From Citizen Outreach:

By: Chuck Muth

ANOTHER DUMB DEMOCRAT JOKE

An old, blind man wanders into a bar in Washington, DC, by mistake. He finds his way to a barstool and orders a beer. After sitting there for a while, he yells to the bartender, “Hey, you wanna hear a Dumb Democrat joke?” The bar immediately falls absolutely silent. In a very deep, husky voice, the woman next to him says:

“Before you tell that joke, sir, I think it is only fair, given that you are blind, that you should know five things: One, the bartender is a Democrat with a baseball bat. Two, the bouncer is a Democrat. Three, I’m a 6-foot-tall, 175-pound Democrat with a black belt in karate. Four, the woman sitting next to me is a Democrat and a professional weightlifter. And five, the lady to your right is a Democrat and a professional wrestler. Now, think about it seriously, Mister. Do you still wanna tell that joke?”

The blind man thinks for a second, shakes his head and finally mutters: “Well, no; not if I’m gonna have to explain it five times.”

THE JAMES COMMISSION…IT’S ON!

I watched Gov. Jim Gibbons as he signed an Executive Order (EO) in his office this morning establishing the Spending and Government Efficiency (SAGE) Commission and introduced to reporters his choice to head that commission, Bruce James. As the U.S. Public Printer in Washington, DC, for a number of years, Mr. James has extensive experience in just this sort of exercise.

But as we know, the devil is in the details. I’ve been championing a Nevada version of Ronald Reagan’s old Grace Commission for many years now. Is the James Commission brought into existence today by Gov. Gibbons something for fiscal conservatives to really get excited about? My thoughts on this matter can be found HERE on Muth’s Truths.

IF THEY’RE WAITING FOR A RAINY DAY, THIS IS IT

Hmm, maybe this is something the new James Commission can take an immediate look at (he writes ending the sentence with a preposition)...

I haven’t been able to confirm this yet, but I’m being told that according to the terms of the Southern Nevada Public Lands Management Act, “5% of the proceeds of land sales in the Las Vegas BLM district are given to the state to be used for education.” Reportedly the state has received more than $150 million dollars from those land sales but has “chosen to bank it and only budget the interest.”

Could this be true? Is there $150 million sitting in a bank account which is earmarked for education but the state, in these difficult budgetary times, is sitting on the money rather than using it? Inquiring minds wanna know.

THE RIGHT WAY

“Wally Edge” of Politicker Nevada writes that “There’s a right way and a boring way to make your filing for office a press announcement.” One Republican candidate who did it the right way filed this week for a state assembly seat in Clark County. Find out who it is and what he did HERE

THE WRONG WAY

There’s an old rule in politics which goes something like this: Never pick a fight with someone who buys ink by the barrel or paper by the ton. The modern-day corollary would include, “...or bandwidth by the gigabyte.”

In other words, a smart campaign professional learns on Day One of Politics 101 not to pick a fight with the media, or in this day and age, a blogger or online reporter. Only a bush-league amateur would do something that stupid.

Gee, I wonder who I could be thinking of.

And yes, I have a reason for including this little blurb in today’s newsletter. Stay tuned, Batfans. You ain’t’ gonna believe what comes next.

LET’S MAKE A DEAL

After spending the last ten days claiming alternately that he made a deal, tried to make a deal, broke the deal but only after somebody else broke the deal first, Ron Paul operative Jeff Greenspan, along with Ron Paul’s southern Nevada coordinator Brian Kominsky, sent out an email to supporters yesterday in which they say they are willing to…get this…negotiate a new deal on the selection of delegates to attend the Republican National Convention in Minneapolis this summer.

Nevada Republican Party Chairwoman Sue Lowden responded this morning to the Paul camp’s entreaty on her blog HERE

REDIRECTED ENERGY

In yesterday’s Reno Gazette-Journal it was noted that northern Nevada Republicans haven’t, thus far, fielded any candidates for state legislative seats currently occupied by Democrat incumbents. In response, someone referring to themselves as “The Juice” wrote the following on the paper’s website:

“Where are all the Ron Paul people who have the time and gumption to uselessly try to dominate our delegation to the GOP national convention? I would LOVE it if they’d turn that energy to local governance, where their foreign policy madness isn’t a disqualifier, but where limited government principles can make a real and immediate difference.”

All I can say is “Ditto,” along with a hearty “Amen!”

PLAYING THE RACE CARD

The vast majority of Americans desperately want to get beyond the “race” issue in politics and continue moving down the path toward a color-blind society. Indeed, initiatives to do away with “affirmative action” programs which extend preferential treatment to certain persons based on their race have passed overwhelmingly in every state where they have been on the ballot, and as many as a half-dozen additional states are likely to vote on such measures this November in what is being called “Super Tuesday for Equality” by supporters.

And then the Rev. Jeremiah Wright – Barack Obama’s former pastor – comes along and picks the scab once again, forcing race into the presidential campaign where it truly wasn’t for the vast majority of Americans (other than Bill Clinton and David Duke).

So its extremely unfortunate and regrettable to see Assemblywoman Sheila Leslie (D-Reno) trot out the race card here in Nevada yesterday, demanding to see, according to the Associated Press, “a breakdown of the ethnic composition of the Nevada state Board of Medical Examiners over the last two decades.” Leslie made the request after Dr. James Tate of the Association of Black Physicians, again according to the AP, “accused the medical board of disciplining black physicians more often and severely than their white counterparts.”

Now what if someone responded to Tate’s and Leslie’s race-baiting by raising this question:

“Is it possible that the medical board has disciplined black physicians more often than white physicians because many under-qualified black physicians attained their medical credentials due to affirmative action programs and simply aren’t as good as their white counterparts who didn’t enjoy such preferential treatment?”

I’m pretty sure anyone – well, any white person – who dared to ask such a question, as legitimate as it is in response to the accusation Tate made this week, would immediately be labeled by the likes of Leslie and Tate a “racist.” And that would only further inflame the racial tensions they already stirred up. So thank goodness no sane white person would ever dare pose such a question in writing.

Oops.

FAMOUS LAST WORDS

“You know when you read what (Rev. Jeremiah Wright) says, I was not as offended as the people in the polls that I read. I listen to him, and frankly, it made sense to me. I totally understood what he was saying.”

- Blubbermouth Rosie O’Donnell on the “Today” show on Monday