Las Vegas Sun

WASHINGTON — Insightful profile in this morning’s Politico on Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid — the boxer vs. the high school baseball catcher — by veteran Capitol Hill scribe David Rogers.

“Baseball and boxing: two sides of Harry Reid that help explain why he is a puzzle to many,” writes Rogers, who has spent years covering Congress, writing until late last year for the Wall Street Journal.

Reid, he writes, “rose in the Democratic leadership as a shrewd Senate insider, skilled at reading people and being able to reach across the aisle with a wry sense of humor. But the Democratic takeover in 2006 pushed Reid into a more public, less comfortable role, where he has felt stiffed by President Bush and compelled to swing back even as he has struggled to define himself as majority leader.”

Worth a read for those following the chronicles of the man from Searchlight.