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By: Chuck Muth
Nevada News and Views

TODAY’S NN&V HEADLINES

• Where Do We Get These Men and Women? (Newt Gingrich) – This Veterans Day, I am reminded once again of the wonderful line at the end of the movie adaptation of James Michener’s The Bridges at Toko Ri. Today, the question is “Where do we get these men and women?” and last week, the answer was Killeen, Texas.
• Taxpayer is to Berkley as Bank is to Robber (Mark Noonan) – With unemployment exploding above 10% nationally, Afghanistan suffering as President Obama dithers, our houses continue to lose value, more Nevadans lose their jobs…what does Rep Shelly Berkley do to pass the time? This:
• Statewide September Gaming Win Down 9 Percent for 21 Months of Straight Declines (Sean Whaley/Nevada News Bureau) – Nevada’s gaming revenues continued their slide in September, but for the second consecutive month the decline was only in the single digits.
• Furlough Exception Granted to State Correctional Employees (Sean Whaley/Nevada News Bureau) – The state Board of Examiners voted unanimously today to exempt correctional officers and other essential personnel with the Nevada Department of Corrections from a one-day-a-month furlough requirement.
• Raggio Questions Jobs, Stimulus Numbers (Sean Whaley/Nevada News Bureau) – A state lawmaker yesterday questioned the accuracy and completeness of the reporting on the use of federal stimulus funds in Nevada.

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DRIVE-BY MUTHINGS

• Now HERE’S how a strong, principled state Republican Party deals with RINOs and other Republicans who stray too far off the limited-government ranch. Oh, if only the Nevada GOP would adopt some strong resolutions like this for its problem elected officials.
• Just got a telemarketing/fundraising call from the National Republican Senatorial Committee. It didn’t go well. First, the caller incorrectly identified himself as being with the Republican National Committee and I had to correct him after he said he was calling on behalf of Chairman John “Corning” – leading me to four attempts to get the guy to pronounce his boss’s name correctly. And it went downhill from there, especially after I asked why Sen. Cornyn has yet to visit Nevada to assist efforts to take out Harry Reid next year. In other words, a pretty much wasted call by the NRSC this morning.

OTHER NEWS & VIEWS

• Frederick: Liberal website full of froth and error
• USN&WR: Pollster: Reid Will Win in Nevada
• KTNV: Heller explains his vote on healthcare
• Sun: Nevada suffers as rest of U.S. recovers
• Smith: Angle possesses conservative cred
• RJ: POW-MIA flag flies again at Nevada Capitol
• Sun: Decision on special session unlikely until month’s end
• NNB: Raggio Questions Jobs, Stimulus Numbers
• RGJ: Medicaid costs fuels Nevada budget shortfall
• RJ: Suing travel sites over taxes a terrible idea
• BizPress: Nurses union sues hospital operator over vaccine mandate
• RGJ: Three county incumbents to seek reelection
• Jacob: The Old Ball Game

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TUBE TIPS

Sam Shad’s guest on today’s Nevada Newsmakers program will be State Senator Valerie Wiener, Clark Dist 3. The program airs on KRNV-TV Channel 4 at 12:30 pm in Reno and on Cox Cable Channel 123 at 4:30 pm and 11:35 pm in Las Vegas.

FAMOUS LAST WORDS

• “Smashmouth conservative Chuck Muth, for whom anti-taxliness is next to godliness (although I doubt God could measure up to Assemblyman Ed Goedhart in Muth’s mind), wrote a piece for the Nevada Appeal last week that argued [Gov. Jim] Gibbons could resuscitate himself by going anti-tax all over again (maybe in a special session?). But Gibbons has that crowd, the ones who care about no other issue than taxes.” – Columnist Jon Ralston
• “As the country recoils against the Democrats’ reckless crusade for higher spending and more government control, Dina Titus just walked off a cliff at the request of her party bosses by voting for a bill that hikes taxes, slashes Medicare, kills jobs, and puts small businesses and middle class Nevada families in an even bigger bind.” – National Republican Congressional Committee on Titus’ flip-flop vote on Pelosi’s Obamacare bill
• “One conversation with (Republican U.S. Senate candidate Sharron) Angle, the four-term state assemblywoman who has served on education, election, ethics, health and judiciary committees, is enough to convince you she’s the real deal and isn’t just parroting the latest from the right-wing radio dial. After listening to her discuss her conservative ideals, I was tempted to ask her whether her maiden name was Goldwater or Reagan.” – Columnist John L. Smith
• “It’s (Sen. Harry) Reid, more than any other 2010 incumbent, whose fortunes are tied to the national political environment, and his reelection will be viewed as a referendum on the Democratic majority and Obama.” – Alex Isenstadt or Politico, 11/10/09
• “Barrack Obama, with the big time help of Harry Reid, has already spent more money than every single President combined since George Washington.” – Republican U.S. Senate candidate Danny Tarkanian
  “It’s insane that the Affordable Health Care for America Act has a ten-year price tag of more than $1 trillion dollars. How is that affordable.” – Columnist Glenn Cook
• “I think it is a good goal to cover the uninsured. So, let’s take care of the 15 to 17 percent who don’t have health care. What we’re saying is 83 to 85 percent of America has health care, likes the health care they have, likes the doctors they have. Why change the 85 percent to cater to the 15 percent that either don’t like the health care they have or they don’t have any health care at all? Let’s fix the 15 percent. Let’s not change it for everybody.” – Rep. Dean Heller (R-Nev.), Face to Face, 11/10/09
• “I don’t for a moment believe that 4,000 teachers would have been laid off but for stimulus money. So I think we need to know how many jobs were actually created. And I am not getting that information either from the state or the federal report.” – Nevada Senate Minority Leader Bill Raggio, 11/10/09
• “The Obama coattails of 2008 are gone. The expansion of the electorate, the excitement of the young, came in uniquely propitious Democratic circumstances and amid unparralled enthusiasm for electing the first African-American president. November ’08 was one-shot, one time, never to be replicated.” – Columnist Charles Krauthammer
• “Forgive me if I’m being too crass, but it seems to me that women like Governor (Sarah) Palin and Congresswoman (Michele) Bachmann, as well as Congresswoman Marsha Blackburn of Tennessee, have more cajones than most of the males in the Republican party. They are the only ones standing firmly for fiscally conservative, even somewhat libertarian, principles.” – The Palination, 11/9/09
• “We are learning more about Nidal Hasan, the spineless thug who used handguns the same way a suicide bomber would use explosives to kill himself and those around him. Except that Hasan is such an inept soldier he couldn’t even get himself killed during his attack. The questions surrounding this worm are growing and are becoming more troubling.” – Blogger Rich Galen, Mullings.com, 11/10/09
• “Bill Owens, the newly elected Democratic member of the House from New York’s hotly contested 23rd congressional district, may have just set a new landspeed record for breaking promises in his first hours in Washington. During the campaign, he waffled repeatedly when confronted with questions about health-care reform. At one time or another during the contentious primary, he said he opposed a middle class tax increase, cuts in Medicare, taxing health care benefits and creation of a ‘public option.’ All of those features were in the bill he voted to approve on Saturday.” – Stephen Moore, Political Diary, 11/10/09