To call Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid a “mad dog,” as Washington Post columnist Dana Milbank did, is an affront to the canine community and those suffering from legitimate mental illness. Reid was completely sane when he spread hearsay about an anonymous Bain Capital investor who allegedly told him Mitt Romney paid no taxes for 10 years.

Doesn’t Reid, a Mormon like Romney, subscribe to the prohibition in the Ninth Commandment: “Thou shall not bear false witness”? He appears to pay no political price because he’s a Democrat. Unlike with Joe McCarthy, to whom some are comparing him, no prominent fellow Democrat or top media figure has asked Reid the question: “Have you no sense of decency?”