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Remember John Ensign? He’s the Republican U.S. senator who seduced the wife of his best friend and chief of staff, fired both in order to continue his assignations and then ultimately resigned after a year of sensational headlines concerning secret payments and violations of federal lobbying laws.
It’s something of an irony that — in a nation where the Constitution prohibits establishing a state religion — we’ve spent so much time during the 2013 Legislature talking about religion.
I was fairly sure when I boarded the Southwest Airlines jet at McCarran International Airport that I was headed to Reno. I recall following the freeway road signs in my rental car to Carson City.
CARSON CITY
Suddenly, the endgame for the 2013 Legislature has become clear. The Democrats must surrender.
Give state Sen. Debbie Smith, D-Sparks, and Assemblyman Pat Hickey, R-Reno, credit for good intentions: They want to catch criminals.
Ah, spring (in an odd-numbered year in Nevada), when a young lawmaker’s thoughts turn lightly to taxes.
And you thought it would be Republican Mitt Romney who suffered with ads composed of footage from his long, hard primary fight. Instead, Romney has flipped the script, accusing President Barack Obama of lies, and using the angry 2008 voice of then-Sen. Hillary Clinton to do it.
Here’s the ad:
So what are President Obama’s supposed lies? And what is Romney’s plan? Please don’t tell us it’s the one the Teabaggers just sent to The Senate: “Cut Medicare; cut Social Security; give these savings to the rich in the form of even bigger tax cut to the rich.”
“teabaggers”
Inspires discussion, not.
Answer to the question; not.
Too bad, you should be civil at the least and you are not.