In light of the serious allegations being made against Harry Reid, its useful to recall a statement made last year by Nancy Pelosi.

It's an interesting tact when you have such an incredible array of charges against you, and in fact on a repeated basis the Ethics Committee has spoken out about that behavior, to try to turn the attention someplace else, but the issue is here, the ethical fitness of Tom DeLay to be the majority leader of the House and if the members, the Republican members, find that standard one that is acceptable to them.

Substitute Harry Reid for Tom Delay and you have an interesting question--what standard is acceptable to the Democrat party?

Something else that is interesting; because it leaves the impression that Senator Reid knew that it looked unseemly, was Lionel, Sawyer & Collins closing their one-man office in Washington D.C. after the Los Angeles Times article on the lobbying activities of various family members of congressional representatives and senators. The "one man" in that office? Key Reid.

From the Las Vegas Review Journal

The youngest son of Sen. Harry Reid, D-Nev., has left the Washington office of a prominent Las Vegas law firm to take a job with the Greenspun Corp. in Henderson.

Key Reid, 28, had managed the Washington office of Lionel Sawyer & Collins since it opened on March 11, 2002. He was the only attorney in the office.

Former Sen. Richard Bryan, D-Nev., who joined Lionel, Sawyer & Collins two years ago and lobbies Congress for the firm, worked with Key Reid during trips back to Washington.

"He let us know in November that he had decided to return to Nevada," Bryan said.

Key Reid could not be reached this week. He did not respond to voice messages left for him at Lionel Sawyer & Collins and at Greenspun Corp., a real estate development firm.

In July, the Los Angeles Times published a series of articles listing 17 senators and 11 House members whose relatives lobby or work for clients with business before Congress.

One of the articles spotlighted Reid and his four sons, who all were employed by Lionel Sawyer & Collins, the largest law firm in Nevada.

After being interviewed by the newspaper, Sen. Reid decided Key Reid and son-in-law Steven Barringer, also a lobbyist, should not be allowed to visit his office on behalf of clients.

Bryan said he did not think the newspaper series played a role in Key Reid's decision to leave Washington.

"Not as far as I know," Bryan said. "The senator (Reid) has a policy in which no member of his family can have personal contact with his office. I always handle those contacts. I don't think (the newspaper article) was a factor in Key's decision."

Brent Heberlee, a former Senate aide to Bryan and now a Washington lobbyist for SBC Communications has been hired to replace Key Reid, Bryan said.