U.S. Sen. Harry Reid (D-Nev) may or may not be a good U.S.Senator (a matter no doubt firmly lodged in the eye of the beholder), but he certainly was wrong when he attacked AG's Mark Shurtleff (R-Ut) and Terry Goddard (D-Az) on their prosecutions of polygamous activities.  Speaking on a radio station, he stated that both AG's were "afraid" of prosecuting cases because of the "political clout" of supporters of polygamy.   Reid is now wisely scrambling to retract his irresponsible statements.  Because he is the Senate Majority Leader and is apparently important to getting the U.S. Dept. of Justice to get do its job of prosecuting federal crimes that are occuring within the polygamous community (estimated at 60,000 in the states of Utah and Az.), let's hope that everyone gets back together.

Sen. Reid isn't the first federal politician to not understand how prosecutors make decisions.   Deeply engrossed in a DC based culture of partisanship and cheap shots, it is hard for them to believe that there really are elected officials - like Shurtleff and Goddard - who call it straight.

I suggest that Sen. Reid spend sometime with his colleagues who have serious prosecutorial experience - Sens. Lieberman, Cornyn, Salazar, Pryor, Sessions, Kloblchar, Kerry and Leahy - before he next opines on the job of bringing tough cases.  If he does, we will all live in a better country.