Daily Glean: The honeymoon is over

• Hmm, perhaps congressional Democrats should be focusing on the war after all, congressional Democrats say (Post). Pelosi takes a cue from Murtha, makes some noises about cutting off money for an escalation, while Biden says there's nothing Democrats can do. Talk about your politics of retreat and defeat (Post, LATimes). Meantime, Harry Reid's absence from Sunday's televised gabfests about who the Democrats are and what the hell they think they're doing seemed a tad conspicuous.
• At 12 seconds, Jim Gibbons records the shortest honeymoon of any new governor of this or any other state. Neff, Schumacher, Coolican, Morrison, Ralston, Nevada Appeal, Simpson.
• UPDATE: Scandalmonger is noting the onset of the new conventional wisdom with a revised banner.
• And for good measure, after all but declaring the issue over and done with, the daily Jim Gibbons Apologist Outlet wonders, sort of, if maybe the new governor is a drunken, lurking liar who threw his weight around in the course of making unwanted sexual advances toward women half his age after all. LVRJ
• Dean Heller, currently the most insignificant member of the United States House of Representatives and needing someone to spin his support for the failed, tattered, stench-ridden policies of his Republican masters, turns to -- where else? -- the garbage industry. LVRJ
• Ooh, a longish featury profile of County Commission Chairman and senatorial offspring Rory Reid (Sun). Um, wasn't December supposed to be the really slow news month?
• We simply can't imagine how the media professionals manage to write a whole column every week. Where do they find all those ideas? And then to weave their clever insights into a tidy package that educates and entertains, well, let's just say do not try that at home. Case in point. R-J "columnist" Sherm Frederick used his valuable real estate in Sunday's edition of the state's largest newspaper to reprint Henry Kissinger's Jerry Ford eulogy. LVRJ

Comments

[Paine]

Since the Reids show up a bit in today's Glean ....

First, if Reid had gone to Gerald Ford's funeral and cancelled his South American trip, Sherm would have been saying that Harry dissed our brown friends down south and this will really hurt him with the big Hispanic vote. In other words, Sherm is an idiot. Not a war criminal--at least, not on Henry Kissinger's level. But an idiot.

As for Rory being tapped for higher office, could that have anything to do with why Harry left Dina twisting in the wind? A Democratic governor might just have been reelected in 2010 or get to pretty much choose her successor down the line--and it might not have been Rory.

[The Penguin]

I am most disappointed by the fact that Sherm completely neglected the word "fart" in his, um, "column."

Speaking of "obscure legislator(s) from Nevada," doesn't Sherm and his crew of idiot savants at the R-J regularly endorse Ensign, Porter and -- until his Cinderella ascendancy to the Guvver's Crib -- the Gibber? It doesn’t get much more obscure than that trio does. Well, with the exception of Ensign’s purty locks. And just give Heller time – he’ll be plenty obscure over the next few years, no matter how he gets his hair cut. And what is it with these Republicans and their hair fixations, anyway?

Sherm does concede that Reid did attend one Ford funeral (seems there were as many Ford funerals as Gibber inaugurals, but I digress), yet that was not good enough. Typical Sherm. If you can’t say anything nice, say it anyway.

[Paine]

When Sherm does not use the word fart, it is because his column is about to smell like one anyway.

[The Penguin]

I am waiting for him to confess in print that he has a "hard-on" for HRH Reid. It might happen if we ply him with enough Jack Daniel's. (Because what else would a goober who pairs dark brown cowboy boots with a tux drink?) On that note...let's petition to sign Sherm up for "What Not To Wear" or "Queer Eye for the Straight Guy."

[Paine]

The funny thing about Scandalmonger is, The Gibber DOES kind of look like Uncle Fester. Uncle Gibster?

[Johnathan L. Abbinett]

YES! Let's start with hearings, hearings, and more hearings - the day after Bush tries to pull the wool over more eyes - again!

We give them very little time to "coordinate" their testimonies, by simply asking them to candidly and honestly tell the Congress "How do you REALLY feel about Bush's new plan, and what do you REALLY think the odds of it having any success is?"

It's the Generals that have been the most honest, so far, and they will "speak truth to power!" Good soldiers, especially these West Point types, "Do not lie, cheat or steal, nor tolerate any one that does!"

It will be more of the same - and Bush & Co. will, again, demonstrate their "new plan" is inadequate - and, I'm sure, there will be a few feet stuck in people's mouths - again!

Nancy is doing the right thing - and this is the path to being able to, eventually, impanel a Grand Jury investigation, that can lead to indictments and impeachment!

And it will provide a valid reason, and buy time for the Democrats if they get delayed in their 100 hour / 100 day plan!

Go Nancy Go!

[KidFromVegas]

Sherm’s hard-on for Harry…dark brown shit-kickers with a Tux…Sherm is trying so hard not to be gay…latent lust for Landra’s lamb? Sherm’s scorn towards Harry can only be summarized as a lover’s scorn…irrational arguments as “he should have gone to the one the day prior to the one he went to,” is kind of gay (not that’s there’s anything wrong with that). What was it, a clearance sale at Bloomingdales? The last thing Ford ever wanted was to a spectacle in death…he would have wanted the Country’s business to be taken care of. Since Harry’s in a non-broke back relationship with Ensign, maybe Sherm feels he has a chance…didn’t all little boys who had crushes on little girls just torment them to get attention…sort of like a puppy, no?

[Paine]

Maybe Mitchell dumped Sherm?

[What?!]

Re Heller:

This guy has had 2 months to get an office together in Washington DC and yet, according to today's 'newspaper' all he has for staff is someone to speak for him and a phone operator.

No legislative assitants, no legislative director, no office manager......

[Paine]

Maybe he's been too busy trying to explain to the Gibber why he didn't block Guinn's appointment to the Gaming Control Board so that the Gibber could pay off the investigation chief he and the casino boys so desperately want to serve as their control board butt boy.

[KidFromVegas]

Gaming Control Butt Boy...almost as funny as Public Safety Paper Pusher, no funnier!

[What?!]

Re Heller's Staff;

What is with 100% of his staff having the first name of "Mac"? Does this make it easier on the congressman to greet his staff, "Hi, Mac"; or provide plausible deniability as in "Mac did it"?

The reported no comment from Heller's chief of staff is in line with Mac Abrams time with his former employer, senator Vitter, according to stories in Roll Call newspaper in 2005. Vitter's staff is reported as being notoriously tight lipped and the press secretary is reported as having to clear everything with Mac Abrams. Nevada's local reporters should take note of this issue. Also, prior to that, Abrams served as Vitter's senatorial campaign communications director.

Heller's new press person, Mac Bybee, didn't just "work" for some garbageman organization. First of all, he used to be on John Ensign's senatorial staff (according to a speech by the senator on June 11, 2002). After he left the senator's staff he wrote about legislative affairs for the Palmetto Chapter of SWANA (solid waste association of north america), in 2004. Later, he became the MANAGER OF GOVERNMENT AFFAIRS, for the SWMofNA (solid waste management of north america), where he lobbied for tax breaks and economic incentives from the federal government for this private industry.

Good to see that Heller isn't letting any former industry lobbyist be a in paid position on his congressional staff on our dime-hate to see the whole ethics issue in Washington become some big deal or something.

[The Penguin]

Bybee sounds like a pretty trashy guy. Maybe Sherm oughta look him up, take a walk on the wild side.

btw, Kid and Paine -- your posts are funny as hell. I'd raise a glass of Sierra Nevada Porter in toast but Dawn cleared out my beer fridge.

[KidFromVegas]

Our state’s Main Mormon Metrosexual looses the golden locks and gets a hair cut worthy of your mama’s mixin’ bowl. It says a lot about a congressman…whose only newsworthy claim to fame in his first week is his change of hair style…what no botox, nor collagen injections? Didn’t Dean-O get the Capitol Hill Spa Package too?

What a disappointment for Metrosexuals everywhere! Are we truly regressing into the flannel-clad leisure suits of yesteryear? Since when did that sun-kissed look and surfer boy style go out of fashion? What next Gibbons waxing his eyebrows or Byran clipping his ear-hair (sorry Dick, but Bonnie should have said something).

Is he trying to butch it up for those DC subway rides? If that’s the case, then he’ll need to stop getting’ them French manicures that Sherm is so fond of…(not that there’s anything wrong with that).

[Obiter Dicta]

One of the best posts and commment threads on this blog yet! LMAO!!!

[texex]

With Foley gone now, looks like Heller is going to try to fill that void by being the newbie attractivo to the pages. I'd say they need an appropriations bill immediately for reverse chastity belts for all the boy pages.

[What?!]

Kid,
Would Heller's staff be "MACrosexual"?

[KidFromVegas]

Haaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

[Johnathan L. Abbinett]

"Obiter Dicta" and "Penguin" are RIGHT ON!

This IS one of the funniest, best, and brightest threads we've produced on the LVG EVER!

And, I really like that all our "guns" are pointed in the correct direction - safely down range at the REPUBLICANS!

Damn, Hugh, I hope this worthy work makes you feel proud - see what you started?

Ha HA! YEEEAAAAHHHHH BABY! I LOVE VEGAS!

[KidFromVegas]

JLA, I still have a rhetorical bullet left with your name on it...don't push the kumbaya moment...

[Johnathan L. Abbinett]

"Kid" I'm going to make an exception to my standing policy of purposely not engaging you directly anymore by saying this one last time - so, pay close attention!

You've had all of my time you're going to get hiding behind a handle and shooting your "rhetorical bullets" like a chicken, bully, coward from behind the bushes just throwing rocks at whoever walks by...

...you want a piece of me "punkin", then be a man and e-mail me at jlabbinett@cox.net - and we'll talk off-line and, maybe, meet for a cup of coffee, or a beer, or a martini? Are you old enough to legally drink aclcoholic beverages? It's O.K. if you're not over 21 - I'll buy you a soda pop! My treat!

You never know, if you actually took the time to meet me, like a man, a real man, maybe we might just find out that we have a lot more in common than you can imagine - and maybe, just maybe, you'd learn a lesson on civil respect for people who have lived longer and done a little more than you?

Now, I'm leaving it in your court, once and for all...you can e-mail me directly, or not, I certainly do not expect you to have any significant degree of courage developed yet in your young, relatively insignificant life!

Frankly, even IF you did e-mail me, I'm not at all sure you could impress me enough with your "wittle wit" to even do much more than send you one final, very candid, reply - let alone take my wonderful "coffee time" and share it with the likes of you!

But, I'd honestly assess whether spending a little time visiting personally with you was worthy of my busy schedule...I work with younger people all the time, and have a geniune interest in generation "Next"!

I promise, and I'm a man of my word, IF you e-mail me, AND we decide to meet - I promise I won't do anything innappropriate other than demonstrate to you, as a youngster, how to deal with a challenging child in a respectful manner - there's no reason, or excuse, to be afraid of accepting my invitation.

But, then, one does have to know how to properly reply to a civil invitation?

So, enjoy all the "kumbaya" moments you get "Kid" - for all of us, they ARE numbered! I am done playing your sophmoric "baiting" and "switching" games - there is a lot of important work to get done - America is at war, people are dying and suffering (just in case you hadn't noticed, there's a lot of things a whole lot more important than you AND me, going on right now)!

It's pretty damn sad, when a guy can't even make a compliment and say something nice - WITHOUT getting some rude, snide, nasty reaction!

You really need to work on your 5th Amendment Right and learn when to exercise that right and remain silent!

Maybe, you should re-read this, and notice how I got my message across without any vulgar context or using profanity!

[KidFromVegas]

No thank you

[Johnathan L. Abbinett]

No? O.K. then, and THANK YOU VERY, VERY MUCH!

[Myrna the Minx]

The DC Metro is anything but butch.