ED MORRISSEY takes a look at the latest from Harry Reid and finds Reid’s complaints unconvincing:

Let’s get this straight. Reid’s failure to follow the Senate rules on disclosure in 2001, when he sat on the Ethics Committee, somehow got set up by the Republicans. Reid’s connection to an attorney involved in a bribery case that directly related to zoning decisions in Clark County, where they both owned property, was a Rovian plot set in motion in 1998. And now Reid’s new disclosures of property in an area where he has taken an intense legislative interest somehow relates to Republicans, when no one even mentioned the parcels in question — because Reid failed to disclose them during his entire time as Senate Minority Leader, while he has castigated Republicans for alleged ethical lapses.

The only reason he’s coming clean is because the AP caught him breaking the rules earlier, and it pointed out the extensive connections between Reid, Nevada land developers, and the legislation he has championed that has benefitted all of them. . . .

Besides, the man made $700,000 in profits in 2004 on that one sale of land that, according to his disclosure statements, he didn’t even own at the time. He couldn’t even part with $1200 of it from his own pocket in bonuses, gifts, and a Christmas party for his staff? He had to stick his contributors with the bill? Perhaps he figured it all came from the same source and didn’t make much difference.

Indeed.

ANOTHER UPDATE: Meanwhile, on the they’re-probably-all-crooks front, the Weldon probe widens.