Now that Obama had his big talky-talk, a question: Anybody know what we think we're doing in Afghanistan?
Oh, wait, renowned militarism expert Harry Reid has it figured out. According to words put in Reid's mouth by some of the eleventy-seven hundred people Reid has hired' [...]
"Friends," begins Republican senatorial candidate Sue Lowden, cheerily, in a Facebook entry, "According to this poll, Reid's health care take-over legislation has reached a new low."
The former Miss Alaska is referring to a Rasmussen poll that says only 38 percent of voters support health care reform proposed' [...]
No, not that kind of fantasy. Pervs.
"The Nation's Newspaper" is still publishing (guess that's the news in this item) and provided the least significant person in the United States Senate space on its opinion page to explain how the Democratic health care plan will kill [...]
By the time all the concessions are made to the Lincoln-Lieberman-Landrieu Axis of Anal, a public option will have been rendered toothless by a "trigger" that the insurance industry can easily circumvent. Or the public option will be replaced by co-ops that would be [...]
Disgraced and grotesque John Ensign could serve out his current term as the least significant person in the United States Senate free and clear of any and all legal complications, some beltway kids are reporting.
Ensign, who has always sucked very hard, briefly stepped into [...]
Hmm, carry the two, now round, and ... there. The Congressional Budget Office has finally assigned a numerical value to the Harry Reid Government Rollover Health Care Bill of 2009. It's 42. Or $849 billion. Or whatever. Anyway, now "all eyes," as they say in' [...]
Conservative Senate Democrats insist that any health legislation reaching Barack Obama's desk must be small, deferred and insurance industry-friendly enough to guarantee that Democrats lose hundreds of elections in 2010 if not beyond.
So rather than doing something popular like, oh, letting people [...]
Well, this is disappointing. Your Gleaner, somewhat to my own surprise, has been looking forward to America and Its Media's Full-on Farcefest starring Wingnut Barbie. And yet even before it starts in earnest, I'm already tiring of it. It's not unlike the letdown' [...]
The 60 Plus Association, which is some thing for wingnut geezers (or should that be geezer wingnuts?), is running ads against several Democrats who voted for the House health care reform bill, including Nevada's very own Dina Titus.
The group is fronted by Pat [...]
You may have noticed that now the wingnuts are vowing to get their activist judges on the Supreme Court to legislate from the bench and kill any health care bill that becomes law.
There actually are some intriguing [...]
For years, North Las Vegas Mayor Mike Montandon has shilled for the problem gambling industry, er, neighborhood casinos and also served as a reliable yes-man for the sprawl lobby. Naturally he thinks he should be governor.
But it turns out Montandon is' [...]
A massacre of sorts has been reported at the Moonie-owned Washington Times -- hard to believe this type of thing doesn't happen at that organization more often, really -- in which the official newspaper of the Republican Party (relics, both) has axed the company' [...]
"Today America is less free," said Dean Heller in response to House passage of "the Pelosi healthcare takeover bill."
Meantime, back in the reality-based community, Nevada is fortunate to have two other members of the [...]
About the infamous sign photographed (click the pic to big up) during the latest organized teabagger tantrum (via Think Progress)...
You can't argue with a sick mind, let alone the rampant sickness of thousands of minds feeding on each other's myths and delusions in' [...]
And it's a good rule.
The Daily Show With Jon StewartMon - Thurs 11p / 10cThe 11/3 Projectwww.thedailyshow.comDaily ShowTrue fact: While with Public Citizen back in the day, your Gleaner used to hang and work in cahoots with Glenn Beck [...]
Sue Lowden, who thinks she's senatorial material, went on the Nevada Newsmakers teevee program up yonder this week to deny that she laughed at the idea of Harry Reid's station wagon getting blown up. But that's not what this is about.
"Sue," began [...]
The voters of Virginia and New Jersey have elected Republican governors, thereby nullifying the results of last year's presidential election. Health care reform is dead, because if it ain't broke, don't fix it! Ditto for climate change legislation, because let's face [...]
For all his dishonesty, untrustworthiness, cruelty, narcissism, stunted emotional development and psychological disorders, mentally unbalanced Gov. Jim Gibbons still knows a thing or two about politics.
When he goes on TV and, citing the police report, insists that the 1981 attempt to [...]
Remember the post-election buzz about how a struggle for control of the Republican Party had pitted those who wanted to appeal to a broader base against the kookwits who demanded that the party move somewhere to the right of, oh, Rush [...]
Remember when Jim Gibbons sexual assault cover-up choreographer Sig Rogich teamed up with The Wayner to spearhead "Republicans for Reid?"
"It’s much better to have a Senate majority leader than a rookie Republican freshman."
-- [...]
Reports the Reno paper's Anjeanette Damon:
Nearly 18 months after the Republican state convention was dramatically aborted after a contingent of Ron Paul supporters took control, a missing box of uncounted delegate ballots has been discovered and will be counted on Friday.Aborted? That doesn't sound very' [...]
Are you a liberal? Then you'll be pleased to know that when Harry Reid decided to put a public option in the Senate health care bill, he was pandering to you!
For Reid, it was an admission of' [...]
Unless you've been bedridden and slipping miserably in and out of consciousness with the pig flu, you will have noticed that erstwhile dashing and innovative tourism magnate Steve Wynn has become a cranky old man yelling at everyone to get off his' [...]
The stream of coverage reporting that Harry Reid has all but decided to include a public option when he takes a health care reform bill to the Senate floor is encouraging, no?
True, it might be just [...]
Rory (reid) loves to say that everybody has told him not to take any positions on anything, but he's going to take positions anyway, because goshdarnit that's just the kind of guy he is.
And then of course he proceeds to take no meaningful position on the [...]
Social conservative performance artist and Official State Homophobe Richard Ziser has filed an initiative to outlaw abortion and limit "end-of-life decisions," Ralston reports.
Good. Brian Sandoval, Downy Suekanian and the rest of Nevada's Republican wannabes needed something they could strongly get behind so as to [...]
It's an afternoon just like any other more than a year away from the 2010 election yet things that are blazing across the internets include but are not limited to:
Pseudy Lardtackydrone wasted no time telling anyone who would listen that they scoff -- scoff, I tell you! -- at the' [...] "Remember, Harry is a conservative Democrat from Searchlight."
And so because who knows when if ever such an opportunity will again present itself, let us now note that there is one point upon which His Exalted [...]
Remember how some lefties were going to run an ad in Nevada telling your Senate majority leader not to wuss out on the public option? Here 'tis:
Progressive Change Campaign Committee says the ad will start airing Wednesday -- frequency and duration will depend on how much money they raise' [...]
In their latest desperate gambit to retain circulation, local newspaper executives hope to connect with subscribers by assuring that them the paper is "in touch." It's all about giving those last few holdout subscribers the feeling that they, you know,' [...]
The question has been raised as to why comments to the posts on this little website are now accompanied by symbols from the lost civilization of planet Zobglax (which of course tragically collapsed into a self-generated black hole created when that world's entire population became media professionals).
Typepad, the outfit that provides the platform [...]It goes without saying that Olympia Snowe is the most important, powerful and influential person in the history of the world. All the grown-up media kids know that. And that's why there will be no public option' [...]
Upon further review, a previously overlooked set of numbers in the aforementioned survey of the RJ's studio audience sort of pops out (even accounting for the paper's customary nickel-ninety-eight approach to polling).
To be sure, in a head-to-head gubernatorial match-up between Rory Reid and [...]
To those who suggest that this little website is sometimes unfairly critical of the majority leader of the United States Senate, a couple points:
1. Consistent assaults on Harry Reid from the left contradict the much more common media narrative in Nevada -- that he is too [...]
Though your Gleaner is still struggling to recover from the shock of learning that John Ensign was passed over for the Nobel Peace Prize, perhaps it is time to turn some attention to who will replace him in the U.S. [...]
OK, nobody's going to believe this, but while hearing some of the Nobel prizes being announced earlier in the week, I was wondering who might get the Peace Prize this year and it crossed my [...]
When members of Congress go to jail, it's usually accompanied by a bloodletting of sorts wherein other elected officials renounce all the campaign cash they have received from their newly imprisoned colleague, and make commensurate donations to a charity for the troops' [...]
Just because everyone says that Nevada will never have an income tax no matter what forever and ever the end doesn't mean some innocent optimist can't hope that somebody somewhere might secretly be just a teensy bit curious anyway.
And so my latest CityLife column [...]
Don't these irresponsible liberals understand that they need to to sit quietly and thus validate Harry Reid's assumption that he can take his party's base for granted or they could jeopardize his reelection, and then Nevada won't get a train to Victorville?
For those of you who like to sign [...]
The Sun's new guy lays out a breezy and cheery explanation of one of the ways that Sen. John "Hub" Ensign is so totally screwed.
"There’s a good chance there is already an assistant U.S. attorney assigned to this case," says [...]
Oh, which scumbag? Fair question. Ensign.
Anyway, "Why hasn't Sen. John Ensign resigned?" asks CNN's Jack Cafferty.
...this slime ball senator insists he did nothing wrong here. Senator, it's ALL wrong...
Now the Senate Ethics Committee (which is' [...]
Now that the Congressional Budget Office has completed this week's take-home math assignment, it looks like the Max Baucus Insurance Industry Coddling Act of 2009 could actually get out of the Senate Finance Committee before Obama's second term. Maybe.
The prospect of some tangible movement in [...]
At about the 1:25 mark, it almost looks like a moment of clarity washes over his traditionally empty noggin' and he realizes that a magic man in the sky didn't really pick him to rule over all the other lowly humans after all.
And to think that until relatively recently [...]
Every radio market has a Limbaugh clone and Southern Nevada's is one Alan Stock, which is neither here nor there except that he called on John Ensign to resign Monday morning. What if Rush says ditto? Ah, good times.
Meantime, instances of more respectable media outlets that are circling, buzzard-like,' [...]
"Remember, a public option is a relative term," Reid said. "There's a public option, there's a public option, and there's a public option. And we're going to look at each of them."
And yet some progressive organizations are reportedly going to run ads, right here in Harry Reid's very own' [...]
New and interesting things in a very long story include but are not limited to:
Ensign not only had to find his good friend/former employee/cuckold Doug Hampton gainful employment with political handler Little Mikey Slanker, Ensign then had to put out and line up corporate [...]Sue Lowden, who now officially thinks she's senatorial material, can natter on and on and on about government takeovers and socialism and such. And she will!
But if she thinks she's going to have any chance of winning her party's nomination and then defeating Harry Reid next [...]
Discredited and grotesque John Ensign, who is liked by no one anywhere, will say anything, no matter how illogical, inane or irrelevant to the issue at hand, as part of his ongoing desperate attempts to distract people from the fact that he makes his parents pay for his sex:
One of [...]
Both are deliberately obtuse, alternatively pretending not to understand questions or refusing to acknowledge the questions exist. Both revel in purposeful deceit and view evasion as not merely a tactic practiced to avoid self-incrimination but a game played for self-amusement. Both eagerly traffic in outlandish conspiracy theories that cater to [...]
You'd think Barack Obama would show a little more concern, what with the troubling revelation that ACORN has a secret nuclear facility, no?
Cardboard cutout? Good guess. But Republicans shouldn't rule out the possibility that he's a space alien pre-programmed with an earthling smile function, especially since [...]
In the latest installment of Who Wants to Decipher Harry Reid Over the Phone (i.e., another "tele-town hall"), we find our Senate majority leader declaring that a public option "trigger" is "a pretty doggone good idea." Sayeth Harry:
The lone Republican who's still talking like she might support health care reform' [...]
"It seems like only yesterday that all the grown-up media kids were maintaining that the Republican Party was toast." And...
Considering what a hot topic the intraparty struggle was just months ago, the media has been somewhat quiet about the outcome of the struggle for the heart and soul [...]Harry Reid has been coming under fire for letting Max Baucus piss away the summer, Roll Call reports in a profile of the Senate majority leader.
Reid has been getting criticized? For being a no-show on health care? Alert the [...]
Thursday morning, Republican gubernatorial candidate Joe Heck was scheduled to strip and wrap himself in a Don't Tread on Me® flag, bow before a portrait of Ayn Rand, put his hands over his ears, close his eyes, chant "I vow never to [...]
In fairness, not all Democrats are nodding their heads in sympathy with the paranoid style in American politics, displayed during the healthcare debate this summer by misinformed white people shaking their fists in the air at protests and town hall meetings to [...]
Although yet another poll (well, a Rasmussen thing anyway) shows that if the electon were held today Harry Reid would lose to the greasy filth you find on the floor when you move a major appliance, Reid says not to worry, when the time comes, [...]
Holy roller and fucker of his best friend's wife John Ensign has made the Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) 2009 edition of the most corrupt members of Congress.
Being recognized in Washington is nothing new for Ensign. He [...]
Democrats have responded to Joe "You Lie" Wilson in their customary manner -- adopting a meaningless gesture that only heightens the wingnut's celebrity while rolling over and doing everything they can to address [...]
And now for some news from the world of entertainment:
Creation, starring Paul Bettany, details Darwin's "struggle between faith and reason" as he wrote On The Origin of Species. It depicts him as a man who loses faith in God following the death of his beloved 10-year-old [...]From the WaPo/ABC poll, only the latest survey that the media will use to push the conventional wisdom du jour, i.e., that Obama and reform-minded Democrats must scale back their health care proposals if they hope to get a bill:
22. Would you support or oppose having the government create [...]
Courtesy of Health Care for America Now (and via Klein)...
Click the pic and witness for yourselves the ugly, ugly truth that the mainstream media is afraid to tell you (but that Gleaner readers have read before), namely:
After the "government takeover," the U.S. will still [...]
Barbara Buckley's announcement confirming that she will not run for governor prompts your Gleaner to abandon tradition and take the unusual step of highlighting a second, additional excerpt from my CityLife column published earlier this week:
... all the cool kids think Buckley [...]...even if Reid wins re-election, arguments over what a Senate majority leader can or can't do for the state might turn out to be moot. Democratic senators, with the blessing of the Obama administration, could turn to someone a little more dynamic and a little less wimpy to be majority' [...]
"If we can come up with a concept of a cooperative that does just that, that is it makes more competition and makes insurance companies honest, yes, I think that would fit the bill," Reid said. (TPM)
Tune in tomorrow when our heroic majority leader will explain that really there needn't be' [...]
Going under the name "Nevada Democratic Party," the Harry Reid reelection campaign has filed a Federal Election Commission complaint against the Dump Reid PAC and its treasurer, Chuck Muth, because Muth's socialist mailers and breathless anti-Reid [...]
Now celebrity Republican Joe Wilson has to apologize to Limbaugh for apologizing to Obama. Ah, good times.
[...]Please excuse the expression, but the bitch-slapping of the Republicans went fairly well, no?
Oh sure, Republicans in and of themselves aren't the problem. But the GOP and its apoplectic base have a vestigial capacity to frighten' [...]
Your Gleaner was taping the Face to Face TV program Wednesday morning (airing on LV1 Wednesday evening after The Barack Obama Show) and host Jon Ralston asked a very good question with regard to the birthers/deathers who are so worked up these days: [...]
