Daily Glean: Shameless cross-promotional edition

• Congress! Democrats! Whoopti! (Post, NYTimes, AP, etc...) More later, probably.
• Jim Gibbons continues to amuse:
  • Gibbons said his last-minute rush to get sworn in was a pressing matter of homeland security. Sources say his last-minute rush to get sworn in was a pressing matter of negating Keith Munro's appointment to the Gaming Control Board. So, if a terrorist threat was an issue, and Keith Munro was an issue, ergo, Keith Munro is a terrorist threat. Glad that's all cleared up. LVRJ, AP
  • It turns out that one of the guys Gibbons was so keen on getting into their jobs at the stroke of midnight, i.e., one of the guys whose job it is to protect us from evildoers, is Barney Fife. Not that there's anything wrong with that. RGJ, LVRJ
  • Gibbons has a neurological disorder that is turning him into Katherine Hepburn before our very eyes. Alcohol helps (it took a doctor to tell them that?), but Dawn has cut Jim off of the sauce, opting instead to hook him up to a caffeine IV and then cackling uncontrollably as her husband lapses into violent shakes and shudders. We swear, it's as if we've installed the Addams Family in the governor's mansion.  LVRJ
• Harry Reid: God, or mere saint? asks the LVSun.
• Flip-flopper, answers the R-J, which finally gets around to reporting that Reid was for the "surge" before he was against it.
• By the way, in the shameless conflict o' interest department, may we humbly suggest that to the best of our knowledge the only Nevada media outlet, mainstream or otherwise, that has tracked Reid's various and changing positions on Iraq troop escalation over the last couple of weeks has been the Reid news roundup over at NVToday.
• And while you're over there, you might check out Tom Gallagher's inside insight into the increasingly off-the-rails Donald Trump, Bob Shemeligian's sympathy for embattled beauty queens, Sherri Cruz's short history of how economic development plans at the Test Site went splat, Dan Geary's profile of political-industrial complex apparatchik Phil Giarrizzo, the lowly Gleaner's hope for a discussion of universal health care coupled with a little mild Hillary-bashing, Crystal Jackson's (no relation to the Gleaner) overview of Latina workers standing up for their rights, or some of the other stuff that's been parked at NVToday of late.

Comments

[The Penguin]

Caffeine-laced drink? Alcohol? I thought the Gibber was a Mormon...or was that for pious rural electability purposes only? Or is he in truth a full-on Jack Mormon?

Nonetheless, the "security concern" claims are laughable. Just gives us all an idea of what we're in for over the next four years. As for the Addams Family analogy...good one, though I was thinking something more dysfunctional...say, Ted and Peg Bundy.

[The Penguin]

Er uh...Al Bundy. Apologies for the Freudian slip.

[Sr. (D)]

Gibbons "became a Mormon" when he found out that Gibson was considering a run for Gov. They worried that Gibson would take the Democratic vote and add a significant Mormon crossover to it, and wipe the floor with Gibberdagrabber(thanks, Texex). Gibbons is a disingenuous liar and a putz.