The majority leader will probably let me out of the doghouse again one of these days, but I’m not holding my breath. He seems to be reveling in the twilight of his career, unconcerned about how he appears or what he says, even more so than usual. Just look at what he said during that tour of Nevada last week, making nasty comments about his same-state congressional colleagues. On the other hand, he continues to play the game as only he can, stroking Sandoval and sticking the knife in at the same time by touting the governor-who-might-want-to-be-senator’s embrace of Obamacare.

And Reid continues to move the pieces on the Nevada board, preparing to block the governor from running against him by going all in with Lucy Flores—the “demographically perfect” assemblywoman—in the lieutenant governor’s race. He cares because if the second in command is a Democrat, then Republican Gov. Brian Sandoval must stay—and will be blocked from challenging Reid in 2016. He is also, once again, meddling in a Republican primary. Reid does not want Sandoval’s anointed choice, a peripatetic, energized state senator named Mark Hutchison, to win the GOP nomination. So I expect the meddler-in-chief to find a way to help Hutchison’s opponent, someone he considers the weaker candidate and with whom he has some history.

That candidate’s name is Sue Lowden.

Lamar Alexander might think “End of the Senate” belongs on his tombstone, but I’d argue that if anyone’s should read, “No permanent friends, no permanent enemies,” it is Harry Reid’s.