Updated: 4:42 pm | Did Washington Post columnist Dana Milbank accidentally announce Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid's retirement in an appositive clause buried nine paragraphs down in his column today? Maybe he was writing what everyone else has been thinking, but in a piece about Reid's ongoing spat with Mitt Romney over taxes, Milbank wrote in authoritative terms that the Nevada Democrat would not seek re-election in 2016. "Reid, who won reelection in 2010 and doesn’t plan to run for office again, is happy to absorb blows in return — and they have been ferocious," Milbank wrote. (more…)
