NOONAN NAILS IT
Peggy Noonan,
former Reagan speechwriter and opinion columnist for the Wall Street Journal,
wrote this absolutely fantastic closing sentence in her column this week…
“It’s good to win, but winning without a declared governing purpose is a ticket to nowhere.”
Noonan was writing about Republicans in Congress whose
electoral strategy is “don’t rock the boat, don’t mess things up with anything
controversial.”
But she could just as easily have been talking about
Republicans in the Nevada Legislature, especially Senate Minority Leader Moderate Mike Roberson and his two
hand-picked stand-for-nothing candidates in the swing races of Senate Districts
8 and 9.
Seriously. Other
than, “If you elect us to the majority, we’re going to tax the tar out of
mining and dump it into education,” what does Roberson and his GOP brethren
stand for? What’s their platform? And why would it be better for Roberson and
the Republicans to raise our taxes and increase spending than the Democrats
doing the exact same thing?
Thanks to the Gibbons Tax Restraint Law, Republicans in both
the Senate and the Assembly had enough seats in both 2011 and 2013 to block the
extension of 2009’s “temporary” tax hikes that were supposed to “sunset” in
2011. If they wouldn’t use their power
then to do the right, fiscally conservative thing, why in the world would
anyone believe they’d do anything differently if they had the majority?
All these GOP leaders care about is getting elected and
being a legislator. They have no core
philosophical convictions and sure as hell have no backbones. They regularly stand for nothing and fall for
anything. They have no declared
governing purpose and, worse, refuse to debate their opponents or subject their
campaigns to serious media scrutiny.
Roberson - and his counterpart, Assembly Minority Leader Pat Hickey – don’t deserve to be in the
majority. Majorities have to lead. And Roberson and Hickey have proven the only
place they’d lead us is to Liberal Lite.
Thanks, but no thanks.
DAVE FOR HIMSELF: EPIC FAIL
Clark County GOP Pooh-Bah “Dave for Himself” McKeon sold Central Committee members a bill of
goods that would make any snake-oil salesman proud. Alas, not only have the dineros failed to
flow into the party’s coffers under his “leadership,” neither have Republican
voter registrations.
Here’s something you might not know. When an organization such as the Clark County
Republican Party wishes to conduct a voter registration drive, it has to
purchase the voter registration applications from the Elections Department, and
each form is numbered and tracked as it is returned.
So how has Chairman Dave for Himself done this year?
According to a well-informed source…
“On January 3 of this year the Clark County Republican Party purchased 1,000 Voter Registration Affidavits from the Clark County Registrar. As of September 14 at total of 64 of them had been turned in; 3 went to registering Democrats, 4 IAPs, 1 Libertarian, 3 NPs and 53 Republicans.”
That’s it? 53
Republicans over a period of eight-and-a-half months? Heckuva a job, Davey.
I LIKE LITTLE A LOT
When pressed in the GOP primary to explain why he was
claiming to be a conservative even though he’d voted to extend the $600
million-plus worth of “temporary” tax hikes from 2009 that were supposed to
expire in 2011, and again in 2013, Republican lieutenant governor candidate Mark Hutchison has said it’s what Gov. Brian Sandoval wanted and he had to
support his fellow Republican.
Now think about that rationalization. It means that if the governor was a Democrat
instead of a Republican, odds are Republicans such as Hutch would never vote
for such a massive tax hike – thanks again to the Gibbons Tax Restraint law!
So tell me again why it’s so important to Nevada taxpayers
for Hutch – who would clearly continue Sandoval’s tax-and-spend policy agenda
if he were to ascend into the governor’s chair once Sandoval inevitably leaves
mid-term for whatever excuse/job he comes up with – to be elected lieutenant
governor rather than former gang-banger, Democrat Lucy Flores?
The IAP’s candidate, Mike
Little – who has signed the Taxpayer Protection Pledge - is looking better
and better in this race every day.
MUTH’S TRUTHS
So the Clark County school district that can’t teach Johnny
how to read now wants to teach 5-year-olds in kindergarten how to...er, um, how
to put this…“spank the monkey.”
Are you freaking kidding me?
If any of you with school-age kids are looking for a way to
get your kids out of the government education camps but can’t afford private
school tuition, consider home-schooling.
It’s a scary thought at first. I know; I went through it 10 years ago when
my eldest daughter was approaching school-age.
But you can get all kinds of help and get all your questions answered
from the RISE Resource Center in Las Vegas.
If you want to talk to someone directly, call (702) 748-7473
and ask to speak with the center’s CEO, Elissa
Wahl. Nobody knows this subject and
all the options better than Elissa. Tell
her I referred you.
FAMOUS LAST WORDS
“The debate isn't really about whether government has a role
in protecting life. The debate really hinges on when life begins.” – Sen.
Rand Paul (R-Ky.)
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