By: Chuck Muth
Nevada News and Views

TODAY’S HEADLINES

OTHER NEVADA NEWS

MUTH’S TRUTHS

  • “Lap dancers would be cited for lewd conduct for improperly touching customers under a new code proposed by Las Vegas police,” the Las Vegas Review-Journal reported today. Hmm. No one forces these gals to work there, and no one forces customers to go there. So if police have enough money to crackdown on such consensual behavior by free adult citizens, then the police have way too much money in their budget, not too mention way too much time on their hands. Aren’t there real crimes they could be investigating?
  • John Fund reported in Political Diary yesterday that former Arizona Congressman J.D. Hayworth may mull a GOP primary run against Arizona Sen. John McCain next year. Hayworth has a pretty good gig going these days as a drive-time conservative talk show host in Phoenix, but he hasn’t forgotten a McCain-inspired Department of Justice investigation trying to tie J.D. to Jack Abramoff. Haworth was cleared, but still has a rather sizable legal bill to settle. But once that’s out of way, maybe, just maybe….
  • According to Wednesday’s Rasmussen Reports, 83 percent of Americans “want final legislation posted online for everybody to read before Congress votes.” The question which naturally arises is: What the heck are the other 17 percent thinking and why are they allowed to vote in elections?
  • A long simmering feud among some Hispanic Republicans in Las Vegas may boil over in next year’s GOP primary as local restaurateuress Irma Aguirre mulls taking on Tibi Ellis, who has already announced her candidacy for
  • Nevada’s interim GOP boss Nancy Ernaut said in an interview yesterday that Sen. John Ensign “does a good job” and “serves the state of Nevada well.” As far as the growing criticism of Ensign’s actions relating to his affair with a staffer, Ernaut said “There is a bit of a witch hunt on here.” Problem for Republicans is that there’s absolutely nothing wrong with a witch hunt when there’s really a witch to be hunted.
  • Campaign Tip: Dear Leader yesterday conducted a photo op at the White House in his never-ending efforts to shove ObamaCare down the nation’s throat. It included 150 doctors dressed in sparkling white lab coats – despite the fact that 2/3 of doctors oppose Obama’s plan. Lessen to Republican Candidates: Do not let Democrats get away with pretending that firefighters, cops and school teachers support on the Democrat candidate. Create your own small groups of firefighters, cops and teachers who support you and include the support of firefighters, cops and teachers in your campaigns.

OTHER OPINIONS

TUBE TIP

In case you live outside Clark County or otherwise missed the interview, you can catch U.S. Senate candidate Sue Lowden being grilled by veteran political pundit Jon Ralston on his “Face to Face” show online HERE. And make sure you watch all the way to the end of Segment Four when Lowden whips out the Taxpayer Protection Pledge and signs it in front of gazillions of Face to Face viewers!

FAMOUS LAST WORDS

  • “They Republicans keep saying (the John Ensign scandal is) a personal issue, when, of course, it’s well beyond that at this point.” – Nevada pundit Jon Ralston on the Rachel Maddow Show, 10/5/09
  • “At the time of Mr. Ensign’s affair with the wife of one his senior aides and the subsequent cover-up, his fellow Republicans made him chairman of the National Republican Senatorial Committee, where he was in charge of recruiting candidates and raising money for Republican Senate races across the country. He accepted this position of national responsibility in a year when Republicans were under assault and Democrats were in reach of a 60-vote Senate majority. There is no doubt Mr. Ensign failed to give the NRSC his full attention at a crucial time.” – Washington Times editorial, 10/6/09
  • “What kind of man has an affair with his best friend’s wife, both of whom are on staff, has his parents pay them off with an amount transparently concocted to avoid exposure and then dissembles to friends and associates as he tries to pawn the husband off on them, perhaps breaking laws, while he continues to pursue the wife? What kind of man? One whose every word, whose every motivation, whose every action must now be greeted with suspicion, rendering him nearly useless as a legislator but supremely useful as a political symbol for the opposition.” – Las Vegas Sun columnist Jon Ralston
  • “Americans want both to indulge in an unhealthy but enjoyable life style and live forever, and they try to square the circle by demanding extravagant (by international standards) health care.” – Blogger and federal Judge Richard Posner
  • “In the 41 sentences of her remarks (to the Olympic Committee), Michelle Obama used some form of the personal pronouns ‘I’ or ‘me’ 44 times. Her husband was, comparatively, a shrinking violet, using those pronouns only 26 times in 48 sentences. Still, 70 times in 89 sentences was sufficient to convey the message that somehow their fascinating selves were what made, or should have made, Chicago’s case compelling.”- Columnist George Will
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