Tuesday, Jan. 6, 2009 | 7:04 p.m.
WASHINGTON — That Nevada’s two senators, Harry Reid and John Ensign, refrain from criticizing one another in public is known – it’s part of their non-aggression pact.
But did anyone ever peg them to be soul mates?
Apparently Reid thinks so, as he explained in making the case today on the Senate floor that Republican Sen. Norm Coleman of Minnesota should step aside rather than contest the results of the recount in his narrowly lost re-election to comedian Al Franken.
Reid recalled his tough re-election in 1998 in Nevada, which he barely won by 428 votes after Ensign decided to concede rather than pursue a recount or lawsuit.
Reid described that choice as “one of the reasons that John Ensign and I are soul mates.”
“Listen, our politics are so different. But our friendship is as good as it gets,” Reid said.
Coleman must not have heard. He field a lawsuit today challenging the Minnesota results.
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