TPMMuckraker is characterizing it as an “ambush,” but any objective look at this CNN interview of scandal-plagued Sen. John Ensign (R-Appalachian Trail) will confirm that Ensign did nothing but stonewall and spin his way out of answering very simple, very direct, very legitimate questions about his ethical and perhaps legal troubles.
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In one of the starkest examples of closing the barn door after the horse is already out, Sen. Diane Feinstein (D-Calif.) now says she “wants no more Guantanamo Bay detainees released to Yemen in the wake of a Christmas day terrorist attack hatched in that country,” saying the country was “too unstable.”
Duh. Ya think?
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From Tuesday’s “Review & Outlook” editorial in the Wall Street Journal:
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The Las Vegas Review-Journal ran a story yesterday about the chaos which is the Clark County Republican Party these days, including the loss of about a dozen veteran party leaders who have quit the organization in recent weeks.
Who does this benefit the most, other than the Reid Dynasty?
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“In 2020, this town will be more unionized,” predicts D. Taylor, secretary-treasurer of the Culinary Union in Las Vegas. “The question of going union has been enhanced by the recession.”
Yeah, right. That’s like saying your marriage has been enhanced by having an affair with the wife of your best friend. I mean, who would ever buy that one?
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If you think a government-run health care system would be a good thing, you must also think that our government-run postal system, education system, tax collection system and vehicle registration system are all top notch. You might also be an idiot.
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“Unless Nevadans wish to pay more and receive less, there’s not going to be enough money to go around next year,” writes Las Vegas Review-Journal publisher Sherm Frederick on Sunday. “What to do? Here’s a good prescription: Start with a no-nonsense evaluation of existing government services. Identify the services primary to the life and well-being of Nevadans.”
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The Right and the Left don’t often agree, so when they do, it’s often newsworthy. And the fact that our friend Grover Norquist on the Right and Jane Hamsher on Left both agree that the White House Chief of Staff ought to be investigated and resign from office definitely fall into the newsworthy category.
Here’s the explosive letter Norquist and Hamsher sent to the Attorney General of the United States two days before Christmas…
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I swear, if whining was an Olympic sport, some of Nevada’s government employees would be gold medal finalists. Get a load of this email message sent to state legislators yesterday by Susan Summers, a non-essential taxpayer-paid “budget technician” (a what?) at UNLV:
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First, think about what Harry Reid and the Democrats just did to shove ObamaCare up our collective wazoos, along with what Mitch McConnell and the Republicans DIDN’T do.
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