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The first Republican president, Abraham Lincoln, is said to have described government thus: "The legitimate object of government, is to do for a community of people, whatever they need to have done, but can not do, at all, or can not, so well do, for themselves in their separate, and individual capacities."
Add Jesus Christ to the list of President Barack Obama's economic advisers.
It's an almost immutable law of nature that government tends toward expansion, not contraction, absent a seminal event such as a revolution.
Do you know what Newt Gingrich was doing while Nevada was suffering through the foreclosure crisis? Cashing in, of course!
How's this for a bizarre: The turnout for today's truncated Steve Ross recall election could exceed the ballot total of the 2009 vote that kept him on the Las Vegas City Council.
Look out, old Macky's back!
President Barack Obama got a fairly good reception Thursday when he showed up in Las Vegas to repeat some of the highlights of his State of the Union speech.
The National Republican Senatorial Committee is out with a new ad that aims to turn the “extreme” label on its head, applying it to Democrats who’ve been trying to paint the opposition as out of the mainstream. This is especially relevant to Nevada’s Senate race (featured briefly in the ad) where incumbent Harry Reid has been relatively successful at painting Republican Sharron Angle as an extremist on certain issues. Check out the ad here:
Tags: Harry Reid, Sharron Angle
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Well, that just goes to show that if you ask the ‘right’ people the wrong questions, you can make the numbers say any damn thing you want them to. Polling questions are very slippery things.
Did the NRSC carefully extract these numbers out of the Fox ‘backside’, uh, I mean viewership? You have to wonder.
The real problem is that the True Believers of the GOP/NRSC aren’t watching anything they don’t feel ideologically compatible with, or that challenges their deeply held suspicions that Obama is about to take down the country with Reid and Pelosi riding shotgun.
This is what Americans get for allowing unfettered control of campaigns by the money interests and not imposing some draconian limits on campaign finance in addition to how long a campaign can go prior to an election. A 30 day limit would at least spare the thinking public this tripe for months on end, and perhaps give some a chance at making a rational fact-based decision at the polls.
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