Harry Reid: It Is My Job to Spend Your Money

This is not going to be a winning argument:

In a jab at Angle, who thinks the federal government should be dramatically scaled back and fulfill only those duties expressly enumerated in the Constitution, Reid argued it is his “constitutional duty” to spend federal money.

“Part of my constitutional duty is to do congressionally directed spending,” he said, pulling out a copy of the Constitution given to him by the late U.S. Sen. Robert Byrd. “I am vigorous in going forward with congressionally directed spending. I fight for it.”

It’s a difficult argument to make to an electorate that polls indicate is deeply concerned about federal spending.

Reid is now running two or three points behind Sharron Angle in most of the recent polls, and is pulling only about 40% of the vote in any of them. An incumbent running below 50% this late in the race is probably going to lose because the late breaking voters tend to support the challenger.

Harry probably won't be spending any more of your money after January.

However, Doug Ross reminds us that voters in Nevada are actually allowed to vote for "None of the Above", and that may actually become the Reid strategy.