Sen. Harry Reid should not resign because of his racially insensitive comments about our dialect-free president. Hey, if he managed to bribe Al Sharpton into accepting his apology, that's good enough for me.

Senator Reid should resign, however, because he has a sub-30 percent job approval rating, because he refuses to listen to his constituents, because he's saddling our children with mountains of debt, because he's using backroom deals and bribes to push through a health reform bill that two-thirds of the American public find objectionable, and because he, like our president, has broken campaign promise after campaign promise regarding transparency and openness in government.

My only hope from this pathetic scandal is that Senator Reid is sufficiently distracted or tarnished to the point that he's rendered unsuccessful and ineffective in pushing through legislation that further damages our nation.

Michael P. DeCicco, Severn

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