legislation, which from their perspective is the narrowest and least controversial of their agenda items, was intertwined with a hot-button gay rights issue.